Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures (October 5, 2018) Album • Page 53

I've listened to GA1 so many times but I've never really payed any attention to the lyrics. Ten Speed is mental and I love it.

"But are you going to kill her off?"
"It's not your decision. I love the character, she stays."
"Yeah, well the only thing love's done is put you in this position; I say kill her off!"
"Yeah, but you say a lot of things... and how does that work? You're a bicycle"

 

All of the lyrics are absolutely mental on GA.

I don’t like Iron Fist, but Away We Go and Dark Side of Me are both pretty good. I like Descension overall more than Ascension, but...

Domino is a jam.

 

Domino's lead as best track on Afterman is probably the largest of their catalog, IMO - don't think anything else on either disc comes close

Gravity's Union is cool and has the structure of their longer prog stuff, but it's somehow still kind of one note in a way. Outro rocks, though. I think production also holds it back some.

 

I kind of think we might look back at The Dark Sentencer this way in time. I prefer Gravity’s Union because you can actual hear the lead guitar, but Domino, Afterman, Vic, Evagria, Sentry, Number City, Gravity’s Union, and 2’s My Favorite 1 all highlight the best of what Coheed does, and I don’t think Domino is far and away better than any of those.

 

I completely agree and almost mentioned that. TDS outstays its welcome and could've been a solid 4-5 minute outing. Even Gravity has a bit more meat to it, actually, with a couple tempo/time signature changes.

Those are generally the same highlights I have from the Aftermans, but I'll always lean toward their more adventurous prog efforts when they're done properly. It doesn't get any better than that feeling when you start having to wonder, "how did anyone come up with this chord progression and vocal melody?" And then the song makes a huge transition into a totally different section that begs the same question. For me anyway, even top-tier pop Coheed like 2MF1 isn't gonna top that.

 

Can we get some love for sentry the defiant????

 

I think Evagrias one of the best things on both albums. Such a random tropical Coheed beat.

 

Dorney park plays a ton of coheed during halloween. The suffering, cuts marked, delirium, everything evil, every intro... heard tons there as a kid and went with my family a few weeks ago and it's still in rotation

 

Not even 24 hours since posting my rankings and I already want to change it haha. This band can't be ranked, it's all great.

 

my favorite song on this is now the gutter

 

Those harmonics in the chorus

 

when the chorus switches to halftime and he sings “down in the gutter” ....... pure ear candy

 

My totally uneducated top five is

A Favor House Atlantic
Welcome Home
Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)
Feathers
Island

 

oof get ready for some real negative feedback on that pick






i however fully back your decision

 

Feathers is not top 5 but it is definitely top 12ish

my top 5 is *probably*

Willing Well I
Willing Well II
IKSSE3
The Crowing
Ten Speed

 

The poppier tracks have always been the most memorable ones to me from this band, I'm sure that's quite unpopular though

 

I just love how even their 8+ minute prog songs have the hooks of 3 minute pop songs

 

Going through GA1 now, this is a behemoth of an album. When I first heard this in 8th grade or whatever, I had a lot of trouble getting into it because it's so long and dense. It's wild listening all the way through for the first time in years

 

Fuckin' yes. That song packs such a punch. Such a banger.

 

1. Blood Red Summer
2. Wake Up
3. IKS
4. Welcome Home
5. Feathers

Probably, I dunno, Evagria Island and Toys are close

 

Nothing wrong with liking poppy Coheed. These are all top notch songs.

 

"feathers" is the best song

 

Most underrated song in their catalogue is junesong provision

 

GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE

 

So, I’m wondering if revisiting The Afterman knowing the flow of Unheavenly Creatures would work. I took out Holly Wood and Iron Fist because I’m not huge on them, and Pretelethal, because I don’t know where it would fit. Here’s what I came up with.

The Hollow = Prologue
Domino = The Dark Sentencer
Afterman = Unheavenly Creatures
Mothers of Men = Toys
The Hard Sell = Black Sunday
Dark Side of Me = Queen of the Dark
Sentry = True Ugly
Goodnight, Fair Lady = Love Protocol
Away We Go = The Pavilion
Number City = Night Time Walkers
Vic = The Gutter
Evagria = All On Fire (only one that doesn’t work)
Gravity’s Union = It Walks Among Us
2’s My Favorite 1 = Old Flames
Subtraction = Lucky Stars

It’s only 71 minutes. About to listen and see what I think about it.