Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind (June 24, 2022) Album • Page 47

Backend of forever rules. Al stinks.

 

I did for the first few albums, then the first comic dropped and I quickly realized the version in my head was a lot better than the version Claudio had in mind.

 

Afterman is the only story thread he's written that's genuinely gripped me, probably bc it's his most contained

 

yeah I don’t know anything about the story, that’s like the absolute over the top extreme fanatic stuff, which is totally awesome for those that have gotten into it, but I’m content with just absolutely loving the music and recognizing sometimes the lyrics are just completely fucking nonsense to me, but not always just because some stuff is written about the story just like anything else there’s ways to interpret things (except when he gets hyper specific to the plot or setting or whatever lol)

 

Wrapped up my full discography run. My rankings are now much different than they used to be:

IKSSE:3
Unheavenly Creatures
Second Stage Turbine Blade
Good Apollo
Window of the Waking Mind
No World For Tomorrow
Year of the Black Rainbow
Afterman Ascension
Color Before the Sun
Afterman Descension

Enjoy all their albums, but I'm now realizing how burnt out they seemed creatively on those Afterman albums. The rebound they made with these Vaxis albums after the 4 prior albums is pretty incredible.

 

That’s another cool thing about Vaxis II, even though it’s involved in the wild story- it’s so clearly drawn from his personal experiences and love for his child. Easier to connect to imo

 

I used to be way more into the story as a teenager. I still like to know the general theme/story of each album but I don’t get bogged down in what’s supposed to be happening during every song.

 

as someone who cried to “evagria” and “2’s my favorite 1” last night, no fuckin way!!!

 

i did and do not care about the story but i thought it’d be fun to read the summaries/youtube explanations along with this discog run, mainly confirming it’s better not to pay attention to the story

 

Yeah back when we were talking about favorite/best songs I through most of them on a playlist and listened through and came to the conclusion my favorite is probably Gravity's Union.

 

i gotta say tho that the “ten speed” concept is so fucking funny. “i’m a fucking bicycle!!!!”

 

I thought the band was very rejuvenated on the Afterman albums bringing back Josh and introducing Zach. Felt like a breath of fresh air for the band

 

They were not creatively burnt out during Afterman what?

 

If anything there were too many ideas flying around that probably should've been left on the cutting floor.

 

How dare you

 

Combined Afterman less a little fat plus random reality shift FTW.

 

Nah, if Afterman was trimmed to 13-15 songs with similar production to help with cohesion, it'd be close to my favorite Coheed album.

 

My combined afterman after listening to this a ton over the past few months. Pretty perfect to me.
1. Domino
2. Afterman
3. Mothers of men
4. GFL
5. vic
6. Evagria
7. Sentry
8. Hard Sell
9. Number city
10. Gravity
11. Away we go
12. Random reality shift
13. dark side
14. 2's my favorite 1

 

Ha, yeah, me and you are exactly the same on what we would leave off.

 

adding a full band to iron fist was a bad call

 

Yeah I agree.

I catch a lot of flack for that one.

 

I've been listening to this a bunch and just loving it. "The Liars Club" genuinely might be one of my favorite Coheed songs ever. It's way up at the top.

One of my close friends is a die-hard, travel all over the country, agonize over the lyrics and story fan. I've never been able to follow the story well at all, but I've been enjoying talking to him about my love for this one. It's getting me into going back to some of the older records that I never paid enough attention to.

 

Truly have had Liar’s Club stuck in my head all week, it’s undeniable.

 

them being burnt out on the aftermans is a take I have never seen before not even from the band, if anything year of the black rainbow was the burnout album

 

Afterman burnt me out as a fan, I needed a break from them for a bit after that, plus TCBTS didn't move the needle. I didn't actually really come around to Vaxis I (which is amazing) until a little more than a year ago because I felt like I had had my fill for a while there.