Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere (May 27, 2016) Album • Page 87

I was literally just walking around at work doing the same. What an earworm.

 

Same.

I fell in love with Thrice based on lyrical depth, and as much as I love this album, I'm still wavering on the lyrical content. Not wavering between dislike and like, but wavering between preference of lyrical themes. I love the lyrics, but I ask myself if I miss the more theological lines in favor of the political. I also know that Dustin has been shifting his artistic focus into a few different avenues, being his worship music under The Modern Post moniker, his personal music under his own name, and Thrice to be more aggressive exploring new territory.

 

Haven't stopped doing this since Friday.

 

I love the lyrical depth to this album, it seems to be powerful but also relatively ambiguous and up for interpretation which is always good, can definitely see either way whether Death From Above is political or an attack at Driscoll.

Also can't believe people hate on Major/Minor when it has songs like Words on the Water and Anthology that are like ridiculously good, both from a compositional standpoint and lyrically.

 

The lyrics to Anthology really don't do much for me anymore, but I love that song musically speaking.

Also, on an unrelated (but related to this thread) note, Whistleblower is such a fucking punch in the teeth

 

Album is great, probably dethrones M/M as my second fav behind Beggars. I think my favorite tracks are "Hurricane," "Stay With Me," and "Salt and Shadow."

 

I love the lyrics on Anthology because it's like taking a trip back through Thrice's discography.

 

Did you try to replicate the guitar hook and everything when you sang it? Asking for a friend.

 

Why do you guys think Death From Above is about Driscoll when Whistleblower exists on the same album? Genuinely curious.

 

This album gets better with every listen but I'm hearing things about people thinking it sounds like Nickelback. I don't see that AT ALL

 

Whoever thinks that is being very unfair. This album's good.

 

"One day they sent, one day they sent me to the chaplain when I said I can't go on
All he said, all he said was just to shut my mouth and do the "will of God"

It's kind of exactly what Driscoll would say, especially in a reformed theology environment, if he was questioned.

 

True, but conservative politics tend to have a God flavor, too. I mean, his experience at Mars Hill certainly may have affected his mindset, but I don't think there's much ground for saying the "he" here is actually Driscoll.

Also, is that really a big thing in reformed theology? I feel like using the "will of God" as a shield against criticism more often in charismatic circles, though it obviously happens across the board at times.

 

I know it's wrong, but I'm still hearing "there's blood on the sand, there's blood in the STREAM..."

 

Didn't even consider it was stream until you brought it up. I always heard streets.

 

I feel like it's more a thing among people trying to consolidate power and control others rather than any specific theological bent.

 

I think the parallel exists because it's right next to Whistleblower and we know what Dustin went through, not because it's necessarily there in the actual text.

My personal experience with Reformed theology (in the South, and I attended a Christian college) is that the "will of God" shield is used by them a whole lot more. I think that's how it's rooted in the TULIP moniker, too, under the U. But if there's one thing I don't want to do, it's get into an in-depth reformed theological discussion, haha.

 

Because people can write multiple songs about the same thing

 

Well, if you're not a five-point Calvinist, you're wrong and damned to hell.

:)

 

Which is exactly why I'm not one!

 

"Stay With Me" is incredible. Reminds me of Dustin's latest solo album.

 

after hearing this album, i made a playlist with this one as well as their last two, beggars, and m/m. and it took this new album for me to really appreciate the last two, which i wasn't really too fond of aside from a few tracks here and there. this might be my album of the year.

 

Oh gosh. Hahaha. I don't personally know anyone who actually believes this but some people really do get so caught up on non-essentials and it drives me NUTS. Heck, I'm reformed and every time I see a tulip I want a pair of garden shears.

 

Oh, TULIP. Good times.

Yeah, I know some charismatic people who lean heavily on "the will of God." A former friend of mine once used the same date God allegedly put in his head two different times to say he'd marry two different women; neither happened. My church gets a lot of people from Geneva College, which is really reformed, and they tend to ridicule that nonsense. Maybe it's regional.

 

That's a pretty funny story. But at the same time, one of my beefs with a lot of reformed groups is that they can be too quick to shove off any event where God works in a very evident way that isn't explicitly stated in Scripture. I think God can work in clearly supernatural ways, it's just that a supernatural event isn't meant to be valued over Scripture. That's when you get crazy people who justify anything and everything bad because "God told them".

Then of course, you can also be like Driscoll and misinterpret Scripture to justify all sorts of disgusting evil comments. It's a two way street.

Going back to the Thrice album, I can honestly say it keeps getting better the more I listen to it.