oh lol i was going to rep the afterman and then saw i did upthread. i think it's kind of their best record after second stage turbine blade at this point
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
excited for the new record, doubly excited that the new song kinda sounds like boston/the cult
these answers tell me nothing re the album i have !
(and whether it is representative of their groove .. )
― mark e, Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
i mean, is mine part of a 'story', or a one off !!?
i get very confused re this lot.
something that never happens re black veiled brides ..
ahem.
― mark e, Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
oh lol
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
you have the first volume of good apollo i'm burning star iv, which is the fourth chapter of the series
the second half of iv is called no world for tomorrow. it is less good but still pretty ok
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
if you want more songs in line with the record you're digging, i recommend in keeping secrets of silent earth:3 and also the afterman
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
but yeah it's a very representative record, even though the last four tracks on good apollo i'm burning star iv from fear through the eyes of madness (christ) are the proggiest they ever get
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:33 (eight years ago) link
Oh, sorry. Yeah, pretty much everything ^^ has said. I think that Vol. 1 might have been their most popular album? It's pretty good, and he's totally right about In Keeping Secrets. As far as the story, I think it's the end of that story arc with Claudio? It's either the end or close to the end. Year of the Black Rainbow is a sort of prequel and Afterman is Sirius Amory.
I think I just outed myself as a giant CoCa nerd.
― hourspass, Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
lol right i think once you write a prequel to a prequel it's prob time to stop
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 July 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
ta people.
i'm still confused.
and people laff at my love of 70s prog !
so, in summary, i would be best buying more black veil brides albums.
(i really really like 'wretched and divine' )
― mark e, Thursday, 9 July 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
one thing i really dislike about good apollo iv vol 1 is uh how misogynistic it is? and it is literally the only coheed record like that
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 July 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
ahh .. i need to listen more closely then.
or then again, perhaps not ..
― mark e, Thursday, 9 July 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
never been one to listen to lyrics that closely (unless its jim foetus.. )
i mean i didn't even realize it until i revisited it last week
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 July 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
never has a band fluctuated in quality more between albums but i'm psyched they're getting back down to prog tacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3zm1_JSPOQ
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 May 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
huh this is the most emo they've sounded since good apollo 1???????? also this song is incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsoD6RVulcQ
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
idk imago and simon h. to thread??
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
coheed was dope when i saw them at warped back when i was a freshman in hs
other awesome bands that day:
rufiobilly talentyellowcard (i fronted)new found glory (MY FRIENDS OVER YOU)international noise conspiracy (lol wtf)
that's all i remember - it was really fun tho
― happy house of representatives (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 13, 2009 2:08 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good post
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
woah @ that song. Black Parade vibes with the guitar arrangement
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 18 August 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
Simon otm. The guitar on the chorus is my favourite thing they've done in ages.
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 18 August 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
I'm trying to avoid hyperbole but I think "The Gutter" might be my new fave song of theirs, though I skipped the last couple releases
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Sunday, 19 August 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX6Dz0JRifU
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 October 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
this is sounding like the record I always wanted them to make
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 4 October 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
i'm listening to it now and i think it might be!
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 October 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
"toys" is incredible
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 October 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
sigh, I want to love this but the ludicrous length + lack of variation are brutal to me, idk why I'm surprised cause it's their whole thing much of the time but it still bugs me. once I figure out a ten-track edit I'll probably love it.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 4 October 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
yeah the length really sucks
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 5 October 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
i mean the songs are all really good but this album doesn't breathe at all
"toys" is still the fucking best
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 5 October 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
this is basically a power metal album
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 5 October 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIF2a0eEUiI
this song rules so much
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 October 2018 00:18 (five years ago) link
Brad I'm gonna let you finish but this is emphatically not power metal
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 6 October 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
nb I am enjoying it though I like my C&C proggier
oh i just meant in the density of hooks and the unnecessary length! also, same
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 October 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
should’ve made my re-coheedwagon joke instead
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 October 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
a nice side effect of this record is it made me revisit no world for tomorrow which is way more awesome than i remembered it being especially this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGpqtO6Vd_k
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
every time i hear "time consumer" i get impressed all over again that it is basically a mid-'90s emo song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1eAdCEvdv4
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 12 October 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
this is probably the only band i love where i think the debut towers over everything else
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 12 October 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Hearing from a friend at tonight's show that drummer passed out on stage. Ambulance called.
Hope he is ok.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 October 2019 02:51 (four years ago) link
oh man <3
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 20 October 2019 05:28 (four years ago) link
He finished the show after an EMT checkup apparently, they cleared him.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 October 2019 05:37 (four years ago) link
phew
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 20 October 2019 05:39 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTGo-JHuCGc
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 August 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Kinda wish the moral wasn't so "bitches, man" but otherwise I appreciate the spirit of this.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 21 August 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
lol yeah that's a weird flash of old claudio. song is very solid though
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 21 August 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=budmX5jCGns
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 12:04 (two years ago) link
we allll go up in flaaaaames
(new album is awesome)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 June 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
all around shorter song lengths and more textural variety than vaxis i, i think for the better
"a disappearing act" is the kind of pop/disco/metal track i think i've only heard from devin townsend before
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 June 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
i haven’t been able to stop listening to coheed this week. really strong discog, only one album i don’t really rate and it’s the antiprog/anticoncept one (color before the sun) and even then it has an amazing song called “island”
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 10:19 (one year ago) link