Fucked Up - David Comes To Life

enjoying this a lot, but it does get to be a bit much. like, i'm halfway through, and all the textural variation in the world can't balance out damian mixed high on every track & every track a springboard for pummeling uplift. i mean, i get how he's the band's focal point, and you can't really do ham by half measures, but it's still a trap. it starts to get oppressive after a while, even when the songs are there. and the songs are definitely there. fucking "life in paper"!

all the textural variation in the world can't balance out damian mixed high on every track & every track a springboard for pummeling uplift.

a complaint by no means unique to this album. or this band, ffs. hardcore is tricky.

SINKING ON A SHIP OF FOOLS!
SINKING ON A SHIP OF FOOLS!

theres a reason hardcore punk albums are short

& that reason is they give ppl headaches

This is why I only every cherrypick 3-4 songs per record rather than sit through the whole bloody thing.

also for a record that leans so heavily on concept/lyrics, they're...not very interesting.

I'm by no means a punk fan, and I don't like watching Fucked Up live but I do think he's got something vocally that gives him more grain than mere bellowing. And even so it's balanced out here by the Mustard Gas Primitives/Adult Net bits.

Just realised that I've had the "dying on the inside" bit like a locked loop inside my head for days.

yeah 'some tracks' is still my favorite thing they've done and i felt like damon was way too high in the mix for me to enjoy most of 'chemistry,' that opening scream hurts my ears

could use a few instrumental interludes or narrative asides to break things up. ballads maybe. like a concept album, you know? take your broken wings and learn to fly.

wings lungs

guitar playing is so fucking badass though, all the way through. drumming too.

fly sing

love at least half of this. the opening instrumental is as gorgeous as "opening instrumental on a hardcore rock opera" is unpromising.

I say this on every Fucked Up thread
But "Epics In Minutes", guys. "Epics In Minutes". Do not pass Go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXOqWfSfAus

I don't know how these guys can wake up in the morning and feel that they can possible improve upon their impossibly wide and consistently terrific back catalog
It must be tough

i guess i have to listen to this

this is gonna be the best summer ever

i really like how on the top level all these songs are the same. like there are no vocal melodies. it's like six notes looped for 77 minutes with all this stuff happening underneath it.

except here and there. like "hello my name is david" suddenly cutting through everything.

Only seventy-seven minutes, eh?

25% more music than the gaga album for the same price, alfred. if not for fucking amazon.

See, I never want "more" music.

you should pretend this is about david foster wallace

!

This is good.

this is so my album of the year so far not that i really hear all that many albums

I've never liked Fucked Up, but "Queen of Hearts" is phenomenal. Gonna try to hear the whole thing asap.

Okay, it starts to all blur together in a distorted and screamy sameyness by the midway point, so I don't know if it's AOTY material...but I do think "Queen of Hearts" is pretty rad.

(note: I had the same impression of the Gaga album my first time through, so who knows.)

^ basically what i came away with, given the same (awesome) entry point

Concept reminds me a little bit of Alasdair Gray's Lanark.

"A Little Death" and "The Other Shoe" are both the little bits I've heard from this band are great, but 75 mins of Fucked Up = no thanks.

Okay this David's Town thing is really pretty fun.

Especially the one that sounds like Fleetwood Mac and the one with Carl Newman providing vocals.

Someone needs to make me a Fucked Up P0X. They're a band I root for and want to like more, but, as stated upthread, their discography is impenetrable. I have something called Year Of The Pig, and recall favorably reviewing their first album many years ago, and I have various other things here and there on my computer. Haven't disliked anything.

Is it ethically wrong to listen to this album on shuffle? Or should I be listening to each suite at a time in order for it to make sense?

(semi seriosu about this question)

unless you're carefully following the lyrics, the story is imperceptible, and it's not like there's an important musical structure to the album as a whole (???), so i'd say go ahead and shuffle

Yeah, I'd say enjoy it however you want. The story really only comes through if you are sitting with the lyrics book in hand, so I'd say just enjoy them in whatever order you want.

After listening to all of the David's Town thing, I'm pretty sure no one in Britain in the late 70s was saying "O!M!G!".

shuffle it. I have. Dunno why it needs a concept holding it together. Not sure it's really going to improve its worth seeing as its what I've been hoping they'd do for ages.

the first two tracks are great openers but after that yeah do what you feel. i haven't parsed any of the story at all.

Initially disappointed that there's no Crooked Head here, and definitely not an album to listen to on headphones (ear fatigue!) but it's growing on me. After a bunch of listens, Ship of Fools definitely reminding me a lot of shoutier Archers of Loaf, and "Nostalgia" in particular, probably coincidence.

p. clearly album of the year material for me

huh never heard these dudes, i guess now is the time

oy, this is awesome

huh i was wondering how long it would take for god to come into it

Pink Eye: We talk about God more on this record than a Christian band.

Are you religious?

Pink Eye: Not at all. Not. At. All.
10,000 Marbles: We ran out of metaphors.
Pink Eye: We exhausted all those metaphors about moshing and friends and the pit. So now we were like, "God, what’s left?”
Concentration Camp: God!

(2006.)

yeah the majority of the imagery and use of metaphor that Damian is kicking around on here is pretty much the same as what was on Hidden World and probably some stuff before that

on 'chemistry' the majority of the lyrics are by 10,000 marbles, whose real name i do not know; i do not know, also, if this is the case for their other records

they've had the metaphysical bent since hidden world at least

10,000 Marbles = Mike Haliechuk (sp.)

Loving the "David's Town" compilation.

I just got my copy of David's Town (prices on eBay seem to have dropped pretty quickly) and was mildly disappointed that the packaging didn't go a little farther with the idea. Like I really wanted to be completely convinced that it was an artifact. And an insert would have been nice. Like maybe a fake "join our mailing list" for some non-existant label, etc. So much for that cheap thrill.

At the moment it's reminding me of any number of 90's indie comps that I don't remember anymore (not that there was anything wrong with them). And that's really not putting it down. You can kind of see how the need to contend w/Pink Eyes' voice is what brings out the best of this band, though, and it makes me wonder how future stuff without him might fare...

...words of doomy portent

"F-word Up" love u Greg Kot

This is still so great.

hahaha kot

saw them perform this whole album live, last night @ LPR. having never heard it before that, i bought it on vinyl after the show and... it's not quite as amazing as it was live.

Um, give it another day....

you're probably right. i think my ears are still a bit fucked.

i's better in small doses

that queen of hearts song

srsly

tt just put Year Of The Snake on. my response: "if this had been the Ride comeback everyone would have been 'oh cool!'"

that queen of hearts song

― Treeship, Tuesday, November 1, 2016 9:21 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup!

1.5 listens through “Dose Your Dreams” and I think it’s pretty great in that they went even more out-there-Fucked-Up. This made me want to hear their next album be like Killing Joke but fronted by Damian.