Alkaline Trio – From Here to Infirmary

Love this record.

 

Their whole discography is solid, but this is my favorite album.

 

Album name is wrong in the title - just FYI.

One of my favourite albums of all time. I will never get tired of listening.

 

Would kill for a remix/remaster

 

You should have gone with “that’s uh... not the right title by the way”

 

Can't believe this album is 20 years old. It's probably my favorite of theirs, though it just barely edges out My Shame is True. If I remember correctly, "Armageddon" was the first song I illegally downloaded once I had access to "high speed" internet in college.

 

From Here to the Infirmary

 

Front to back their best IMO. Bloodied Up doesn’t get enough attention, but I think the version on the Vagrant comp is even better

it’s odd you can hear when Skiba started losing his voice on this album. Private Eye is strong and steady, but this version of Bloodied Up it’s fading.

 

Where are the Matt Skiba is a Nazi trash?

 

Umm.. what?

 

NVM just joking about a few threads I've seen involving Skiba where some people have accused him of being a Nazi...I don't buy it, but there are those that do.

 

Best record.

 

Armageddon was the first song I heard by them and the one that got me into the band.

This is a fantastic album, front to back.

 

Nah he’s just friends with them and embraces the ideology super super cool

 

Oh yeah he was especially sympathetic to Nazis, White Nationalists , Trumpers in this excerpt from a Rolling Stone interview.....

"What was it like reconvening to write a record after the 2016 election?
Skiba: I think it’s pretty safe to say that we have a left-leaning band. We haven’t been shy about that. When George W. Bush was up for re-election, we took part in Rock Against Bush. I just don’t like preaching the obvious — it’s like singing “Hitler sucks,” or “George Bush sucks,” or whatever. I’m not comparing the two. But bad politics, terrible leaders, war, those things have always played a part. You can’t ignore that it affects your everyday life. It’s in there. I mean, it’s somehow in every movie, even movies that aren’t about anything. A movie that takes place in New York that has the Freedom Tower where the [Twin] Towers once were. You can write about something completely different and somehow those things have a way of seeping in.




We have a new song called “War Brain.” It’s about a hangover, but about a specific morning that I shared with a friend of mine where we were watching the news. Those things coupled together, I felt like I had “war brain.” And I try not to watch too much television, period — I prefer watching films and reading. But I do turn on CNN and try to just see what’s on fire, what got shot up today. I mean, it’s always something terrible.

In this new record, we also have a song called “I Can’t Believe.” After the Access Hollywood tape came out, I’ve been in complete shock and awe that Trump just didn’t get roadblocked right there. People kept buying it and supporting him, and it’s un-fucking-believable to me. Being a feminist and a pagan and someone who considers Mother Nature, not Father Nature . . . that guy is the enemy of everything I stand for. He was a sexist, rapist, fucking racist piece of shit — is one, will always be one. I’m having a hard time saying his name, but his followers, and the state of this nation that I love and that I’m proud to be a citizen of — he’s attempting to pull the fabric of its being apart and letting foreign nations have a turn."

Maybe you should actually know what you're talking about before you know... actually talking about it, oh and here's the link for good measure.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...ExAC&usg=AOvVaw3z35SDopyhMElu_KtPJ4qf&ampcf=1

And I love how reading and having questionable relationships turns into embracing ideaology. He also can't make art for a solo show with questionable symbols because that's also embracing hate and somehow becomes what he believes as a human being, but no credit is give to him using a platform like Rolling fucking Stone to denounce that hate. Nope forget that he reads books and uses symbols and it's all a big dog whistle of his white pride, racism, and support of Nazis. Odd how someone who's a racist and a Nazi by association didn't use his platform with Rolling Stone to support and defend that.

 

"How can Skiba be racist when he's friends with a Nazi!?!" is not the own you think it is

 

That's not even what I was going for, but whatever makes you think your point is valid. Oh no a picture?! Oh my let's stop people from taking pictures and holding symbols?! Gee whiz lock him up in racist jail now. Maybe next you could find his maifesto on ethnic cleansing and all the times he was quoted in the press espousing racist ideaology? Oh wait it isn't there.

If you can't see what's wrong with implying you shouldn't talk to them, you shouldn't read that, and you shouldn't take that picture. Maybe living in Nazi Germany is for you.

 

Yeah telling a black man to live in Nazi Germany when he calls you out for not seeing the connection between a guy who says he's not racist in public but hangs out with racists in private... makes you racist.

 

If you feature fascists on your record, associate with them, read the books they recommend you, and hold up fascist symbols with them... I don't believe you when you tell Rolling Stones you are against white supremacy.

As a black man, its obvious that when someone gets cozy with fascists, wears police merchandise that portrays officers as the grim reaper, etc, that you have someone who is not being honest with their racism.

But go off on how I'm "the real nazi"

 

do you write comedy? this is very funny

 

That's a low bar. Really?! Fucking Alex Jones exists but you wanna die on the Matt Skiba is a racist hill, that's your problem. If you don't like him maybe you shouldn't waste your time crucifying him on a forum and just move on.

Never called you a Nazi, but go ahead and claim it to be true. I was saying that not being able to read what you want, speak to who you want, or have civil liberties seems a lot like Facism to me." Nazi Germany is a good example of that very thing.

 

BRO I SPEND MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE CONFRONTING RACISM AS A BLACK MAN

I don't get a break, it's not something I get to turn my brain off for. Do you think I don't have the same ire for Skiba that I do for Alex Jones, Trump, the police officer who pulled me over and threatened me when I was 19, the police officer that told me I don't look like I belong in the neighborhood I grew up in when I was 16? Do you think my concern is limited to the music I listen too?

 

"I'm not calling you a Nazi! I'm calling you a Nazi!!"

 

Black, Indigenous, non-white people deserve a punk music scene where white men with guitars don't get to talk about how racist they aren't while associating with racists. We deserve to feel safety and acceptance in the scene.