Anberlin Band • Page 20

Not sure if any of you listen to the band Trash Boat but occasionally their singer's vocals reminds me of Stephen from around the time of NTFP. Their song "Strangers" especially has some shouty moments that take me back to when I first heard NTFP. This band is nowhere near as compelling as Anberlin IMO but I do really like this song and the slight vocal similarities.

 

How's the internet tough guy pose working for you? Boosting your self-esteem?

 

Adelaide is needed on Cities imo. Having that pop moment at the beginning works so well.

 

Would you keep it in the same spot or move it?

 

I like this.

 

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This is especially true in light of Stephen's insistence that the NS version of Feel Good Drag is better than the original. He's simply incorrect.

 

The chorus of Adelaide is the only bit of Cities that I don't like. My least favourite song on a brilliant album.

 

I can't hear "Godspeed" on its own without the beginning of "Adelaide" popping in my mind right after. It just flows.

 

That's mostly my fault. Heh. Everyone can blame me for that one.

 

Hide behind your half-smile, but the truth is so undeniable (that Adelaide rocks).

 

Too straight forward and cliche for me. It's the simple version where the band usually didn't take that route. Still a skip for me.

 

Wait, whisper & clamor is your LEAST favorite?? It's one of my top 5 Anberlin songs, period.

 

I'll back the Adelaide love and say that Cities just wouldn't be Cities without it

 

That is a hard question. I feel like track 3 is too early of a spot for a song like that, but it's similar to Fin* so it needs to be as far away as possible from it. If I had a choice, I'd move Mathematics to 3, and make The Haunting track 6.

What's the story there?

 

the ones already mentioned are great, but if we could throw out a heavy hearted work of staggering genius, ending NTFP on The Feel Good Drag, Audrey Start the Revolution, and Dance Dance Christa Paffgen, that's pretty hard to beat.

Also Adelaide is fine. i wont skip it, but its never going to be my favorite. If anyone here is a coheed fan, claudio says he doesnt like crossing the frame off good apollo and wishes he didnt put it on there. doesnt keep me from loving it though.

whisper and clamor rules, especially the bridge to ending.

 

Cities is slightly overpraised because it doesn't have enough songs like "Adelaide".

Come at me, bros.

 

I have a feeling there is an alternate universe where Cities had a lot of Adelaide type songs and they lost their fanbase, retiring and never releasing another album.

 

You mean what happened in their real career arc...?

 

i think new surrender is their most commercially successful album just because of feel good drag.

 

Well, after Cities they had 4 more albums and years of successful touring. I think The Feel Good Drag has the record for longest playing #1 single on rock stations or something like that too. So not exactly lol

 

Right but after that song broke, their albums were released to progessively less and less fanfare as they, like almost every other band in the scene/genre, bled fans. They did get that little "farewell tour" boost, but that's all that was.

 

not really. fans of cities were let down by new surrender, felt dark is the way was better but still not quite all there, but most fans thought vital was a true return to form, with lowborn only a hair behind it in terms of quality. they went out on top.

 

Dark was the low point. I'm surprised they still had Vital in them after that album.