YES. The last chorus is my favorite moment on the record for that reason. The epitome of badass. I love how even on one of Anberlin's lesser records, the opener still owns.
Yup. Godspeed, Self-Starter, and The Resistance are three of the better album openers I've ever heard. And the other four are pretty awesome too.
I love all their openers. I believe they played them all on the farewell tour if I remember correctly.
1. Godspeed 2. Self-Starter 3. Never Take Friendship Personal 4. Readyfuels 5. We Owe This to Ourselves 6. We Are Destroyer 7. The Resistance Ranked baby.
So glad someone did this first so I didn't have to be the one. 1. Debut/Godspeed 2. Self-Starter 3. The Resistance 4. We Are Destroyer 5. Never Take Friendship Personal 6. We Owe This to Ourselves 7. Readyfuels (it's a classic, but honestly)
1. Godspeed 2. Self-Starter 3. We Owe This To Ourselves 4. We Are Destroyer 5. The Resistance 6. Never Take Friendship Personal 7. Readyfuels This was really hard and I don’t feel too committed to any spot except for the last one.
Ah, I said that before I saw it was high on peoples lists. Don't hate me! My rankings: 1. Godspeed 2. The Resistance 3. Self-Starter 4. Never Take Friendship Personal 5. We Are Destroyer. 6. Readyfuels 7. We Owe This to Ourselves
1. Godspeed 2. The Resistance 3. Self-Starter 4. We Are Destroyer 5. Readyfuels 6. Never Take Friendship Personal 7. We Owe This To Ourselves They do have some really solid openers. We Owe This To Ourselves isn't a bad song but I prefer the rest of the album over it. Kind of like how I feel about Thrice's All The World is Mad on Beggars
I really like We Owe This to Ourselves but I think it works better as a non-opening track. Weird, but I actually inserted I'd Like to Die at the beginning of Dark once and I thought it was surprisingly effective as an unconventional opener.
Hmmm, I can see that. During this tour I saw them open up with Art of War and never would have expected it to work as well as it did since it's not a fast opener or anything.
Godspeed We Are Destroyer Self-starter Never Take Friendship Personal The Resistance Readyfuels We Owe This To Ourselves Everything from Godspeed to The Resistance is great, Readyfuels is good and We Owe This is just okay.
We Are Destroyer is one of those songs that blows me away more and more with time. I don't know how Anberlin managed to pump out song after song like that.
It sounded so fantastic and heavier live. Makes me wish they recorded it with that energy, but having a different producer for each instrument probably made it harder to have that sound.