In Fear And Faith Stop The Fuckin' Car We're All Thieves Living Together The Difference Between... On Letting Go Your Friends Are Gone Get Out Glass Arrows Through The Desert Alone Lazarus The Lottery Schema Nesting Dolls Descensus
I really disliked Nesting Dolls the first couple times I heard it. Now I love how emotionally resonant it is after hearing Anthony talk about his marriage and addiction. Really captures the moment
Top 10 in no particular order that no one ever asked for Stop the Fucking Car House of Leaves Living Together Kicking your Crosses Down Frozen Creek Blood From a Stone Lazarus Only the Sun Act Appalled Get Out
Your Friends Are Gone is really really good, my all time favorite is probably the demo of Great Golden Baby that's just named Juturna that I think I got from limewire. What's the closing track that's like 8 minutes too long? That one is probably the only thing I'll skip
This Charming Man A Box Full Of Sharp Objects Mr Brightside The Absence Of God Helena Some Red Handed Slight Of Hand Lovesong The Devil Went Down To Georgia The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton Holland, 1945 my top 15 Circa songs would prob look something like this idk
As hard as I tried, I'm with @cwhit with this....can't get into anything else by the band besides BSN and Appendage. But both of those are phenomenal
I Felt Free and Imaginary Enemy are borderline embarrassing, and mark the transition of the band from infallible (pre-BSN) to good/great but spotty at times (BSN onward). I feel like anyone who loves those two songs is probably a newer fan who discovered them post-BSN, and hardly anyone who fell in love with their early sound would gravitate towards those.
Haha, I'll ammend, there's a few questionable songs on VW which are the worst, but the two I listed are my least favorites probably. Imaginary Enemy is cringe for me for some reason.
I've enjoyed some stuff post On Letting Go but I haven't been able to connect to anything on a deep emotional level like I did with Juturna and OLG. Songs like In the Morning and Amazing and Your Friends Are Gone transport me to another fuckin' planet. I know that's just a personal thing but 'tis unfortunate. Love love love Frozen Creek tho. I remember being really upset that they were on late night and played Imaginary Enemy instead of Get Out, which is easily one of, if not the best, song on BSN.
Or maybe anyone who loves those two songs just enjoys music? Do y'all who shit on I Felt Free and Imaginary Enemy shit on Strange Terrain, Get Out, and Dyed In The Wool too?
I like that stuff because it shows that they can make straightforward, fantastic alt rock songs, and not the (gonna get a lot of shit for this one) more self-masturbatory aimless progginess of the early stuff I exaggerated a bit but I've always been bored with the early stuff, it's never once caught my ear at all.
For seven years now, some fans act like there's something inherently wrong with this band writing these alt rock songs like I Felt Free and Imaginary Enemy (there is definitely a prog feel to the latter) and I just don't get it. Saying things like "I feel like, if you listened to this band before BSN, you wouldn't like these songs" is just so weirdly dismissive. There is room for listeners to enjoy both aspects of Circa's sound. Sure, you can certainly prefer one over the other, but when most of the criticism being hurled BEN's way is over I Felt Free and Imaginary Enemy for reasons such as "If you were into this band before BSN..." you need to let go of the past and actually listen to these songs for what they are instead of thinking "Well I like this band more when they're proggy/atmospheric so this is bad." Both songs are really good alt rock songs and BSN is a fantastic alt rock album that gets shit on so much because fans just keep holding onto the first two albums and it bothers me that no one can really field an argument against those songs other than going "Lol these lyrics are bad/cheesey," which in itself is a weak argument because you can look at the lyrics on Juturna and ask yourself "What the fuck is Anthony going on about" and you'll never know. If y'all don't like I Felt Free and Imaginary Enemy, or BSN as a whole, then so be it, but don't make it seem like someone who was around before BSN is incapable of enjoying those songs or that album. I came on board in 2009 and OLG and BSN are two of my absolute favorite albums of all time, so I think that argument can go right out the door.
Dyed in the Wool amd Strange Terrain are phenomenal and Get Out is pretty sweet too. Imaginary Enemy is just annoying and I Felt Free is a solid rock song but doesn't fair too well as a CS song imo