Coheed & Cambria Band • Page 19

So I've listened through both SSTB and IKS. I wish I was around for the release of IKS. I can't imagine only hearing SSTB and then being blown away when IKS (the song) comes on for the first time. I think IKS, Crowing, Backend of Forever, and TLATG are my favorites. TLATG might be my favorite Coheed song ever.

 

color before the sun is their most fun record imo. in keeping secrets is their best but no world for tomorrow isnt far off imo.

 

iksse
nwft
aftermans
color
good apollo
sstb
yotbr

 

I think mine is:

In Keeping Secrets
Good Apollo
Afterman (counting both as one)
No World for Tomorrow
Second Stage
Color Before the Sun
YOTBR

 

IKS is their magnum opus

 

I prefer tiers of enjoyment to numerical ranking. Its just easier for me to organize my thoughts that way. Within the tiers they are listed in chronological order. For Coheed, it looks like this:

Good Apollo
Afterman

IKS

SS

NWFT
CotS

YotBR

 

In Keeping Secrets
Second Stage
Afterman
Good Apollo
No World for Tomorrow
Color Before the Sun
YOTBR

 

Dang I thought my ranking was the common perception hah

 

Okay, ready for the hate.

1: Descension
2: Ascension
3: The Color Before the Sun
4: Year of the Black Rainbow
5: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
6: Goop Appolo
7: Second Stage Turbine Blade
8: No World for Tomorrow

 

Madness

 

this is ridiculous

 

1, IKKSE3
2. Good Apollo
3. Descension
4. Second Stage Turbine Blade
5. Ascension
6. No World For Tomorrow
7. Color
8. YOTBR

 

I'm sorry

 

I'm perturbed at how many people have Good Apollo outside their top 3

 

as wicked off these rankings are, I'm glad to see people like their recent stuff this much.

 

Honestly, Good Apollo was my bottom for the first year or so I liked the band. It really drags on (especially the willing well songs), and is maybe a bit too self-indulgent at times. There are still some great songs on there though. I prefer how concise and focused the band has become recently. I think the Afterman albums are genuinely perfect. And Color Before the Sun is just crazy fun.

 

Good Apollo 1 has some absolute bangers. I love how proggy it is. Plus that hidden led zep song

 

Good Apollo is a really hateful album that yes, is long, but none of the songs themselves are inaccessible, there are just a lot of songs. The Willing Wells are still the golden standard of Coheed songwriting for me. I don't think they'll ever release a better run of songs than that.

 

what was pooping like?

 

Afterman was such a breath of fresh air.

 

The Willing Wells are definitely my favorite coheed tracks.

 

As fun as "Island" was, I don't see how its more fun than "Blood Red Summer" or "A Favor House Atlantic" or "Feathers". They've had fun songs all along but their songwriting creativity has begun to circle the drain.

 

TCBTS is one of the most underrated rock albums of the last five years IMO.

 

It wasn't really underrated. A lot of people liked that album who hadn't been Coheed fans since the IKS/Good Apollo days.