Coheed & Cambria Band • Page 23

I've never enjoy GA1 as much as others on here/AP. I don't know why because I think it's got a lot of very good and great songs on it. I guess because it's so long it wears me out a bit. That's why I love the Afterman albums so much. They're so concise and are not short of bangers.

This band has a lot of good albums though. Almost none of them would puzzle me if they were somebody's favorites. I'd say only YOTBR and TCBTS...maybe NWFT, but that album is really good.

 

The thing I love most about GA1 is how effortlessly catchy it all is. Even in the deep cuts, everything is such a goddamn earworm.... little guitar leads and harmonies get stuck in my head as easily as lead vocal chorus melodies. And it's all so layered, there's so much to unpack musically, more than any of their other albums. I'm pretty sure there's like 5 different vocal tracks going on in The Suffering, but does it sound too busy? No. Genius shit

 

The Suffering is truly one of their best songs. Definitely my favorite on the album too

 

also, the production is fucking immaculate

 

I agree with you that GA1 is their most dense album. Lots to unpack there for sure.

 

NWFT is very close to being my favorite

 

I'm going to attempt to do this because I feel pretty confident in this list of my favorite Coheed songs.

1. Three Evils
2. Domino
3. The Crowing
4. Sentry
5. In Keeping Secrets...
6. Evagria
7. Delirium Trigger
8. The Suffering
9. Number City
10. Mother Superior

 

Trying to do a top ten songs would drive me mad.

 

This might have changed since the last time I algorithmically sorted it, but as of like 6 months ago it was:

1. Willing Well I
2. Willing Well II
3. In Keeping Secrets
4. The Crowing
5. Ten Speed
6. The Light and the Glass
7. Once Upon Your Dead Body
8. Everything Evil
9. Evagria the Faithful
10. Far

 

I'm still not happy with it. There's a bunch of ones I love that I left off:

Time Consumer
Everything Evil
Blood Red Summer
A Favor House Atlantic
The Light & The Glass
21:13
No World For Tomorrow
Here We Are Juggernaut
The Afterman
Gravity's Union

Way too many great songs from this band.

 

Very happy to see Far here. Great song

 

IKS 9.5/10
GA:1 9.5/10
SSTB 9/10
TCBS 7.5/10
Ascension 7.5/10
Descension 7.5/10
YOTBR 6.5/10
NWFT 4/10

 

Top 10, no order

Time Consumer
Everything Evil
IKSSE:3
Three Evils
Backend of Forever
Light and the Glass
Welcome Home
Writing Writer
Willing Well I
Willing Well II


Next 10, no order

Domino
Junesong Provision
The Crowing
Favor House
Ten Speed
Once upon Your Dead Body
The Suffering
God Send Conspirator
Juggernaut
Faint of Hearts

 

I really think I might have the same #1 even though the darker/proggier stuff dominates my list. It's pretty much the most infectious song ever, and the poster child for how they used to bury so much complexity and great guitar work under an amazingly poppy front.

 

In what world is NWFT a 4

 

eh, the title track is decent but the rest is pretty bad

 

you should revisit it

 

My opinion on the album completely flipped after five years of not listening to most of it. I definitely fell into the crowd of fans that did not enjoy it because of the guitar wankery and metal worship and not much prog, but NWFT slaps and soars more than most of their records do.

 

I was in the same boat but not as harsh on it to begin with, but as I got more and more into metal the bulk of the album started to appeal to me more than it had in the past

 

I want a whole album from this band of mean shit like Domino

 

i was just belting that hook out in the shower lol

 

Except for a few songs, NWFT is basically a pure tribute to early-mid 80s glam metal. I totally despise that aesthetic and just can't get past the cringiness of the production, synths, etc.

If you can get past that then yeah, I can see how there's some decent songwriting and cool guitar work. I don't think any number of relistens will make me start liking it, though. I also hate that starting with NWFT, the hair metal wankery has shown up on every album to some degree.

Skimming through it again reminded me Mother Superior is pretty good, though.

 

i do not get glam metal vibes from nwft i get prog metal vibes which is not the same thing

 

uhhh top 10 ok i will try

The Crowing
Everything Evil
Apollo I: The Writing Writer/The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth
Feathers
God Send Conspirator
Ten Speed
Gravitys Union
Island
Three Evils
Delirium Trigger

 

Glam metal to me is, like, Kiss and NWFT is not Kiss.