Coheed & Cambria Band • Page 32

Yeah I was a broke college student at that time and hadn't started a record collection yet.

Honestly, I think it's their best work. I know Coheed fans obsess over the first few records but Afterman is great.

 

oh, this was CDs. I don't have either Afterman album on vinyl and I've pretty much accepted I'm never gonna have them lol

 

I did the bracket

Afterman against Willing Well IV in the first round is some bullshit let me tell you

 

Afterman was a great come back after yotbr, but you just can’t too the second stage turnline blade. Everything about that album is perfect

 

They topped Second Stage 2 times already

 

For me the first 3 records are interchangeable (though gun against my head I'd say In Keeping Secrets is my favorite) Whenever I listen to any of the first three I think to myself "this is their best record"

 

I’m an IKS - GA:I lifer. The vinyl box set for afterman is sweet. I had all the variants for it at one time and sold off the other variants other than the box set a while back. I’d be sitting on a goldmine right now if I still had them.

 

I feel like my bracket will not go over very well...oh well

 

Final Cut is a good song, but c’mon.
Imo WH is super overrated. A lot on GA 1, and IKS beat it out for me.

 

Extremely overrated. It got too overplayed, I know.

 

Welcome Home is only overrated because we've all listened to it a million times. It's as massive and timeless a rock song as our generation is going to see.

 

I back this 100%. If you heard Welcome Home for the first time again it would blow most of us away.

 

I still remember sitting in my dingy basement in the summer of '05, IKS was still heavily in my car stereo rotation, and then somehow I caught wind of a new song release on Coheed's website - it was one of those ones that would autoplay as soon as you opened the page. I loaded up Internet Explorer on my desktop computer, heard the acoustic intro and thought we were in for a ballad, and then that single drum hit into the riff, and my brain said "oh fuck"

 

yep. I remember this moment vividly. I was 14. I used to just visit the website of bands I liked and I remember going to coheedandcambria.com and seeing that preview video of the song. I want to say it started off with a bang then the acoustic intro. I listened to the intro 2-3 times before even getting to Claudio's vocals. It was honestly the coolest thing I had ever heard up to that point. I furiously burned CDs of downloaded music those days, and I would always put Welcome Home at the end of every CD if I had room, haha.

 

First Coheed experience. My best friend put in Good Apollo. Opening track played and I was kinda like, ok kinda weird, cool I guess. Then Always and Never. Welcome Home starts and I look at him and ask “are there any drums on this album”, he looks back and the toms hit. The rest is history (GA1 is my all time favorite record so).

 

My first Coheed experience was around 2002 or 2003. I got an Equal Vision sampler that had two Alexisonfire songs and two Coheed songs. It was unlike anything I had heard at the time. I wish I could remember what CD that sampler came with.

 

If we're doing first Coheed experiences, it would honestly be hard for "Blood Red Summer" not to win that entire bracket for me. If someone looped the cheerleader-handclaps bridge section together endlessly, I'd listen until the end of time.

 

First Coheed I ever heard was IKS on a church trip when i was 12. I thought he sounded like a girl. saw the video for AFHA and kind of liked it. Bought the CD at walmart. liked it, but it didnt really click until i bought live at starland and saw them doing all of that stuff live. Havent looked back since.

 

My first experience was summer 2003, a girl I was seeing played Devil in Jersey City in her car. Back then I was listening to shit like Jack Johnson and Ben Harper. Went off to college a month later with SSTB on repeat, and then In Keeping Secrets came out and blew my face off. Coheed came through town a little while later with Vaux and Bear vs. Shark, and to this day, it is the greatest show I've been to.

 

Bear vs Shark were so gnarly

 

I dunno whats going on in here, but Welcome Home isn't over rated in any sense of the word

 

Agreed. It might have been overplayed a bit back in the day, but it's not like I still hear it anywhere unless I'm listening to the album.

 

God, I miss those samplers

 

I played Welcome Home on Rock Band 1 when it came out and immediately was sucked in

 

I am kinda upset that I wasn't watching NXT at the time when they had Welcome Home as their theme.