Coheed & Cambria Band • Page 95

Part of me wants to try to get a copy of SSTB but man, reading the comics really soured me on the lyrics to this one. Josephine’s story treatment realllly sucks. Claudio is definitely a 90s comic kid with regards to sex & violence. No shade to him or to anyone who shakes it off while listening just something I personally struggle with.

 

Claudio definitely has some problematic lyrics and storylines across the band's few albums and their respective stories so I get that. I cringe at some of his earlier stuff these days, particularly for Backend of Forever and Al the Killer

 

Yep, that's why I don't recommend the comics. The less you know the better. I don't know if Claudio has ever explicitly said it, but he seems like he would feel the same way about those lyrics these days.

 

I think he's said something at a show about the lyrics on Al the Killer before the band played it. I can't recall what specifically he said, but I know he's acknowledged his bad lyrics in some way. It's worth mentioning too that he's obviously grown since those first three albums and his lyrics from basically NWFT-onward reflect that

 

I don't think I'm capable of thinking critically about SSTB or IKS lol. They were so formative for me as a kid that they just...exist. I still feel the same way when I listen to them now that I did back then.

 

I am excited to own SSTB and this variant looks cool.

But I am going to need them to re-press Afterman soon.

 

Repress IKS and GA4 plz plz plz

 

GA is popping up on sites pretty often, I've seen some posts on r/TheFence about it.

EDIT: Just checked, this is on Amazon and Discogs for decent prices.

I wonder if the problem here is that they self released Afterman?

 

Yeah idk if I'll be able to snag a repress of SSTB, but a repress of IKS would be sweet. My copy skips at one point during the bridge of Blood Red Summer. I was devastated to discover it on my first listen

 

oh hell yes thanks

 

SSTB is amazing if only for the amount of times Claudio's voice cracks

 

Got it let's fuckin go baby

 

On my phone and can’t get the website to load. Oh well.

 

I’m in line to check out. Estimated time is one minute.

 

Got'em

 

Brooklyn Vegan has a 500 limited pressing too

 

Well fuck. Didn’t get one.

 

Ugh. Right at 1 and didn’t get one.

 

I’m sure there will be another pressing. Same thing happened with the Fall of Troy represses.

 

Snagged one. Between this and getting Boxcar last month, I am really knocking out some albums I never thought I'd own on wax.

 

Got it. Spelled my own name wrong I was in such a hurry haha

 

So annoyed. Was inline and clicked right at 1 and still wasn’t able to get one

 

I imagine this will show up in retail stores so I'll probably buy one through a record store

 

I am disappointed, but I can live with a regular black vinyl for this record.

If this were Afterman, I'd be pretty inconsolable.