I don't know how interested I would be in them doing an anniversary tour. Doesn't seem like their thing, when/if they come back.
Boy Division and AMBULANCE are two of the greatest songs they've ever made. Sucks they didn't get on a proper album and no one ever knows what they are when I throw them on.
Boy Division is absolutely up there with their best. AMBULANCE is one of their worst imo. Still think it's great though.
I love Conventional Weapons. I just put it all together as one 10 track album (which most people probably did too) and it easily holds up with the rest of their discography. I actually like it more than Bullets
I don't like it as much as any of their proper releases but it's still awesome. I'm glad they ended up releasing it.
I did too, and I would probably put it above Bullets as well. I am well aware that the songs were recorded pre-Danger Days, but in my head I still place it as coming chronologically after Danger Days. I wish they had toured on it and treated it as its own album cycle. "Boy Division" is such a great way to kick it off. I happen to love both "Ambulance" and "Gun". The ballads are great, and it only picks up from there. I think "Surrender the Night" is the weakest track overall, but "Burn Bright" is the perfect ending. To me, it's not a coincidence that "Burn Bright" was the song they left us with (well, until "Fake Your Death"). I think it was very intentional that it was the last song released just a few weeks before they announced the band's end. And then to follow that up with a song called "Fake Your Death". Everything this band did always meant something...
*Incoming, really long, dumb personal post warning* So I haven't really felt legitimately nostalgic listening to music for quite a while now. Prior to getting on hormones I would get so nostalgic listening to some songs/albums/artists that it would actually make it hard for me to listen to them. I think I just really longed to go back to certain periods of my life that I perceived as being easier than where I was at that point in time. Nowadays, I'm much more interested in the future, in the person I'm in the process of becoming (which makes sense, since truthfully, I was never happy as long as I was living "as a guy," so those perceptions I'd had were really faulty). Anyway, the point of me spelling all of that stuff out is that the other day I was scrolling through Facebook and I saw that someone had posted the music video to Helena but with Gerard's vocal track isolated and decided to watch it. It's honestly been a while since I've really listened to this band, and watching that ended up really making me feel nostalgic, but not in a negative sense like I described above. I was reminded of watching the video for I'm Not Okay on Fuse, and the day I had my parents buy me Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge because of it, and that feeling I got holding the CD in my hands on the car ride eager to listen. I remember drawing pictures while listening to the album on a loop. I remember finding solace in their music from all the constant bullying I received at the time, wearing my love for them and the Used proudly on t-shirts. Looking back on those moments I felt sympathy for that kid for the first time that I can remember allowing myself to. At the onset of puberty, I'd say the "wrong" puberty, I was dealing with so much shit both internally and externally that I'd slowly begun to build a wall between myself and the rest of the world. Things still effected me, but I would do my best not to show it, and I'd use music as a coping mechanism of sorts. I filtered most of my feelings through song lyrics, and while that certainly wasn't healthy, it was how I got through my adolescence for the most part. It was why I decided to become a musician, I think; I realized I could actually put my own thoughts and feelings to my own songs and in a way I always wanted to help people the same way I was helped by music. So yeah, anyway, what I'm saying is this band was majorly influential to me and I feel bad for taking them kind of for granted. I've been listening to their music pretty regularly the past couple days and it feels good. I think I needed it. I'm realizing just how fragile and fleeting time really can be, and I want to learn to appreciate things more as they happen instead of in the rearview. Hopefully I can actually manage to do that.