there is a hell has been very enduring for me all things considered, i do prefer that album to this bands whole discog. tdwp dont have a classic album for me but that one is imo
I don’t particularly love BMTH or even listen to them all that much but they’re leagues above this band in my opinion
LOL my bad I don't know why it didn't load correctly. I had originally typed that after listening to it however many times All Out is maybe my least favorite song on there. I don't know if it's song placement or what but sandwiched between For You and Ritual it just doesn't flow well imo.
i think all out fits great in the sequence, shot of momentum the album needs to help set up ritual. if anything i dont like where for you is in the sequencing since it and so low have pretty weak intros, so them following each other is a little rough. i like for you though worst song here imo is the silence, that ones got nothing going on for me
i like the way All Out flows into Ritual, and more listens actually made me come back around to it. after a couple more listens, i ultimately have mixed thoughts on this. when they a find a hook that works, it works. there's a couple songs on this album that fall into that category for me (title track, Everybody Knows, Ritual, maybe a couple others). All Put and Play the Old Shit do a great job breaking up the monotony (and i guess Wave and the interludes do too). but man, So Low, Eyes, and a handful of others just feel somewhat formulaic. i don't necessarily think the album is low effort, because it does take effort to work within the confines of something more mainstream. i just think there are a good number of songs here that just don't stick the landing or have been done better by other bands or other TDWP albums. it's definitely listenable, and i'll come back to it every now and then, but i think i'd rather reach for any other release of theirs from Zombie on than this (WRAABB is fun from a nostalgia standpoint, but i don't really have any desire to return to it on a regular basis. Dear Love and Plagues are pretty much unlistenable for me). if the vinyl ever goes on sale for $20 or something ($40 is absolutely fucking ridiculous), i might pick it up one day. only have Transit Blues (the photobook version), ZII (which is incredibly bowled), and Color Decay deluxe at the moment. would ideally like everything save for the first 3 LPs
the runtime is bloated for sure, this did not need to be 15 tracks at all and it hurts the record that it is, they could have gotten their point across in 10
being back 10-11 track albums. putting Play the Old Shit in the main tracklist would've helped the flow a lot better
Finally got around to it, it's definitely not AS bad as it could have been. But definitely my least favorite from them, there's just a bunch of whatever tracks on it. When You're Gone was a highlight for me though.
if i was gonna trim this down i would drop so low, the sky behind the rain, the silence, and i guess eyes i think. and yeah play the old shit is as far as im concerned part of the album since i abide by physical
doing a discog run and the 3 album stretch from dead throne through transit blues is so strong (+ zombie too ofc although im kinda iffy on space). all three of those albums see them trying on so much cool stuff and pulling most of it off. hard to pick a favorite of them
Gloom > Escape > Sassafras > Planet A > Praise Poison > Switchblade > Nightfall > Dead Throne > literally every other opener probably rank WTFNG somewhere around Nightfall and Dead Throne, tbh. don't really care about Exhibition, Goats, and Gauntlet