The Used Band • Page 34

I can only rank half their albums because I stopped listening after Artwork but it's easily:

ST
Love & Death
Artwork



Lies

I really like Over and Over Again though on their latest album.

Also, I haven't seen this band in at least 14 or 15 years now...but isn't Bert's voice like completely shot? I've heard nothing but really bad things about their past several tours.

 

Also so are Kissing You Goodbye and Sold My Soul.

On a discography listen through after all this talk. S/T and ILAD still hold up 100%. Lies is still kinda boring on the back end. I love The Ripper but forgot that annoying voice skipping effect it ends on, ouch.

 

I love how Men Are All the Same incorporates Kissing You Goodbye at the end.

I'm a Fake is also an unbelievable closer. So happy I saw that live.

 

100% truth right here.

I'm a Fake should be a staple and not just brought out when they are playing ILAD in full.

 

Listened to Artwork today. Definitely a lot better than I remembered.

 

Is there any chance I'm A Fake is even possible live? Does Jeph do the screaming? Cause he's terrible. The band should legit just hire a competent screamer

 

As a huge Hell or Highwater fan, I'm happy with their new guitar player but why they didn't seek someone who could scream too is beyond me.

 

Good point, that didn't occur to me if he could or not. Not familiar with him but if not, that's def a missed opportunity

 

I saw it back in 2004/2005ish right after the album came out. I believe they closed with it. I remember kind of being shocked it was being played at all, let alone closing with it. Bert still had it back then.

 

I wish Bert could still scream. Honestly still the best screams I've ever heard.

 

They ended with it on their first Taste of Chaos and I remember it being amazing. Also on their live DVD Berth they end with it before the encore and it's amazing.

 

And they are still a terrific live band. The lack of screaming isn't a dealbreaker for me, Bert is still a terrific frontman.

 

I wouldn't say terrific, but I saw them with TBS years ago (last tour Quinn was on) and they were still pretty good even though Bert and Josp can't scream. I really didn't notice it live, the music was so loud and you kinda just get sucked into the show.

I also hate their set lengths. Even if they are headlining, they only seem to play about 13 songs. With their discography size that seems super weak.

 

I saw them two nights in a row 3 years ago, they played TU and ILAD in full. Though I missed Bert's screaming, they sounded really good live. They had great energy.

 

Almost done with my discography run (perfect because I'm seeing them in a few weeks) and Artwork is still top tier, Vulnerable is underrated and their live EP they recently did (Live from Maida Vale) is pretty cool. Rise Up Lights and Own My Own sound great, and their LP and Nirvana covers were pretty good.

 

I saw a live video on youtube and their stage set up and lights look pretty cool. I'm super excited for this tour, such a stacked line up.

 

Top 10 songs in no order:

Pretty Handsome Awkward
Hospital
Tunnel
Moving On
Noise and Kisses
Imaginary Enemy
The Taste of Ink
Light with a Sharpened Edge
Slit Your Own Throat
Empty with You

HM:
Blue and Yellow
Meant to Die
I Caught Fire
Over and Over Again

 

Pieces Mended
Noise and Kisses
Buried Myself Alive
Poetic Tragedy
Sound Effects and Overdramatics
I Caught Fire
Maybe Memories
On My Own
I'm a Fake
Wake the Dead

I guess..

 

Yes. Noise and Kisses has one of the best TU choruses of all time.

 

A Top 10 is actually pretty hard, I can't believe the songs I had to leave off when I was trimming down the list...Funny it turned out all Artwork, S/T an ILAD lol

Sold My Soul
Men Are All the Same
Maybe Memories
Blood on My Hands
Let It Bleed
Meant to Die
Kissing You Goodbye
Say Days Ago
Take It Away
I'm a Fake

 

I may rank later but pretty sure my whole top 10 will be made up of the first two albums lol.

Never tried to rank cause even my top 20 would probably just look like the first two albums on shuffle with a couple other songs sneaking in lol.

 

It's so much easier to just do like a top 3 from each album:

S/T: Maybe Memories, Say Days Ago, Taste of Ink

ILAD: Let It Bleed, Take It Away, I'm a Fake

Lies for the Liars: Paralyzed, Bird and Worm, The Ripper

Shallow Believer: Slit Your Own Throat, Choke Me, My Pesticide

Artwork: Sold My Soul, Blood on My Hands, Men Are All the Same

Vulnerable: I Come Alive, Hands and Faces, Put Me Out

Imaginary Enemy: Cry, IE, Revolution

The Canyon: Rise Up Lights, Funeral Post, Vertigo Cave

 

Top 10 (no particular order):

Taste of Ink
On My Own
Blue and Yellow
Hard to Say
I'm a Fake
Kissing You Goodbye
Men Are All the Same
Lunacy Fringe
All that I've Got
Bulimic

 

I tried to do a top 10. No way is that happening lmao I just can't cut it down that much. My top 4 are very clear but after that nooooope (top 4 are Poetic Tragedy, On My Own, Pieces Mended, and Evolution in that order I think lol) I'll do a top 3 from each album though!

Self titled: (obviously from above) Poetic Tragedy, On My Own, Pieces Mended
ILAD: Cut Up Angels, Sound Effects and Overdramatics, Yesterday's Feelings
Lies: Earthquake, Find a Way, Paralyzed
Shallow Believer: My Pesticide, Sick Hearts, Sun Comes Up
Artwork: The Best of Me, Empty with You, Sold My Soul
Vulnerable: Hurt No One, Moving On, Kiss It Goodbye
Ocean of the Sky: (kinda pointless but w/e lol) Quixotica, The Ocean of the Sky, Iddy Biddy
Imaginary Enemy: Evolution, Force Without Violence, Cry
The Canyon: Moving the Mountain, Over and Over Again, Funeral Post

 

Had to do a top 3 for each album too.

The Used: The Taste of Ink, Blue and Yellow, Noise and Kisses

In Love and Death: Take It Away, I Caught Fire, Light with a Sharpened Edge

Lies for the Liars: Pretty Handsome Awkward, Hospital, Paralyzed

Shallow Believer: Slit Your Own Throat, Devil Beside You, Tunnel

Artwork: Empty with You, Born to Quit, Meant to Die

Vulnerable: I Come Alive, Now That You're Dead, Moving On

Imaginary Enemy: Revolution, Cry, Imaginary Enemy

The Canyon: Upper Falls, The Devine Absence (This Is Water), Over and Over Again