Thrice Band • Page 326

No joke, before I saw your post, I came in here to say: "Circles might be the best Thrice song."

 

It’s goated

 

love those rankings

 

Thank you, as you can probably imagine, they’ve already changed a bit, but the same songs remain

 

I'm not the first to say this, but I have a very hard time listening to M/m because it takes me back to a time where the band's future was in doubt. "But Dustin always said ..." — I know, but enough bands have failed to reunite after leaving the door open.

 

I can understand this, as the guys announced the impending hiatus within months after I started regularly listening to them. But with three albums of new material now released, surely this is moot.

 

Picking the 30 best thrice songs is hard, these are my top 35 songs, I left out a bunch of classics, in no particular order

Daedalus
The whaler
Circles
Beggars
Paper tigers (rerecorded)
The window
Long defeat
The artists in the ambulance
The melting point of wax
Blood clots and black holes
Kill me quickly
Betrayal is a symptom
Deadbolt (live)
Lost continent
Open water
The messenger
Words in the water
Anthology
A song for milly Michaelson (recorded and live reworked version )
Silver wings
Moving mountains
Between the end and where we lie
Atlantic
The earth will shake (live)
Of dust and nations
Red sky
Music box
For miles
Phoenix ignition
Ultra blue
T &c
Beyond the pines
Scavengers
Salt and shadow
Promises

I hope someday they play two different setlists back to back nights in the same city, they have such a amazing discography, a single 90 min setlist doesn't do it justice

 

You would think. It just takes me back to that time and place, even if I'm no longer worried about their future. It's the same thing when I overhear "Hey There Delilah." The worst job I ever had played that song on loop throughout the office building, and every time I've heard it in the 18 years since, I go right back to those miserable hallways that I haven't walked through since 2007.

 

Here is my half-hearted attempt at a top 20:

For Miles
Of Dust and Nations
Daedalus
Circles
Beyond the Pines
The Abolition of Man
Melting Point of Wax
Deadbolt
The Whaler
Firebreather
The Window
Black Honey
Music Box
Wood and Wire
At the Last
Red Telephone
The Arsonist
Dead Wake
Still Life
Beltsville

 

Circles
For Miles
Of Dust and Nations
The Arsonist
Firebreather
The Melting Point of Wax
Blinded
The Whaler
Black Honey
In Years to Come
Blood on Blood
Hurricane
Like Moths to Flame
The Weight
Summer Set Fire to the Rain
Wood and Wire
Red Sky
Death from Above
Just Breathe
Silhouette

 

Fine I’ll go (in no particular order):

beyond the pines
Cold cash and colder hearts
The earth will shake
Circles
Dandelion wine
the long defeat
Red sky
The whaler
Paper tigers
Words in the water
Still life
Beggars
Like moths to flame
Anthology
Kill me quickly
Hurricane
Daedalus
To awake and avenge the dead
For miles
Salt and shadow


This could very easily change any given day

 

I don't know what it is, but Beggers just never clicked for me. To Be Everything is To Be Nowhere has honestly stuck with me the most of any of their albums since Vheissu. But I need to go through discography again...

 

To Be Everywhere is such a strange album for me. exactly half of it is A+ banner Thrice cuts for me and the other half I'd be happy never hearing again. it almost alternates between the two song to song too which is even wilder lmao

 

Beggars is top tier. I always liked it, but it has worked its way to the top and solidified there. Just an incredibly strong tight album.

 

Beggars is far and away my favorite album from them. Vheissu is 2nd but the gap is so wide between 1 and 2.

 

I’m a weirdo Palms apologist, to me it feels like it vibes with the through line of Vhiessu and Alchemy into Beggars. Dustin’s deconstructionist themes resonated heavily with me. I was so glad they were back with To Be Everything and liked that album but Palms just hit me right and I knew they were Back with a capital B. It’s in my top half of their discography.

 

This is how I feel about Beggars - it clicked but not in the way other albums have. I was super into all their experimental stuff on the Alchemy EPs and when I heard that dirty raw one note bass intro to 'All The World Is Mad' I was supremely disappointed at the new direction lol.

It's since grown on me - In Exile, Wood & Wire, The Great Exchange are all some of my favorite Thrice songs. But it never blew me away on the first or any subsequent listens.

 

Sorry, but I just can't trust anyone who doesn't love that intro to "All the World Is Mad". I still get the same giddy feeling as the first time I heard it.

 

I obviously like it now but I didn't immediately love it. My whole mindset was "How could they go from the airy time signatures of Daedalus, the beautiful soundscapes of the Water EP, the aggression of the Fire songs to this single note?"

it was a bad take then because I wanted more experimental stuff like the Alchemy Index. But this band has never done the same album twice and they're better for it.

 

Who's looking back in the mirror?

 

And why are they closing their eyes?

 

A mini tour like this would be sick for Thrice
An eras kind of tour

 

Anyone have access to a high quality scan of the Alchemy Index vinyl artwork?

 

Itching for an update on how the new album writing is going

 

Why is Alliance not being used for this? Wasn't that one of the main purposes of creating it: to keep us updated during these time periods?