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common existence is worth it because it has you were the cancer on it

 

Common Existence fucking rules. Resuscitation and Last Call are a great opening duo, while Love Has Led Us Astray and You Were The Cancer are an incredible pair to end the album with.

Not to mention the album has Friends In The Armed Forces and Beyond The Visible Spectrum. The album is great and is full of special songs/moments

 

Every song on that album is great.

 

I started listening right when was all the time came out and loved it couldn't get into full collapse back then. Then City came out and I hated it so I sort of wrote the band off... then sometime after ND came out I became obsessed with their entire discography and really enjoy full collapse

 

I haven't gotten to waiting yet but based on the other five albums, fc is still my fave
Geoff's unique vocal style makes it for me i think. It's all very youthful while maintaining maturity; helluva album

 

This is really bad, he couldn't permanently throw out his voice. Please cancel shows lol

 

FC is still in my lower half of their discog but I'd be lying if I said I did not go off when they play those songs live. They got better with every album but live all the songs have an energy to them.

Also Common Existence is when I realized that Thursday is the only band to have ATDI as an influence and like actually pull it off and not have it sound like worship. Also every Thursday song is fire

 

I'd be really curious to know how everyone besides Geoff feels about FC heavy setlists

 

I personally enjoy heavier Geoff songs. Got to see him play with United Nations one time. Dude was a beast.

 

Damn I would have loved to have caught a UN show.

 

I believe he said this about WATT.

 

It was about both albums I'm pretty sure. ACBTLD is the first where he was made aware of how wordy they were and focused more on melodies

 

Fair enough

 

coincidentally ACBTLD was also the first time they made a masterpiece, but also not the last

 

I got into them in 2004 and FC is my fave. I love how wordy Geoff can be. I feel like all my favourite vocalists are insanely wordy and earnest (Geoff, Jeff Mangum, Aaron Weiss, Yoni Wolf...). I love that shit haha.

Also I was listening to No Devolucion the other day and just noticed that he uses the first person on a few songs (e.g. Empty Glass, Turnpike Divides). Are there any examples of him doing that previously? That's another thing I love about Geoff's lyrics that I think I only appreciated subconsciously until I read an interview with him flagging it up - his use of we/us/you. It makes listening to Thursday feel like you're part of a collective.

 

i'd never noticed that pronoun usage before -- i think you're right, off the top of my head he always used we/you instead of i before No Dev. I'm gonna look into it more, that's kind of incredible

 

I remember Geoff saying in a couple interviews that he wanted to take the idea of emo/post hardcore lyrics and the "ALL ABOUT ME AND MY FEELINGS" vibe and change it to be more inclusive and to change the narrative to give the songs a different flair which is really cool. I cant think of any other songs off the top of my head that use first person but ill rack my brain to see haha.

 

"I don't waaaant to feel this way forever."

 

Haha, that was so obvious. Just thinking to myself and there is a tonne of first person on Waiting although obviously he was still perfecting his songwriting back then. I can also think of a lot of "we" on that record too.

 

"Since I replaced the 'I' in 'live' with an 'o,' I can't remember who you are"

Very cool though that he does tend to use we/us a lot

 

More like you're changing the 'w' in 'we' with an 'm', amirite, Geoff?

 

the wordiness/crammed melodies on steps ascending and asleep in the chapel are primary reasons why those are top 5 songs to me. It's like he's holding me by the head screaming "listen to me this is important!"

 

I've watched the Kill the House Lights DVD like a zillion times and I just noticed that the volume changes a lot throughout. It's startling lol.

 

I just hope we find out about my label find soon lol