My lil sister loved my music when she was a kid and now she doesn't care for it all that much so I went wrong somewhere.
So technically my first Thursday song was Counting 5-4-3-2-1 when it first came out, but I didn't really take notice of them at that time for whatever reason, I have no idea. I was like 14 so whatever. And then 2013 rolled around and I stumbled on them again and it MIGHT have been a WATT song but honestly don't remember what the first was, I just remember really getting into them after that.
Legitimately probably 75-80% of my music library when I was like 16 was due to Anton introducing me to AIM file sharing and being nice enough to let me comb through his shared folder. I didn't even really know him aside from the whole Midtown thing, haha.
my first thursday song was "signals". they'd play the video on mtv2 like every morning before i went to school. i arbitrarily hated all things emo but was like "huh there's something different about these guys"
First Thursday song was "Understanding in a Car Crash" right when Full Collapse came out. Life changing for me.
I may have brought this up before but is the chorus vocal melody in sugar in the sacrament a call back to Pedro the Lion's magazines? They're v similar for a little bit (the oh my god" part)
Also I bought a stack of CDs used and super happy that no dev and war all the time are amongst them. Would've liked common existence but I will take war
Every time I hear it my head snaps up like "where the fuck have I heard this before" and I make the connection all over again. Always real pleasant to make that association
First song I heard was Signlas Over the Air, but had no idea who they were. A good year later a girl I was crushing on in 8th grade gave me a copy of WATT. Listened to the first three songs, and didn't get it. This was when I was heavily into The Used, and Breaking Benjamin. Then one day I was playing Counter-Strike circa 2005 with WATT on in the background, and it clicked fucking hard. Loved them ever since.
Love that. And it sounds like new material is a possibility at some stage and that they are happy to carry on being a band, even if it's not a big commitment like the old days. Does anyone know the name of Jeremy's old Thursday fan site? I wonder if he posted on the thursday.net/thursdizzle boards back in the day! Geoff and Jeremy are the best.
No slander was involved in the making of that article but I def agree with Jeremy about what I think new Thursday would sound like
Where in the world has Fucked Up been? Loved David Comes to Life (got to see it performed in full) but Glass Boys was very forgettable.