More b-side friday songs. This time I’ve included videos though!
Leech – Incubus
Asleep in the chapel – Thursday
Bling (Confessions of a King) – The Killers
Sofa Song – The Kooks
The Running man – The Audition
Category Archives: Thursday
Reviewed: Thursday’s A city By the Light Divided
Call them punk, post-hardcore, screamo, whatever you want. Either way, the band Thursday was a definitive punk rock band of the 2000s. They released their debut album in 1999. Today I’ll be reviewing their 4th full length, released in 2006 called A city By The Light Divided.
This album takes a much softer turn as opposed to many of the band’s other albums. It opens with ‘the Other Side of the Crash/Over and Out of Control’ and if you had to pick one song to describe the album. this is the song. Melodically the progressions work out perfectly. The next track ‘Counting 5-4-2-2-1′ comes out strong in the lyrics department, and has some nice quiet to loud progressions.
The third track, ‘Sugar In The Sacrament’ is melodically depressing. Not that it is bad melodically, it just has a very sad melody as many of the other songs on this album do. Lyrically, though this song is one where I don’t know which line to post because there are so many good ones. “Tie these sins between your teeth, Make hollow promises we’ll never keep” is just one. ‘At this Velocity’ is the more screamo song on the album.
‘We Will Overcome’ is one of the highlights of the album. Great guitar riffs and hopeful lyrics like “Follow the path that’s straight and narrow, hand in hand, Our roads are paved with broken arrows, We will overcome”. The album only gets better when it reaches the halfway point. Melodically ‘Running From the Rain’ is a great song, and it’s followed by the incredibly catchy ‘Telegraph Avenue Kiss’*.
Melodically, the third o last track and the last track are amazing. ‘The Lovesong Writer’ can get slightly depressing, but it is still an incredible song with decent lyrics such as “So he stumbles through syllables, cut from their sentences. Lost letters call to him, deep in the alphabet “Please give us meaning”". The final track on the album is also the best. Amazing quiet to loud progressions, and some of my favorite acoustic guitar riffs ever. ‘Autumn Leaves Revisited’ is a song you must get whether you get the whole album or not.
In conclusion this album is one of the must haves if you like softer post-hardcore stuff. If you don’t this album is still a must get and one of my 20 favorite albums of all time.
Best Song: Autumn Leaves Revisited
Overall Rating: 4 Stars
*Little sidenote, at the time I was obsessed with this album, in particular the song Telegraph Avenue Kiss I was in Oakland Ca where a main street is called Telegraph Avenue.
B-Side Friday #5
Viva La Gloria (Little Girl) – Green Day
Tongue Tied – Eve 6
Last of My Kind – Alice In Chains
Have Gun, Will Travel – The Audition
Running From the Rain – Thursday
B-Side Friday #4
Crawl – Kings of Leon
Noro – Brand New
Matchbox – Jonny Lang
Autumn Leaves Revisited – Thursday
Mary Pretends – Fuel
