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Friday, March 27, 2009

Tonight! Thursday - Tonight!

Posted by Rob Simonsen on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:42 PM

I'm not going to lie: when Thursday's Full Collapse came out, I thought it was one the greatest things I had ever heard. I'm a little bit older and a little bit wiser these days, but eff it: I still really love Thursday, even if they—along with Dashboard Confessional—destroyed emo as we knew it and loved it. But that is clearly a drunken conversation for later that only a few people (I'm looking at you, Ezra) could get behind.

Still, I am going to stand firmly behind Thursday. From their battle leaving Victory to their cred-solidifying split with Envy on Temporary Residence to their legitimately good, most recent Epitaph release Common Existence, the band has been around block more than a few times and come out consistently on the up and up. I am excited for tonight, and excited to pretend like I'm nineteen again and headed off to the Plea For Peace tour.

Thursday play tonight at the Roseland with a bunch of bands. Show at 7 so we can all make our curfew. Tell mom to fire up the minivan!

 

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I could get behind that drunken conversation.

Also, I crack up every time I see these genero-hardcore band names - two others from the bill: Pierce the Veil, Bring Me The Horizon. And I can only guess that they're completely biting bands from 15+ years ago like Oversight, Overcast, Chokehold, etc. Anyway! I thought of a sweet band name that one of these nu-hardcore bands should take: Staunch the Wound!
Posted by ROM on March 27, 2009 at 1:37 PM · Report
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I think I own a Staunch the Wound hoodie.

Listening to the new Thursday record before I wrote the preview in this week's paper, it struck me: dude cannot sing. At all. I'd like to credit Chris from Mineral as the greatest off-key emo vocalist of all time, but when all is said and done, Geoff Rickly might take that honor.

It really is a honor.
Posted by ezra on March 27, 2009 at 1:46 PM · Report
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He kind of sounds like the singer of Car Vs Driver, except that guy could sing on key.

Have you heard Ordination of Aaron? Those vocals took a while to grown on me.

Posted by ROM on March 27, 2009 at 2:50 PM · Report

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