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nice digs, you two.

Album Rating: 5.0

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bach96

January 21st 2013







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nice digs, you two.



Digging: BT - This Binary Universe





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January 21st 2013







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yeah u too man

hmmm you find entertainment in strange things

Album Rating: 3.5

It almost feels to me like Claudio knows when he's writing an awesome Coheed track and when he's writing somewhat insipid pop tracks. Or maybe he thinks they're just as good, but there's just such a big divide between stuff like Domino and Vic vs. Goodnight Fair Lady. I still like the latter a bit, and even Coheed's best albums had a few of those tracks sprinkled in. But it felt more like an attempt to appeal to a wider audience or even break up some of the more grandiose tracks with something easier to digest, whereas now it's split 50/50 or worse.



Coheed has always been best when they're mixing catchy hooks into prog-centric tracks. They're at their worst when Claudio makes an entire track centered around some saccharine chorus with his cutesy singing. I love these dudes and I think The Ascension (both parts) was a step up for them, but it's somewhat infuriating that it almost feels like Coheed could still make music at their absolute peak if they would just CHOOSE to do so.

Album Rating: 5.0

tmobo at least its not all shit like nwft

Album Rating: 4.0

I know Conan's a tall dude, but Claudio must be much shorter than I think, because he looked minuscule next to Conan.

Album Rating: 4.0

Claudio can't be more than 5'9"ish

Album Rating: 4.0

I saw Bo live at UCONN sometime last year and didn't realize he was as tall as he was until then. I'm decently tall and

somewhere around 6'2-3" and he definitely had a few inches on me.

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Coheed is so sexy too bad I don't listen anymore.

Thanks Tmobotron that is truth right there and my thoughts exactly. What's good here is good, but there is just too much nonsense and blatant (almost purposeful) filler for it to be great

P.S. Iron fist still blows goats. I have proof

Album Rating: 3.5

"tmobo at least its not all shit like nwft"



I actually liked a lot of that album and I thought most of it showed a good effort from the group (I mean come on, the title track is the shit), they were just stylistically doing something that felt forced and awkward for them and a lot of it felt unnatural unlike how comfortable the band seemed like they were doing their own thang on Vol. 1.



But that's exactly my point, Afterman feels like Coheed back to being just straight up Coheed doing what they do best, which is why it's so fucking annoying when half of this album is filled with with songs that almost feel like they've actively been chosen to be filler.



Take Hound (of Blood and Rank), an exceptionally cheesy turd off of NWFT for example. It's pretty cringe-worthy because of how damn cheesy parts of it, but the band is clearly trying to make a good track there. And that's how most of the bad tracks on the album are. Afterman on the other hand, had Coheed back in their comfort zone, writing tracks in their own style and doing it damn well, except when they decide not to. I can't attribute any of the lesser stuff on this album to a mistake or genuine effort gone wrong - it all feels like Coheed actively chose to write tracks that just aren't as good as what they're capable of in a few places (the exception might be Holly Wood which feels like an energetic track full of potential that just fails to hit the mark it's aiming for).



Now I have to say, I'm being overly-harsh on some of the lesser tracks here because I actually LIKE everything on this album. But I fucking LOVE Domino and Vic (and Evagria just a bit less), and when I think about why I like Goodnight Fair Lady or Mothers of Men less, I realize it's because those tracks just seem like they're intentionally written to be less impacting - they're definitely way less ambitious. It's like Claudio knows he can write a good track but is a little unsure of himself when he goes for the epic stuff so he plays it safe too often. I don't know, but it's so clear to me that Vic the Butcher and Domino the Desitute ARE that good because Claudio simply chose to make tracks that are that good, where he didn't everywhere else on the album.

Album Rating: 3.5

excuse the rant

Album Rating: 4.0

You pretty much hit it on the head man.

Agreed. The second half of this album is frustrating primarily because the whole thing could have been so great. Even tracks like Hollywood fit the broad theme of what makes these albums good (even if that track isn't all that great), but then you run into the back half of Descension and its just this tacked on syrupy debacle.

Its not god awful, but it is kind of lame because as you note the songs feel almost purposefully mediocre and it just kind leaves you wondering what the point of having half an album worth of filler tacked on to the back end of an otherwise fairly awesome double album.

I think another way to look at it is that there really wasn't enough good material here to release it as two separate albums. Somewhere in this double album there is one very good 12 track album. Take away "Goodnight Fair Lady" and "Hollywood" from the first, "Away we Go, "Iron Fist", and "2s my favorite 1" away from the second and you are left with a single album of good bordering on great material.

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Bullshit. Blood and Rank ain't cheesy you're just lame. Your argument got thrown out the window. Shit after that sentence I couldn't keep reading much more.



The arrogance of some people. Pff

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coheed made 7 5/5 albums

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A couple of those are actually 6's



Oh and YOTBR is a 4 :/

this album is alright nothing to get overly excited about.