Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun
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Toondude10
October 20th 2015


15188 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I keep coming back to Here to Mars and Atlas.

NordicMindset
October 21st 2015


25137 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Here to Mars is decent instrumentally but my god those lyrics

MonotoneMop
October 21st 2015


573 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

The worst lyrics of any Coheed song by far. I feel like I'm 'done' with this album. It's a shitty feeling.

Toondude10
October 21st 2015


15188 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

as if Coheed hasn't had really cheesy lyrics in the past?

DinosaurJones
October 21st 2015


10402 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Sure, it's cheesy, but I can't believe how much that's bothering people.

It's weird to me how people say things like "Man, that makes me cringe." I'm just imagining people sitting in the office or on a park bench with earbuds in cringing and making weird faces, and someone walking by going "Are you okay? You look like you're in some discomfort.:



OH SORRY, IT'S JUST THESE SONG LYRICS, THEY'RE MAKING ME PHYSICALLY UNCOMFORTABLE.

MonotoneMop
October 21st 2015


573 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

It's just distracting. Besides that, Here To Mars is a pretty unremarkable 'big' single to my ears. The nearest equivalent song is Here We Are Juggernaut, which explores pretty similar themes, but lays them out in a somewhat obtuse way with darker tones. The "your teeth just won't stop chewing out my heart" line is a good example of this, and it's one of my favorite Coheed lines, but every time I get to the "Please, I'm sorry I WILL NEVER LET YOU GOOOO" line, it just derails the whole bridge of HTM and I just can't get into it. I'm capable of removing a song from its lyrics to enjoy it, but for the most part, the only one doing anything particularly interesting instrumentally in the track is Zach, but he's great all over the record.



Here To Mars is definitely my least listened to track on this album, but it's mostly because when I listen to it, I'm spending a ton of time telling myself "oh, just ignore the lyrics" and then it's over.

AtomicWaste
Moderator
October 21st 2015


2888 Comments

Album Rating: 3.3 | Sound Off

Love "Here to Mars." It's a good track. Lyrics are fine - I really don't see anything cringeworthy. It's a love song. Thematically (and tonally) it's very different from a song like Juggernaut. It knows its purpose and fulfills it well. It's a little lyrically simple, but that doesn't make it a bad song at all.



I think people hold the same thing against "You've Got Spirit, Kid." I guess I just don't get it. Musically, there are tracks that are far more boring than those two on here.

porcupinetheater
October 22nd 2015


11044 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Young Love and The Audience are the worst on this thing. I can't really recall anything interesting happening in any capacity on either track.

TooManyFriends
October 22nd 2015


3501 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

young love has grown on me but it still feels like it spends it's whole duration building up to something that never happens

Voltimand
October 22nd 2015


1670 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

The bonus tracks:



"Fangs of the Fox" - acoustic, reminds me of early Coheed, SSTB-ish; has mini harmonica solo



"Bridge and Tunnel" - sounds like a Prize Fighter Inferno track

MonotoneMop
October 22nd 2015


573 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Fangs of the Fox was pretty nice. I can see why they left it off the record, it wouldn't fit well. It's definitely one of my top tracks from this album cycle. Really, really not into Bridge and Tunnel, but it's a demo bonus track, so I can't complain.



Also, new video for "Island" is coming out tomorrow, I hear. That'll probably be cool, the YGSK video was a great backdrop to great song, so I'm excited to see where they take the energy of Island.

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
October 22nd 2015


47733 Comments

Album Rating: 3.3

Can't find Fox on soulseek, rip

Toondude10
October 22nd 2015


15188 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Fangs of the Fox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zWKDVMRFf0



Bridge and Tunnel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxvTpQWZgOI

BigTuna
October 22nd 2015


5907 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I'm loving Colors lately

Voltimand
October 22nd 2015


1670 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

It's a great tune - relating to a lot on a personal level lately. Perhaps the same will happen with the tracks I don't fully enjoy, but then I just go back to their previous albums.

SonofSnow
October 23rd 2015


1818 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

This record is just boring outside of Atlas and the Island

NordicMindset
October 23rd 2015


25137 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Colors I personally find a bit bland musically

ZippaThaRippa
October 23rd 2015


10671 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Young Love wasn't too bad I thought

NordicMindset
October 23rd 2015


25137 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

If I had to tier everything, it'd probably go-



Atlas, Island



Peace to the Mountain, Ghost



You Got Spirit Kid, Eraser, The Audience



Here to Mars, Colors, Young Love

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
October 23rd 2015


47733 Comments

Album Rating: 3.3

Colors on the level of Young Love lmao nah



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