Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
God Drugs and Sex is such a beautiful track yet it never gets any damn praise. the re recorded feel good drag is one of the laziest and weakest tracks they have ever put out. the original is so much better. the remake was only made because the original didn't get the praise it deserved and it is nothing but a pop remix of it.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Both versions of TFGD are almost identical, I never understood the vitriol towards the re-recorded version (I mean it's one thing to dislike it because it's re-recorded, another thing to say it's a horrible pop remix). I actually prefer the NS version because I never liked Stephen's half-shriek delivery of the your's of "Your lips, your lies, your lust" and the NS release smooths that over. Meh
and yeah God Drugs and Sex is an amazing track, it's one of Anberlin's least-immediate songs though (took me a good 10-15 tries to get into it) and I feel like that's why no one talks about it
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
In a way im probably biased towards the original TFGD because its the first song I ever heard from them when I was introduced to them back in like 2006. I just feel there is a huge lack of energy displayed in the remake. not a terrible track but imo its one of the worst in the album. I just don't like the poppy approach they took with it I guess.
For me when I listen to an Anberlin album for the first time I listen to the closing tracks first because they just seem to be so mind blowing and epic. GD&S is such an artistically beautiful track and the vocals are just great. The closers are all my favorite Anberlin tracks except for Naïve Orleans. I can definitely understand where you are coming from though now that I think about it
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Album Rating: 4.5
TFGD is actually the first song I heard by them as well on a local radio station circa 2008, which is why I checked out Cities after seeing a 4.5 review flagged on this site. But I mean I guess we can disagree on the point, honestly I don't mind that they remade it because this band deserves more fucking exposure and rereleasing TFGD on a major record label helped on that front.
And yeah Anberlin closers are great. GD&S might be my second favorite of that bunch (either that or Miseraible Visu)
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Hell yeah man I can definitely back that opinion. (On them remaking it for that reason). Not a big fan of it but i definitely understand.
In order for the closers:
1.Fin
2. GD&S tied with Miseraible Visu
3. Dance Dance Christa Paffgen
4. Depraved
5. Naïve Orleans
Well technically those would be my top 5 anberlin tracks
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Album Rating: 4.5
Haha man I was reading some of my comments on the old Cities thread that was defaulted before Sowing's and my opinions were so whack. Apparently I thought:
1. Fin
2. Depraved
3. Dance Dance
4. Naive Orleans
5. Miserabile Visu
But yeah now I'm in agreement except I'm not as high on Depraved as you are, or maybe I'm just higher on Naive Orleans (definitely not as ambitious as the rest of their closers but it has flawless execution imo). Depraved is such a weird song in their repertoire, honeslty
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Album Rating: 4.0
Depraved is a good track but lol
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Album Rating: 4.5
lol.
Depraved is the only closer that isn't a top 3 track on its album I think
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah true
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
eh idk i love that song. "Down", "We Owe This To Ourselves", and "Art Of War" are my favorite tracks on the album besides that.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I adore Down, Art of War, and Pray Tell. I'm mixed on whether I prefer Depraved or Impossible though. Never got into We Owe This To Ourselves' chorus, sadly, though I love that post-rocky bridge so much
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Album Rating: 4.5
lakes your opinions also were surprisingly similar to mine (i.e. depraved was your 2nd fav closer, god drugs and sex not included obviously)
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Album Rating: 4.0
I remember loving that whole album so much and then it just died all of a sudden
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Album Rating: 4.0
Dark is The Way, that is
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
yeah the post rocky bridge of we owe this to ourselves is awesome. the only tracks i don't like on that album are you belong here and i really dislike to the wolves
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
^This haha
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
eh u2 is alright but i never gave them a fair chance so idk
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Album Rating: 4.5
I thought NS was really atmospheric (well the verses anyways). I mean Miserabile Visu, Retrace,
Younglife, even Haight St. do such a great job setting up distinctive moods.
DitW has traces of it, like Depraved. But yeah Sowing I'm with you, it was my 2nd fav for a while
(granted before Vital) and I guess I still like it better than NS and Blueprints but I don't find
myself coming back to it. I'm not a huge fan of You Belong Here or To The Wolves either (though I
like that part right before the chorus: "thought it was you and me against the world, but you left me
to the wolves").
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
yeah that is a very good line.
my ranking is pretty different from most peoples
1.NTFP
2.Vital
3.Cities
4.Dark is the Way
5.BPFTBM
6.NS
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
eh breaking not so much imo but i used to like retrace but i hate it with a passion now because it reminds me of my whore ex
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