Album Rating: 5.0
I'd suggest giving it a spin with the original tracklist, too. both work real well, i just think the one i made accentuates its best qualities and serves for a more gripping, intense listen.
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only on sputnik would someone think flipping the track order was some kind of artistic statement.
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Album Rating: 5.0
or a new way to enjoy one of my personal favorite albums?
srsly?
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Album Rating: 5.0
Alternate tracklists basically provide a different way to experience an album, The Always Open Mouth by Fear Before and This is How... by Silverstein had official alternate tracklists that are arguably better than the original tracklists.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
lol don't got time for all dat shit. more power to you folks
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Album Rating: 4.5
wait what's the always open mouth's alternative track-listing
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Album Rating: 5.0
Dir stop being a cunt
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Album Rating: 5.0
wtf i need the TAOM tracklisting STAT
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yes please someone help us out
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Album Rating: 5.0
you can't just come in here and say that and not say ;_;
can't imagine what an alt tracklist would be like, since almost all the songs flow into each other
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Did anyone else think Finch screwed up the acoustic Bitemarks on Steel, Wood and Whiskey?
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Album Rating: 4.5
yeah
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Album Rating: 5.0
only listened to it once, but i know they pretty much only did fireflies right on the whole album haha
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finch screwed up everything in their career since this, don't take the acoustic album personally. i used to think the style move back to accessibility in oblivion and lines nate shit out about something like "we only made sunshine to impress our peers, didn't actually like it" was bullshit and they just knew where the commercial grab would be, but maybe it was true and the blind squirrel just found a nut with this.
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Ah, maybe. That's sad if true. Do we know how much Marc Allen had a hand in the writing? This is the only Finch album he drummed on.
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Album Rating: 5.0
seeing how cool the drum parts are here and how much of a backbone they provide for everything else... it may be his doing, but maybe he just got everyone to kick it into high gear, and they're just lazy outside of this.
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Album Rating: 4.5
True. This is definitely one of my favourite drum performances.
Maybe Finch had ambitions to become the next Faith No More-type band, known for eclecticism and doing their own thing (this as their Angel Dust of sorts), but when it was panned upon release it demoralized them and divided them and led them to question their own validity as musicians-- could be understandable, as this, the album they felt was a true representation of their sound, was hated-- and, ultimately, to their split in '06.
I remember reading somewhere that Nate, Marc Allen, and one of the guitarists were on one side, and then Derek [their bassist at the time] and the other guitarist were on the other after this album came out. Thus, when they finally got together to put out Back to Oblivion (sans Marc and Derek), it ended up far less adventurous, as a reaction to the negative memories the band have after this release. However, this album's standing has grown with time, and hopefully the band realize this and stop saying things like: "We only made it to impress our peers" -- a statement which is probably false, but informed by those aforementioned negative memories.
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Album Rating: 5.0
i don't get why "we were trying to be impressive" is a bad thing. i mean i dig what it is to burn, but it's not really impressive. this is monstrous.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I think his point is that it wasn't negative in that were trying to impress, more negative in that they were trying impress OTHER people by making it, as opposed to writing music for themselves-- trying to impress themselves. I don't believe that's really true, though. Like I said, that viewpoint is likely informed by the negative reaction this album received. This is evidenced by the fact that before it came out, they were saying it was exactly what they wanted to be making and how honest it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeCCelL7aJQ
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Interesting stuff, although it's just odd because things got even weirder when they got back together. Listening to the World Of Violence demos, they plunged even further into heavy/weird after the Finch EP, then inexplicably swung back to the poppy mainstream stuff on this.
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