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RetiredAt21 08-21-2005 08:17 PM

Sweet, thanks.

Sleeper 08-21-2005 09:52 PM

[QUOTE=allofmeoliveme][b]AFI - All Hallows EP[/b]
hxxp://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0AJD9EB7HXCNK3SCA9LLD9IN89

I uploaded it in the YSI thread. Here it is if anyone else wants it.[/QUOTE]
You've just made my day, thanks alot dude.

Sleeper 08-21-2005 09:55 PM

[QUOTE=Brain Squirmin' Like a Toad]I'm sure many of you are quite knowledgable of AFI, so I encourage you to submit a Band bio blurb for the Top 100 Punk Bands. If you think you can do a good one, email it to me at [email]braintoad@gmail.com[/email]

EDIT: BERSERKER! is doing it...[/QUOTE]
El_Shiznit would be a good person to do it also.

Brain Toad 08-21-2005 09:58 PM

Berserker! retracted his dibs.. so it's free. I just want someone to do it.

El_Shiznit 08-22-2005 12:05 AM

I might do the blurb if I am bored sometime soon. I don't really want to commit to anything right now. Even if it is one paragraph on a band I know a lot about. I would rather someone else do it, but do the band justice if you do.

Original Gangsta! 08-22-2005 12:08 AM

i think that the last album was pretty boring...

i dont really consider them punk....

Brain Toad 08-22-2005 12:09 AM

[QUOTE=Original Gangsta!]i think that the last album was pretty boring...

i dont really consider them punk....[/QUOTE]

Listen to their early stuff, all of it is either hardcore-punk or post-hardcore.

I didn't like Sing the Sorrow, except when I first heard Girl's Not Grey.

cheeser_1 08-22-2005 12:50 AM

yeah, nick's right, and to be honest, it doesn't matter what you think.

Original Gangsta! 08-22-2005 12:54 AM

[QUOTE=cheeser_1]yeah, nick's right, and to be honest, it doesn't matter what you think.[/QUOTE]

lol cause im a dumbass? well then what is this "earlier stuff"

tell me a song name or something...

although im not a big fan of hardcore

agnostic front is about it for me

afireinside4848 08-22-2005 01:24 AM

[QUOTE=Rude Boy Ska]They were okay/good til they sold out.

And by 'sold out' I mean changed their sound to get on MTV, made music videos, signed a major label for money and raised ticket prices for their shows.[/QUOTE]

i undertand they changed their music style,but gradually,and the ticket prices may be nitro records doing,remember they put out the retrospect cd without the band knowing,and sum video are from older stuff but believe or not many ppl who watch MTV dont know them,i respecr ue opionion but i think they changed more then soldout,

cheeser_1 08-22-2005 02:12 AM

[QUOTE=Original Gangsta!]lol cause im a dumbass?[/QUOTE]
no, because who they are is not a matter of opinion, especially your uneducated opinion. check out the album "very proud of ya." i'd say that's the best starter album, although "answer that and stay fashionable" works well too. go to the YSI thread or something, or look around online, or *gasp* go buy it.

Gnarmageddon 08-22-2005 06:22 AM

Once again, I uploaded [url=http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=9296558&postcount=2542]these[/url] in the YSI thread, if anyone wants them.

maco 08-22-2005 10:11 AM

[QUOTE=Brain Squirmin' Like a Toad]I was thinking about AFI last night in the moments trying to get to sleep (my second best thinking place, next to the shower). And I remembered hearing Girls Not Grey when it had first come out as a single in a record store and liking it a bit. So I thought I should check them out more. I never reeally did, I think I got I Want a Mohawk, but had a computer crash and lost all my mp3s (this was before I got a new computer). So I thought about it, and if I had checked them out, I'd probably have the same opinion I have now. And since this was the time I was first getting into punk, if I had gotten into them then, I think I may of gotten into other hardcore easier, because of the similarities, and now I'd probably be able to stand bands like Carry On and Comeback Kid for more than one song every month or so.[/QUOTE]
That's like me. When I was starting to get into punk, it was from my step-bro who hates AFI. And I hated hardcore. It was a year after Sing the Sorrow that I heard The Art of Drowning. Then by going backwards I got used to hardcore. I think listening to TAOD, BISTS, and SYMAOYE is the only reason I like hardcore now.

RetiredAt21 08-22-2005 10:49 AM

I think the Art Of Drowning is my favorite AFI album.

ShadowRaven 08-22-2005 12:23 PM

[QUOTE=allofmeoliveme]Once again, I uploaded [url=http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=9296558&postcount=2542]these[/url] in the YSI thread, if anyone wants them.[/QUOTE]

Thank you so much for uploading those!

RetiredAt21 08-22-2005 03:52 PM

Again, thanks a bunch.

maco 08-29-2005 10:04 PM

According to afiseries.com Davey says that the album should be out around early 2006. No one's sure if that's a hint at release date or it's a safe margin for error.

RockThe40oz! 08-29-2005 10:21 PM

the best thing to happen to punk? haha. i dont think so.

El_Shiznit 08-29-2005 10:28 PM

[QUOTE=maco]According to afiseries.com Davey says that the album should be out around early 2006. No one's sure if that's a hint at release date or it's a safe margin for error.[/QUOTE]
I'm going to go with release date, just because those bastards always fail to meet the deadlines. Or so that's the case in recent times.

RetiredAt21 08-30-2005 09:41 AM

I'm hoping they go back to the "old" AFI sound on the new record. I really didn't care for Sing the Sorrow at all. Except for Dancing Through Sunday, that song is pretty awesome.

SlappedByTheClash 08-30-2005 11:28 AM

AFI are hit or miss with me.


Like most people, I have the standard older stuff is better view.

El_Shiznit 08-30-2005 11:55 AM

I hope they don't go back to old. I wouldn't mind if the style is similar to Sing The Sorrow. But I think I would really prefer they do something completely different.

SlappedByTheClash 08-30-2005 12:15 PM

[QUOTE=El_Shiznit]I hope they don't go back to old. I wouldn't mind if the style is similar to Sing The Sorrow. But I think I would really prefer they do something completely different.[/QUOTE]

There's a Myspace profile that has some B-sides to Sing The Sorrow, and they're really good. They have like old school AFI tempos with the little goth thing they got going on now, and it's a good compromise.

Hep Kat 08-30-2005 12:49 PM

anything afi does for the new album will be awesome cause ya know it's afi .......[I]man[/I]!

Jester06 08-30-2005 01:05 PM

afi is my favorite bAND and always will be

Drummer Ted 08-30-2005 01:28 PM

Worst pop act since Green day

maco 08-30-2005 01:29 PM

[QUOTE=SlappedByTheClash]There's a Myspace profile that has some B-sides to Sing The Sorrow, and they're really good. They have like old school AFI tempos with the little goth thing they got going on now, and it's a good compromise.[/QUOTE]
B-sides? Do you mean Synesthesia and Now the World? They're not B-sides really. They were the bonus tracks on the UK version of Sing the Sorrow, though Now the World was also on the Japanese one. The demo of Synesthesia is on a few of the singles too. Now the World is a re-recording of the one that was on the 336 10" vinyl (aka the Now the World Picture Disk). The only difference is what Davey shouts in the chorus. In the original he said "I wanted this excorciation. I thrive on this self-mutilation" and in the new recording he says "I wanted to excorciate. I remain and self-mutilate."

[quote=El_Shiznit]
I'm going to go with release date, just because those bastards always fail to meet the deadlines. Or so that's the case in recent times.[/quote]
When was Sing the Sorrow originally supposed to be released? They're already past the original "guesstimate" for the release--this past spring.

[quote=RetiredAt21]I'm hoping they go back to the "old" AFI sound on the new record. I really didn't care for Sing the Sorrow at all. Except for Dancing Through Sunday, that song is pretty awesome.[/quote]
They will never go back to the old sound. They've matured and are beyond that stage besides having much better musical skills than the old stuff required. The old stuff was a result of bored kids not knowing how to play attempting it anyway. The new stuff involves actual skill. They never "re-create" an album because that would be boring, and it would be moving backward instead of foreward.

[quote=El_Shiznit]I hope they don't go back to old. I wouldn't mind if the style is similar to Sing The Sorrow. But I think I would really prefer they do something completely different.[/quote]
There's supposed to be more electronic layering. They also said something about "cold pop" which generally is interpreted as "Cure pop". Davey and Jade love the Cure and are the principal songwriters, so it makes sense that they'd sort of emulate what they like to hear. It won't be industrial though. I think Blaqk Audio is Davey and Jade's way of keeping their industrial-love from taking over AFI.

cheeser_1 08-30-2005 06:56 PM

[QUOTE=Drummer Ted]Worst pop act since Green day[/QUOTE]
stop complaining about green day in every thread. get over it.

maco 08-30-2005 06:58 PM

[url=http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2H0RCLQADIOVP2INM5TOF59NHU]AFI's cover of Dag Nasty's "Values Here"[/url]

RetiredAt21 08-30-2005 07:06 PM

That's pretty good, I like it.

DaveToopes 08-30-2005 07:57 PM

[QUOTE=maco][url=http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2H0RCLQADIOVP2INM5TOF59NHU]AFI's cover of Dag Nasty's "Values Here"[/url][/QUOTE]

Yeah that's pretty good.

alkalinesk8er 08-30-2005 08:25 PM

[QUOTE=maco][url=http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2H0RCLQADIOVP2INM5TOF59NHU]AFI's cover of Dag Nasty's "Values Here"[/url][/QUOTE]

That is so good I just can't get over it.

Weezerfan_returns 08-31-2005 09:29 AM

[QUOTE=Drummer Ted]Worst pop act since Green day[/QUOTE]

Shut up.

RetiredAt21 08-31-2005 02:33 PM

Drummer Ted is an idiot.

El_Shiznit 08-31-2005 02:38 PM

I got the Give 'Em The Boot DVD a few days ago, and just got around to watching it. Up until the end, I was slightly disappointed. I mean, it was great seeing a lot of bands I like (Rancid, Tiger Army, LFATB, Nerve Agents, etc.), but Davey kept making cameos all over the place. And the no AFI live footage was disappointing me. But at the end, Davey sang on an acoustic song with Tim Armstrong. And on Rancid's last song they played live, Davey did the lead vocals for all of it.

So I was satisfied.

Gnarmageddon 08-31-2005 02:42 PM

What song did he do vocals on?

ThisUserIsAPipebomb 08-31-2005 02:44 PM

Recently, I've been getting back into AFI. I love them.

El_Shiznit 08-31-2005 02:47 PM

[QUOTE=allofmeoliveme]What song did he do vocals on?[/QUOTE]
Not positive, but I think the song is called "Radio". I know the song, just not good with titles. :p

And I just found out that the acoustic was "Knowledge" by Op Ivy. I'm not really into them, so I didn't know. Just knew I heard it before.

S.T.I 08-31-2005 03:01 PM

That Dag Nasty cover was great. Tim and Davey's acoustic version would be intresting.

SlappedByTheClash 08-31-2005 03:02 PM

Yeah, it was Radio.


The description of that DVD was completely misleading in some cases. The Iggy Pop part was really lame (why the hell is Brett trying to play drumbeats on his knees?)most of it was good though.


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