AFI suck

;-)

Thanks anyways Doc.
And you're lucky you're my biatch mr. nowhereman.

[QUOTE=El_Shizzy]Yep. That band is the Fritch that I mentioned in related bands.[/QUOTE]
surry,didn't see it.

nice job

i've always liked them, even though im a metalhead and have no taste for punk. Thing is, i don't see them as punk, to me they are just...i don't know, different. The lyrics from Shut Your Mouth seem more punk, but from Black Sails and The Art of Drowning seem more, gothic i guess.

oh well.

Very nice. I love AFI.

EGGcellent profile, very informative. I also love AFI.

That was a great profille.... how do you know so much about AFI?? I never knew they had released so many EP's before Answer That and Stay Fashionable. AFI is definitely my favorite band, probably because they're so different from most bands. And, of course, their first two full-length albums are like a completely different band when compared to the latest ones.
But, yeah.... that's a lot of information, El_Shizzy. Where did you learn all that stuff? I'm thinking you started listening to AFI in their early stages, whereas I hadn't really listened to them until The Days of the Phoenix (Art of Drowning) and kind of worked my way backwards through the albums for the most part.
I gotta go but great job on the profile.

:p
You were listening to AFI before me. I only got into them seriously about a year ago. I first heard Very Proud of Ya back in 1999 and hated it. Obviously it grew on me.

I decided one day that I would seriously sit down and listen to the band. This was a long time after STS was released. My friend burned me a mix CD and I grew to like the songs and eventually got all their albums and became basically obsessed with them.

How do I know so much? Ummmm, you can call it boredom and obsession. I wanted to know of the band more. Before I found these forums, there wasn't much else to do in my free time, so I learned a lot about them. All this information I got came from too many sources to list. I just compiled all the important things in this thread. Thank you! :thumb:

I'd do an Op Ivy one, but everybody already knows tons about them, and its probably been done before.

wow, old thread

Nope. No one's done one for Op Ivy yet. Go for it slacker.

ha, sure why not, i'll do it on the weekend or something, right now I have to deal with the girlfrind, school work, and my new obsession with World of Warcraft, so it'll probably wait till the weekend.

A friend of mine has been listening to AFI since she was 8 and her uncle or cousin or something got her into them. They're her favorite band now... I think that's neat.

An Op Ivy profile would be pretty cool, go for it.

[QUOTE=El_Shizzy][B]Each member[/B]

[B]Davey Havok[/B]
I think that Davey is highly underappreciated in both of his duties in AFI. For one, he has written all AFI lyrics on the past few releases. Not only that, but if you look at the lyrics, you will know he is one of the best writers out there. He has the vocabulary of a motha and has taught me more words than my English teachers ever have. He uses a lot of imagery in his words and can pretty much paint a picture inside your mind with those words. The other thing I recognize him for is his singing range. He has good skills at singing low pitch (Ever And A Day), high pitch (High School Football Hero), screaming (Death Of Seasons), and talking (At A Glance). He can do it all pretty much. The man is very talented.

[B]Jade Puget[/B]
He is one of the reasons newer AFI never really gets old. Not anytime fast if ever. He adds a whole new depth to the instrumentals of the band. Whereas Mark would play your average punk/hardcore songs consisting of mainly power chords the whole way through, Jade plays almost exclusively barre chords, small guitar licks, solos, etc. This may not seem all that impressive at first, seeing as how many other bands do similar, but you may be missing something in the songs if you only heard some a few times before. In a handful of songs, the solos are hidden under other music which seems very rewarding when you hear these solos the first time. Everything he has written for AFI has been incredibly catchy and hard-hitting at the same time.

[B]Adam Carson[/B]
There is a reason that this is the only remaining founding member besides the frontman. He is very very talented. While the first 3 albums, his main concentration was on speed. But lately he has been more and more experimental in the drum progressions. Now in some songs, the drums are the most prominant feature which is a big step forward from the old songs with him drumming.

[B]Hunter Burgan[/B]
Previous bassist, Geoff Kresge, is to this day one of the best bassists around. How does Hunter manage to hold his ground and still prove to be a better bassist for AFI? He is A Fire Inside and what it has become. Hunter is the driving heaviness in the band's music. While Kresge played fast catchy lines that were upbeat in a sense most of the time, Hunter played a deeper, more metal-ish sound while still keeping the signature hardcore style and speed. The first major change in AFI occurred when Hunter stepped in as bassist. Coincedence? I think not.


[B]Discography[/B]

Dork EP - 1993
Behind The Times EP - 1993
Eddie Picnic's All Wet EP - 1994
Heckle EP - 1994
Answer That And Stay Fashionable - 1995
Fly In The Ointment EP - 1995
Very Proud Of Ya - 1996
Answer That And Stay Fashionable (re-release)- 1997
Shut Your Mouth And Open Your Eyes - 1997
A Fire Inside EP - 1998
Black Sails EP - 1999
Black Sails In The Sunset - 1999
All Hallow's EP - 1999
The Art Of Drowning - 2000
Days Of The Phoenix EP - 2001
336 EP - 2002
Sing The Sorrow - 2003
Leaving Song Pt. II (Australian release only) - 2003
AFI (A Retrospective)- 2004


[B]Related Bands[/B]

Tiger Army (Adam played Drums for their S/T and Early Years EP; all members have sung backup for them; Geoff Kresge went on to join them; Tiger Army provides backup vocals and music for AFI on select songs as well)
Son Of Sam (Davey Havok sings for them)
The Fritch (Hunter plays drums in this band)
Loose Change (Jade Puget once played guitar for them)
Redemption '87 (Jade Played for them as well)
The Force (Hunter once played bass for them)
Rancid (They collaborated on a version of "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing")

[B]Recommended Downloads[/B]

Self Pity
The Despair Factor
Smile
Let It Be Broke
Coin Return
Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings)
NyQuil
Porphyria Cutanea Tarda
Cruise Control
No Poetic Device
The Boy Who Destroyed The World
Overexposure
Shatty Fatmas


Well that was a lot of work.
If you come in to spam my thread with "AFI sUx!!!!!1", F'uck you. At least give me a reason dammit.[/QUOT

I really like AFI but only because of sing the sorrow, i also have black sails and art of drowning an they aren't very good so i would have suggested getting most songs of sing the sorrow

Hey, I didn't know of that profile. You know I love AFI El_Shizzy and now I love you too. Very very good profile. I didn't know that the bassist of AFI was the same as Tiger Army's, he was awesome.

very good. afi will always be in rotation for me

great job

afi is awsome. one of my personal favorites. but please dont call them hardcore, post-hardcore or emo (emo? what the **** were you thinkging?) becuase you [U]really[/U] cant catagorize them with your fancy lables and such. think about it. well, think about it as given retrospective afi mixed with newer afi. they've really made they're own style of music.

Hardcore/Punk band. When Jade joined they became a Post-Hardcore band.

Now that wasn't so bad.

[QUOTE=Sk8SkaNJ]Hardcore/Punk band. When Jade joined they became a Post-Hardcore band.

Now that wasn't so bad.[/QUOTE]


For some odd reason. They remind me of GlassJaw.

I really like Shut your Mouth and Open your Eyes and I really dislike Sing the Sorrow. I'd like to get the retrospective but the styles are so varied it'd be weird to listen to the new stuff right next to the old stuff.

Was this ever added to the list of profiles?

[QUOTE=Sk8SkaNJ]Was this ever added to the list of profiles?[/QUOTE]

There's a list? Where can I find it?

If you read the rules you'd know.

kudos on the profile.
afi are one of my favorite bands, but i never knew that much about them and their history. very nice work

[QUOTE=Sk8SkaNJ]If you read the rules you'd know.[/QUOTE]

I assumed I was comofrtable enough with mx rules in general and I never read the punk forum rules.

I saw an AFI show not too long ago with Bleeding Through, and it was an amazing show. Davey's cheerleader move in the crowd is one of a kind.

[QUOTE=Sk8SkaNJ]If you read the rules you'd know.[/QUOTE]

haha I didn't know either, I never acctually read the rules, other than bands you can't discuss, and I ignore those ones anyway.

Yes it was added to the rules page Reiner. And thanks for all the comments guys.

I must say that was a superb post, on the best band of the modern day. as you can see by the name, i love those guys. If you havent been to a show of theirs, you need to because it is the most intense thing i have ever encountered. well thats about it, and if you dont like AFI i have nothing to say to you cause it would be terrible words. :evil: