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| Billy Talent Ranked (2019)
With excellent songwriting, high energy, and great production, you'll seldom find a mediocre album in the Billy Talent discography. That being said, with the exception of Billy Talent II, this was a very hard list to rank. | | 1 |  | Billy Talent
Billy Talent II
Easily the best in their entire discography, and a top-tier rock album. Best tracks on here? Just throw a dart; it has everything. The perfect starting point if you're looking to get into Billy Talent, and then check out their first album for their humble beginnings. If you're still on the fence though, check out the singles: Red Flag and Devil In a Midnight Mass. | | 2 |  | Billy Talent
Dead Silence
This was considered a sort of return to form after the third album. Overall just a solid track list, with a slight slump in the middle on the song Stand up and Run, but picks back up again with the scathing lyrics on Crooked Minds. Then that signature Billy Talent energy comes back full force once Man Alive! fires up. Viking Death March is also a hard jam. | | 3 |  | Billy Talent
Afraid of Heights
A very close tie with Dead Silence, but due to songs like Louder Than the DJ and the title track getting a bit too repetitive on subsequent listens, it takes the number 3 spot. Definitely one of the brighter sounding albums, and has absolute bangers like the Muse-inspired Horses & Chariots and the soaring February Winds. | | 4 |  | Billy Talent
Billy Talent III
The production sounds a bit muffled on the percussion and bass, but other than that I'm not sure why this album gets so much hate. It's the sound of a more darker, subdued Billy Talent. With the anthemic White Sparrows and heavy bangers like The Dead Can't Testify, this is perfect for jamming on a rainy day. | | 5 |  | Billy Talent
Billy Talent
The most generic sounding album of the bunch, but still a step above a typical rock or pop-punk album. You can hear hints of their style beginning to form with tracks like Living in the Shadows and Voices of Violence, and is a worthy, important entry in the discography. | |
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06.13.19 | Never heard of em. | Sciroccu
06.13.19 | I enjoyed all of them, great band. My rating is 3,5 for 4 albums and Billy Talent II at 4, it's indeed their best one. | onionbubs
06.13.19 | 5 2 1 3 4
also crooked minds is absolutely not a dip in quality. i’ll give you that stand up and run is a little lame tho | Advent
06.13.19 | Damn bubs you're right. Just listened to Crooked Minds again and the lyrics are also really good. Edited the Dead Silence summary. | Pikazilla
06.13.19 | 2 and 5 are my faves lol | onionbubs
06.13.19 | dead silence has a few dips but if you cut like show me the way and stand up and run (and maybe hanging by a thread) you’d have maybe my top billy talent. definitely bens strongest performance as far as singing goes
3 and 4 don’t grab me at all rip, outside of maybe three songs each. really wish jordan hastings brought his fat grooves on afraid of heights but oh well | Advent
06.13.19 | Agreed on Show Me the Way being a dip but less so on Hanging By a Thread. I'd say Swallowed up by the Ocean is more of a dip than Thread, but even then that one has steady build-up and great vocal harmonies.
I haven't listened to Alexisonfire so I'm not familiar with any fat grooves from Jordan Hastings, but I can tell you the drum intro on Big Red Gun always gets me hyped. | onionbubs
06.13.19 | hastings is an easy high point in late era alexisonfire for me. he brings a fuck ton of power behind the kit especially in the more mid tempo shit (he’s also got perfect high hat placement). drumming on afraid of heights is fine and the snare placement in places certainly screams hastings but it doesn’t have the power found on like we are the sound, this could be anywhere in the world, dogs blood or even like old crows and the northern
by the way, listen to alexisonfire | Advent
06.13.19 | Just listened to Crisis. Album baps haaaard
You were right about the fat drum grooves, and tracks like Mailbox Arson and We Are The Sound jam so hard | Hawks
06.13.19 | Billy Talment | Advent
06.13.19 | Menlly Menlment | onionbubs
06.13.19 | yea crisis fucks eternally. watch out is also a genre classic (hastings isn’t on it tho he joined before crisis), and dogs blood is probably my favorite thing they did. other two albums have a lot of huge highlights too
basically what i’m saying is do a discog binge lol | Brontosaurus
06.14.19 | Billy Talent II is so goddamn good. I'm with you all the songs on there are so catchy and memorable | Advent
06.14.19 | Yeah man, just wish I had discovered these guys sooner. Red Flag came up on a Spotify mix and I was like “Wow that was really good”, so then I fired up the album it came off of and was like “Oh...OH...”, and the rest is history. | onionbubs
06.14.19 | i can’t stand perfect world but otherwise yea btii is dope as fuck | Advent
06.14.19 | CONTROOOLLL
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06.14.19 | actually upon relisten i might like iii more than afraid of height threw that on th other day and wow it did not grab me at all bar ghost ship and the title track | DoofDoof
06.14.19 | Billy’s talents ranked:
1. Breathing while asleep
2. Can roll tongue
...
672. Opening beer bottles with teeth
673. Music | Advent
06.14.19 | Yeah the first half of Afraid of Heights is kind of a slog on some days. The t/t just isn't that energetic and The Crutch does not grab me sometimes despite that cool buildup to the chorus. Louder Than the DJ has that repetitive riff that's in like a million other rock songs.
III rules though. Very consistent and I still don't understand the hate for it besides some missteps in the production. |
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