Rowan5215: Top 20 Circa Survive

Rowan5215 07.31.19	inb4 gyro re: on letting go
Sinternet 07.31.19	2 is 1 but good list
clavier 07.31.19	nice choices row
Rowan5215 07.31.19	2 was 1 for me til I found out what the irl context behind Spirit of the Stairwell was, that song fucks me up every time now ty folks
RadioSuicide 07.31.19	1 is 1000% 1. List needs The Greatest Lie, The Great Golden Baby, and Phantom imo, but otherwise pretty solid
Rowan5215 07.31.19	Phantom's an odd one, absolutely love it after seven tracks of some of their heaviest shit but I would never really spin it on its own like I would the rest of these. Great Golden Baby was def in contention but Montauk just gypped it
RadioSuicide 07.31.19	This band is so consistently good you could've put any 20 songs by them and I wouldn't have argued much. Never been huge on Violent Waves but you got my 3 favorites from it.
GreyShadow 07.31.19	No The Amulet or Glass Arrows is crazy. Only The Sun has been a huge jam for me recently so nice to see that so high. 1 is perfect and 6 is totally the goat.
GreyShadow 07.31.19	and i agree with needing a full album of Suitcase.
Keyblade 07.31.19	here for 9, ugh lemme go listen to that rn
Rowan5215 07.31.19	Glass Arrows is a good one I guess, always bothered me that the best melody in that song - maybe it'll just pass by you, RIP RIGHT THROUGH YOUR HEEEEARRRT - only gets repeated once but maybe that was the point? and I'm not joking when I say I listened to The Amulet last night and couldn't tell you what that song even sounds like, if anything else from that album was even in contention it'd be At Night It Gets Worse
Rowan5215 07.31.19	on top THE FROZEN CREEEEEEEEEEEK
GreyShadow 07.31.19	the t/t didn't immediately click with me, i must admit but now it's my favorite of theirs/top 10 of all time for me. it's the quintessential Circa track
onionbubs 07.31.19	really really good list most of my picks appear to be here. id def throw schema up as well
Rowan5215 08.01.19	I'm shocked that anything off the Amulet would be referred to as quintessential, tbh, but I will surely keep listening to that album until I hear anything of what its most dedicated defenders hear, because I really wish I liked it Schema is a banger, as is pretty much all of Descensus, but for Circa I find that album weirdly unemotional/unmoving, bar the two songs that made this list
onionbubs 08.01.19	fair enough i've always been very compelled by the aggression found on that album and schema is the embodiment for me of where that all works (although i still prefer nesting dolls for it's sheer atmospheric beauty)
TheSupernatural 08.01.19	Rites of Investiture is such a banger off The Amulet. The album blends together pretty solidly but that song stands out so clearly to me. The main riff is awesome, the bass is fucking thick, and Anthony is at his absolute best.
SaveBandit 08.06.19	Rowan, if it makes you feel better, I'm a huge Circa fan and it took me a few months to finally have The Amulet click. The first time I heard it I thought it was a little boring and kind of lacking those classic Circa moments, but then one day it just clicked and now it's one of my favorites from them. I go back and listen to it front to back pretty regularly. Pretty solid list too! I don't know if I could pick/rank 20 songs honestly.
RadioheadIsOverrated 08.06.19	Saw these guys fairly recently at Disrupt and they were p good, I should probably go through their discog lmao.
Rowan5215 08.07.19	@SaveBandit I keep thinking if it was gonna grow on me it would have by now, but this band are a favourite and so goddamn consistent that god knows I'll keep trying until it does. (doubt I'll ever change my mind that the two b-sides are some of the best tracks tho) @Radiohead yea fantastic discog jam em hard
Slex 08.07.19	Great great list
Slex 08.07.19	Okay but where the hell is the On Letting Go t/t??
Rowan5215 08.07.19	not in my top 20 and hence not on this list :D
Slex 08.07.19	Tune is 4 minutes of guitar fireworks with the best bridge they have
Rowan5215 08.07.19	if I regret leaving anything off here it'd probably be Living Together, but that's justified due to it being 100x better live than the somewhat muted studio version
Slex 08.07.19	Man this got me back into this band for the first time in years
Rowan5215 08.07.19	DON'T CAAAALL ME BY MY FULL NAME OHHHH THIS IS TEMPORARY
Faraudo 08.07.19	Premonition of the Hex should be top 3, it's the grooviest shit ever. At Night It Gets Worse, Phantom, Child of the Desert and Imaginary Enemy would make it to my list.
SaveBandit 08.07.19	@Rowan That's respectable. I hope it clicks for you man. As soon as it clicked for me it instantly became one of my favorite albums from them. There are just a ton of really awesome subtle moments that are sprinkled throughout. Like the way he sings "You're dying just to be there, Just crying on your knees" in Premonition of the Hex. Or like the guitar work in the beginning of the title track.
onionbubs 08.07.19	premonition of the hex is cool the amulet is solid and has some great stuff but idk if ill ever see how its as good or better than the rest of their work
iglu 08.07.19	I don't see dyed in the wool
Rowan5215 08.07.19	"I don't see dyed in the wool" ...read the list again my man guess I'll peep Premonition of the Hex again soon. Flesh and Bone and At Night it Gets Worse are the only songs I can really distinguish from memory
SaveBandit 08.07.19	@Onion I've probably got this as like my 3rd favorite from these guys. I think On Letting Go and Juturna are still 1A and 1B for me, but after that it's real close between The Amulet and Blue Sky. Right now it's slightly above Blue Sky, but that album always comes in waves for me. Sometimes I love it and sometimes I just need a break from it because I've overplayed it so much haha
iglu 08.07.19	oh i see it now
Rowan5215 08.07.19	Violent Waves underrated imo, they took some swings on that shit and the ones that work are superb and the ones that didn't are still interesting
onionbubs 08.07.19	amulet starts and ends strong but bar at night it gets worse the middle is really really hard to distinguish guess if i was to rank em itd be blue sky noise > juturna > descensus > on letting go > appendage >>>>> amulet > violent waves
SaveBandit 08.07.19	They're so damn consistent. I don't think I even have an album from them rated less than a 4. They just don't make bad music. @Rowan You're spot on with Violent Waves. The tracks that work are amazing. The ones that don't are still pretty damn good. That's probably my least favorite but like I said, if everything is a 4 minimum is there really a "least favorite"?
Slex 08.07.19	Violent Waves is ridiculously underrated I am so so happy that time has been kind to On Letting Go, I remember it being widely regarded as a disappointment upon release
SaveBandit 08.07.19	People are crazy dude. That album is beautiful. I'm actually going to incorporate a hot air balloon based off that album art into my sleeve when I go get it finished later this year/early next year.