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| Three Days Grace albums ranked (2024 edition)
will probably nuke and redo (again) when their first release post-Adam's return is out | | 7 |  | Three Days Grace
Explosions
Gontier's return makes this one all the more irrelevant. The band was desperately running out of things to say. There is nothing here that stands out or earns its place in any essential TDG canon. That said, "So Called Life" is fun enough and "Lifetime" is one of my favorite Matt Walst era tracks, as it boasts of an added palpable vulnerability he didn't have in previous releases. | | 6 |  | Three Days Grace
Human
TDG was in an impossible situation. Forced to start over, they went back to the drawing board (not that they had to go that far back in all honestly) and introduced Walst with a collection of familiar and even juvenile radio rock pablum. Only TDG could do this while still coming across as likable, thanks in part to the band's capable performance and production ability. | | 5 |  | Three Days Grace
Outsider
Matt's vocals improved tremendously over his first several years in the band, and his progress is best showcased on catchy tunes such as "Infra-Red" and "Villain I'm Not", which add some zeal to his otherwise boyish inflections. The band paints by numbers, but it's a serviceable post-grunge affair. | | 4 |  | Three Days Grace
Transit of Venus
While the band actually succeeds at incorporating a wider berth of influences (see "Chalk Outline"'s dubstep strobes) into their sound, you can hear it in Gontier's voice that he was emotionally checked out. He departed just three months later, and several lyrics allude to his underlying desire to get away ("All we are is broken glass/Thrown to the floor, we were never meant to last.") Queue up some live performances by the band on YouTube from around this time; the tension in the room sticks out like the sorest fucking thumb. | | 3 |  | Three Days Grace
Three Days Grace
Even if their signature sound was still not fully formed, the potential was obvious. It's interesting (at the very least) to see Gontier in the throes of addiction before he got help, because his vocals help turn this inaugural outing into a clump of genuine radio-ready romps. "Home" still blows the fucking door down all these years later. | | 2 |  | Three Days Grace
Life Starts Now
Think of One-X as a balloon with just a *pinch* of air let out. That's this album. The same moody post-grunge, but with a glimmer of sunlight. Tracks like "Lost in You" help take the band in new directions, Barry Stock-led face-melters like "Better Taste" keep TDG fastened to their trademark sound, but "Last to Know" steals the show as one of the band's best songs *ever*, a brilliant ballad that transcends the heartbreak rather than wallowing in it. | | 1 |  | Three Days Grace
One-X
The obvious crown jewel of their discography. Adam Gontier stared down the barrel of his personal demons and channeled them into an inspiring story of redemption that resonated with scores of fans worldwide. Purposeful, dynamic, and anthemic, this is Three Days Grace at their very best, a plateau I doubt very seriously they'll ever even sniff again | |
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11.18.24 | Man I cant really remember what 2 sounds like even though Im certain I had the CD at some point. Need to listen to that one again. Nice ranking. | FowlKrietzsche
11.18.24 | Uhm hmmm haven't listened to any Walst album in full but hmm prob
4. LSN - I legitimately think this is a pretty poor album. "Break", "Bitter Taste", and "Last To Know" are about peak TDG but god there is sooo much fluff. "Bully" is a hilariously juvenile attempt at a statement, far too much of the album wallows in tepid half ballads and probably don't reference the eminently superior Sick Puppies with a song title. 2/5 but the bass tone is pretty great
3. TDG - Immature, only half realized and kinda annoying half the time, some true highlights are the only saving grace for this mid-ass debut. Seriously, I didn't realize how dated this damnned daddy issue tissue sounded. "Just Like You" is a really miserable song, but at least there's "I Hate Everything About You" ig. "Overrated" is a delightfully ironic song for TDG to have penned so there's that too. 2/5
2 ToV - Barry Stock has gotta be one of the worst guitarists in rock music and there's no clearer example than that the only sonically fresh TDG album is the one with electronic melodies. Instead of unending ummemorable riffs, ToV layers electronic melodies over the ummemorable riffs and it actually kinda works. "Happiness", "Expectations" and "Misery Loves My Company" are some of the only TDG songs I return to nowadays. 3/5
1. One-X - This is literally only no.1 because its a consistently good album throughout. I don't think I'll ever revisit it and I revisited the other three to catalogue my thoughts. Oh and "Pain" is an utterly miserable experience 3/5
Thanks for this nostalgia trip into middle school cringe. Gontier sings like he cries during sex. | Dwap
11.18.24 | I wa-ant something else - to get me through this...
Semi-charmed kinda life, baby, baby | TheAntichrist
11.19.24 | i like that one song where he has a gruff raspy voice but otherwise turrible ablums | JMNewcomer25
11.19.24 | all garbage | deathschool
11.19.24 | I
Hate
Everything
About this band | arthropod
11.20.24 | Good ranking. |
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