War All the Time

Ok, let me find a way to put this in simple words...This album is important, revolutionary, and powerful. It is important that you hear this, and that own it. "War All the Time" is a album that everyone should hear, and that everyone should own. Just like albums as perfect as Refused "Shape of Punk to Come" or Jimmy Eat World "Clarity", or Thursday "Full Colapse" (yes, they are that good to have made 2 perfect albums). War should be heard and should be cherished. It is one of the best albums written in the past ten years, and is just a powerful, moving, important record. It has the power to change lives and is a true piece of art. My nomination for album of the year. Thursday is an important band, a band that everyone should listen to and that should never stop making music. Buy this album, and go see Thursday live. Best live band I've ever seen, you will be shocked at how good they are live.
*Normally I wouldn't judge each song for an album review, but this album deserves it. Thank you Thursday.
For the Workforce Drowning - What an opener. A strong, heavy catchy song that could serve as a single or as a new fan favorite. Truly amazing, especially near the end. Wow. 10/10
Between Rupture and Rapture - heavy, but pretty forgettable. Don't get me wrong, even though I say it's forgettable, it's still really really good. 7/10
Division St. - Best song on the CD, heavy, powerful, amazing. I'll change my mind half way through this review, but right now it's the best on the CD. 10/10
Signals Over The Air - I thought this song was a little weak the first few times I heard it, but it's grown on me, and it's amazing. A great, straight forward catchy song. 10/10
Marches and Maneuvers - Very heavy, not a standout song but a very solid heavy song to add to their ever growing catalog. 8/10
Asleep in the chapel - The most amazing song on the album, so divers, so well written, so moving and powerful. The way Geoff sings hallelujah and oh lord will you save us is the eeriest and most powerful thing I've heard on a Thursday record. I cried the first time I heard it, it was that moving (to me at least). The lyrics and music combine perfectly to create the ideal atmosphere for the song, really moving and powerful. 10/10
This Song Brought to You by a Falling Bomb - A piano ballad?!? On a Thursday record??! Yes, it's true, and it's beautiful. A surprisingly good fit on this album. I swear this band can make anything work. 9/10
Steps Ascending - A sleeper as far as I'm concerned, a very strong very intricate track that I feel will be overlooked. Don't overlook this song, it's amazing. 10/10
War All the Time - This is the strongest track along with Asleep in the Chapel. This song is so perfect, it's indescribable. A truly eerie song, that creates a very dark hopeless mood. Melodic in the way Thursday songs are melodic, this song is another testament to how truly talented these guys are. 10/10
M. Shepard - Heavy, but a little forgettable, I don't know why. It's amazing; it would be the best track on almost any other bands album, with Thursday it's like the fifth best song or so on the album. 8/10
Tomorrow I'll Be You - Another very strong heavy fast song. This band amazes me, a new classic Thursday song. 10/10

I'll just say, this album is stunning. I have always been impressed with Thrusday, but upon first full listen of WATT I fell in love. The music is harder, yet more melodic and harmonic, the mood it sets is a poisoned, rotting city, adn the lyrics are what wins me over. Thurwsdya has inspired me beyond belief. This CD is emo, but not the regular kind, not songs about fights over a girl, but about betrayal, the blessing and curse of love, and crumbling naiton of America.

For The Workforce, Drowning-10: Great intro, urgent feel, great guitar, and greatly benefited by the use of keyboards on this Thursday album. The lyrics are some of the best. "Memos swim throguh the current, computers spark like flares,I can see them, they don't touch me, touch me." A song about the prison thats everyday adult life, everyday being the same, and being near brainwashed by our jobs.

Between Rupture and Rapture-6: Good guiatr, not one of my favorites, but it grows on me.

Division St.-8: A new direction for Thusday. Heavy music with lots of melodies, a tragic song about betrayal of singer Geoff Rickley's friend, who he turned away from after discovering they were on heavy drugs, and was stabbed in the leg.

Signals Over The Air-9: First single of this cd, which pulled me in from the first listen on FUSE. People have said this song is about Geoff complaining Thursday doesnt get enough play-time. WRONG. "They stole the love from our lives and put the sex on the radio." This song is about the commercilazation of sex. Magazines have horrible articles on covers, for all to see, such as "25 sex tips to blow you away, try #17 tonight." The human race is sick with lust.

Marches and Manuevers-6: A song about the despair of war, and how it holds no glory.

Asleep in The Chapel-10: Awesome song with great guitar, lyrics questioning faith. Taking from Nero, the roman emperor. "Since we can't compete with modern saints, we douse ourselves in gasoline, and hang our bodies from the street lamps." Great.

This Song Bought To You By A Falling Bomb-10: This is not like any other Thrusdya songs. Just piano and Geoff, lyrics about solitude and depression, and facing the world in times of trial.

Steps Ascending-10: A heartbreaking song. Geff gets in a fight with a best friend. Before he can apoligize, which he fully intends too, the friend is shot and killed. Lyrics bought tears to me eyes. "I ran down the stars and in to the garden and thrust my hands into the soil, in the spring you will bloom like her heart through the blouse in the back of the ambulance, as it turned and turned down the stree, one mroe time would you come back to me, as it turned, its red lights you were turning into red roses.

War All The Time-10: Beautiful. A song about the wars fought everyday,all the time, not between armies and soldiers and nations, but family members, friends, and lovers. And the dying shadow of America.

M.Shepard-8: Great song, thanking Matthew Shepard and Marvin Gaye for their homosexuality, giving rights to gays. Love is love.

Tommorow I'll Be You-10:If TBS hadn't written Slodance on The Inside, this would be my all time favorite song, but there tied. Amazing. I cried. I love it. A man is sick. He has been told and told that he will be healed on New Year's Day, btu whn it come she still is fatigued from sickness, and keep telling himself it is a bad dream. And then he is cured. I fell in love.

I know I'm late with this, but nevertheless, buy this cd. Thursday is currently writing a follow up to WATT, due out in Fall 2005. All hail Thursday.

I have a tried and true theory about emo music which I like to call the "Rule of 3". Now, there are exceptions, but most of the time, the Rule of 3 helps you to separate the special bands from the generic ones based off just the first two or three albums. Here's how it works:

1st album: A new emo band comes onto the scene, their first album is just absolutely amazing and is regarded as their best work, or even a masterpiece.

2nd album: The elements that made the first album so great seem to be lacking here, but the sophomore release is still alright in some ways.

3rd album: The fire has dimmed, and what you get is "just another emo band" that is nothing too different from all the others.

Now, don't get me wrong, I love bands such as Taking Back Sunday and The Used, but with the direction they are going, they are looking to becoming just another victim of the Rule of 3. Same with the band Rufio.

Now, this rule does get broken, and THAT's where we discover the best of the best. Bands that dare to let the flame keep burning, bands that dare to keep making better and better music. Bands like Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance.....and Thursday.

Waiting was a solid debut, but the future of this band was still unsure. They managed to tap into most of the elements of success, but then Full Collapse was released and Thursday showed that they are serious about this, that they are aware of the talent they possess. War All The Time is an utter masterpiece, and Thursday have once again outdone themselves. This is the future, people. THIS is music.