I don't get how you can not like this new cd. In my eyes this is what tscars has been building to since their conception. I can hear this album in everyone of their cds. They've gotten rid of the chugging breakdowns, and rely much more on piano, but you can't say those elements aren't present in other albums. As for Jerry's voice, how are you going to complain about it's gravelly sound, it's like an extension of what used to be his screaming.
Honestly, this is their most listenable cd (I say that being in love with literally every single one of their records). Straight up, this is some **** I could play my mom and she'd be like, yea that's a musically talented band. If you look at goodnight alchemy it's borderline screamo. You can't tell me screamo is listenable to non-screamo fans. Some people just don't get screaming. Jerry's style of yelling/singing can't exactly be qualified as screaming (in terms of the nature of the tone and pitch of it). I think it's excellent, it's just as emotional as his screaming was, and more interesting melodically.
You can complain about how tscars has changed and the band you loved is gone. You're wrong. The band you love is alive and well, the outdated sound you loved is gone.
And I say good riddance.
I copped this cd on itunes cause I couldn't wait for my preordered copy to arrive.
I say congratulations to the scars, they've out done themselves in nearly every respect.
Does anyone know if all the instrumentation on the new album is played by the guys in the band? For example, the saxophone.. who plays that on the cd? Also, sorry about all those retarded posts, my little brother is ****ing gay and I left myself logged in.
I've been listening to this nonstop since I got my preorder and it's definitely giving Alphabets some good competition. I dunno how I feel about the Geneva - Nola songs, but they're still sorta growing on me. Hopefully you guys can make it to Tempe AZ sometime soon
i wanna discuss the album concept some you diggg? i've been steady bumpin it since it came out trying to put that **** together. it's obvious geneva toronto and nola go together. the cowboy red and anna lucia are obviously paired too. bad dreams and good luck are obviously completely personal to jerry, which departs from the stories. so my thinking is geneva-nola are one dream. the character dies at the end of nola, so years so much can't be a part of that story, plus his love is already dead at that point. unless he didn't actually snap her neck in nola, but that doesn't go along with it, and neither does the guys putting the gun to head at the end of nola. so i feel like the characters in those songs aren't who i'm going to call the cowboy red, and anna lucia. i feel like the cowboy red, anna lucia, bad winter, and ends with years so much. those stories could go together smoothly. plus the ending with the 'bad dreams, it was all a bad dream woahh' goes along with bad dreams at the beginning. definite symmetry there. also good luck, corresponds with the personal nature of of bad dreams, talking about ben. that leaves botanicas unexplained, but my feeling with that is all these dreams were created by sort of a drug induced sleep? it doesn't go along with the cowboy red/anna lucia story line, or the city themed story line really so it has to go along with the more personal songs. i feel like it's his last song to liz, him getting her out of his head for good. or something you know? idk. i wanna know other people's thoughts though, these are just hypotheses i've been working on while listening to the album the past 2 months or whatever. i have to reject the possibility that there's no over all unified meaning in the album, because of all the attempts there are in the album to create a whole, including all the album artwork. plus, jerry and tscars are a bunch of creative dudes, they would want to make you work at creating a larger story like that i think. i love this album for what it is, but i'm hoping whatever new stuff is to come goes back to the more personal stuff, the personal jawns are the ones i can really connect with.
-I don't think "Bad Winter" is part of the Anna Lucia/Cowboy Red story at all. I believe it's more personal (goes along with "Bad Dreams," "Botanicas," and "Good Luck").
-"Geneva," "Toronto," and "Nola" go together.
-"Years So Much" is singular.
I think there are four stories: Jerry's personal story (experiences), the Anna Lucia story, the epic assassins story, and the Years So Much story...all four of them connected under the grand theme (and album title) of bad luck.
...but, this is just my present, transitory opinion ;D
I second ever's post. I think Bad Luck would make a pretty kickass movie too.
I've been pretty addicted to this cd since the day I got it. I've barely listened to anything since.
It's sad because I saw them after the cd came out, but I didn't get the cd until I saw them. :( I knew none of the songs, which is a total bummer. If you've ever been to one of their shows, you'd know why. Everyone gets all lyric crazy and fights over Jerry's microphone.
