Thursday - Full Collapse

With their latest release “Full Collapse,” Thursday have created a sound that is unparalleled and unequivocally their own. Although still a young band, they write with the sincerity and insight of a band twice their age. Their music is a cathartic whirlwind of rhythmic melodies and heart stopping time changes that are unified amongst lulling vocal harmonies and besieging wails. Thursday can mesmerize their audiences in a way no other band in recent memory has been able to do. Album Description

Best rock album i've ever heard.

Full Collapse is such an incredible album because it has so many faces. Long songs, short songs, mad,glad,sad songs. It is not just one static song with one point of view. Til this very day, Full Collapse still has the best lyrics. Thursday is the first band i hated when i first listened to them and now Thursday is my favorite band hands down.

The guitars are all about quality no quantity. Instead of playing a blast of nonsensical/heartless machine gun riffs like Dragonforce, Thursday ops to use all of the instruments for the sake of art. Thursday has incredible chemistry in the sense that they know all about creating tension and really know how its done when it comes down to making a breathtaking finale. Start off simple and end on fire, that is the formula. Don't listen to one of Thursday's songs and think you've heard it all, pick up Full Collapse and then pick up A City By The Light Divided (totally different sounding albums), especially if you are into artistic post-hardcore.

Note: If it was'nt for this album, the 4th wave of so called emo would not have washed ashore. Sure, Thursday is emotional, but they are not the "emo" as you call/know it today. Full Collapse picked up steam halfway through 2001. Thursday went on break from touring around 2002 and when they came back in 2003 the music they performed was being called screamo. Before 2001, there was rap-metal and Nu-Metal, both are awful.

5/5 February 20, 2008

Good

This album is great! The reason I only gave it four stars is because a lot of the songs have the same tempo and it begins to all melt together and wear on you.

It's not as good as War All The Time. For a first time listener I would recommend that to them first. February 8, 2007

Full Collapse was precursor..

Back when I was in 8 grade I heard of this band thursday from some ppl and didn't think too much of it as I was more into things I find terrible now (I.e. blink 182 and other such things).

Well, skip to 9th grade, keep in mind im now a softmore in college.. I entered a band with some friend in a nearby town and they listened to different music than me. Modest mouse had their latest album "moon and antarctica" at that time and they threw in this strange sounding record named Full Collapse by Thursday. I wondered about the band and soon burnt a copy of it and it quickly became my favorite record and band.

To this day (I have now bought all their records to support) it remains my favorite Thursday record, if not my favorite overall. I think the only album that comes close in my opinion as far as listening for me would be ACBTLD (which is an amazing record as well, I don't care so much for WATT/ Though when it came out I thought it to be amazing.)



The album is still frequently found in many a cd player around the country and guys in Thursday are good ppl, if you ever get have a decent conversation with them it really comes through. Last May I got lucky and spoke with them for a bit and they're same good guys and I think they've earned my ultimate respect over the years really. Take what you will. January 25, 2007

an album that epitimizes the genre

I've owned this album for many years, it was my favorite album in high school(next to Second Stage Turbine by CoCa). I've seen them live about eight times, or so. Why review it now over four years later, well it's just that time. This album is heavily influenced by the post-hardcore of At the Drive in, and Fugazi, as well as hints of The Cure and Joy Division. This is something completely different. It's not as well produced as their last two, but Full Collapse is the most emotional and the most influential (over abundance of rip-offs though). How Long is the Night, the albums conclusion is worth the price alone. December 19, 2006

Maybe I'm in the wrong age group....

I definitely understand why this band is classified as emo. This CD helped me solidify the impression I had that I don't care for emo.

The album is not bad and the band is tight enough for a young band, but the issue I have with emo and with this album in particular, is it's not really anything. It's not hardcore, it's not really melodic....it's sort of stuck in the middle of both but not quite reaching either one.

Maybe I'm not the target audience for emo or this band....I get that, that's ok. I can't stop thinking Thursday seem like they're trying desperately to sound like Fugazi and never really getting there. And that's the rub of it I guess....with bands like Thursday and She Wants Revenge...they appear to be reaching for the roots of alternative/hardcore or newwave music but for someone who knows what the real thing sounds like, they're a poor imitation. The sound is immature and lacks the urgency and edge that the original bands had at the time.

I have a friend with a 14 year old son who asked me to burn him a copy of this CD. I think I'll just be giving it to him and calling it done. December 14, 2006

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