Thursday - War All the Time

New Jersey post-hardcore quintet's third album follows 2001's Full Collapse and is their first for major label Island. More streamlined and melodic than their previous efforts, without compromising their powerful, aggressive, intelligentand musically complex sound. Features guest appearances from Cursive's Gretta Cohn and Onelinedrawing's Jonah Matranga and includes the single 'For the Workforce, Drowning' which appeared on a split 7" with labelmates Thrice. Album Description

War all the time

For a album that took 3 months to make, i'd say Thursday did an incredible job with this album. What they did great was that they were able to take their original sound and churn out a hit with "Signals over the air". Did anyone else notice that tracks 9 and 11 had the most emphasis on war, pretty ingenious if you ask me. Every Thursday album is a must buy because they always end it in a big way and "War all the time" is no exception. In the track "Tomorrow i'll be you", Thursday showcases explosiveness/true emotion in such a climactic fashion that you'll actually feel hairs stand up on your arms. The best tracks on this album are "For the workforce (drowning)", "Division St.", "Signals over the air", "This song brought to you by a falling bomb", "Steps ascending", "M.Shephard" and "Tomorrow i'll be you".

Thursday was one of the first (if not the first) hard-rock band to release an album about 9/ll. Soon after, Green Day and alt. acts alike followed with their versions. This album is important and very touching, i suggest you buy it. Don't forget to see Thursday live aswell, i've seen allot of huge acts and Thursday still trumps them all with explosive sincerity. The best way to say it is, i'd rather pay $200 to see Thursday as opposed to $2.00 for Ozzfest. March 1, 2008

Best album to date

This is the best Thursday album to date. Produced very well, this is a complete album. This is not a cd where you skip a bunch of songs, just maybe track 10. This is the kind of band that kicks other bands off your ipod. February 25, 2007

Almost there...

Let me start off by saying that this is the only album I've ever heard from Thursday. I don't even remember how I stumbled upon buying it, but I can't ever remember being remotely disappointed in it.

I've read a lot of reviews where the writer compares this album with Thursday's previous work. This is a truly beautiful and moving album and I think that you need to seperate it from Thursday's other work to see that beauty. The lyrics are nothing short of breathtaking. It's true poetry set to music.

Admittedly the album has the same overall feeling for each song, but it's done in different ways. I don't see how anyone could expect any different emotions for an album about war.

To anyone thinking about buying this album, I think you should listen to this one alone before listening to anything else by Thursday.

Overall I'd say this is probably one of my favorite albums of all time. November 11, 2006

The Best thing to come out of New Jersey

I'm truly not one for the whole New Jersey explosion. It's turned out too many marginal bands like Hawthorne Heights and My Chemical Romance. In another review here, someon bitched about this album, then talked about how great My Chemical Romance was.
That, my friend, is a complete lie. Geoff Rickley is possibly one of the best lyrical poets in a number of years, easily alongside Connor Oberst and others from Omaha. His lyrics are truly the best thing about this album, being both cryptic and blatantly obvious at the same time. But their telling us a message. A message that we're getting screwed over, and we need to do something about it.
The Music is no bystander either. The band rages and subsides like some perverse kind of pendulumn. From the bass beat and Politiko lyrics about armies and being forced to march in a line with others in "Division Street" to the Outright rage of "M. Shephard" to the reflecting on life and death, and how it seems that war has invaded every part of our lives in the title track, this album crushes and holds on and never lets go. It is possibly one of my most favorite albums, and could be used as a soundtrack to my life at the moment. War dominates the lyrics, but are used in metaphors and other such things, so that they could mean other things. But Geoff is very clear about what he is saying. War has become such a common place thing that it can be used to describe everyday life. It truly has taken over our culture.
And that is the point of this epic of an album. September 22, 2006

I dunno what I should say. Leaves a weird taste in my mouth.

Not really good but not bad enough for everyone to go around BSing about this OK band. There's nothing to the album and songs. Lyrics are okay but there's no melody or good beat.

Good Artists and Songs:
My CHemical Romance (love most of their songs) Helena and I'm not Okay are pretty good but greatly overrated.)
Senses Fail (voice needs getting used to but once you do, they are great)
Thrice (love about every single one of their like 50 songs)
System Of A Down (download Chop Suey[the best] Toxicity, Tentative, BYOB, and Vicinity of Obsenity)
And for the Okay Artists: Jack's Mannequin, THe Academy Is, Brand New, Funeral For a Friend, Panic At the Disco, From FIrst to Last, Sim 41, etc.
Also, Blink 182, The Killers, and Hawthorne Heights are GREATLY overrated. They're marginal to okay bands but everybody loves them. August 22, 2006

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