Avenged Sevenfold - "Scream"

[Nicholas2.0]

Feb 24, 2009 15:34:25 GMT -5 PHOBES said:

I'll admit the album is good (top 3 from 07 for me), but I can't imagine giving everything on any album an A.

But hey, maybe I'm just too strict.

I'm guessing most of my all-time favorite albums are straight A's all the way through. (Omitting intros, interludes, and skits.)

In the last five years, Avenged have become my third favorite band ever and this is their third straight perfect album, for my money, though it had to grow on me to get up there with the previous two.

[halo19]

I find that there's quite a few with me that split hairs with the B+ grade (ie. Depeche Mode - "Lie to Me" from SGR, etc.). On the YOP forum I remember a thread about albums where you enjoy every song on it. Most of the top 20 albums of all-time I listed earlier qualify for that. I think it's possible on albums with more songs and/or a much bigger length to maybe have songs below the range.

I don't think it's really all that easy to objectively grade an interlude.

[PHOBES]

Upon further inspection on my part, I have decided that I can only give ONE album all A's with a good conscience. That would be Skillet's "Comatose," my second favorite album of all time. It's second because the sum of its parts don't equal the whole of Breaking Benjamin's "Phobia," which had a B+ song and an F. F for its overuse of the F word, which is the reason I can't stand the majority of rap music, senseless foul language.

[pen]

I dunno, I like We Are Not Alone more than Phobia. And Saturate's songs have stuck with me a lot more than Phobia's too. Not that there aren't good songs on Phobia. I think the whole bottom half of the album really hasn't stuck with me.

[PHOBES]

Saturate is second to Phobia in my book, I know a lot of people didn't like the second half of Phobia because they avoided their traditional formula that made them popular in the first place. Songs like "Here We Are" and "Unknown Soldier" are a couple of my favorites, but a lot of the die hard fans hated them for being ballads. I think many people wanted a full album of "The Diary of Jane" and "Breath," and especially weren't expecting something as experimental as "You Fight Me" at the end of the album. But I still loved it, We Are Not Alone is their weakest album IMO.

Anywho, A7X: Did "Dear God" ever do anything on HAC?

[pen]

I dunno, I like "You Fight Me".

[PHOBES]

As do I, but I don't see your point. Congratulations, you aren't as shallow as the typical post-grunge listener.

[pen]

Thank you. That gives me a warm and tingly feeling inside. Right here. (points somewhere)

[jvandyck87]

"You Fight Me" is my favorite song off that album.

[Nicholas2.0]

Feb 25, 2009 17:57:04 GMT -5 PHOBES said:

Anywho, A7X: Did "Dear God" ever do anything on HAC?

It did not.

Feb 25, 2009 18:37:04 GMT -5 pen said:

That gives me a warm and tingly feeling inside. Right here. (points somewhere)

I love the ambiguity at the end. :)

[David]

Good tune.