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David_Dovey:
Agreed.
Like a lot of bands AFI are the product of a balancing act between two disparate influences- in their case, Bay Area HxCx and Depeche Mode-worshipping goth-lite- and as in almost every case they started favouring one very heavily with just hints of the other, and as their career wore on the balance would shift towards the second influence more with each album. Also like almost every other case their best work was done in the middle period when the pull of both influences reached an equilibrium i.e; Art of Drowning and Sing the Sorrow. Before that they were completely unremarkable and also embarrassingly immature, afterwards they seemed to me as though they were subsuming their own natural creative impulses and trying to hard to appeal to a certain (fickle, fleeting, fashionable teenaged) demographic- never a good thing.
20 jazz funk greats:
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--- Quote from: 20 jazz funk greats on 22 Mar 2010, 21:26 ---then they fuckin' sold out and did the whole mallgoth thing which i am so not down with. i don't really listen to their "gothy" albums at all cause i find them quite dull. i don't even like black sails in the sunset that much, and apparently that is still an acceptably hardcore record.
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I saw them live about a month ago and they are still AMAZING. Best albums go: Art of drowning > Sing the sorrow > Black sails > Shut your mouth > Decemberunderground > Answer that > Very proud of ya > Crash love. IMO of course. But I feel that you're horribly wrong. Their later albums are (a lot more melodramatic) more interesting than their early Filth-esque parroting. All good albums. Even Crash love is listenable.
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i have never seen em live, sadly. thus i'd have to say:
shut your mouth era > black sails era (transference is my fave song by them ever) > answer that > very proud of ya > sing the sorrow > art of drowning
haven't listened to crash love or decemerunderground that much.
20 jazz funk greats:
but man, hunter revenge is the best afi side project of ALL TIME.
sean:
hey guys so i have been spinning a bunch of metalcore lately (converge, botch, 7 Angels 7 Plagues) but i know jack shit about metalcore.
what are good bands that don't spend the entire time whining about god on major labels with bad haircuts?
evilbobthebob:
Shai Hulud, they basically invented the genre. Uh. Well, after Shai Hulud you'll probably feel let down by a lot of other metalcore.If you're listening to converge and botch and you want to make it mathier (is that a word? now it is) there's Coalesce. They recently released Ox, a really great album. I could recommend a range of shitty metalcore as well, because I like it, but I doubt you would.
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