To be elegible for this price, Add to CartGood Mourning is the handsome if dark-eyed offspring of the deliberately melodic From Here to Infirmary LP and Alkaline Trio's more raucous earlier work. Whether or not the band 'sold out' (or whatever) when Infirmary arrived with the stamp of ambitious indie Vagrant, the set nevertheless seemed forced. For Good Mourning, Derek Grant replaces Mike Felumlee behind the kit, joining the grating-like-gouda voices and ringing guitars of Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano on the AT's second Vagrant outing. It's an album that kills with catchiness. Though 'This Could Be Love' details the steps a jilted lover would take to off him, Skiba's melodic sensibility is hard not to hum along to. Similarly, the triumphant final key change of 'Continental' makes its bitter farewell to a suicide victim easier to swallow. This dichotomy between deathly fascination and darn-right pop sensibility continues throughout Good Mourning.
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Despite making one take a few extra looks at the black and red lyric booklet, it also points to the Trio's newfound confidence to weave its tortured pathos untreated into punk-pop hair shirts for teenagers everywhere. The laughs continue with 'Emma' and 'Fatally Yours,' which features the classic couplet 'You crashed your car through the front door/I pulled you from the wreckage/You told me that you missed me/But you meant with the grill and hood.' Unlike their doe-eyed emo-punk peers, the Alkaline Trio's take on true love is closer to love-hate. 'Donner Party (All Night)' is a snow angel in a blizzard of punk-fueled melody, where the dried blood looks black on the nighttime snowpack. Finally, a glimmer of hope shines from a crack in the mortuary curtains. Good Mourning closes with the plaintive acoustic number 'Blue in the Face.' The song's last line is a grudging request, but one that admits the faults of both parties, and accepts them as a better reality than the death wishes, dour proclamations, and damning dreams of sunlight that dominate the majority of the record.
May 13, 2003 Good Mourning Alkaline Trio. Released May 13, 2003. Every Thug Needs a Lady Lyrics. Blue Carolina Lyrics. Donner Party (All Night) Lyrics. If We Never Go Inside. May 21, 2013. From Voxengo: Voxengo SPAN Plus (64-bit) is a real-time 'fast Fourier transform' audio spectrum analyzer plug-in for professional music and audio production applications.
But even as the coffin closes, anthemic melody reflects in the blood pooled on the floor. Johnny Loftus. Your browser does not support the audio element. Album DescriptionGood Mourning is the handsome if dark-eyed offspring of the deliberately melodic From Here to Infirmary LP and Alkaline Trio's more raucous earlier work. Whether or not the band 'sold out' (or whatever) when Infirmary arrived with the stamp of ambitious indie Vagrant, the set nevertheless seemed forced.
For Good Mourning, Derek Grant replaces Mike Felumlee behind the kit, joining the grating-like-gouda voices and ringing guitars of Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano on the AT's second Vagrant outing. It's an album that kills with catchiness. Though 'This Could Be Love' details the steps a jilted lover would take to off him, Skiba's melodic sensibility is hard not to hum along to. Similarly, the triumphant final key change of 'Continental' makes its bitter farewell to a suicide victim easier to swallow. This dichotomy between deathly fascination and darn-right pop sensibility continues throughout Good Mourning.
Despite making one take a few extra looks at the black and red lyric booklet, it also points to the Trio's newfound confidence to weave its tortured pathos untreated into punk-pop hair shirts for teenagers everywhere. The laughs continue with 'Emma' and 'Fatally Yours,' which features the classic couplet 'You crashed your car through the front door/I pulled you from the wreckage/You told me that you missed me/But you meant with the grill and hood.' Unlike their doe-eyed emo-punk peers, the Alkaline Trio's take on true love is closer to love-hate.
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'Donner Party (All Night)' is a snow angel in a blizzard of punk-fueled melody, where the dried blood looks black on the nighttime snowpack. Finally, a glimmer of hope shines from a crack in the mortuary curtains. Good Mourning closes with the plaintive acoustic number 'Blue in the Face.' The song's last line is a grudging request, but one that admits the faults of both parties, and accepts them as a better reality than the death wishes, dour proclamations, and damning dreams of sunlight that dominate the majority of the record. But even as the coffin closes, anthemic melody reflects in the blood pooled on the floor.
Johnny LoftusAbout the album. 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s). Total length: 00:39:04.
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I haven't met anyone in my life that is affiliated with hardcore or punk that doesn't like at least a handful of Alkaline Trio songs. Alkaline Trio's gothic twists on weathered topics like being drunk, drugs, and being heartbroken ring all but universal to the ears of every kid that has every thought about wearing black for a week and growing a devil lock.
I haven't liked anything that Alkaline Trio has released lately besides a couple of tracks on Good Mourning as the band went for a more commercial appeal. This lead the band to be signed to V2 Records, which folded earlier this year before Alkaline Trio could release an album. Whoops.Remains is aptly titled as it collects all the band's singles, b-sides, and compilation tracks that didn't show up on their first eponymous singles collection that was released by Asian Man Records. I like the first collection (I'm really becoming 'that guy' when it comes to AK3, aren't I? The 'Dude, their demo rocks, everything else sucks Guy.' ) but Remains has some great tracks like the two songs from their Lookout!
Records days and their side from the Hot Water Music split on Jade Tree Records. The split with Hot Water Music happens to be my favorite split of all time with 'While You Were Waiting' being my favorite Alkaline Trio song of all time so I don't care how many times I hear it. I'm listening to it right now and I'm still not sick of it.
This song personifies everything I like about Alkaline Trio; it's a melancholy pop-song about love lost and sadly still together through fits of depression and self-doubt, all with handclaps.Remains also contains a DVD that showcases some concert footage, some intentional funny snippets of the band being on the road and Mike Skiba fighting with some kids at a skate park. There are also some unintentional funny parts like seeing a front row full of teenyboppers singing along to 'Hell Yes' a song about Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan.
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Ha, if only the girl parents knew that Alkaline Trio had such an evil bent to their lyrics and weren't just some token emo-pop band that likes to wear corpse paint from time to time. If they only knew, parents would be outside Alkaline Trio's shows faster than you can say, 'Marilyn Manson'.Obviously Alkaline Trio is one of those bands that mean at least something to everyone that has ever heard them.
I don't know how many mixtapes I've made in my life that have contained at least one Alkaline Trio song. Even though Alkaline Trio have been abandoned by both their label and yours truly, I can't forget that they were once a good punk rock band that have songs that get stuck in your head for months. Remains is such a collection of odds and ends from a solid career that it almost makes me want to give all Alkaline Trio's albums another chance. However, then I remember Crimson and know that is not going to happen any day soon. I will always have 'While You're Waiting' though.
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