Attacking the discography was impossible before I became a saavy man of the internet (well.... probably still not fully there, but I have at least discovered soulseek over a decade late). But it's easier now. I listened to This Nation's Saving Grace like ten million times and it's one of my all time fave albums. But every time I went to best buy or even "real" music stores, I could never find Fall albums to get. I'd always be pissed that people cared about "fall out boy," but that I couldn't track down Hex Enduction Hour.
So I mostly wrote them off as some band whose massive output precluded me actually understanding them fully. Still, I did end up finding and listening to Hex Induction Hour and Grotesque and the amazingly titled greatest hits album and... maybe that was it. Then I started boarding hard and Imperial Wax Solvent and The Unutterable became things that people talked about... and they were great things! But still.... that intimidating discography.
Really... probably the ONLY artist who I have long considered a personal favorite, based on a couple albums, whose work I basically haven't HEARD.
Right now I'm listening to Perverted Language and Wings is playing. And it is wonderful. And all the songs that preceded it were wonderful. And I wish I were still 14 so that I'd seek out the lyrics and read them intensely while listening. I might start doing this, but not right at the moment.
So I mostly wrote them off as some band whose massive output precluded me actually understanding them fully. Still, I did end up finding and listening to Hex Induction Hour and Grotesque and the amazingly titled greatest hits album and... maybe that was it. Then I started boarding hard and Imperial Wax Solvent and The Unutterable became things that people talked about... and they were great things! But still.... that intimidating discography.
Really... probably the ONLY artist who I have long considered a personal favorite, based on a couple albums, whose work I basically haven't HEARD.
Right now I'm listening to Perverted Language and Wings is playing. And it is wonderful. And all the songs that preceded it were wonderful. And I wish I were still 14 so that I'd seek out the lyrics and read them intensely while listening. I might start doing this, but not right at the moment.