#17

The Chemistry of Common Life was my first introduction and I never went back to check out Hidden World. Going to do myself a favour and listen to it over the weekend.

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#18

yeah, I don’t think this is uncommon, most people got in from ChemCom or David onwards and there was never loads of press on Hidden World. Even now as it’s celebrating its 10th anniversary and they’re touring it, there’s still not much out there about this record, I’m not really sure what people have against it because it is, in my and many others mind, easily their best album. I think it’s just because it wasn’t on an “indie-major” like Matador and people tend to ignore punk music unless they really have to, I dunno. But I bet in two years time ChemCom will get more attention from its anniversary.

#19

funnily enough Vice were the only publication who gave a shit about Fucked Up at that time, I guess because they’re also Canadian and put out the ‘Triumph of Life’ single

#20

:metal::metal::metal:

Nice write up Severed!

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#21

COCL is their weakest for me, so you’r ein for a treat!

cracking read Sevs

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#22

Yeah same (well maybe glass boys) it’s got some great tracks but it’s very inconsistent

#23

Yeah the only stand out track I remember off it is Son the Father so when David Comes to Life came out my expectations weren’t too high. Obviously I was totally blown away.

Glass Boys was a bit of a let down as a follow up to DCTL… hard to top though.

Going to give both HW and COCL a listen now.

#24

Yeah well done man this was a really good read!

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#25

thanks mate :slight_smile:

#26

basically you can broadly think of Hidden World as a vague pre-cursor to DCTL and COCL to Glass Boys…

Other than Son The Father, COCL does also have Crooked Head which is one of their best, and Twice Born is pretty good and Black Albino Bones is easily the poppiest thing they ever did wi yer man Dallas Green (their second Alexisonfire duet after George does Vivian Girls on Hidden World, which I got to see live once!)

I dunno, COCL is still decent but the production isn’t as crisp and it’s not quite as focused as the albums either side of it. It was a much better period for them in terms of singles i.e Year of the Pig/Ox, I Hate Summer even David Christmas was a laugh. As you can tell I’ve spent a lot of thing thinking about this

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#27

Made a playlist of everything I could find of there’s a while back I’ve been meaning to get to so now seems to be the perfect time. Think it’s got all, or at least most, of the ‘Year of’ EPs on there. Gonna be a Fucked Up weekend I feel.

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#28

*singles not EPs

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#29

nah, Glass Boys is the weakest surely?

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#30

Obviously not a album, but Couple Tracks is pretty great.

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#31

Yeah @mouth_breather possible a lot of your playlist is couple tracks?

#32

Yeah couple of tracks on some. I did it in as best a sequence, from earliest to latest, as I could. It goes

No Parasan
Police 7"
Dance of Death
Epic in Minutes
Hidden World
Pig
COCL
Ox
DCTL
Tiger
Dragon
Glass Boys
Hare

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#33

yep that’ll pretty much do it (although you could comfortably stop at DCTL and not really miss anything). enjoy!

I’d add I Hate Summer in there fwiw

#34

Walk passed it every day and forget it’s Fucked Up related. Probably the best thing I’ve got hanging on a wall anywhere in the house.

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#35

year of the hare right? because it’s jacob bannon though I just naturally assume it’s Converge whenever I see it

#36

Yeah Year of the Hare. Always wanted one of his prints. Glad I waited for this one.

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