Yeah well done man this was a really good read!

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thanks mate :slight_smile:

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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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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*singles not EPs

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nah, Glass Boys is the weakest surely?

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

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

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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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

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.

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

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

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HOLY FUCKING FUCK! Only had a chance to listen up to Fate of Fates but so far HW is unbelievably awesome. Baiting the Public WTF. Best recommendation I’ve had all year. Cant wait to listen to the rest of it.

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There we go, this is what I was hoping for

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Heading out now. Going to fire on ‘Hidden World’ on the way to the pub.

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I guess Diarrhea Planet have pulled out of Mirrors? Whatever, happens, but Mirrors haven’t said anything and have deleted all comments mentioning them and asking for confirmation from the Facebook event. Odd.

They appear to be touring in the US at the time

Superb in Leeds last night. Possibly best I’ve seen them. So hungover now…

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I have two Tickets for London (part of visions fest) to sell for tomorrow if anyone is interested