This was pretty good. I've known about Coheed and Cambria for a long time but I've never sat down and listened to their stuff. This is really good.

The Willing Well I - IV!!!!

@jdawg1323

25 күн бұрын

this for sure!

Someone probably brought this up already, but as well as fitting into the overarching Coheed storyline, this song is based and directed at their former bassist Mic Todd, who suffered from addiction and robbed a pharmacy while they were on tour opening for Sound Garden. He was kicked from the band. This is similar to how their song Mother Superior was written about their drummer Josh whom also suffered from addiction. Thankfully, he got clean and is back in the band (and seen in this video).

That's exactly what Coheed was for me, when I got to know them with this double album. I never knew prog could be this radio-friendly and Cool, and still be epic and tell stories and flash little technical flairs! Still my favourite release from them, although I still need to go back to appreciate more of their early stuff. For me there's a lot of variety in moods and the balance of this palatable vs proggy in their albums and it's so cool to explore. Oh, and about the story...sometimes the songs really don't tell you about the story a lot, because there are whole long written lores for them separately. And comics, and books and whatnot. I always felt like the songs don't always connect that tightly (sometimes yes!) but that also gives some songs the option to stand on their own have their own interpretations for listeners which is neat sometimes (even if I also love the nerdy space stuff)! :D

A favored house Atlantic was on the radio here in Utah a ton when I was young. I personally would call coheed massively popular. They headlined a show here in maybe 2007 where a7x was the support band

I'm not too up on newer coheed, although I don't think this is very new but it absolutely slaps.

i have been watching your videos for more than a year now. but i could never match your genius on decomposing every song. i am confident that you could write a 10000 word essay about anything

Always great to see Coheed once again in this channel, they're genuinely one of my favorite bands of all time and it is really nice to see your take in their songs whenever it happens to appear in a video; the whole Key Entity Extraction saga is an amazing piece of their catalog and a highlight in my opinion, the entire thing is packed with incredible ideas and amazing execution, with IV: Evagria the Faithful and V: Sentry the Defiant being some of my favorite songs in the The Afterman albums!

@JUJUJUNO

Ай бұрын

Speaking about their discography, I believe it's really worth it to check it all in due time, it changes a lot from record to record while keeping a core identity, and it's really nice to observe the transformation in sound and performance. I would recommend going in from beginning to end but a great way to start would also be their second and third albums and progress from there in whatever direction you feel like.

It's really interesting that you picked up on the antagonism. The song was inspired by the former bassist Michael Todd and his struggle with drugs. Claudio was very angry at Todd when he wrote the song. I think he even mentions him by name in the demo version.

The final cut, or 21:13 are great examples of their prog style. Ladders of supremacy is also a great example of you're wanting that sounds more traditionally prog

I liked the mellow parts on this concept album much more (same with the Pain of Salvation albums), but just by being part of a narrative the expressive and hostile vocals grew on me over time. I think this whole album makes more sense if you register the vocal performance as not from one single source of truth, but a remote narrator that documents all possible reactions.

The title of your video is just Coheed and Cambria in a nutshell. I wasn't even labelling them in my head as progressive until I had a "wait a minute" moment, after some time passed since I discovered them. They sprinkle prog widely enough, or rather crank those super catchy (sometimes poppy, sometimes epic and grandiose) choruses often enough that the whole thing feels like an aftertaste, a good cherry-on-top to an otherwise solid, catchy collection of songs. A great bridge band, as you called it. The Afterman "saga" I feel is a little bit underappreciated by the CaC fanbase, I guess because they pushed on the "palatable" side a bit moreso than the prog. I loved them for what they are, and the fact that they released them back to back in two consecutive years is quite an achievement. The second one, "Descension" is a little more introspective/emotional too, so there's that. About the lyrics, interestingly I have the opposite reaction to you. I love the way Claudio writes and refuses to give you the full details, so that you're forced to fill them with your own interpretations and life experiences. It might not work as an isolated piece of literature (that's what the book and comic series are for) but for music, it definitely works for me. At the beginning of the Amory Wars, that was really his intention, it was meant to be an autobiographical story dressed up as the story of the nominal couple, in a sci-fi setting. Ofc it later grew to the full-on epic that is now but there is a reason for that style still, I think. Thank you Bryan, great reaction as usual! Loved the section about their use of silence, really appreciate when musicians give their audience some time to breathe and reflect.

Amazing, but I never noticed gow much Thank You, Scientist sound like them! Great analysis.

Best reactor for the best band!

More prog rock? That means more TDH reactions right? :D At the very least we need Willing Well I and II!

Coherd and Cambria for me is an unexplored band. Thanks for reminding. I heard of them, but this souns really nice.

@markblaauw4961

Ай бұрын

Coherd(?)

@pechondelgado

Ай бұрын

Start with Good Apollo.

I’m gonna see them headline for incubus end of August

@CriticalReactions

Ай бұрын

That's gonna be one awesome show!

X-Force t-shirt = immediate like

Coheed always catch as fuck

Is vola considered progressive? Coheed is weird. Some is so progressive and some is so jam mainstream

i could not put myself to listen to his cheesy voice. if i discovered this on my own i wouldnt even call it prog. good anaylsis tho

@progrockplaylists

Ай бұрын

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