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The last Articles of Faith album is different from everything else they put out. It's got much more of the mornful melodic sound and less of the short/fast hardcore. I like this record a lot. It has one of my favorite album covers - really simple but beautiful. Although I think "later" AOF was really influenced by Hüsker Dü (Bob Mould produced their two LPs), I also think they were trying to break new ground with this last record, and the result is, for the most part, good. Maybe they go overboard sometimes with the angsty relationship songs, but that's the risk you take when you write about personal topics I guess. For what it's worth, I really can get into this record whereas I think the first Jones Very record isn't too good.

NOWHERE (Shield)
Getting up so softly
Rising to my window
with no spare change for the light of day
The White surrounds me
at a point called only never is a mighty long time to
stay that way

Hide the broken rosary on forgotten way
The only paint left here is grey
The light is blinding
so draw the curtain
Where there's a will there's not a way

Nowhere

No whispered voice
No door that opens
There's nothing left here that I can call free
And I'm just too tired to count
Just who has walked over me

Nowhere

TRAINS (Shield)
I've been through so many stations
My feet never touch the ground
I always leave when I should have waited
Now my only comfort is the sound

I was blind to life and I left to wander
I watched the distant weather vanes
The air is just a wall of thunder
And my windows tears and rain

But right now
I ride these rails - a long way to go
I'm still very far away from home
Somebody call the conductor
The heat's travelling through my hands
And I can't get a grasp on what I am

I'll ride this train to eternity
Or at least until I reach L.A.
Then I'll turn around and ride again
My only comfort is the sound

I travel in trains

xmagax писал(а):всегда путал их название с ARTIFICIAL PEACE почему-то!
обе группы классные!

xmagax писал(а):LOSER LIFE-современные AoF по музыке по всей видимости!

xmagax писал(а):LOSER LIFE-современные AoF по музыке по всей видимости!

Роша писал(а): Воистину лучшая группа 2008 года!

генерал ганнибал писал(а):да, я в каком-то интервью с АоФ читал, что кроме них в чикаго особо ничего не было. была тусока скинов, которые имитировали английский акцент.

генерал ганнибал писал(а):тем не менее effigies охуенная группа.

Roadie: Tell 'em how you get along with your buddies The Effigies.

Al: Yeah, I wanted to ask you about that, too. I'm not really sure what they're trying to say.

Vic: The Effigies? You'll have to ask them. I don't really listen to that band. I'm not really into them. They aren't really nice guys so I don't hang around with them. They're not a lot of fun to be with, basically. As far as Chicago's scene goes, I guess we get along okay. We have never gotten the shit that The Effigies have, because The Effigies sort of go out of their way to put everybody down.

Al: I've heard they've blown off the scene.

Vic: They don't help it any.

Steve (roadie): They're "we've got ours and we deserve what we get. Everybody else, just do it yourself and we're not going to help you."

Vic: We've put on hall shows when we could afford to, which isn't a lot. Actually, this year we've only done one. I'm not really that hep on the Chicago scene right now. There's some new bands that are happening that I'm really not that familiar with. There's a new compliation coming out with us and the Effigies, Naked Raygun, Rights Of The Accused, Out Of Order and Savage Beliefs, which is a happenin' band! Now the Savages are different. They're not really hardcore. They're sort of like a punk-garage, pop-type thing.

Vic: The thing about it was, and the Steve Blush book, when it came out, I saw it in the boom store and sort of cursory stuff they gave AoF . . . if you were gonna talk about an alternative scene that was under age, do it yourself, left wing politics, against the system, it was us! The Effigies were hell bent on being rock stars.

*Note* here begins some talk about The Effigies, my in-laws and their right wing leanings versus independent politics

Vic: ". . . well don't bother me with the truth, because I don't want to know."

NNNS: So, was [radical politics] the agenda of the band when you got together?

Vic: I think that was a big part of it. I think all of us were kind of incensed (his daughter shows up for a bit) . . . we were all incensed in those days for one reason or another.