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I've always had a like/hate relationship with Alkaline Trio. I find "Good Mourning" to be the most palatable, but I find their lyrics to be fucking lame. Maybe because I'm not a 15 year old goth girl who's waiting online to get advance tickets to see the newest Twilight movie, I dunno. Too cheesy.

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Not fucking cheesy:

Choking on the thought of leaving

Drinking to keep from sobbing

Four PM, four dollar pints

At SFO, the time and price

With all my happiness aborted

The PA painfully starts boarding

I sink deep thirty thousand feet

Into my window seat... electric chair

And I was drinking you goodbye

My heart floats in the bay

From sour home Chicago

I hear it beating far away

There's no telling what I'll do

If I don't return to you

Hopeful thoughts of soon returning

Can't put out my stomach burning

Plastic wings and plastic smiles

And salted peanuts to stretch my mile

Choking on the thought of leaving

Drinking to keep from heaving

Five PM, five dollar pints

Hellbound Airlines, time and price

And I was drinking you goodbye

My heart floats in the bay

From sour home Chicago

I hear it beating far away

There's no telling what I'll do

If I don't return to you

I was drinking you goodbye

My heart floats in the bay

From sour home Chicago

I hear it beating far away

There's no telling what I'll do

If I don't return to you

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Flood - I've heard them all.

Sam - They're awfully melodramatic.

Honestly, what songs don't have a tinge of melodrama when you're talking about a girl?

True. Somehow the goth elements rub me the wrong way, though. It sorta feels forced. The melodrama of a band like Rites of Spring seems way more sincere to me.

I mean, I like them but sometimes I just feel a little silly when I focus too much on the words. Same can be said for a lot of bands, I suppose.

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i think crimson is the best cd they released followed by infirmary and mourning but the last album wasnt up to snuff . i never have and never will really like goddammit and most of catch fire as they sound so dull to me .

as far as epitaph goes i agree with tellyourfriends as it seems they have many of my favorite band signed although i wish they would stop signing trendy horrible bands as well that suck .

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Maybe with some folks, but that's not how I listen to music. I judge by the now, not what they used to be. I tend to welcome change in bands as a means of switching things up.

That being said, I found Crimson and whatever the last album was titled to be absolute garbage.

Ok, fair enough, I trust you're being honest but I would hold the following songs are good rock songs:

1) Calling All Skeletons

2) Help Me

3) In Vein

4) Over and Out

5) Smoke

6) I Was A Prayer

7) Mercy Me

8) Burn

9) Time to Waste

All solid, for me, a huge Trio fan. All are even better live

I totally agree on principle sam; i really like Crimson. I'd swap out 'over and out' and 'in vein' with 'i found away' and 'do you wanna know?' though.

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and i can't believe anyone would prefer 'agony and irony' over ANYTHING. i'd rather get dickslapped than listen to some of the epic turds on that album. there are a couple of matt's biggest bombs on that album, one or two of them in the exalted first half. I deleted all but six songs from the record off my itunes, and that includes the two b-sides.

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