@@wrashchild I kind of take it in 3 sections, with an orchestral piece front and back. The first movement (Beautiful Losers, Comatose and Shoulders) are all solid coheed rock numbers. The middle section goes more than a bit poppy all the way through to the love song, Our Love. Then it kicks off a fantastic prog-rock opera in the last three tracks, with ever-increasing runtimes. I like the first section especially Embers and Shoulders. The middle is growing on me, but took a while to get past the autotune moments. Love Murder One works for me, and Liars Club is solid. Bad Man and Disappearing act are my least favourite things on the album. The closing section, however, is one the best things I've heard since The Willing Well. I love it. Ladders hooked me instantly, Rise grew on me (especially after I played it a few times on Rocksmith and worked out some of the guitar parts), and Windows is a stunning closer. I'm one of those people that puts Good Apollo 1 as probably my top album from the 50+ years I've been on this planet, so there's a chance our tastes are similar :)
@@chelfynPerfectly put! I mean, obviously art is 100% subjective --- which is why we love it! --- but you hit the nail on the head perfectly, in my opinion. Bad Man is maybe the only song on the record that I'm not a fan of. Ladders, Rise, and ESPECIALLY Window knock my socks off. I'm a big fan of musical theater and its structure and orchestration blow my mind. It's funny you mentioned learning a bit of a song on guitar because I've been learning Rise on the drums from Josh's TH-cam page for months. I finally got it dialed in nicely over the past few days. I'm so pumped. Unraveling his open-handed style was much trickier than I thought it would be, ha. Take care. ✌️
Oh yea! The Suffering was the first Coheed song I ever heard too! I remember getting ready for school one morning (late elementary if maybe early middle school-USA for reference) and saw the video on MTV and fell in love!
I snagged The Afterman: Decension picture disc LP variant for about $86 recently. This album was the album that really got me into coheed beyond my exposure with Rock Band. It was a must have for my collection.
Man Vaxis 2 has immediately jumped into one of my fav Coheed albums. Fantastic from start to finish IMO. my list is below: 1) No World for Tomorrow 2) Good Apollo 3) Vaxis 2 4) In Keeping Secrets 5) Afterman Ascension 6) Afterman Decension 7) Color Before the Sun 8) Unheavenly Creatures 9) Second Stage 10) Black Rainbow
I agree, it all depends on when you started listening to Coheed or what album you heard first. I started at Shabutie (Look it up). 1. In Keeping Secrets 2. Second Stage 3. Good Apollo 2 4. Good Apollo 1 5. Vaxis 2 6. Ascension/Descension 7. Vaxis 1 8. Black Rainbow 9. Color
If second stage had the recording budget of the albums after, everyone would have it as #1. It has by far the most interesting song writing, and for me, nothing will ever surpass it.
Very respectable list my dude. I guess I'm one of "those" coheed fans where I adore their first four albums to death. They are without a shadow of a doubt my favorite albums to ever be released nothing has even come close, Coheed or otherwise. But I just cant really like much of anything that came after. But I guess unlike most people I really liked The Color Before the Sun but that's the only album I like besides the first four. I've tried to get into their later stuff and I just can't, I just don't feel that Coheed magic anymore. That being said I'm honestly glad, it means thy're constantly changing and evolving. Even after all these years they're still growing as artists. Like you said, they could just rehash Welcome Home and or just become another forgettable one note band but that's not Coheed. It never has and it never will be.
I get what you mean. I feel like sometimes the music you listen to from 13-20 will never be beaten. Colour Before The Sun is better than what it is perceived as for sure. 100% I respect them for it too. We’ve always got the older albums to listen to. But I’m always excited for new Coheed
@@wrashchild I'll always give their new stuff a shot and for what its worth they do always have at least one song on every album I like. While their new stuff isn't to my taste they still are masters of song writing. I just really hope that damn auto-tune isn't a perminant fixture. While I've always respected how they constantly change styles I don't condone the use of the auto-tune in vaix ll. I just don't understand it, Claudio has a hell of a voice and I hate to see it ruined by something that hasn't been relevant in 10 years, and for good reason.
My ranking: 9. Year of the Black Rainbow 8. The Colour Before the Sun 7. Vaxis II 6. Vaxis I 5. Second Stage Turbine Blade 4. Good Apollo 1 3. No World for Tomorrow 2. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 1. The Afterman (it's a double album)
Is he a good apollo guy or an in keeping secrets guy? Personally, in keeping secrets popped them, and good apollo is number 1. Ten speed; willing well. Just absolute banger after banger, never a dull moment even with a longish intro. Intro track and acoustic track before a song with an acoustic intro and all. When Im not just listening to 1 or a couple songs off that record (because theyre all so good that they stand alone in my head).. Im listening to all of the intros, everything. That will forever be my favorite album. I still listen to everything they have put out so far and watch a lot of their live performances, but that album is captured really fucking well in the cross-section of them being a garage-type post hardcore band and becoming this monolith of heady, and proggy hard rock that can still exist on popular radio. Getting their first experience dealing with a real big production of an album instead of them sounding like home recordings. My buddy showed me the crowing and it blew my mind, but got myself that disc and it helped me develop a taste in music which made me wanna make it myself. Then of course I killed my computer downloading every demo off of limewire I could find. Cuts marked in men acoustic, fucking WHAT? Hahaha
I’d love to see JAmes Bond fighting to Number City in Vegas or something My list: 10. Year of the Black Rainbow 9. Second Stage Turbine Blade 8. In Keeping Secrets 3 7. No World For Tomorrow 6. Color Before the Sun 5. Vaxis I-Unheavenly Creatures 4. Vaxis 2-Window of a Waking Mind 3. Afterman Descension 2. Afterman Ascension 1. Good Apollo… Vol. 2 I personally believe Coheed got better as time went on-save for Good Apollo 2. (The Suffering alone hotDAMN!!)
My list. I personally think Year of the Black Rainbow is underrated. It's definitely very different than Coheed's other music, it's far more prog metal, far darker, more cold and mechanical with Pennie's drumming, but it's a damn good album (with some questionable production). Imo the new album is the best thing they've done since Afterman. It's way way better than Vaxis I. 1)Second Stage Turbine Blade 2)Good Apollo I 3)In Keeping Secrets 4)Afterman: Descension 5)Afterman: Ascension 6)Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind 7)Year of the Black Rainbow 8)No World for Tomorrow 9)Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures 10)Color Before the Sun
I think a damn good album with questionable production sums it up nicely. I’m still listening to it daily. But it’s still in the same place for me sadly. Glad you’re enjoying it.
Good list. They dont have a bad album imo. My list is: 1. GA1 2. IKSOSE3 3. SSTB 4. Afterman Descension 5. Afterman Ascension 6. Vaxis 2 7. NWFT 8. Vaxis 1 9. YOTBR 10. CBTS
1. GA1 2. IKSSE3 3. Color B4 Sun (so good, it should be Color BeFive Sun) 4. Afterman Ascension 5. Second Stage 6. Vaxis 1 7. NWFT 8. Afterman Descension 9. Vaxis 2 10. Black Rainbow This changes constantly. The only thing I hold consistent are my top 3, and bottom 2. The rest are constantly changing place, regardless of whether or not new music is being released.
My album list from best to worst: 1. IKSSE:3 2. From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness 3. No World For Tomorrow 4. The Second Stage Turbine Blade 5. Descension 6. Ascension 7. Unheavenly Creatures 8. Window of The Waking Mind 9. Color Before The Sun 10. Black Rainbow I became a fan of them august of 2013 at the age of 22. I’ve seen them live twice, I have 2 shirts, and I believe all of their albums minus Color Before The Sun and Vaxis 2 on CD and Apple Music, and I’ve read one of their graphic novels. Absolutely love them, even if I don’t always agree with their views, they’re genuinely nice people and I love their music.
My personal list would be 1. IKSSE3 2. GA1 3 & 4. (interchangeable) NWFT & SSTB 5. Vaxis 2 6. YOTBR 7. CBTS 8. Vaxis I 9. Both Afterman (I don't know why but the double album didn't piqued my interest)
As an OG fan that was also active on Cobalt and Calcium, it's interesting the sort of odd (and severe) disagreement here. I'm similarly not huge into the story (but know it all anyway) agree Good Apollo IV Vol 1 is the best Coheed record (and best album of all time imo), but as of now Vaxis II is second or third in line (Just saw them live a couple days ago and it was easily their best performance I've seen - and I've seen a lot). Another fun and huge agreement/disagreement: I rate Evagria the Faithful as a top 10 Coheed songs but I also rate The Audience and It Walks Among Us in that list. I've listened to Good Apollo Vol 1 around 7,300 times and if It Walks Among Us snuck onto that album I wouldn't notice a difference. Perhaps the vast range of agreements and disagreements is a testament to their greatness. I appreciate your review and thoughts. P.S. Oh, and yeah, YOTBR nearly ended them imo, thank God for the Afterman Albums and Claudio ending the smoking.
I haven’t seen them in so long. I’m sure their so good live now. Lots of experience right? It’s interesting you mention the audience! Because I never got it but know it’s loved by a lot. Yeah it could have been tough to come back from that album. Thanks for watching mate
I'm surprised you rank Vaxis II so low, It's got me hooked and is in my top 3!
It might be higher in future. I’m still listening to it a lot though. What tracks do you like?
@@wrashchild I kind of take it in 3 sections, with an orchestral piece front and back. The first movement (Beautiful Losers, Comatose and Shoulders) are all solid coheed rock numbers. The middle section goes more than a bit poppy all the way through to the love song, Our Love. Then it kicks off a fantastic prog-rock opera in the last three tracks, with ever-increasing runtimes.
I like the first section especially Embers and Shoulders.
The middle is growing on me, but took a while to get past the autotune moments. Love Murder One works for me, and Liars Club is solid. Bad Man and Disappearing act are my least favourite things on the album.
The closing section, however, is one the best things I've heard since The Willing Well. I love it. Ladders hooked me instantly, Rise grew on me (especially after I played it a few times on Rocksmith and worked out some of the guitar parts), and Windows is a stunning closer.
I'm one of those people that puts Good Apollo 1 as probably my top album from the 50+ years I've been on this planet, so there's a chance our tastes are similar :)
Vaxis ii feels like a pfi album not a coheed album.
@@chelfynPerfectly put! I mean, obviously art is 100% subjective --- which is why we love it! --- but you hit the nail on the head perfectly, in my opinion.
Bad Man is maybe the only song on the record that I'm not a fan of. Ladders, Rise, and ESPECIALLY Window knock my socks off. I'm a big fan of musical theater and its structure and orchestration blow my mind.
It's funny you mentioned learning a bit of a song on guitar because I've been learning Rise on the drums from Josh's TH-cam page for months. I finally got it dialed in nicely over the past few days. I'm so pumped. Unraveling his open-handed style was much trickier than I thought it would be, ha.
Take care. ✌️
Def not in the top 3, but it is a good album
Would love to hear your thoughts on Vaxis II now that it's been a year. Coheed albums are notorious for growing on you over time.
Actually! I was planning to listen through all the albums again this week in order.
I’ll let you know very soon haha
Where can I listen to more Cursing Cordelia??? That little clip sounded awesome!!!
on.soundcloud.com/o5vMGcxxbeBGhU8e8
Oh yea! The Suffering was the first Coheed song I ever heard too! I remember getting ready for school one morning (late elementary if maybe early middle school-USA for reference) and saw the video on MTV and fell in love!
"Biggest fan" + "doesn't like Amory Wars" yeah... you def don't get that title little bro
I snagged The Afterman: Decension picture disc LP variant for about $86 recently. This album was the album that really got me into coheed beyond my exposure with Rock Band. It was a must have for my collection.
Man Vaxis 2 has immediately jumped into one of my fav Coheed albums. Fantastic from start to finish IMO.
my list is below:
1) No World for Tomorrow
2) Good Apollo
3) Vaxis 2
4) In Keeping Secrets
5) Afterman Ascension
6) Afterman Decension
7) Color Before the Sun
8) Unheavenly Creatures
9) Second Stage
10) Black Rainbow
No World for Tomorrow is amazing. What’s your favourite song?
I’m still listening to Vaxis but no break through yet
@@wrashchild hard to pick but my Fav songs off No World are the title track, Mother Superior, Gravemakers and The Road and The Damned.
All great songs. Road and the damned is euphoric
So how do you feel about The darkness, riffs like maiden , high pitch voice….
Love maiden. Darkness are cool but not a big fan of their music.
@@wrashchild fair
I agree, it all depends on when you started listening to Coheed or what album you heard first. I started at Shabutie (Look it up).
1. In Keeping Secrets
2. Second Stage
3. Good Apollo 2
4. Good Apollo 1
5. Vaxis 2
6. Ascension/Descension
7. Vaxis 1
8. Black Rainbow
9. Color
Nice. Yeah Shabutie is as old school as it gets. Great list
If second stage had the recording budget of the albums after, everyone would have it as #1. It has by far the most interesting song writing, and for me, nothing will ever surpass it.
Very respectable list my dude. I guess I'm one of "those" coheed fans where I adore their first four albums to death. They are without a shadow of a doubt my favorite albums to ever be released nothing has even come close, Coheed or otherwise. But I just cant really like much of anything that came after. But I guess unlike most people I really liked The Color Before the Sun but that's the only album I like besides the first four. I've tried to get into their later stuff and I just can't, I just don't feel that Coheed magic anymore. That being said I'm honestly glad, it means thy're constantly changing and evolving. Even after all these years they're still growing as artists. Like you said, they could just rehash Welcome Home and or just become another forgettable one note band but that's not Coheed. It never has and it never will be.
I get what you mean. I feel like sometimes the music you listen to from 13-20 will never be beaten. Colour Before The Sun is better than what it is perceived as for sure. 100% I respect them for it too. We’ve always got the older albums to listen to. But I’m always excited for new Coheed
@@wrashchild I'll always give their new stuff a shot and for what its worth they do always have at least one song on every album I like. While their new stuff isn't to my taste they still are masters of song writing. I just really hope that damn auto-tune isn't a perminant fixture. While I've always respected how they constantly change styles I don't condone the use of the auto-tune in vaix ll. I just don't understand it, Claudio has a hell of a voice and I hate to see it ruined by something that hasn't been relevant in 10 years, and for good reason.
My ranking:
9. Year of the Black Rainbow
8. The Colour Before the Sun
7. Vaxis II
6. Vaxis I
5. Second Stage Turbine Blade
4. Good Apollo 1
3. No World for Tomorrow
2. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3
1. The Afterman (it's a double album)
Is he a good apollo guy or an in keeping secrets guy? Personally, in keeping secrets popped them, and good apollo is number 1. Ten speed; willing well. Just absolute banger after banger, never a dull moment even with a longish intro. Intro track and acoustic track before a song with an acoustic intro and all. When Im not just listening to 1 or a couple songs off that record (because theyre all so good that they stand alone in my head).. Im listening to all of the intros, everything.
That will forever be my favorite album. I still listen to everything they have put out so far and watch a lot of their live performances, but that album is captured really fucking well in the cross-section of them being a garage-type post hardcore band and becoming this monolith of heady, and proggy hard rock that can still exist on popular radio. Getting their first experience dealing with a real big production of an album instead of them sounding like home recordings. My buddy showed me the crowing and it blew my mind, but got myself that disc and it helped me develop a taste in music which made me wanna make it myself. Then of course I killed my computer downloading every demo off of limewire I could find. Cuts marked in men acoustic, fucking WHAT? Hahaha
Many a computer has bitten the Lime of death. Was it worth it? Probably haha
I’d love to see JAmes Bond fighting to Number City in Vegas or something
My list:
10. Year of the Black Rainbow
9. Second Stage Turbine Blade
8. In Keeping Secrets 3
7. No World For Tomorrow
6. Color Before the Sun
5. Vaxis I-Unheavenly Creatures
4. Vaxis 2-Window of a Waking Mind
3. Afterman Descension
2. Afterman Ascension
1. Good Apollo… Vol. 2
I personally believe Coheed got better as time went on-save for Good Apollo 2. (The Suffering alone hotDAMN!!)
That would be sick!! Nice list.
Can you choose a favourite song?
@@wrashchild easy: The Suffering.
As for me - afterman albums are my favorite, both from music and lyric sides.
When I listen to them they’re my favourite! Know what I mean ?
@@wrashchild Definitely. By the way also agree on Evagria The Faithful - my favorite Coheed song as well.
Sooooo good!
everyone has all their albums on spotify.....
vaxis 1 is memorable for me despite all the tracks which are forgettable . do you like funeral for a friend?
I love the song Unheavenly creatures and Dark sentence. Yes! Actually I’m from the same town as them. Great band.
“Biggest fan” IMPOSSIBLE, I AM
1. IKSSE3
2. SSTB
3. GAIBS4
4. NWFT
5. AFTERMAN A/D
6. YOTBR
7. VAXIS: II
8. SHABUTIE
9. UNHEAVENLY
10. TCBTS
My list. I personally think Year of the Black Rainbow is underrated. It's definitely very different than Coheed's other music, it's far more prog metal, far darker, more cold and mechanical with Pennie's drumming, but it's a damn good album (with some questionable production). Imo the new album is the best thing they've done since Afterman. It's way way better than Vaxis I.
1)Second Stage Turbine Blade
2)Good Apollo I
3)In Keeping Secrets
4)Afterman: Descension
5)Afterman: Ascension
6)Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
7)Year of the Black Rainbow
8)No World for Tomorrow
9)Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures
10)Color Before the Sun
I think a damn good album with questionable production sums it up nicely. I’m still listening to it daily. But it’s still in the same place for me sadly. Glad you’re enjoying it.
Good list. They dont have a bad album imo. My list is:
1. GA1
2. IKSOSE3
3. SSTB
4. Afterman Descension
5. Afterman Ascension
6. Vaxis 2
7. NWFT
8. Vaxis 1
9. YOTBR
10. CBTS
This Shattered Symphony its amazing ahhahahha OMG bro
but, we agreed, the best one its the IV
1. GA1
2. IKSSE3
3. Color B4 Sun (so good, it should be Color BeFive Sun)
4. Afterman Ascension
5. Second Stage
6. Vaxis 1
7. NWFT
8. Afterman Descension
9. Vaxis 2
10. Black Rainbow
This changes constantly. The only thing I hold consistent are my top 3, and bottom 2. The rest are constantly changing place, regardless of whether or not new music is being released.
My album list from best to worst:
1. IKSSE:3
2. From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
3. No World For Tomorrow
4. The Second Stage Turbine Blade
5. Descension
6. Ascension
7. Unheavenly Creatures
8. Window of The Waking Mind
9. Color Before The Sun
10. Black Rainbow
I became a fan of them august of 2013 at the age of 22. I’ve seen them live twice, I have 2 shirts, and I believe all of their albums minus Color Before The Sun and Vaxis 2 on CD and Apple Music, and I’ve read one of their graphic novels.
Absolutely love them, even if I don’t always agree with their views, they’re genuinely nice people and I love their music.
My personal list would be
1. IKSSE3
2. GA1
3 & 4. (interchangeable) NWFT & SSTB
5. Vaxis 2
6. YOTBR
7. CBTS
8. Vaxis I
9. Both Afterman (I don't know why but the double album didn't piqued my interest)
As an OG fan that was also active on Cobalt and Calcium, it's interesting the sort of odd (and severe) disagreement here. I'm similarly not huge into the story (but know it all anyway) agree Good Apollo IV Vol 1 is the best Coheed record (and best album of all time imo), but as of now Vaxis II is second or third in line (Just saw them live a couple days ago and it was easily their best performance I've seen - and I've seen a lot).
Another fun and huge agreement/disagreement: I rate Evagria the Faithful as a top 10 Coheed songs but I also rate The Audience and It Walks Among Us in that list. I've listened to Good Apollo Vol 1 around 7,300 times and if It Walks Among Us snuck onto that album I wouldn't notice a difference. Perhaps the vast range of agreements and disagreements is a testament to their greatness. I appreciate your review and thoughts.
P.S. Oh, and yeah, YOTBR nearly ended them imo, thank God for the Afterman Albums and Claudio ending the smoking.
I haven’t seen them in so long. I’m sure their so good live now. Lots of experience right? It’s interesting you mention the audience! Because I never got it but know it’s loved by a lot.
Yeah it could have been tough to come back from that album. Thanks for watching mate
@@wrashchild Yes, they appear to have had a lot of practice. Claudio sings almost all songs in the original octave now.