The "What Song Are You Listening to Now?" Thread

Great Awakening by Rise Against

This could be my great awakening,
but how would I know?
'Cause it's all noise to me.
(Nothing I can do will make you hear.)

quietly tags @Hayabusa

 

Fairy Tail Main Theme by Yasuharu Takanashi

(Good studying music)

 

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Wardruna - Ehwar

 

Survive by Rise Against

I shirk my obligations, I miss all your deadlines,
I excel at quitting early and ****ing up my life.

gooooood I remember when Sufferer first came out I was like, understandably pumped, and this song was my ****ing jam. Still probably my favorite on the album, though Chamber the Cartridge is a close second.

 

I've had this album sitting here for a year or so waiting for me to listen to it completely. I really liked The Pretender when it came out. I initially hated Long Road to Ruin because it was on the radio so much, but I've come to like it a lot. They're not a band I'm very familiar with but this album interests me.

Sufferer is one of those albums where i just can't pick a favorite.

 

I'm in love with both of those songs. I used to jam to The Pretender all the time on bass. I wish I had more spare time to play because some of their songs are ridiculously fun.

moar Dave Grohl, this time on drums :D

 

I feel that way about The Unraveling and Siren Song. I go back and forth in my estimations of Sufferer, there are great tracks on there but some I could just sort of do without.

Historia Calamitatum by Rise Against

 

There are songs I don't care for on there as well, like Prayer of the Refugee and Ready to Fall, but the ones that are good are all so good.

one of those times when the cover is immensely better than the original

 

OMG WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. a

 

It never grabbed me like nearly every other song on there. I don't hate it or anything it's just not one I choose to listen to often.

 

Aww I really like Ready to Fall haha. That might be nostalgia though.

Minor Threat (Minor Threat Cover) by Rise Against

 

Thanks for reminding me how much I used to like Rise Against guys lol

 

fair enough. i have that with this

 

Good Left Undone is a weird song for me. I dug it when the album first came out and still do like it, but it was released as a single like... a year after Sufferer released. By that point I was pretty sick of it and didn't want to hear it played endlessly on the radio (this was before I had the ability to eschew FM radio in all forms), and that ruined it for me for a while. I've warmed up to it again since.

My ultimate Rise Against nostalgia song, however...

This was the first Rise Against song I'd ever heard, back in 2005 or 2006, on the soundtrack of Tony Hawk's Underground. The Tony Hawk soundtracks in general were a pretty pivotal influence for me, but none more than THUG, just for this song. I'd disable all other songs on the playlist, occasionally leaving Alkaline Trio's Armageddon, but this was my song. This was back before YouTube was a big thing, so I couldn't exactly search the song up and find it easily, nor did any of the shops that stocked CDs carry some (at the time) obscure hardcore punk band. And this was back when the other bands I was into consisted of Green Day and Simple Plan (yeah. I was 10).

Knowing my deep ardor for the song, my sister had my dad buy me Revolutions for my 11th birthday from some hole in the wall record shop on the island. I was beyond excited, I immediately popped it into our PlayStation 2 for the whole family to enjoy. We talked through Black Masks & Gasoline (which is actually now one of my favorite Rise Against songs) and then Heaven Knows came up, then Dead Ringer, then Halfway There, and I remember my dad cringing and asking if this was really what I was into and my stepmom leaving the room and my nervous smile of "yes." It was angry and loud, it frightened me, and my answer was one part just trying to feel worthy of, and cool enough for, the album and another part hearing the heaviest music I'd ever been exposed to and really liking that.

It took me time to warm up to much of the album; Voices Off Camera, Torches, and Amber Changing became staples for me, and of course Like the Angel remained my absolute favorite, but the rest were more of a slow burn. Siren Song is a much more accessible album and it solidified my love for Rise Against, as did Sufferer when it eventually came out, but I always find myself returning to Revolutions, because of that special place it has in my memory.

I've always had a thing for the bass guitar too, which definitely predisposed me to Rise Against, and Like the Angel in particular has such a memorable bass line. To date, every time I hear it, it just... feels like coming home, to me.

And that's the story of how I earned some punk cred at age 11.

It's also taught me how to give albums the time they deserve, to marinate, and for you to learn to like them. I'm in that process with a great little noise punk band right now, Perfect Pussy; I grabbed their first album, Say Yes to Love, mostly because of the band name and from reading about their messages and seeing the lead singer in feminist media, and I didn't get it. It all sound like static, incoherent vocals, and erratic instrumentation. I'm still growing to like it (I have lost all desire for feeling, their EP and first release, helped), but when I first went through and was immediately turned off, I had to stop myself and think back to Revolutions.

 

Faint Resemblance by Rise Against

I beg for you to let go, I dread the day you finally do;
I fight for your attention, too little too late, or too much too soon.
And how will this plague the time we share from here on out?
And how long will this taint all these words spilling from my mouth?

 

oh god i cant handle this

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