A Friday Afternoon Music Post - Alkaline Trio March 14
I’ve been lax with the music posts lately, too many presentations to prepare and technical stuff to get done, so I thought I’d take the time to post something today and liven up the blog a littel bit. All this talk about Forms, ADF, and Java can get a little dry sometimes.
Alkaline Trio has been around for a while now, and in my opinion they haven’t exactly been getting better. They are a 3 member (big surprise, there, heh?) punkish rock band with some definite goth tendencies which have been emphasized a lot more in later albums which have also become a little more mainstream.
My favorite Alkaline Trio album is “Maybe I’ll Catch Fire.” It has a lot of catchy tunes that are somewhat dark and comic in nature. The song “F* You, Aurora” about a town in Illinois named Aurora in which there was a bad car accident that took the life of one of the band members friend’s. It includes the lyric s “…And although it’s all my fault, The blaming myself had to come to an end. So I say:F*** you Aurora, you took my only friend. You won’t catch me behind the wheel, Of a Chrysler ever again.” Matt Skiba has a flair for good lyrics.
My other favorite song on the album is simple entitled “Radio”. It is one of the best I-hate-you and wish-you-would-die type of songs out there. With lyrics including “I wish you, would take your radio to bathe with you, plugged in and ready to fall,” and “while you’re taking your time with apologies, I’m making plans for revenge,” it gets my vote for one of the best sing-along songs ever. Not that I’m bitter or anything, but everyone has a bad day every once in a while and just needs to get it out somehow, don’t you think?
Other albums I would recommend by the Trio include “From Here to Infirmary” and “Goddammit”. “From Here to Infirmary” is definitely more pop-punkish than the other two, it has some better production values, and was their first album to get any real airplay. It is still pretty funny in that dark humor kind of way and so definitely worth a listen to.
That’s all I got for today, and the funny thing is, I’m in a good mood, not bitter at all, go figure.