365 project: "good eye, sniper. ill shoot, you run"

41.

artist:coheed & cambria
album:live at the starland ballroom

coheed & cambria is another band that i just don't particularly like. i remember hearing all of the buzz surrounding in keeping of the secrets of silent earth and deciding to check them out. there were one or two songs that i liked, but nothing that really wowed me. i mostly just listened to them to piss my brother off. i remember driving him back and forth to work 45 minutes away and just forcing him to listen to coheed all the way down and back. big sisters can be cruel.

i was seeing someone at the time who decided to fall in love with this band. if he did it to piss me off, ill never know, though i have my suspicions. we used to listen to coheed a LOT. that was enough for me to stop liking them altogether.

however, they were pretty popular in the scene that i was big into at the time, so i couldn't help but have to see them at shows because they toured with everyone i was interested in seeing. and you know something? its weird, but as much as i disliked coheed, i loved their live show that much more. something about Claudio's swinging crazy fro and his voice just did it for me. i wouldn't listen to them for months and months but still know every word to every song they'd sing on stage.

i really wanted to listen to secrets but i have no idea where that CD even got to. i did find the live album, though, so i gave that a spin (thanks to Christa's unknowing recommendation) and I'm glad that i did. i had a lot of fun singing along and dancing around in my room. (yes, this happens quite frequently, actually, and yes, my hairbrush is still my mic, even at 31 years old.)

songs like a favor house Atlantic, devil in jersey city and blood red summer are ones that, while i wont add to every mix i make, i will probably continue to secretly like, even though i still publicly dislike coheed. hell, any song that starts off with the lyrics "new jersey bound" cant be that bad, eh?

this CD is actually the audio to a DVD that i have never watched and probably never will. I'm terrible with watching music DVDs. like, really really bad at it. i will always prefer auditory stimulation over visual. given the choice between my favorite movie and a less than favorite album, its likely that id pick the album. its just the way i function.

at any rate, its likely that this CD wont get a whole lot more attention after this, but its not going to remain on the shelf to gather dust, either. it'll get played on occasion, I'm sure, because I'm a sucker for a coheed & cambria live show.