i thoroughly enjoy thought provoking, yet ultimately useless questions on long car rides. After an amazing weekend in Providence, RI earlier this year to see the band 'Thursday' play and viewing of a 3D IMAX film, my significant other posed this question on the ride home: "If Thursday and Rise Against were playing shows on the same night, across the street from one another, which would you go see?"
Although i love both bands, without hesitation i chose Thursday. Their latest album is, in my opinion, the best album to come out since Pearl Jam's "Ten". Now many brilliant albums have come out between these records by some great bands but i never thought any could top the emotional bond i developed with "Ten" during my teenage years. i wore out three copies on tape and eventually bought "Ten" on both cd and vinyl. After listening to Thursday's albums and seeing them live several times i developed an attachment to their music further cemented by "A City By The Light Divided". You'd be hard pressed to find a band that puts more into their live show. Since this album came out i've had a hard time listening to much else, and some impressive albums have come out this year.
My significant other, of course, picked Rise Against. Despite the fact that during the ride home from buying one of their earlier albums she made fun of me for the purchase (you know you'll never live that one down), she has since not only grown to enjoy their music, but she has become a huge fan (strike that, a SUPER fan, she is by no accounts huge) buying all the albums they've ever put out. The line was drawn in the sand.
Well, the conflict has recently been settled, and then some. The two bands are touring together. Talk about a dream line-up. And neither of us have to choose. When Bush Jr said he was a uniter not a divider maybe he was really talking about music. i know he does get confused sometimes.
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