Beggars as a whole is just one of the most amazing collection of songs I've ever had the blessing of hearing and or listening. It's amazing especially in the context of their career! After finishing a 4 part EP with all this complicated and progressive approach they aimed to deliver a more stripped down sound for Beggars. The product which is beggars has so much body and push to it for such a stripped down record and it really shows what they can do. I grew up with Thrice in the household but I didn't fully appreciate Thrice until I saw them days after To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere Live in San Diego 2016. I walked away with a bigger love for their music than when I walked in. Since then they have rapidly become one of my favorite bands, if not my favorite band.
Excellent choice. In a Thrice fans group, we were naming first songs to use to introduce a new listener to Thrice. To try to get elements of their sound and style into one song, my shortlist was Hold Fast Hope, Yellowbelly, and Beggars. My approach, if those couple songs show that Thrice is worth listening to (of course they are, they and Coheed and Cambria might be the best bands that exist), is to go by album. I'd listen to The Artist in the Ambulance, then Vhiessu, then Alchemy Index, then Beggars, then Major/Minor. Those are consecutive albums from the middle of their progression as a band which will bring you to understanding that the next album will sound unpredictable in a way that you'll come to expect while still sounding distinctly like Thrice. Equally, the bookends could be Illusion of Safety and Beggars, to keep it to a 5-album run. But I'd start with Artist in the Ambulance and you'll already be catching on by the time you're a couple songs into Beggars.
The song Beggars is a paraphrase of the Bible's book of Job. The lead singer, Dustin Kensrue, is a Christian and likes to write his beliefs into the band's lyrics. In my opinion, this album is one of the finest rock albums produced.
Beggars as a whole is just one of the most amazing collection of songs I've ever had the blessing of hearing and or listening. It's amazing especially in the context of their career! After finishing a 4 part EP with all this complicated and progressive approach they aimed to deliver a more stripped down sound for Beggars. The product which is beggars has so much body and push to it for such a stripped down record and it really shows what they can do. I grew up with Thrice in the household but I didn't fully appreciate Thrice until I saw them days after To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere Live in San Diego 2016. I walked away with a bigger love for their music than when I walked in. Since then they have rapidly become one of my favorite bands, if not my favorite band.
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As a diehard Thrice fan, I loved this!! Spot on from both of you. Wish I could like this 10 times!
Excellent choice. In a Thrice fans group, we were naming first songs to use to introduce a new listener to Thrice. To try to get elements of their sound and style into one song, my shortlist was Hold Fast Hope, Yellowbelly, and Beggars. My approach, if those couple songs show that Thrice is worth listening to (of course they are, they and Coheed and Cambria might be the best bands that exist), is to go by album. I'd listen to The Artist in the Ambulance, then Vhiessu, then Alchemy Index, then Beggars, then Major/Minor. Those are consecutive albums from the middle of their progression as a band which will bring you to understanding that the next album will sound unpredictable in a way that you'll come to expect while still sounding distinctly like Thrice.
Equally, the bookends could be Illusion of Safety and Beggars, to keep it to a 5-album run. But I'd start with Artist in the Ambulance and you'll already be catching on by the time you're a couple songs into Beggars.
The song Beggars is a paraphrase of the Bible's book of Job. The lead singer, Dustin Kensrue, is a Christian and likes to write his beliefs into the band's lyrics. In my opinion, this album is one of the finest rock albums produced.