The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine

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No one's said a word as far as I can see. I'm sort of surprised, because I think it's fantastic - loud and angry and smart. I wasn't vastly impressed by much else I'd heard by them, but this is another story. "Here's Your Future" especially. It reminds me of earlier Replacements a lot, just with political content.

Thoughts?

― Emily B (Emily B), Monday, 25 September 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope, just tried listening to it again. It's got many elements I like, but they don't come together for me. I think it's mostly the singer's voice, which is edgeless. But the tempos also stay just shy of getting momentum, and the changes aren't interesting. They need some threat.

― bendy (bendy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

What?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

For comparison, the Marked Men have the tempos, the Observers have the changes, and The Ends have the overall threat.

― bendy (bendy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh boy.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/upl/images/user/herling/285471.jpg

you don't want too much edge in the vocals now do you?

― Login Name consigliere (consigliere), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess i don't really see the thermals as being all that comparable to the marked men or observers...they seem much more indie than punk to me.

basically, they sound like a hopped up archers of loaf rip-off, who write good songs, with a singer that reminds me of J0hn D from mountain goatz. i dig it.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I know that they don't identify themselves as punk, but when I listen to them, it's strikes me as striving to achieve the same effects.

― bendy (bendy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

sounds like college rock to me. i mean hating bush and doing a loosely themed rock opera are both pretty indy to me. Lets see them play with Iron Lung or Nine Shocks Terror. Its punk in that late 70's Sha Na Na way then.

― Ben Dover (jonbenetsbody), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

haha nine shocks terror! YEAH FUCK THE THERMALS....let's seem them get in a fistfight with PISSED JEANS! or have a slayer cover contest with MUNICPAL WASTE! that'll show 'em!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

THERMALS FORCEFIELD SOUNDCLASH

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to see them play ICE HOCKEY with KYLSEA and RUSTED SHUT!!!!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i love this album. i was never all that fond of the thermals' sound, but i'm currently very interested in albums where the songs are all played in exactly the same way and, superficially, all sound the same, but where the album still maintains some sense of motion and album-ness. g500, e.g. TB/TB/TM does that well.

― Godfrzej Ljang (godfrzej), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

im surprised more people didnt like this. the single "pillar of salt" was excellent

― Chris Grasinger (gman59), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

They miss their old drummer on this record. That guy was a beast, and kathy taking his place in the recording was a bad move.

― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

listening to this now after not having touched it for a year. it didn't make a huge impression on me at the time but boy do i like this at this moment. the singer actually sounds much more like the guy from the judybats than he does like j0hn d.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 10 April 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link

six years pass...

They had a great run

We traveled further, soared higher and played louder than we ever dreamed, and look forward to a new chapter in our lives, our art, and our friendship. We would like to thank all the great labels who have released our records and the amazing people who have worked so hard for us!
— The Thermals (@thethermals) April 9, 2018

― Evan R, Monday, 9 April 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link

They never topped Fuckin A, and Pillar of Salt is an all-time jam

good band

― alpine static, Monday, 9 April 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link

Fuckin A, The Body etc, Now We Can See was a very fine run of records.

― Simon H., Monday, 9 April 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link

We Disappear was a strong note to end on, maybe their best since The Body, The Blood. But it was pretty clear they'd peaked.

― Evan R, Monday, 9 April 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link

ten months pass...

hutch harris called out for creepy behavior bump

― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 16 February 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link

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