Yeah, I'm gonna dl The Used's new CD when it gets released just to see if they've made any re-progress, but I'm betting not.
Also, I felt like doing Sparta too, for an audio retrospective of the "other" guys from At The Drive In.
Wiretap Scars was an amazing CD. I actually liked it better than Mars Volta's
De-Loused In The Comatorium. Then, Sparta released
Porcelain, which lost a little of the charm of
Wiretap, but was still a very solid album. Then, I don't know what happened. Sparta's guitarist quit to go play for the Mars Volta and the guy from Engine Down joined the band and
Threes, what should have been an incredible collaboration (because Engine Down is dreamy goodness), wound up being a horrible crooning power-chord driven exploration of what it's like to be a terrible CD.
And so, from
Wiretap Scars to
Threes we go: