Take me through your favourite song

[mitchables]

Yeah, what is it about your favourite song that just makes you go "yesssssssssssssssssssssssssss, this is the best song ever"?

For me, my favourite song is War All The Time by Thursday. It is just a beautiful song, and it encompasses everything I love about the genre. There is rock, emotion, passion, anguish, depth, and beauty wrapped up in 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

The song opens with a haunting guitar riff, setting the tone for the song. Then, just before Geoff's quietly beautiful first verse lyrics hit, there is a lovely introduction of harmonics guitar and quiet hits of the hi-hats. The lyrics are possibly the most depressing thing ever here, and it just sucks you in. When he talks about his best friend's older brother dying, the higher descending guitar just adds this surreal element to the song and then almost as soon as that's hit, there is a burst of funkier drums with snare hits. The verse fades to the lullaby of carbon monoxide... and then...

...then... these incredible, epic drums hit. Double kicks mixed with march-beat hits of the crash cymbals interchanged with snare hits. God, I love the chorus drums. I dunno, that is actually probably one of my favourite things about the song. The drums are mixed with the same higher descending guitar from before, which is simply lovely. The lyrics, again, are beautiful here. The song just flows beautifully between instrumentals and voice. The second verse moves in with loose hits of the hi-hat and snare, and Geoff's vocals have picked up in pitch and intensity. There is a beautiful part with some excellent gang vocals ("On and on and on and on...") and then we are hit with quite possibly one of the most anguished screams I have ever had the pleasure of hearing, before those FUCKING BRILLIANT EPIC DRUMS ARE BACK.

Third verse. Once again, the vocals have picked up in pitch and intensity, but the other instruments have remained the same. It is kind of a hesitant pick up. It fades giving you a welcome when you are leaving...

*anxious pause*

HUGE EPIC CHORUS. GOD. The drums are incredibly powerful, even though the drummer has abandoned the double kicks (). Beautiful use of chorus vocals in the background, and Geoff's lyrics round the song out beautifully as the chorus fades to what leaves you thinking must be the end of the song, but that's a lie, because after a slight fading pause to let you readjust your face after it has been rocked off, the chunkiest guitars ever rock in with a lovely riff and lead into the very powerful outro, repeating "war all the time" again and again. Repeat to end. The song is nothing short of an epic journey, it is absolutely flawless. There is not one thing I would change about this song.

And that, ladies and gentleman, is why Thursday's War All The Time is my favourite song.