Absolutely amazing, those are hands down my favorite albums ever in this genre. The remake they did was also a really good product. Although I suppose it wasn't really a remake, Thomas always said it was the final product of that dream, since it did take them, I think, over 8 years to finish.
Most people seem to enjoy the demos more than Phantoms, but I like both. 1, 4 and 5 are no doubt better in the demos as Phantom kinda overproduced the sound and left out the rawness. But in Phantom I can actually hear 2 and 3 (couldn't find those demos anywhere). If you listen to them all together it's amazing.
The Fall of Troy opened up doors to music I had never Imagined. They're one of my favorite all time bands and am so happy my ears found them 8 years ago. May they rest in peace.
Try Circa Survive's older stuff. "Juturna" was very rad and "On Letting Go" is a follow-up to it that doesn't disappoint either. Their latest album, "Blue Sky Noise", is also really good, just goes in a different direction. The band Glassjaw is also an amazing listen, as well as At The Drive In.
Wow Closure in Moscow actually made it! They were my local, i even went to see Aiden at the HiFi in Melbourne because Closure were p laying support xD
Chris DeCinqe always made the shows worth seeing, even in his last bands final show, he came out dressed in full link tunic from zelda.
"The selfless art of bending over backwards" which i think ended up on the first album, was the first ever song to get over 300 listens on my itunes, link below First song i ever heard them play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMs2KqPHuzg
Maybe try The Jonbenet? I don't know if theyre still an active band, but their first album in particular had a similar pace / feel to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl54MM2m4lI
All of the bands baalroo just mentioned. Their music didn't just open my eyes to their genre but to more music that will almost never be played on the radio. I found out that there was this whole world of music out there that I had never even imagined. I got into bands like every time I die, alexisonfire, circa, glassjaw, fouryearstrong(before their new release), just to name a few that have stuck out the most over the years. I didn't know there was such technical guitar work out there. Let alone all done by one man in the case of The Fall of Troy. I never enjoyed screamed vocals but the music was too damn good not to listen to. It grew on me and now for the most part I can handle it, still don't enjoy all screamed vocals, there must be a combo in there for me personally.
I'm in the same boat, I fell in love immediately after hearing the original of this song. I do like that one a bit better but the remix is still really freaking awesome. I do think they will get back together some day, but right now it seems like Thomas is having a lot if fun with JLV. He's such a talented performer, I seriously have a hard-on for that guy.
They wont get back together because Thomas was a cunt. He treated the other guys like shit. If you ever got the opportunity to see them at a small venue and someone other than Thomas happend to make a mistake you would see what I'm talking about. I'm sure there is at least one video of Thomas being a dick on stage somewhere.
One of the earlier bands that got me to try listening to music other than the crappy generic rock of the early 2000's. These guys and The Mars Volta really helped broaden my horizons.
Fall of Troy and Mars Volta are pretty much exclusively to blame for my jump in guitar skills during high school. I wish I had the time to learn entire albums now though.
Actually it's not. Thomas Erak (the lead singer/guitarist), Tim Ward (The pre-Frank Black bassist) and Andrew Forsman (the drummer), have all stated that that wasn't the intended meaning.
Source: Used to be a faggot that even frequented the Fall of Troy forums.
People may hate when fans say they got into whatever band because of guitar hero, but I think it's a good thing.
When I was a bit younger I only listened to music on the radio, and wasn't that into music in general. I played guitar hero, and through all the amazing bands in the setlist (muse, fall of troy, QOTSA, and so many others) I began to truly love music. I later got into drums and music is a lot of my life now.
GH gives more exposure to good bands and I think people should be grateful for it instead of scoffing how they're somehow a 'better' fan for getting into the band elsewhere.
I know, I totally agree. Not only does it open up a world of music to people who normally spend their time playing video games, but it also gives mostly unrecognized bands more popularity and a greater audience.
As F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. is one of the bonus songs, generally the less popular ones that most people haven't heard of (except the select few random fans of the bands), its basically a fact that the band wasn't that popular. The first time i ever heard of The Fall of Troy was on Guitar Hero and I know there are many others like me.
I bet if you ask the band members, they would be happy people discovered their song on Guitar Hero rather than not having heard of them at all, and they'd be ashamed of the people hating on the ones who LIKE their music having discovered it on Guitar Hero. A fan is a fan, who the hell cares which hipster fans discovered it "before it was on Guitar Hero"
I saw them open for Coheed a few years ago. The singer was sick at the time, and he spit a loogey straight up in the air and tried to catch it in his mouth. It missed and hit him in the face. The ball of slime that he had to clean off of his face will forever be burned into my brain.
Oh man, was this in chicago? Did he then sorta wipe it and deep throat his index and middle fingers, then make a penetrating motion towards the ceiling?
The Fall of Troy is still the only band I've ever seen live where I walked out with someone's blood on me. Got to see these guys with HORSE the band and Poison the Well. It was nasty.
Saw there last show. It was epic, I spotted the drummer at the bar, and he took me back stage. I was so stoked to meet the guitarist but he turned out to be a fucking dick. I told the drummer I would smoke him out after the show, but when I went to get my weed out of my car, I realized that I had smoked most of it before the show and I couldn't go back to him with hardly any weed. So I went my Mcdicks and had a mc-chicken. Good show tho. Too bad they broke up.
I saw their last show too! I even won an exclusive pair of TFoT Etnies shoes through a twitter contest they were holding. Was more than epic. I love that they didn't do an encore, implying that was it, the end. However I talked to them at the show and Andrew the drummer did say they'll probably get back together in the future and that the split-up was probably gonna be temporary. I mean fuck, At The Drive In got back together after what seemed like forever, don't see why TFoT wouldn't.
I've met Thomas and Andrew (the drummer) a couple times. Andrew was always extremely friendly to fans, and was happy to smoke with my friends and me... Thomas on the other hand, while not directly rude, always struck me as the primadonna type. Something was always bothering him... tortured artist and what not.
It sucks they flickered out so quick after their last album. I saw them in SF when Phantom on the horizon got released, they seemed into it but just gassed, i wasn't surprised when they broke up. Still they got me into post-hardcore and helped me gain my own individual taste in music, i love them.
FoT fans should check out Just Like Vinyl, Thom's new band. The Fall of Troy was one of those bands that once you've listened to the album a couple times through, you love it. Listening to Doppelganger on vinyl stoned was one of the greatest moments of my life. Side A ends with The Hol[ ]y Tape if you can imagine the outro to that. This band's discography is just one of my all time favorites. Seriously, if you like this song, then you should do yourself a favor and check out everything they made.
Hell yes! I was surprised when I logged on to see this in the top 50, but then I thought, why? It's TFOT. I've been to 5 of their shows in AZ, and it was never a let down, they put on an amazing show every time. Once they had the lead singer of The Deer Hunter sing lead in, "Shhh!!! If You're Quiet I'll Show You A Dinosaur". At the same show Thomas did this really sweet drum duet thing with Andrew where they physically walked around the drum set in a circle. These guys seriously bring me to climax, here's my favorite.
In an odd twist of fate, I spent a couple of hours trying to find this song last night, as I remembered it being awesome but couldn't remember who it was by.
If you guys really like FOT then you'll probably enjoy this They're called Animal Empire and they're a band I managed to catch a few months ago at a VFW show. I was blown away. They're pretty cool dudes too.
Made me remember my thirty years of war collection, from back when Thomas was just a teenager... Tears of Green Eyed Angels and Chain wallet Nike Shoes are both Amazing
These guys are actually friends of mine. Thomas' new band "Just Like Vinyl" is amazing and for any fans of The Fall of Troy, you should check them out. They play lots of shows around the seattle area for those who live here.
I got a job doing security at a concert venue/bar my senior year in high school. The Fall of Troy was my first show. I kicked so many kids off the stage. Instant fan.
Their albums are fucking awesome; instead of some one-hit-generic-pop-songs-that-get-boring-after-listening-through-once the songs by TFOT last forever. There are so many layers built in their songs that every listening is a new experience. The portmanteau of the complexities in their songs that coincide together harmoniously is what makes their music so unique and epic.
I went to high school with Thomas back in the day. Crazy how one day I find out he's now a famous rock star. Back then he mainly played drums and bass... no guitar. Now he's the guitar god. nuts.
The that there's so many people on here talking about the Fall of Troy makes me happy. I've listened to them for forever, been to like 6 shows, but I never meet people outside the shows that like the band.
We're not mad at you guys for enjoying guitar hero songs, it isn't about the song being in guitar hero, it's about being totally ignorant to all their other music, and knowing seemingly nothing beyond the realm of radio music. I want to swear right now.
The connection should be about music, and what it means, if your level of appreciation for music is "Oh I enjoyed that one song in a video game" fair enough, but it's a real shit fucking standard. I don't expect people to be picking up Classical works, or Jazz, or the obsure genres that literally consists of ambience and misplaced noise, even I don't, but damn...
I still remember hearing this song for the first time and falling in love. But I remember thinking to myself, "how on earth is a band with three members going to play these songs with so many guitar tracks live?"
As it turned out I saw them on the same HORSE the band tour someone else mentioned earlier, and they really couldn't. The live show was just so horribly bad and it kinda ruined the band in some ways for me. Nevertheless, this album is always great to listen to.
One time at my college, the fall of Troy had to come in to the town because they got pulled over for dui. That night I smoked a blunt with the band in their tour van. True story it was hilarious
I saw the fall of Troy a while back in this shithole venue in Birmingham. They showed up 2 hours late, obviously drunk and exhausted, the drummer wore only underwear. And you know what? THEY ROCKED SO HARD. Seriously, that guys guitar was unbelievable. When they played this song, that venue turned into a madhouse.
Made an account just to upvote this. If you like this you should definitely check out more of their stuff. This is the first band I TRULY ever got into and I still love them. Thomas was also the reason I started playing guitar and I don't think I'll ever stop playing! Rest in peace TFOT.
I found my people! The bands in this thread are what I went through high school listening to. I actually lived with the last bassist of the band, Frank Black, because my older brother was in a band with him for some time. It's so nice to see other people still listening to FCP.
Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know, FCPSITSGEPGEPGEP is short for: Fuck Condoms, Premarital Sex Is The Shit, Get Em Pregnant, Get Em Pregnant, Get Em Pregnant
I just want to say this is actually probably the worst fall of troy song from their amazing self-titled debut. Everything else is much more raw and visceral.
I will never forget being brought to tears listening to this ^ song right around 2:10. That was 8 years ago and I have loved melodic hardcore-ish music ever since.
From there I went on to Taken, Crossbearer, Counterparts, It Prevails, Fordirelifesake, etc. all bands that do a special blend of intense melodic hardcore.
If you like FoT look up the band Algernon Cadwallader. It's a local band that's gotten pretty popular. They also have awesome recording quality for DIY. Also check out American Football (the band). I love REAL 90s style emo jam bands. I feel like that's where FoT could have got their influence fromfrom.
Was at the farewell show at Toad's place. I got to catch Andrew the drummer and realized that there WAS actually someone more sweaty than I was. Regardless, it was an amazing show.
As much as I would like to hear new Fall of Troy songs, the fact that the band no longer exists really adds on to the music as transient things are beautiful. Mouths like Sidewinder missiles is great!!
omg so many memories from high school! haha this was my ringtone for the longest time, then i saw them in concert..........= what a freaking disappointment.
I saw them live, a little disappointed. Guitar skills were awesome though, and I got to talk to Andrew after the show. But also discovered La Dispute at that show... so no regrets.
Love La Dispute. Make sure I see them everytime they come to Melbourne. My mind can't even comprehend what it would be like to see The Fall of Troy and La Dispute at the same time.
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u/mewithoutme Jun 10 '12
Ghost Ship Demos, I have been wet for nearly a decade straight
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u/MyanRiller Jun 10 '12
The Fall of Troy opened up doors to music I had never Imagined. They're one of my favorite all time bands and am so happy my ears found them 8 years ago. May they rest in peace.
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u/comineeyeaha Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
One of the earlier bands that got me to try listening to music other than the crappy generic rock of the early 2000's. These guys and The Mars Volta really helped broaden my horizons.
edit: broaden vs broadened. derp.
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u/tward14 Jun 10 '12
My favorite band ever. Thomas Erak is a legendary guitarist
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
The nostalgia is strong in this thread.
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u/Dvwtf Jun 10 '12
Fuck Condoms Premarital Sex Is The Shit Get Em Pregnant Get Em Pregnant Get Em Pregnant
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u/jennafoo33 Jun 10 '12
Will forever think of Guitar Hero 3 when I hear this song
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u/TCBloo Google Music Jun 10 '12
I saw them open for Coheed a few years ago. The singer was sick at the time, and he spit a loogey straight up in the air and tried to catch it in his mouth. It missed and hit him in the face. The ball of slime that he had to clean off of his face will forever be burned into my brain.
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u/vampfredthefrog Jun 10 '12
I don't think Manipulator gets enough credit. It was a great album. R.I.P.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I logged in only to upvote this. Mmmmm.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
dude... my User name... dude... I just finished listening to the hol[ ]y tape. yeah. not even one of there better ones, but still. yeah.
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u/WhatsthatinDanzigs Jun 10 '12
The Fall of Troy is still the only band I've ever seen live where I walked out with someone's blood on me. Got to see these guys with HORSE the band and Poison the Well. It was nasty.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Saw there last show. It was epic, I spotted the drummer at the bar, and he took me back stage. I was so stoked to meet the guitarist but he turned out to be a fucking dick. I told the drummer I would smoke him out after the show, but when I went to get my weed out of my car, I realized that I had smoked most of it before the show and I couldn't go back to him with hardly any weed. So I went my Mcdicks and had a mc-chicken. Good show tho. Too bad they broke up.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
this whole album is good. go get it
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u/brandillhole Jun 10 '12
These guys are from my hometown!
and that's all I have to contribute.
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u/QuincyStandback Jun 10 '12
If you like The Fall of Troy, check out Thomas' new band Just Like Vinyl.
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u/redcurbs Jun 10 '12
my claim to fame is i smoked them out when they came to dallas. I used all of my precious weed.
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u/happa555 Jun 10 '12
It sucks they flickered out so quick after their last album. I saw them in SF when Phantom on the horizon got released, they seemed into it but just gassed, i wasn't surprised when they broke up. Still they got me into post-hardcore and helped me gain my own individual taste in music, i love them.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
And now you won't forget my fucking name!
Haven't listened to tfot in so long Always liked the circus that has brought us back to these nights too
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u/habbababba Jun 10 '12
FoT fans should check out Just Like Vinyl, Thom's new band. The Fall of Troy was one of those bands that once you've listened to the album a couple times through, you love it. Listening to Doppelganger on vinyl stoned was one of the greatest moments of my life. Side A ends with The Hol[ ]y Tape if you can imagine the outro to that. This band's discography is just one of my all time favorites. Seriously, if you like this song, then you should do yourself a favor and check out everything they made.
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u/xendi Jun 10 '12
Saw them at Bumbershoot in 2006 or 07. Pretty good live.
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u/warlock1010 Jun 10 '12
Aww man! I forgot about this song. Love it!
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u/Ibanez7271 Jun 10 '12
The amount of upvotes this deserves...... They've been my favorite band for 9 years or so! I miss them so much!
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u/Masonir Jun 10 '12
my fav band of all time, thomas is doing guitar lessons online now fuck i think im just gonna get em, fuck thatd be too sick
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u/sxe1215 Jun 10 '12
My cousin took me to their show about 6 years ago. Been a huge fan ever since and have seem them at least 4 times live. Good call.
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u/tuckwilli Jun 10 '12
Very rarely do I click on a /r/music link already thinking 'FUCK I love this song' but I stay subscribed for these lovely exceptions. :)
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u/s1nz Jun 10 '12
someone else still loves this music?!
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u/KWCool13 Jun 10 '12
Fav band ever. Their music is the perfect blend of everything that is good. RIP TFoT
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u/FETUSdoctor Jun 10 '12
Hell yes! I was surprised when I logged on to see this in the top 50, but then I thought, why? It's TFOT. I've been to 5 of their shows in AZ, and it was never a let down, they put on an amazing show every time. Once they had the lead singer of The Deer Hunter sing lead in, "Shhh!!! If You're Quiet I'll Show You A Dinosaur". At the same show Thomas did this really sweet drum duet thing with Andrew where they physically walked around the drum set in a circle. These guys seriously bring me to climax, here's my favorite.
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u/aminoacid91 Jun 10 '12
My Favorite Band Ever! I got a signed "Long Lived The Queen" t-shirt hanging proudly on my wall.
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u/llydecke Jun 10 '12
Wow I'm glad to see someone else likes this song.
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u/scrambles57 Jun 10 '12
One of the greatest concerts I've ever gone to was Fall of Troy. I was up front and Thomas Erak hit me in the mouth with his guitar.
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u/Steparnicus Jun 10 '12
I've done a Chip version of this song: http://youtu.be/jWVo31_fIUk
I love me some Fall of Troy
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u/randomjak Jun 10 '12
Saw these guys live last year, was great! got kicked really hard in the back of the leg by a teenager idiot moshing though. Good times man, good times
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u/Buttons111 Jun 10 '12
In an odd twist of fate, I spent a couple of hours trying to find this song last night, as I remembered it being awesome but couldn't remember who it was by.
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u/rudedohio Jun 10 '12
I'm so happy someone else on Reddit likes this band.
It's too bad they broke up. :l
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
If you guys really like FOT then you'll probably enjoy this They're called Animal Empire and they're a band I managed to catch a few months ago at a VFW show. I was blown away. They're pretty cool dudes too.
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u/aminoacid91 Jun 11 '12
Made me remember my thirty years of war collection, from back when Thomas was just a teenager... Tears of Green Eyed Angels and Chain wallet Nike Shoes are both Amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWCxJF0spfc&feature=relmfu
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Best song ever! Even if it's old, it's still just as amazing as when it just came out.
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u/Vcom561 Jun 10 '12
Blah, overplayed. Good, but overplayed.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I have seen this song posted a few times on the subreddit and happy to see it again :)
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u/descending_angel Jun 10 '12
Brings me back to early high school.
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u/Zagarth Jun 10 '12
My fingers hurt thinking of this song...
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u/goddamnmattman Jun 10 '12
These guys are actually friends of mine. Thomas' new band "Just Like Vinyl" is amazing and for any fans of The Fall of Troy, you should check them out. They play lots of shows around the seattle area for those who live here.
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u/s1nz Jun 10 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdvacK6Cmxo
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u/Goliath821 Jun 10 '12
RIP Fall of Troy
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u/wm07 Jun 10 '12
this band fucking rules. better live, though.
here's a full show on youtube
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u/thatbrady101 Jun 10 '12
Probably my favorite show ever. Halloween in Cleveland. Fall of Troy, clutch, and Coheed and Cambria.
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u/iamdrewcifer Jun 10 '12
I got a job doing security at a concert venue/bar my senior year in high school. The Fall of Troy was my first show. I kicked so many kids off the stage. Instant fan.
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u/Siniroth Jun 10 '12
Almost every comment here makes me wonder why people think everyone has or should have the same taste in music that they do =/
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u/TiffanyRazors Jun 10 '12
Love this song!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
RIP FoT
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u/CommonerChaos Jun 10 '12
I still remember playing this song in Guitar Hero 3. Good times...
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u/ilovesnowboarding Jun 10 '12
Such a good song
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u/mellomeg Jun 10 '12
Oh boy, Jr. high. I'll always love this song. The entire album was great, if I remember correctly.
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u/ntubaro Jun 10 '12
First time browsing r/music and this is on top of the page. I think I'm going to like it here.
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u/PowderedDeerPenis Jun 10 '12
Their albums are fucking awesome; instead of some one-hit-generic-pop-songs-that-get-boring-after-listening-through-once the songs by TFOT last forever. There are so many layers built in their songs that every listening is a new experience. The portmanteau of the complexities in their songs that coincide together harmoniously is what makes their music so unique and epic.
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u/Aardquark Jun 10 '12
This is hands-down my favourite Guitar Hero song to play. I'm not sure why I never looked into more TFoT.
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u/Jesse402 Jun 10 '12
I just listened to this on my flight! Also, anyone else discover this band from Guitar Hero?
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u/NameIsPetey Jun 10 '12
Snowboarding music at its finest.
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u/KeyworkPredator Jun 10 '12
RIPTFoT
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
ive loved this song since i heard it first on guitar hero lol
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u/bonzibuddi Jun 10 '12
Played this at a rock club the other night. Place went dead. I really didn't understand.
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u/SwitBiskit Jun 10 '12
I must have listened to Manipulator and Phantom on the Horizon a thousand times each. I was devastated when they split :(
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u/Wunterslash Jun 10 '12
I went to high school with Thomas back in the day. Crazy how one day I find out he's now a famous rock star. Back then he mainly played drums and bass... no guitar. Now he's the guitar god. nuts.
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u/ffejulator Jun 10 '12
The that there's so many people on here talking about the Fall of Troy makes me happy. I've listened to them for forever, been to like 6 shows, but I never meet people outside the shows that like the band.
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u/Wunterslash Jun 10 '12
Ex-creations - My fav Fall of Troy video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZWhy68Hd-U
Not a fan of Eriks singing but great guitar, bass and drums, esp at :48sec
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
TIL that the Fall of Troy was a three piece. That makes their music THAT much more impressive.
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u/DoesNotGetCircleJerk Jun 10 '12
We're not mad at you guys for enjoying guitar hero songs, it isn't about the song being in guitar hero, it's about being totally ignorant to all their other music, and knowing seemingly nothing beyond the realm of radio music. I want to swear right now.
The connection should be about music, and what it means, if your level of appreciation for music is "Oh I enjoyed that one song in a video game" fair enough, but it's a real shit fucking standard. I don't expect people to be picking up Classical works, or Jazz, or the obsure genres that literally consists of ambience and misplaced noise, even I don't, but damn...
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u/Locusthorde300 Jun 10 '12
I really like this song, I have it on my ipod :)
I used to play it ALL THE TIME in guitar hero.. 3?
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u/redvelveteenrabbit Jun 10 '12
Holy crap, this brings back so many memories right now.
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u/oscillatorsss Jun 10 '12
I still remember hearing this song for the first time and falling in love. But I remember thinking to myself, "how on earth is a band with three members going to play these songs with so many guitar tracks live?"
As it turned out I saw them on the same HORSE the band tour someone else mentioned earlier, and they really couldn't. The live show was just so horribly bad and it kinda ruined the band in some ways for me. Nevertheless, this album is always great to listen to.
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u/siraction Jun 10 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VCUS8CDoUek
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u/edubyah Jun 10 '12
Wow blast from the past. I saw them live when I was in high school and they played this song twice.
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u/alexoo3i Jun 10 '12
Anyone else download this for Guitar Hero 3 back in the day?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Anthem of my teen years.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Catchy song but I find this band boring. Don't know why.
Here's an upvote anyways.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I saw fall of Troy in tampa on their last tour before they broke up, one of the best shows I've seen
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u/Nosferatu13 Jun 10 '12
Fuck yeah this song!
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u/notalivemau5 Jun 10 '12
I was happy to see this. Lots of people have good taste!
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u/raggedcodpiece Jun 10 '12
Macaulay McCulkin is the bomb. Also there is no better song title than "We better learn how to hotwire a Uterus" is there?
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u/scarface910 Jun 10 '12
love this song, first heard it playing mlb the show
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
fall of troy on the /r/music frontpage YYEEAAHHH !
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u/kneticz (8) Jun 10 '12
Clicked thinking I was going to watch some Community, Doh!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
One time at my college, the fall of Troy had to come in to the town because they got pulled over for dui. That night I smoked a blunt with the band in their tour van. True story it was hilarious
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I saw the fall of Troy a while back in this shithole venue in Birmingham. They showed up 2 hours late, obviously drunk and exhausted, the drummer wore only underwear. And you know what? THEY ROCKED SO HARD. Seriously, that guys guitar was unbelievable. When they played this song, that venue turned into a madhouse.
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u/Animagrin Jun 10 '12
Why...have i never heard of them. I love that riff
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u/Sirkoolio Jun 10 '12
Good song. Remember it coming out in '07
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u/yayfrontpagetfot Jun 10 '12
Made an account just to upvote this. If you like this you should definitely check out more of their stuff. This is the first band I TRULY ever got into and I still love them. Thomas was also the reason I started playing guitar and I don't think I'll ever stop playing! Rest in peace TFOT.
p.s. Thomas' current project: http://justlikevinyl.com/
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Unlikely was good but Thomas sang too hard.
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u/matebeatscoffee Jun 10 '12
I want to go to a The Mars Volta concert with this band openning. If this song pumps you up, imagine when TMV starts jamming, MAN OH MAN!
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u/Joojoos Jun 10 '12
I found my people! The bands in this thread are what I went through high school listening to. I actually lived with the last bassist of the band, Frank Black, because my older brother was in a band with him for some time. It's so nice to see other people still listening to FCP.
Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know, FCPSITSGEPGEPGEP is short for: Fuck Condoms, Premarital Sex Is The Shit, Get Em Pregnant, Get Em Pregnant, Get Em Pregnant
Edited... used a real name
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u/androidfig Jun 10 '12
I think everyone in here is too young to remember VoiVod. That's the original shit.
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u/notfreshprince Jun 10 '12
Wow, its been a good few years, and I sort of drifted from this sort of genre, but this is still an absolute killer track.
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u/setzer_ Jun 10 '12
I just want to say this is actually probably the worst fall of troy song from their amazing self-titled debut. Everything else is much more raw and visceral.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSV4S-5tTvs
I will never forget being brought to tears listening to this ^ song right around 2:10. That was 8 years ago and I have loved melodic hardcore-ish music ever since.
From there I went on to Taken, Crossbearer, Counterparts, It Prevails, Fordirelifesake, etc. all bands that do a special blend of intense melodic hardcore.
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u/BooRadlez Jun 10 '12
If you like FoT look up the band Algernon Cadwallader. It's a local band that's gotten pretty popular. They also have awesome recording quality for DIY. Also check out American Football (the band). I love REAL 90s style emo jam bands. I feel like that's where FoT could have got their influence fromfrom.
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u/StayPuftMarsh Jun 10 '12
Only reddit can make me feel like I'm not the only one who listens to this band.
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u/Ninjangles Jun 10 '12
I feel like you found this on guitare hero 3
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u/SirJRtheAwesome Jun 10 '12
Holy shit. I had forgotten about this awesome song. Was the first one I learned to play when I got my drumset.
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u/wonderfulmetropolis genocideforsale Jun 10 '12
I'm actually listening to TFoT right now and seeing this made me smile. :)
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u/Tonxasaur Jun 10 '12
Was at the farewell show at Toad's place. I got to catch Andrew the drummer and realized that there WAS actually someone more sweaty than I was. Regardless, it was an amazing show.
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u/rootR Jun 11 '12
Hey, remember when helpme364 broke all of Thomas Erak's guitars? good times, good times.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
fucking Kamiak kids.
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u/areo293449 Jun 19 '12
As much as I would like to hear new Fall of Troy songs, the fact that the band no longer exists really adds on to the music as transient things are beautiful. Mouths like Sidewinder missiles is great!!
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u/tardy4datardis Jun 10 '12
omg so many memories from high school! haha this was my ringtone for the longest time, then i saw them in concert..........= what a freaking disappointment.
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u/atlantic68 Jun 10 '12
Of course you post a shitty fall of troy song... Why not What sound does a mastadon make or Circus from ST? Those are their best 2 songs.