Propagandhi recording in October

Contributed by kencollapse. Posted by adam on Friday, July 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

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Jihadah (July 11, 2008)

anything interesting going on in Philadelphia tonight?

Windfall (July 11, 2008)

Hot Water Music tonight!

Who else is going?

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Im not because i live in CO. But you should try to get a review up on the .Org. It would be much appreciated.

Windfall (July 11, 2008)

I'll give it a show. I'll wear a Larry Arms shirt is I look .Org official.

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Ha ha very nice.

LookBackAndLaugh (July 11, 2008)

Tour Thefts.

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

This is one of those bands where I like maybe two, three songs off of all of their albums. Back to the Motor League is like one of my favorite songs though.

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Yeah dude im with you. I love Back To The Motor League and Ska Sucks and a few others. But i can never enjoy an entire CD of theirs. im not sure why

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

It's like they choose a couple songs on each album to have awesome riffing and great aggressive hooks, then have ten or eleven songs that fall flat.

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Yeah its really odd. Because alot of their bad songs are really bad. It must be because they are Canadian....

iconoclast (July 12, 2008)

your all fucking crazy. they are one of the few bands on earth that have not even come close to writing a bad song.

Tudor (July 11, 2008)

I dunno, maybe because your favorite bands are Nofx, Authority Zero and the Offspring? I mean, these are bands that Propagandhi typically bags on.

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Haha that is a good point.

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

No, really that wouldn't bother me very much. I listen to a lot of My Chemical Romance, too, so who my bands like and don't like really doesn't have much effect on whether I listen to them or not.

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Alright you seem like a cool guy. So please tell me you were joking with that MCR comment.

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

No, I wasn't. MCR is fucking sweet, and I'll say it as many times as you need me to.

If their live show was better they'd probably be one of my favorite bands.

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Well ok... Yeah i have heard that they just dont bring it live. But i think its prolly pretty hard to perfect their sound into arena quality.

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

They bring it with a lot of energy, it's just Gerard tends to run out of breath because of the dramatic oversinging that he does. It sounds amazing in the studio, but it's really only okay live. The Black Parade is Dead! was fairly painful to listen to. :P

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Oh that makes sense. Have you seen them yourself? Or just the DVD?

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

I've actually seen them three times, twice before The Black Parade came out, though one of them was on Warped. The Warped set was fucking quality, there was a relatively large mosh pit for what kind of band they are and crazy amounts of crowd surfers... Yeah.

The other one was a show where Reggie and the Full Effect and Alk3 opened for them, that was also before The Black Parade, and was also a pretty good show.

The latest one I went to was after The Black Parade, and I tell you what, I kinda hope their next album sucks and they lose all the screaming fangirls because it's much easier to enjoy their show without them.

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Yeah man i cant even imagine. I was mad when i saw Against Me! and their were like 15 teenage girls at the 500 capacity club. I cant even begin to think how many their were at a MCR show after The Black Parade.

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

It was at the Congress Theater in Columbus... Not sure what the capacity of the ballroom is there but it was pretty gross. There was this one rather obese one that was getting crushed and was dehydrated and needed out of the pit... Oh my god, it took five of us (including the huge fucking bouncer) to lift her out. Now imagine a few hundred of those.

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Oh man thats bad. Yeah man i saw Thursday once because they were co-headlining with Rise Against and all the emo chicks were fat and disgustiing. It was pretty awful but they all dissapeared when rise against started. I cant imagine what you had to go through.

iandisurvive (July 11, 2008)

Ha ha this is the same fucking moron who was dissing TV on the Radio for being pretentious. Ok buddy.

JustLikeDelilah (July 11, 2008)

"What are those?"

"These are my punk rock buttons"

"Hurley, Atticus...."

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

Er, actually, wait, weren't Propagandhi on Fat for a while? And also, I had no idea Authority Zero were popular enough to bag on.

iandisurvive (July 11, 2008)

Hey, you like the Lawrence Arms? Rockin'!

Tudor (July 11, 2008)

Well my comment sure spawned a intresting set of dialogue.

kencollapse (July 11, 2008)

Disagree. I find Today's Empires to be a masterpiece and solid front-to-back (if you skip over track 5. Natural Disasters).

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Hmm alright. Maybe i will have to purchase it.

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

That's definitely their best album in my opinion, but I still wouldn't consider it solid from front to back.

LORDSHREDDER (July 11, 2008)

WHy don't you like Natural disasters? I think its a great song musically and lyrically. But that whole album is a pinnacle in my music collcetion.

kencollapse (July 11, 2008)

Really eh? Nah, kinda brings me down. After the first four tracks I'm peaking and then it drops off for me. Every time I'd rather skip over the goofy sounding "One side dink, the other side Jesus!" - straight on to the kick ass "The purpose of this new counterintelligence endeavour..."

LORDSHREDDER (July 11, 2008)

This is one of the bands I like pretty much every song through and through. Today's Empires is my favorite of their albums. I was stoked when Todd joined the band, cause I really loved I-Spy.

fallingupwards84 (July 11, 2008)

agreed 100%... there's only 3 songs i even like off Potemkin City Limits, and its the first 3 songs. the rest of the album is very bland.

Todays Empires is a little better, but once again, only a few really good songs, and the rest mediocre

MattRamone (July 11, 2008)

Preparing for epic thread.

Mammoth (July 11, 2008)

This is better than 56% news on here. I am stoked.

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

If I had a news site, I'd never post 56% news. I'd bring it with 100% news, all day everyday.

Mammoth (July 11, 2008)

lol. Thanks for clarifying my error.

Tudor (July 11, 2008)

Awsome...I love this band.

BMXpunk (July 11, 2008)

so much you didn't know they were on Fat a couple of posts up.

Mammoth (July 11, 2008)

If this is true then it's too funny!

Tudor (July 11, 2008)

Ah what the hell are you talking about? I knew they were on Fat.

They still bag on NOFX and Offspring all the time. I guess you obviously never listened to them.

InternetTroll (July 11, 2008)

all the fists in the world can't save you now

scientistrock (July 11, 2008)

Haven't they talked about this plan before...like a lot?

Jesus_H_Christ (July 11, 2008)

This band takes so long to make records.

Mammoth (July 11, 2008)

These guys are like the Tool of punk.

kencollapse (July 11, 2008)

No. you are.

kencollapse (July 11, 2008)

sorry. I take that back. I'm drunk and I'm prone to just reacting without thinking at the site of 'Tool.' That was a fair comment.

droopypunk (July 14, 2008)

actually i found it funny

kencollapse (July 11, 2008)

sorry. I take that back. I'm drunk and I'm prone to just reacting without thinking at the site of 'Tool.' That was a fair comment.

iconoclast (July 12, 2008)

at least its always well worth the wait.

the_other_scott (July 11, 2008)

how do they get from country to country? bicycles and home-made rafts?

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Actually they just get on top of really big birds and fly around the world.

LookBackAndLaugh (July 11, 2008)

Perhaps they harness a flock of geese a la "Le Petit Prince"?

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

Train. Jesus, do you even read the fucking articles?

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Ha ha oh i just got it. I had to read the quote again but that was funny.

HOISTDATRAG (July 11, 2008)

They hitch rides on the whales they save

bwisott (July 11, 2008)

Well they only get on the whales halfway. The whales and the big birds have an alliance so they split the duty carrying Propagandhi everywhere. Its only fair...

HOISTDATRAG (July 11, 2008)

Last tour they used the big flying beast from the Neverending Story as transportation.. I think that was during the North Atlantic big bird strike

jeffernator (July 11, 2008)

These comments are so full of win. Thumbs up.

AnarchyPants (July 11, 2008)

I thought they rode your mom from country to country.

Dante3000 (rich) (July 11, 2008)

Eh...I'm kind of excited for this but 5 years between albums is really kind of too long.
-Dante

dev (July 11, 2008)

As long as it doesn't take exactly one year between recording and releasing this album, it won't be five years between albums. Ahem, only four ;)

T-Rock (July 11, 2008)

I feel a collective .Org-gasm coming on. Not really into this band, though.

KidNickelDynamiteBack (July 11, 2008)

Slightly more motivated that D4.

KidNickelDynamiteBack (July 11, 2008)

than*

Splendidtune (July 11, 2008)

Awesome, too bad once it's out we have to wait another 5 years, maybe that album will come out in 2015?

android (July 11, 2008)

we are opening up for them in karlsruhe!yayyy!

lintsay (July 11, 2008)

Fucking finally.

thatsyouth (July 11, 2008)

i've heard most of their stuff and liked it. never went crazy for it except todays empire tomorrows ashes. but im pretty stoked cause i feel like this is huge. kinda like lagwagons EP in august. pressure.

android (July 11, 2008)

I kinda lost interest in them when todays empires came out...

LORDSHREDDER (July 11, 2008)

Yes! New album! I am stoked for that!

fallingupwards84 (July 11, 2008)

hope its more along the lines of Todays Empires, and less like Potemkin

sorry but the last album was pretty disappointing

riversmonkey (July 11, 2008)

I've waited a while to comment on this

David_Arquette (July 11, 2008)

I felt like Potemkin was a more refined Today's Empires, personally.

I love both albums equally, and for very different reasons.

fallingupwards84 (July 11, 2008)

notwithstanding my previous comment, A Speculative Fiction is my favorite Propagandhi song

kencollapse (July 11, 2008)

That's part of the problem, though. Potemkin doesn't charge out the gate like TETA. Potemkin has some of their best songs, but also has too many duds on it.
Potemkin is like Bad Religion's New Maps of Hell - a smarty-pants soapbox with more sophisticated recording, when they used to have teeth.

Propagandhi's my favourite band. Just sayin.

weffjebster (July 11, 2008)

More sophisticated recording? The production on New Maps of Hell was kind of sloppy compared to their previous 2.

David_Arquette (July 11, 2008)

I agree - the "teeth" thing is what I love so much about TETA. That record kicks some serious ass from start to finish.

LORDSHREDDER (July 11, 2008)

Potemkin took a while to grow on me. I do like it a lot, but its my least favorite of their albums (following up to my favorite of theirs). I would hope they wouldn't continue in that direction though. No 2 albums of theirs sound totally alike anyway, so I am interested for some new music.

branden (July 11, 2008)

potemkin is their best by far.

HOISTDATRAG (July 11, 2008)

Todays Empires... has better individual songs, but Potemkin... was more cohesive.. like Cocktails & Dreams as compared to Greatest Story Ever Told.

the_problem_with_fire (July 11, 2008)

i wouldn't go as far to say that it was disappointing (though it would be a lot stronger without todd's songs) the entire album is still awesome lyrically and musically--but you're right that it doesn't kick ass as much right out of the gate like TETA which is my favorite album of theirs..

Tudor (July 11, 2008)

I find that people who thought Potemkin was a disappointment didn't really get propagandhi to begin with. They always state that either More Talk Less Rock was their favorite or Todays empires, because those albums they don't really have to think about it; the politics and themes are spelled out for them and they can just rock out with their wannabe sloganeering anarchist friends to it.

Just my observation.

fallingupwards84 (July 11, 2008)

its not the lyrics, its the music

lyrically, Potemkin is undeniably stronger (Speculative Fiction or Fixed Frequencies versus something simple like Fuck The Border). musically the album is just bland though

iconoclast (July 12, 2008)

bland? i think its their most accomplished release yet. they really came even more into their own on it.

Tudor (July 12, 2008)

He doesn't get it, which is fine. There's tons of bands on this site I don't get *coughgaslightanthemcough*

the_problem_with_fire (July 12, 2008)

where is the sloganeering on empires? i could see that more in less talk (love that album) but empires? no. empires is a lot closer lyrically to potemkin.

Tudor (July 12, 2008)

yeaaah, I don't know what I really meant by that, ADD and all.

David_Arquette (July 11, 2008)

Propagandhi, Lagwagon, and D4 within the next six months. These are three of the five or six Fat Wreck bands I give a shit about anymore, so I couldn't be more stoked.

DrAnonymous (July 11, 2008)

I don't think they're on Fat anymore. Propagandhi, that is.

SloaneDaley (July 11, 2008)

who are the others Dan?

David_Arquette (July 11, 2008)

Maybe I'm forgetting some, but The Lawrence Arms and NMB. Maybe The Sainte Catherines too.

And this isn't counting bands that are inactive, broken up, or have moved on.

VictorIkpeba24 (July 12, 2008)

I've been to a Lgwagon show 2 days ago and they played a song from the new EP, I think "Fallen", and it was awesome, very fast and a bit metallish à la AWS.

SloaneDaley (July 11, 2008)

it'd be weird to have Brutal knights and Hostage Life on the same bill because they are both from the completely different Toronto hardcore and pop punk scenes.

14theroad (July 11, 2008)

I love this bands views. There music I can't so much get into, and it's a shame.
Maybe someone could give me recommendations?

the_problem_with_fire (July 12, 2008)

just buy Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes and if you're not convinced that it's an intelligent political punk rock thrash masterpiece, kill yourself.

MrStylson (July 11, 2008)

Are they even on Fat anymore?

the_problem_with_fire (July 11, 2008)

oh jesus i am excited by this news.

kencollapse (July 11, 2008)

And didn't they shut down G7 Welcoming Committee?

beau_rossin (July 11, 2008)

Thats what I thought

jacknife737 (July 11, 2008)

I've never understood the appeal of this band.

the_problem_with_fire (July 11, 2008)

maybe it's the fact that they do the whole politcial punk rock thing better than most other bands?