Words In The Water by Thrice
Later tonight I’ll be seeing this band on what may be their last tour. I’ve spent my life falling in love with hundreds of bands and albums and songs - but Thrice is different than any of them in the sense that no band has ever made me feel through music the way Thrice can.
Thrice isn’t my all time favorite band. They didn’t make my favorite record of all time. They have songs I don’t love. Whenever they release an album, I adore it - but somehow it always falls to that “2nd or 3rd place” status when I make my year end lists (except for last year’s Major/Minor, which was the last and best album they would make)
But what Thrice is to me is a band I grew with. As their sound evolved, my music taste always happened to be evolving alongside what they were doing. Current bands don’t matter to me - the only currently active bands I truly hold dear are ones that have existed since before the 2000s, or have reunited in recent years. Thrice was different. They created this sound that I’ve never found anywhere else. Something that truly sparks emotion in me more than any other band. I can’t figure out what it is, but they’ve brought me to tears with certain songs - and they’ve remained consistent. While the few other newer bands I got into over the years went downhill, they’ve become the one band I can always count on to never let me down, and now they’re bowing out leaving behind a catalog of brilliant, inspiring music.
I hope years from now people look back on Thrice as a definitive band of this decade that never really got their due. I hope I hear their influence in younger bands down the line, and that they truly get some sort of place in history. Hell, I hope someday I just overhear some teenager talk about how Vheissu or Major/Minor changed their life when they were a kid because their older brother had it or something. Maybe it’s already happening. I sure hope so.
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