I just listened to The Neon Handshake again, it's a really good album, but I do feel it's dated a bit, a bit like Hundred Reasons' Ideas Above Our Station. I only have a couple of singles off the second album, Kamichi and One Of Us, is it worth investing in the second album if I can find it cheap?
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Don't bother with their second
but definitely check out their 3rd self titled LP
Transmit Disrupt
and their 3rd (self titled) are both brilliant albums, each one is completely different from the other. It's a shame they never got much attention after the first, because they really deserved it.
yes they deserved attention
but more due to the fact they were a brilliant live band than transmit disrupt (which, yes, they did mostly pull off live)
the 2nd one is fairly poor
much like hundred reasons (who I do tend to link with them) they always seemed to have blown all their load on a rather brilliant first album
Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge
was a pretty crap album, definitely.
SYMPOSIUM!!!!!!!
were better
Transmit Disrupt is quite good actually.
Folded Paper Figures is sooo good. Never got round to listening to the third one.
You should do.
It's great :) Still a lot different from the first two aswell.
The third is fucking excellent.
There, I said it.
maybe not excellent
but good !
"sounds dated"
imo it just sounds dated cus they were such a great live band and its real hard to get their sound onto an album. try downloading some of their live bootlegs! they fucking OWN!
Pretty good album
but I never really liked the second.
Pretty pedestrian band
in all honesty. Transmit/disrupt and HifH were okay. Contemporaries like Million Dead (early years, okay not quite same genre but they would have had a similar fan base) and YCNI:M (as a live band) will stand the test of time much better.
Just not that great tbh. The most excited I ever felt about Million Dead was finding out that one of the girls at work knows Hagop from Symposium, which made me feel vaguely interested (for a few seconds), then totally disinterested (to date).
HIFH
1st album - 9/10
2nd album - 4/10
3rd album - 7/10
yesh.
I was just the right age for these bands
I guess, perhaps that's why I love all of them.
Especially Million Dead.
first album is quality
didn't bother with any of the other stuff. I got warned off it
I suggest strongly you listen to the third album.
Hahaha, oh man.
I remember LOVING the second record through 5th year at high school. Folded Paper Figures was a total tune.
Baggy jeans and skate shoes ftw!
i loved them!
i haven't got the third album, but i might check it out. i didn't like the second album as much as the first, though i'm not sure if that's because my tastes were changing.
i saw them live when i was 15, justin jumped off a balcony during 'sick/ happy', them crowdsurfed back to the stage and they launched into 'boys don't cry'. halcyon days...
Justin was/is one of my favourite frontmen
he jsut always had this possessed look in his eyes and insane amounts of energy. He did noticeably calm down a bit after the brain haemorrhage.
HifH are one of those bands
that I keep forgetting about, but everytime I go back to them I wonder why I don't listen to them more often. Listening to them always makes me feel so energetic. I actually really like Transmit Disrupt. Saying that, I haven't listened to it in a while. You might as well go for it if you can find it cheap. Haven't heard the third album though.