nearly 8 years after its release...
i know that this record hes been thought to be subpar... but it is in fact outstanding.
if you havent listened to it in a while.. i suggest you put it on... have a few beers and read along.
what a record.. the writing the arrangments the heaviness of it.. when i 1st picked this record the 1st thing i noticed was Ed's drumming.. it was
different from Erik. to me it lacked the cleanliness. Erik drumming is on point.. whereas Eds is punishing. you may not think the same on some songs but you
just need to see the man play live.
the lyics of this album are great. i could see them play this record live with nothing else and be happy.
i love how this albums flows..
go listen to it.. then post your thoughts.
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Posts: 339 (03/29/08 07:04:05) |
love that record, one avail song I really would love to hear live is n30, I would kill people
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Posts: 343 (03/29/08 08:58:31) |
oh man, one wrench is definitely one of my favorites. my all time favorite avail song is on one wrench, New Song.
this was also the first avail album i ever bought. i had listened to the others through my ex-boyfriend, but when i went to the store to buy one, the only one they had was one wrench because it was the newest one, it's hard to believe that was 8 years ago.
"Still I reach up, all though my hands hurt, and aim high, in a world so confined, i'd rather die, with my face all torn up, wrists in handcuffs, with pride...than believe lies"
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Posts: 109 (03/30/08 07:48:35) |
one wrench will always hold a special place in my heart. it came out when i was going through a horrible, dramatic breakup and living in a town where i didnt
have that many friends. the lyrics are so depressed and angry at the same time. the music is much rawer than the previous effort, over the james. n3o, an
ode to us working schmucks, awesome! and all the apolitical, relationship songs made complete sense to me at the time. also, on the tour to support one
wrench, i saw the fellas in charlotte with the explosion and it one of the best memories i've ever had at an avail show. yep
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Posts: 138 (03/31/08 06:22:23) |
yeah man.... this came out like 2 or 3 weeks after I moved from Virginia to NH leaving all my good buddies behind and having absolutely no friends up north. So
this record became a good friend. I actually remember driving back to VA to stay with Scotty B and partying and listening to this album all weekend.
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Posts: 55 (03/31/08 07:19:22) |
The first two albums I got were One Wrench and front porch stories. I stumbled upon them used somewhere and picked them up having heard nothing else from
AVAIL. I liked One Wrench better than Front Porch Stories initially, I'm not sure where I stand on that now, but One Wrench is completely awesome and when
I started looking into other Avail albums I couldn't believe that people called One Wrench their worst album. I still can't believe that it gets any
crap, that's a damn good CD and I don't think they fell of at all in making it. Especially track 2, I don't know the names, but that's one of
the better Avail songs in my opinion.
Does anyone know if they are still planning on a new album at all? I know they started working and then quit, but just curious if anything has been done. |
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Posts: 819 (03/31/08 12:55:13) |
everyone likes Taken. as for me Invisible-Union-Heron part makes that record for me.. those three jams always rock.
i bought that album in Hawaii when i was in the Navy and i friend and i went to some bar in Waikiki and i sat and listened to that record on my little cd player and got drunk. |
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Posts: 62 (04/02/08 17:54:01) |
The only tracks I skip occasionally are High Lonesome and Leather, I could do without those 2. Everything else is great. Track for track I probably like more
off of that album than Front Porch Stories, but FPS has some really great tracks on it.
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Posts: 63 (04/02/08 17:55:26) |
Ahhhhh, I retract my High Lonesome statement.
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Posts: 4 (04/02/08 20:55:20) |
one wrench is a ripping record and high lonesome is a standout track. i was momentarily stunned to find that anyone would disagree. i've been a big fan
since dixie and i love all of avails records. i have a tough time deciding on a favorite. probably between 4 a.m. friday and over the james. definitely
impossible to pick a favorite song. i was fortunate in that the first time i heard avail was also the first time i saw them. my band was on the bill at the
fireside in chicago. great show and i became an instant avail freak. nothing has ever happened to me like that before or since. (maybe KISS, but i was like
nine years old or something.) beau asked me if i would man avails merch table and handed me a sizeable wad of cash seconds before he hit the stage. wow. kinda
freaked me out. very cool. huge, huge fan ever since. i check this board out often but rarely post. more soon perhaps.
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Posts: 347 (04/03/08 06:57:23) |
I love high lonesome
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