Armed and Ready
I just got the three Coheed and Cambria albums on sweet, sweet CD, allowing me a chance to actually understand what the hell they’re going on about.
Moreover, I have finally got speakers for Christmas. Not those little computers speakers with a puny “subwoofer”, where subwoofer is defined as “cardboard box with power outlet”. No: these speakers are mighty, they are impatient, and they certainly aim to misbehave. In my defense these aren’t yuppie audiophile speakers you’d get at the Sharper Image. There simply have the potential to be loud, and this is all that matters.
I rediscovered the importance of Loud when I first listened to the Receiving End of Sirens album. The album was good - dangerously good - but it’s goodness was ultimately limited by my $20 Radio Shack speakers. The fact is, when I’m listening to a power chord I want it to kick me in the face; by virtue of my sound system, I was merely getting a shin massage, and that’s a very awkward relationship to have with an emo band.
I tried cranking it, I tried fiddling with wires, I tried drawing “11″ on my speakers in red crayon but I failed, entirely.
But now I have new speakers, and I have some Epic albums that need to Rock, and Loudly, with More Capital Letters. I’ve got some old albums to return to, and some neighbors to wake up.
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