Current Events > I've been listening to The Used's Imaginary Enemy album.

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Proudclad's topic calling a bunch of users communist made me think of the song "Imaginary Enemy" and "Make Believe" off the album.

Imaginary Enemy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNBhGpmwXWQ" data-time="
Make Believe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymBPCYgD5Ns" data-time="

But I noticed the album cover so I decided to listen to the whole album. It never clicked with me before that this album was pretty political, until now.

Also this song has aged pretty well imo.

A Song to Stifle Imperial Progression (A Work in Progress):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNny29BckIo" data-time="

Also Full Album playlist here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmwY8lEP2O93udrC1ohe0aoxcQiSJLMPo
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might listen to this later
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Ive been a fan of The Used since their second album, but I skipped listening to this one. I liked the first single but when the album came out, I listened to a few song previews and they just didnt click with me.

Shortly after, I saw them live and the only song they played off this album was the single. The rest of their set list was all older songs. So I thought, if the band doesnt even want to promote Imaginary Enemy on their own headlining tour, its not worth listening to. Its as if they didnt even like the music they put out, because if they liked it and believed in it, they wouldve performed some of it.

Maybe one day Ill give it a chance, but that day is not today.

I enjoyed the songs.
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It's pretty good. They're a consistently good band imo

The only albums i haven't listened to in their entirety are Artwork and their latest
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MarqueeSeries posted...

It's pretty good. They're a consistently good band imo

The only albums i haven't listened to in their entirety are Artwork and their latest

Artwork has one of my favorite songs by them. "Blood on my Hands", but thinking about it I'm not actually sure I listened to most of the other songs on the album.

I picked up "The Canyon" (their latest album). There's a few songs that I really like from the album, but the album sounds really quiet when I play it through the bluetooth in my car so it's really hard to differentiate the songs. There's not even a youtube album stream for it so I could listen to it at work.
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Tmaster148 posted...

MarqueeSeries posted...

It's pretty good. They're a consistently good band imo

The only albums i haven't listened to in their entirety are Artwork and their latest

Artwork has one of my favorite songs by them. "Blood on my Hands", but thinking about it I'm not actually sure I listened to most of the other songs on the album.

I picked up "The Canyon" (their latest album). There's a few songs that I really like from the album, but the album sounds really quiet when I play it through the bluetooth in my car so it's really hard to differentiate the songs. There's not even a youtube album stream for it so I could listen to it at work.

Artwork is their best album. Theyve been pretty good about putting out solid albums but that one in particular hits hard. It was leaked online a while before the release day and one of the tracks had a clip of a monologue from some homophobic hateful religious guy that segued into the song. Their label made them remove it for the official release but it added a lot of power to the anti-religion sentiment of the song.