Thursday's "Full Collapse" turns 20

It's these moments where you realize that you're getting old. But then again, I think I'm just feeling old cause this record was around for all of my relationship with HC/Punk/Emo. I fell in love with this kind of stuff at the end of 2000 and not long after "Full Collapse" was one of my first "go-to"-records. It was that loud/soft-dynamics, that emotional rollercoaster of such records like "Relationship of Command", "After the Eulogy", "The Opposite of December" and "Full Collapse" that totally drew me in this kind of music. And I can't say it changed over the years, it's pretty much the greatest constant in my musical taste of the lasty twenty years, as I am still a sucker for that clash of loud and soft, of singing and screaming, of melody and mosh, of fast and slow, of hopeful and frustrated...

By the way, time for a short interlude for one of the most legendary and catchy album-introductions ever: 

If you know a record for such a long time you're going through differing stages and change the way you you think and feel about it. There are times where you can relate more to it, there are time's where you get the feeling of pretending that you're young again while listening to this record, maybe, there are times where you can't quite feel the fascination anymore that blew you away the first few times of hearing it. Thinking about "Full Collapse" I've never battled such feelings over the course of the last 20 years. This album changed the way I was hearing music back then and it kept its fascination up to this very day. 

The guys in THURSDAY were fucking young when they wrote this record, they merely turned 20. Normally when you're this young you tend to write some cheesy stuff. And yeah, maybe you could call "Full Collapse" full of Teen-Angst. I for sure soaked it up when I was 15 and bloody good felt all this stuff deep in my heart. But compared to many other records from that time "Full Collapse" still holds up. There's no feelings of shame when I sing/scream along to those lyrics nowadays, it's just as heartfelt and passionate as in 2001 when this record was a totally game-changer for me. Even when Rickley and company were this young, they proofed to be the most intelligent band in this new genre that was popularized in the 2000s. And that intelligence not only led them to creating one of the best records ever, it also happened to be a main-key to a flawless career without commiting a blunder.

"Full Collapse" to me is one of the rare records that I would call "timeless". I don't think that I ever will fall out of love with this record but should that happen one day, then yeah, then the robot will definitely start to think...