Full Collapse is Thursday's second album and their debut on Victory Records. It combines post-hardcore influences with melodic elements and personal, emotional lyrics. Jazz sensibilities are sometimes noticeable in the guitar riffs. The album helped to establish Thursday as an immensely popular group in the indie and alternative rock music scenes. Live cuts of "Understanding in a Car Crash", "Autobiography of a Nation", "Paris in Flames", and "Standing on the Edge of Summer" appear on the band's 2002 Victory Records live EP Five Stories Falling. The album reached #178 on The Billboard 200.http Billboard 200 chart position

Personnel

*Geoff Rickly - vocals

*Tom Keeley - guitar, vocals

*Steve Pedulla - guitar, vocals

*Tim Payne - bass guitar

*Tucker Rule - drums

*Sal Villanueva - Production, additional guitar (on "Autobiography of a Nation" and "Wind-Up")

*Tim Giles - Engineering, mixing, strings and melotone (on "Paris in Flames")

*Erin Farley - Engineering, additional guitar (on "Understanding in a Car Crash")

*Codie Brown - Assistant engineer

*Timo G. Less - Mastering

*Frank Giokas - Additional guitar (on "Standing on the Edge of Summer")

*Tom Schlatter - Additional vocals (on "Autobiography of a Nation" and "Cross Out the Eyes")

*Joe Darone - Additional vocals (on "Autobiography of a Nation")

*Mike Chapman - Cover photographs

*Dennis Keeley - Centre photographs

*Patrick Larson - Design, art direction

Singles

* "Understanding in a Car Crash"

* "Cross Out the Eyes"

* "Standing on the Edge of Summer"

Videos

* "Cross Out the Eyes"

* "Understanding in a Car Crash" (w/ live footage)

In other media

* The song "Standing on the Edge of Summer" was featured in the 2002 Wes Craven film, They. It is heard playing on Julia's stereo when she is stranded in her car late at night.

* "The Other Side of the Crash/Over and Out (of Control)" on Thursday's 2006 album A City by the Light Divided retells the story of "Understanding in a Car Crash" from a different point of view.

References

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Artist/Band Information

Thursday is a post-hardcore band from New Brunswick, New Jersey that has released five full-length albums. The band's most recent album, Common Existence, was released in February 2009 on Epitaph Records, and the band recently headlined the Taste of Chaos Tour.. They will be embarking on a US tour in September and October. Each year Thursday puts on a show on New Year's Eve or some time right before the 31st of December as a tradition for local New Jersey fans.

History

Formation and Waiting

Thursday was formed in 1997 by vocalist Geoff Rickly, guitarist Tom Keeley, guitarist Bill Henderson, bassist Tim Payne, and drummer Tucker Rule.

The band began playing basement shows in New Brunswick and surrounding New Jersey and New York areas. They played their first official show on December 31, 1998 in Rickly's basement alongside Midtown, Saves the Day and Poison the Well.

They recorded demos to hand out at shows, and in the summer of 1999, teamed up with MP3.com for their first official release, the 1999 Summer Tour EP, which featured demos of songs that would soon be found on their debut album, Waiting. The album was released on December 6, 1999 on northern New Jersey-based Eyeball Records without any singles or support from television or radio.

Full Collapse

Hesitant to join a larger label, but with full support from Eyeball Records, Thursday signed to Chicago-based label Victory Records and released Full Collapse on April 10, 2001, without much radio or television support, but in a way that the band had not originally intended. Victory Records originally wanted to remove the lyrics from the packaging against the band's wishes in order to cut costs, but the released LP has all lyrics and minimal artwork, a rare thing for the band.

Thursday toured in support of the album, including a tour with Saves the Day that caught the attention of Victory Records. Victory Records filmed a music video for "Understanding in a Car Crash" consisting of live footage of the band and marketed the song as the band's first single, without the band's authorization. The video for this song received heavy airplay on both MTV2 and what was then known as Muchmusic. The song gained the band a large underground following. A second single, "Cross Out the Eyes", would follow, but it received much less attention.

Thursday was routinely upset at Victory Records over the use of the band's image and promotion, including the label's attempts to distribute Thursday-themed whoopie cushions. The band's newfound popularity and disgust with the label led to internal problems that bred the Five Stories Falling EP, a release the band used to fulfill contractual obligations with Victory Records. At live shows, the band routinely told fans not to purchase the EP, but instead to download "Jet Black New Year", the one new song found on the EP amidst live performances of four Full Collapse songs and the first song created since Full Collapse, a time during which the band almost broke up. "Jet Black New Year", the only studio track on Five Stories Falling, showed a darker side of the band that was only hinted at on Full Collapse.

War All the Time

Having parted ways with Victory Records and joining Island Records, Thursday issued their major label debut, the critically acclaimed War All the Time on September 16, 2003. The entire writing and recording process took only six months; the band has claimed they almost forced themselves into a contained sound on the album. The album's title, coupled with it being released approximately two years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led many critics to believe it was a political album; however, Rickly has denied this on many accounts, instead claiming that he is speaking about love being a war. War All the Time features Andrew Everding on keyboards, though he would not become an official member of the band until December 26, 2003, when he was officially welcomed into the band at the band's Christmas holiday shows held at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey.

War All the Time spawned two singles, "Signals Over the Air" and "War All the Time", though the latter received considerably less attention due to MTV banning the video for controversial material involving a fake news feed that appeared to be real and teenagers being weapon targets.

Thursday toured extensively to support War All the Time through many dates with acts such as AFI, Thrice, and Coheed and Cambria. On these tours, Thursday performed many in-store acoustic sessions at various Tower Records stores and other record stores. The band also recorded a live acoustic session for Y100 Sonic Sessions, a radio program on the now defunct Philadelphia-based radio station, Y100. The live acoustic version of single "Signals Over the Air" was used on Y100 Sonic Sessions Volume 8.

Following War All the Time, the band released two EPs. The first was Live from the SoHo & Santa Monica Stores Split EP and sold exclusively on iTunes; the second was a promotion found in Revolver, called Live in Detroit EP.

The band went on an indefinite hiatus in 2004. The band cited label pressure, extensive touring, and health problems as the sources of their newly discovered fatigue. However, Thursday returned once again for a charitable cause to save New York City's CBGB, on August 25, 2005. This performance was streamed live through the CBGB's website.

A City by the Light Divided

In fall 2005, five Thursday demo songs were stolen from My American Heart's tour manager's iPod. Rickly had recently collaborated with My American Heart for the track "We Are the Fabrication". The band issued a statement on their official website stating that they were disappointed the unfinished products leaked, but that they were glad that people take that much interest in their music. The band confirmed the title of one demo, "At This Velocity" and promised it would make their upcoming album. Three other songs ("The Other Side of the Crash/Over and Out (Of Control)", "Telegraph Avenue Kiss", and "Autumn Leaves Revisited") would also make the album. The remaining demo would later become the song "Last Call" on their fifth studio album, Common Existence.

Thursday originally toyed with the idea of a double album to follow up War All the Time, but scrapped that idea, reporting on their website that not even The Beatles could properly fill two discs with enough worthy material.

Dave Fridmann-produced A City by the Light Divided, Thursday's first full-length album not produced by Sal Villanueva. The title is influenced by a poem from Octavio Paz – Rickly combined two lines from one of his poems to create the title. The album was officially previewed on the band's MySpace on April 18, 2006, and officially released May 2 on Island Records in America and Hassle Records in the UK.

A City by the Light Divided was generally received well by critics, and spawned two singles, "Counting 5-4-3-2-1" and "At This Velocity", though the latter received considerably less attention.

Kill the House Lights

The band parted ways with Island Records in early 2007. A private show they performed on May 3, 2007 in New York City allowed long-time friend "The Rev" to propose to his fiancee on stage. Thursday also held a performance on May 5 at The Bamboozle under the fake name "Bearfort". They cancelled all tour plans until their fall tour with Circle Takes the Square and Portugal. The Man in support of Kill the House Lights, a DVD/CD retrospective released by their former label Victory Records. At their 2007 New Year's Eve show at the Starland Ballroom, the band announced that they will be writing and recording new material in 2008.

Split album with Envy

Thursday announced on April 2, 2008 via a MySpace bulletin and their official website a new split album with Japanese post-hardcore band, Envy.

The band debuted a song from the album live in Poughkeepsie on April 24, 2008.

The album was released on Temporary Residence Limited on November 4.

Common Existence

The band announced on September 30, 2008 that they'd signed with Epitaph Records. Regarding their new label, the band said the following: "It's a great feeling to have a label encourage you to be more socially conscious and politically active." Punknews.org. September 30, 2008.

Thursday finished recording and mixing their full-length album entitled Common Existence which was released on February 17, 2009 under Epitaph Records. In a March 2009 interview, Rickly explained the album's title refers to humanity's shared experience, and that many of the songs were influenced by the words of his favorite poets and authors.

Cormac McCarthy has also influenced Rickly.

Thursday headlined the 2009 Taste of Chaos Tour with support from Bring Me The Horizon, Four Year Strong, Pierce The Veil, Cancer Bats and a local act.

Logo

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Thursday uses the dove logo on their albums and merchandise. The dove is believed to have been conceived by Tom Keeley on a tour bus sometime before Full Collapse was recorded.

Lyrics from "Cross Out the Eyes" find the band referencing the dove:

As well as:

It is unknown whether these lyrics were inspired by the dove art or vice-versa. Since the dove's conception, however, it appears on every disc that Thursday has released in some form, though it is not mentioned lyrically aside from "Cross Out the Eyes". There is also a dove present in the "Cross Out the Eyes" video, which Darren Doane, in the commentary for XDOANEX, said was the hardest prop he's ever had to procure for a music video.

The band also has adopted a new logo – a red bullseye with a small chevron below it – for A City by the Light Divided. This logo appeared on merchandise related to the album, and is seen faded in the background of the cover for Kill the House Lights.

Discography

* Waiting (1999)

* Full Collapse (2001)

* War All the Time (2003)

* A City by the Light Divided (2006)

* Thursday / Envy (2008)

* Common Existence (2009)

References