Full Collapse by Thursday

Full Collapse, the second album from New Brunswick, New Jersey's Thursday, came out on Victory on April 10, 2001, and it hits like a wreck you can't stop replaying. Cut in November 2000 at Big Blue Meenie in Jersey City with Sal Villanueva producing, it was the first record with Steve Pedulla on rhythm guitar alongside Tom Keeley, Tim Payne on bass and Tucker Rule on drums, and it makes a glorious racket out of tension: Geoff Rickly swinging from wounded singing to throat-shredding screams, guitars tangling and then crashing down together.

"Understanding in a Car Crash" and "Cross Out the Eyes" got videos, and the band spent the year on the road with the likes of Saves the Day and Rival Schools. Critics liked it then; later, Kerrang!, NME and Rolling Stone counted it among the greatest emo records ever made, and its fingerprints are all over My Chemical Romance and Senses Fail. Thursday have since played it front to back on tour, in 2011 and 2018.

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