Listening to Vaxis II and I think enough time has passed for a full album ranking, let’s do it…
1. Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
2. Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow
3. Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
4. Afterman: Descension
5. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
6. Year of the Black Rainbow
7. Second Stage Turbine Blade
8. Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures
9. The Colour Before the Sun
10. Afterman: Ascension
Tough calls all around. The top two are solid and probably won’t ever change. 3-5 are pretty interchangeable and basically too close to call, I love them all dearly. Maybe a hot take with YotBR at 6, and above everything of than CBtS, but I think it’s great. It’s sad to say but as much as SSTB had some great songs, there are also quite a few I just rate lower. Vaxis I had some of my all time favourite Coheed songs, but it’s way too long, too much filler. Colour Before the Sun is solid and it sits above Ascension because that album just falls short.
Every album is still gonna be one I’ll listen to for the rest of my life though.