Anthony Green

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5 - Young Legs

I just don’t care. You know when you get bored of parents talking? I get that with Anthony Green as a general thing. I get it with this album a lot. It’s probably some bias based on the album artwork but it’s my list. More indifference than anything. I’m not choosing this out to listen to.

Highlights: When You Sang To Me, Shine

Lowlights: Conversation Piece

4 - Pixie Queen

This starts so strong. You’ll Be Fine is hall of fame tier. And then it just degenerates. That doesn’t even mean the songs are bad they’re just less insane good. It’s incredibly heroin ballad sorry I cheated on you heavy which I imagine is 99% of his inspiration. You get to the 5th track and it’s a bit like ugh more of this but you gotta write what you know. I don’t know if he did cheat on anyone I spoke to him and forgot to ask so now I have no choice but to speculate because I hear speculation gets shit done. So yeah, highlights are high, but it’s all the same really.

Highlights: You’ll Be Fine

Lowlights: I’m Sorry For Everything I’ve Ever Done, Cellar

3 - Would You Still Be In Love

It was hard not to move this even further up solely based on You’re So Dead Meat. During the first lockdown Anthony Green would do virtual shows and I was always staying up late for them and to be honest, this is a memory I’ve only just unlocked and I think it must’ve been around the time of this album coming out because I remember it being hammered and I didn’t really care. I loved Avalon so much that I didn’t really care to listen to Would You Still Be In Love but actually, even just from hitting shuffle and knowing Anthony Green, a lot of this album hits.

Highlights: You’re So Dead Meat, Why Must We Wait

Lowlights: Vera Lynn

2 - Avalon

In an Anthony Green bingo Avalon as a general mention would be the middle square. I don’t know what Avalon is but my god you know it’s getting mentioned. Avalon is his best work in theory, why’s it second, shut up. Things happen. Avalon is his most iconic, then. I don’t really have a lot to say. It’s good and I think it deserves to be seen as good outside the encapsulation of “it’s Anthony Green from Circa and Saosin” which it might be. I don’t know. Circa fans are the craziest people I have ever witnessed and I think that includes Frank Iero fans who I had previously cited as the worst. Circa fans are worse because they think they’re better but my god. They’re terrifying. But this isn’t a Circa fans hit piece.

Highlights: Babygirl, Drug Dealer, Slowing Down, First Day Of Work

Lowlights: Springtime Out The Van Window

1 - Boom. Done

I so aggressively did not like this when it came out. I go through phases of having beef with Anthony Green and it does tend to be baseless because I don’t think he’s ever actually done anything wrong. It’s just unfortunate this dropped when I was in one of those phases because it’s actually decent. More than decent. I love it a lot. All of his music is very personal. You know exactly where it’s coming from every time and the fact you never really get burnt out on the themes is impressive (disregard what I said about Pixie Queen). This album has some of his best solo vocals and the most interesting instrumentation. He’s a solo acoustic act, that’s what we know Anthony Green is but giving him a full backing band is a different level. The synths and the horns and the strings. It’s competitive to when Dave Hause introduced The Mermaid. It’s a complete different world.

Highlights: Don’t Dance, Center Of It All, Trading Doses

Lowlights: the way it all makes me feel