Kripes
09-09-2006, 06:29 PM
In light of the fact that BSF is no more (:() I have decided to make a thread honoring the amazing post-hardcore band.
Here's an article I wrote for a newsletter of another site I work on about BSF.
Earlier this month, it was announced that BoySetsFire, one of the bands that played a big role in shaping melodic-hardcore, broke up. After twelve years BoySetsFire never let up in their intense passion for music. They struggled deeply for a few of those years, just trying to survive as a band. They made several demos and EPs in a short while. This included the EP, Suckerpunch Training. This one EP could very well be the greatest Extended Play ever. It only contained three songs and was fairly short, but those three songs were so different from each other it is hard to not recognize them for their greatness, however, BoySetsFire still wasn’t making the impact they wanted.
Luck seemed to have found them when they debuted in 1997 with their first LP, The Day The Sun Went Out. This put BoySetsFire on the map for the world of Post-Hardcore music and is now a self-proclaimed classic, political album. That was the thing that made them unique besides their music; every single song served a purpose. They all had meaning and most of the time the meaning served a political view, or wanting to change something that was and still is wrong with the way the world is run.
They continued to produce epic music with After The Eulogy, which is widely regarded as the bands premier record. So it seemed that BoySetsFire were poised to take the world on, they were about to have a major release on Wind-Up that held high hopes for the band, but the album, Tomorrow Comes Today, flopped. It got so bad for the band that they were in severe debt to their label that when they asked to be released from Wind-Up it was with no strings attached. For people looking in on the outside it seemed like there was nothing for BoySetsFire to do, but end their journey to make change and leave a mark. After all, they had releases like The Day The Sun Went Out and After The Eulogy to look at as markers of true glory so why not end things where they were?
However, that is not what BoySetsFire did. With a slightly tweaked lineup, BoySetsFire went through much hardship and came out with one final album, an album that may just be the band’s greatest yet. The Misery Index: notes from the plague years came out February 2006. It neared a whole hour long and continued the ways of the band, by challenging the system and certain figures, but also was tinted with sadness, sadness that is easily understood.
They never gave a **** about what others thought of them. They never cared who, or what it was, if it was wrong, they’d stand up against it. They were BoySetsFire, one of the best bands to grace Earth. They are gone now, no longer will they make music, but their essences will live on and people will still learn of them, grow to love them, be sad they aren’t together anymore, but know that the impact they had was profound and respect and love them for that.
Here's an article I wrote for a newsletter of another site I work on about BSF.
Earlier this month, it was announced that BoySetsFire, one of the bands that played a big role in shaping melodic-hardcore, broke up. After twelve years BoySetsFire never let up in their intense passion for music. They struggled deeply for a few of those years, just trying to survive as a band. They made several demos and EPs in a short while. This included the EP, Suckerpunch Training. This one EP could very well be the greatest Extended Play ever. It only contained three songs and was fairly short, but those three songs were so different from each other it is hard to not recognize them for their greatness, however, BoySetsFire still wasn’t making the impact they wanted.
Luck seemed to have found them when they debuted in 1997 with their first LP, The Day The Sun Went Out. This put BoySetsFire on the map for the world of Post-Hardcore music and is now a self-proclaimed classic, political album. That was the thing that made them unique besides their music; every single song served a purpose. They all had meaning and most of the time the meaning served a political view, or wanting to change something that was and still is wrong with the way the world is run.
They continued to produce epic music with After The Eulogy, which is widely regarded as the bands premier record. So it seemed that BoySetsFire were poised to take the world on, they were about to have a major release on Wind-Up that held high hopes for the band, but the album, Tomorrow Comes Today, flopped. It got so bad for the band that they were in severe debt to their label that when they asked to be released from Wind-Up it was with no strings attached. For people looking in on the outside it seemed like there was nothing for BoySetsFire to do, but end their journey to make change and leave a mark. After all, they had releases like The Day The Sun Went Out and After The Eulogy to look at as markers of true glory so why not end things where they were?
However, that is not what BoySetsFire did. With a slightly tweaked lineup, BoySetsFire went through much hardship and came out with one final album, an album that may just be the band’s greatest yet. The Misery Index: notes from the plague years came out February 2006. It neared a whole hour long and continued the ways of the band, by challenging the system and certain figures, but also was tinted with sadness, sadness that is easily understood.
They never gave a **** about what others thought of them. They never cared who, or what it was, if it was wrong, they’d stand up against it. They were BoySetsFire, one of the best bands to grace Earth. They are gone now, no longer will they make music, but their essences will live on and people will still learn of them, grow to love them, be sad they aren’t together anymore, but know that the impact they had was profound and respect and love them for that.