#Geoff Rickly

[dutchwinter]

thursday ft anthony green for thurserver

[yourdyingwish]

Geoff Rickly's interpretation of Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat, posted as part of a mixtape he did in 2013, is in dialogue with the original version and features lyrics that flip the position of address, talking back to Cohen's original lyrics and providing the other half of the story the original song tells.��

I posted this a while ago but didn't fully realize what it was. First I thought it was a regular cover with some words changed, then I thought it was written from the woman in the song's POV (probably because Geoff changes the line "my brother/my killer" to "my brother/my lover", yowza!) but I finally got my ducks in a row and transcribed the lyrics and I'm posting this because it's a cool little song and I think it's cool when songwriters do stuff like this. Lyric comparison below:

[tuttertime]

little mini zine from last week x

[angstics]

*low voice* geoff... (lj)

[joanofarcisdead]

pov: you’re in the 9th grade and your exhausted art teacher and equally exhausted english teacher are on break

[toyhdgehog]

understanding

[thursdayarchive]

But like so many bands of its era with bills to pay and a reputation to uphold, Thursday isn’t above indulging in emo nostalgia. “I used to get really bummed on being like, ‘We’re doing “Full Collapse” tonight,’” Rule admitted. This wore on Rickly as well, until a conversation with Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance around the time the two bands teamed up for an anniversary tour helped put things into perspective. “We were talking about how much better things are now, not because we’re standing on the stage in an arena,” he said. “This is life after death for the band, there’s nothing to prove,” he added. “Stop worrying about like, ‘Do I even like these old songs?’ Of course you do, they’re great songs.”

Ian Cohen, The New York Times, "Thursday Ends a 13-Year Break From New Music With a Pointed Song," April 12, 2024.

[myheadphonesareneverloudenough]

from geoff’s instagram story.

[awsteb]

Geoff Rickly of Thursday at Warped Tour 2006

[fuzzpetalz]

i can’t stop repeating…

[srcepiksla]

tomorrow i'll be you

a submission for @runningfreetoday's war all the time 20 year anniversary zine

[stzero]

"Mikey from My Chemical Romance and I always say that the reason that My Chemical Romance and Thursday are so good now, both so much better than we ever used to be as live bands, is because this is all after death. The bands both stopped -- this is all bonus time, and so it all should be like a celebration every time. And that has made it great. Not feeling like we have so much to prove like we did back then."

Geoff Rickly in an interview for WNYU (2/19/2023)

[e-clv]

Thursday, Crossroads, Garwood NJ. Literally so much fucking fun, y'all.

[vampiremuney]

he’s so real for this

[livejournallegacy]

No Devotion - Addition (Official Lyric Video)