It’s just about a guy doing everything correctly knowing he’s getting fucked over but refusing to accept it
As the front page says hfkabeiabrlaveuavrkavrge
Mine’s Your Parents are Sellouts, and my current ranking is (not including intro and outro)
La Di Frickin Da
Date Rape U
Hoodlum
Shutup You’re Stupid
The Unpossible
Guys are gross
F2F
Dinosaur
Bad Vibes
Punch in the face
Everyone’s trying to kill me
12: EVL PPL
What do you think the album is about? It has such a unique sound it's hard to pin down a genre, same can be said for the band itself tbh, but this album in particular has a sound I can't quite describe in words. As far as themes go, an obvious one for me is drug abuse, violence, and the systems that perpetuate them. I wanna hear your thoughts!
I’ll go first
Throwing up
Stockholm syndrome
Elephant bones
The unpossible
Shutup your stupid
Rob the prez-O-dent
Mexico
Wintergreen
And many more. I love the guitar in this band
Just a warning, I'm gonna be a little harsh toward the end, don't wanna catch you off guard. I just think this is important to talk about. My purpose here is not to stoke the fire, I just want to calm them down a little because this issue is being blown out of proportion
I think we can all agree that Godforbid is a fantastic writer. Outside of conceptualizing the album covers, writing the lyrics is the only art he brings to the band. I believe as a writer, he wants us to have these deeper discussions.
Charlie's Inferno is in such a unique position compared to the other songs because of the sheer amount of eyes it has on it, so many people from different walks of life, giving their own thoughts. If you were a writer, why wouldn't you want that? They might even be able show you something in your writing that you didn't even consider. The most popular interpretation doesn't have to be the only one.
I think the real problem with these discussions is people parroting others' interpretations for points or to feel included, which is why you're seeing the same arguments over and over. There isn't a problem with using others' thoughts to help develop your own, especially when you're stuck on a lyric, but you should still be able to apply your own thoughts as well and Adapt them when you find out something new.
I agree that there should be more discussion around the other songs, but putting down people for wanting to discuss a popular song shouldn't be the way to convince them. Shutting down discussion just discourages people from developing their skills on analysis, and pointing to other songs and saying they're more "interesting" than Charlie just comes off as pretentious. And I say this as someone who also thinks Charlie is overrated.
THD is a very old band and still very much active, so you'll have older and newer fans alike. Just because the discussion has already been had doesn't mean it should ever stop. With the recent influx of newer fans, this revival of a dead topic was bound to happen. Let the kids talk it out, it's their time now. And some may even stay for the other songs too.
So, what can You do to offset the amount of Charlie posts? Make your OWN posts about your favorite songs! Go ahead, make a post and invite discussion on any song of your choice. Complaining about younger fans in the comments of Charlie posts as well as making Echochamber posts complaining about the Charlie discussion as a whole is not helping your cause. You are literally doing the thing you're complaining about.
If you have a problem with no one posting about other songs, then do it yourself. Let the newbies do their thing. No one is stopping you from posting about your favorite song.
In fact, I would love to talk about it with you! And it sounds like others here would too
Obviously if you're an actual fan of THD's other work and not just a larper, it's fine for it to be your favorite song but, like, could we talk about literally anything else? It's not a bad song, I agree with what's it's trying to say, and it sounds nice, I just can't stand it because of how oversaturated it is. Feels like this subbreddit is either talking about Charlie's Inferno and battling to the death over what it means or how Charlie 2 sucks (and Charlie 2 does suck but THD has long since made it right by taking down the music video and donating to envoirmental charities). At this point make a Charlie's Inferno subreddit.
i found out that some of my favorite thd songs that i found on youtube are covers (for example talk dirty to me, i found out it was a cover because of guitar hero arcade) and now im wondering what other songs are covers??? like is steady and slow a cover?? what about lucky me???
‘It ain’t easy’ is my favorite. It’s probably one of their best relaxing songs ever next to Treefood and party’s dead
I wanna do what y'all want for those posts because i don't wanna up right and ban its apart of THD and it shouldn't be lambasted because it hit mainstream and got blown out of the water but at the same time the amount of posts about that one song is getting too much so i just want y'all's ideas for what we should do
My first exposure to the handsome devil was Charlie’s inferno, but since that song sounds good and I’m interested in other songs. Do any of yall know a good THD song to start out with other than Charlie’s Inferno?
Now first, I am very sorry as this shit is discussed a lot and I know people are annoyed about the large uptick in Charlie’s inferno posts, but this shit has been annoying me for weeks and it pmo when I read MFs in insta reels comment sections talking about how he only did his deeds to get into Heven and that shit. Little rant over
The idea that because his actions were done not to be kind by itself but to get into Heven, fundamentally does not work.
The main problem with this idea is that it removes the good from the actions and only focuses on the motive behind it. Sure a majority of his routine is essentially worthless, such as the riding his bike when gas prices rose and never swimming in the ocean, but that does not take away from the deeds he has done, such as him going to church. From the information we gather from the song Charlie has done nothing to deserve hell and the motivation behind his actions should have no impact on the interpretation of his actions, the good he does such as the gifts and the showing of love to his wife still create a positive and good impact no matter the motivation. The good is still there no matter the motivation.
There should be no reason to deny someone eternal reward and dam them to eternal punishment simply because they did not do something out of the kindness of their heart, as it removes the impact their actions have had, while like essentially are worthless his actions such as riding his bike, while small improved the earth as a whole, ice cold showers also created the same impact, however with this interpretation it doesn’t matter what good his actions caused as in the end as he had the wrong motivation his actions don’t matter.
It simply feels like the interpretations I have seen, seem to remove the good the action cause in order for their own interpretation to be proven correct.
Idk this is just kinda me rambling, it has just been annoying me a ton, I feel like people just parrot a talking point without actually understanding it. I am also on heavy sleeping medication while writing this so I apologize if anything is misspelled or incoherent this along with my dyslexia do not help when writing a lot of my phone
If you have a questions or a differing opinion I would love to debate it with you after I wake up.
Again sorry for beating a dead horse Charlie’s inferno is spoken about a ton on this sub
I got the Havok House cassette y'all (Predecessor of Alaskan Fishermen, predecessor of THD)
Charlie’s inferno
Why did the guy in Charlie’s inferno (the music video) go to hell? He gave roses to his wife, he did the pledge, he even went to church on Sunday too. So why did he go to the deepest pit?
I feel like if THD and onigo boingo made a colab song or album it would be pretty good