Yeah, I guess SSTB is the hardest one to get into.
Which is the other album you speak of? From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness or In Keeping Secrets Silent Earth: 3?
i only thought it was weak because it dragged a little more for me than the other two. second stage turbine blade was their debut, so i give them slack for how rough it is...but i thought that album was great.
^Still the best. Neverender, Devil in Jersey City, Elf Tower New Mexico, Delirium Trigger, bonus track 'My Robot will Never Die' thing. Come on. So many great songs.
I can't disagree that it captures more of what YOU love most about the band.
But it doesn't capture what I personally love most about the band. But as I've stated, I lost some of my interest in them around the time it came out. It felt like too much of the same plus with the bad parts exemplified.
I almost started a discog thread for Coheed but figured like everything else, I'd never finish it. I just recently remerabered how great they are, and have been playing Good Apollo pretty much repeatedly since.