Relationship Of Command

I can remember the first time I heard "One Armed Scissor" by At the Drive-in, it was a defining moment remembering me that rock is still not dead yet. The dynamic shift, energy and aggression give me the goosebumps every time. The rest of the songs on Relationship of Command are pretty good too. Not all are as straightforward and dynamic as "One Armed Scissor", but it's post-hardcore with some prog mixed into it. One of my favorite albums of the 2000s.

You’ll are depressed recommending this much emo recently

Musical equivalent of getting shot out of a cannon straight into a concrete wall. I was gonna say it's "one of the best post-hardcore albums of all time", but that implies there's a better one somewhere out there.

Post Hardcore is one of my least liked Genres but my initial thought was "it sounds like Mars Volta" and further investigation proved why. It's actually pretty good and mixes up more than just screaming and thrash. I liked it.

The most insane, artistic guitar-driven LP of the aughts and it's not even close. The sheer musical expression on this math-rock meets post-hardcore project has yet to be topped by any incarnation of ATDI/Mars Volta since – the band operates (and sounds like) a broken machine, a metal cacophony that still manages to squeeze melodic beauty from the most discordant rock possible. An all-out collective panic attack where every instrumental is world-class, the entire band able to pivot on a dime from chaos into calm and vice versa. I've revisited this LP several times in the past decade and find new technicalities and layers to dive into every time. Absolute triumph of the genre and a persistent reminder of how fucking insane rock can be instrumentally when pushed to the limit. 100% deserves to be on the official list and could eat most of the main 1001 for breakfast easy.

I lost my goddamned review because my computer restarted and apparently I never saved it, but anyway I love this fucking album and even though I don't usually listen to the last few songs, this shit is loud as fuck and you just gotta respect it with 5 stars 5/5

Honestly didn't need to relisten to give this a 5, there's some section of my brain that's dedicated to just this lp. Dismayed that I don't have my cd copy on hand and have to manually search for "Extracurricular" since it's been removed from streaming. 11 (+ catacombs) wall-to-wall bangers just isn't enough! Definitely should have been on the original list etc etc. Thank you submitter for choosing this so I didn't have to

I have no idea what any of the lyrics are about, and I almost never like vocals so screamy. But I love At the Drive-In. "Relationship of Command" hits me just as hard as it did in the early 2000s, or four years ago when I checked it back out after the Mars Volta came up on the 1001.

Influential post-hardcore

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Pattern against use, One armed scissor, Rolodex propaganda

Almost definitive. I've tried and while I understand it, I don't feel it.

It's maybe too long to really stick with me for its full length, but it's an impressive hardcore from the early emo days.

First impression was that this sounded like a bunch of other things but on further research it seemed more likely an issue of a bunch of later things sounding like this. A big part of their sound is something I feel like more or less contemporary band Rage Against the Machine became more well known for. But there's more going on here, and all to its benefit. Not my favorite genre but this was very good.

This is not what you want to be listening to with a beasty hangover. Unfortunately, I have a beasty hangover and the assault is a little more than I can deal with. There are many comparisons I can draw - there's aspects of Jane's Addiction, Rage Against The Machine, heck, even a little bit of A. I'm sure I would appreciate this a lot more if I didn't have a bastard behind the eyes. Provisional 4. I reserve the right to reassess at some point in the future, which will probably an upwards revision.

one of my faves

Dope

This was actually much better than I gave it credit for when it came out. I'll admit. I was wrong.

Pretty freaking good this one. Tried to find bands that are thought were melded between the songs, but decided it's just good enough being what it is. It drives hard - thrashy and powerful whilst keeping a delicately melodic sound that allows you to feel it.

Favourite songs: One Armed Scissor, Arcarsenal, Pattern Against User, Mannequin Republic, Invalid Litter Dept., Enfilade Least favourite songs: Non-Zero Possibility, Catacombs 4/5

Favorite Track: One Armed Scissor

High energy stuff. Love it. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4.5/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Yes.

Probably the most ambitious and adventurous of late 90’s emo, though I’m not sure I’d really pigeon-hole them with that tag. Their serpentine song structures and sonic experimentation truly set At the Drive-In apart from the rest of the pack, with Relationship Of Command pointing towards the progressive rock bombast that Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-López would later mine in The Mars Volta.

I never really listened to ATDI even though my musical tastes are heavily adjacent and Relationship Of Command is really good, for an album from 2000 you can hear so much influence over some of the bands that followed them and this, it's so aggressive and so loud yet never makes you feel like it's just noise without direction, it's well mixed, well produced and very coherent for a record of this ilk. I liked Pattern Against User, Enfliade and Cosmonaut the most but there's not a bad track on there, the only ding I might have on it is that it all sounds very similar from one track to another though that might just be unfamiliarity with the nuance within each. A high 4/5 easily, I suspect if I listened again later and then often it'd get 5/5.

Interesting genre here… felt a bit like it was somewhere between punk and hard rock. It was pretty good.

When you listen to this album it gives that sound of familiarity that is hard to place. A bit before it’s time with a 2000 release. These guys ended up splitting up and some were part of Mars Volta where you can get a sense of how later 00s sound derived from this. This isn’t a diamond in the rough but it’s still a good hard alternative rock album if that’s your jam. 6.8/10

This definitely sounds like the year it’s from.

Y2K American Post-Hardcore, which is an interesting combination of time, genre, and place. Post-hardcore's *really* not a genre that I care for (and jesus goddamn the people here love adding it to the list), but thankfully this one's making more interesting moves than most of the others that have been sent in. It was very affirming to check the wiki and learn that some of the members would go on to form The Mars Volta—it's very proggy, and I thought I recognized the singer's voice, but he's doing a completely different (worse) style on here.

Post-hardcore. Ni fu ni fa.

I, too, have listened to Rage Against the Machine

It's some alt rock that goes hard, baby!!

New to me. Has a lot going for it. I might have liked it in the day. But at this point, to my current ears, it was actually pretty annoying by the end.

A solid 3/5 album I think unique sound some interesting aspects to this.

Post-hardcore. Ni fu ni fa.

Rock intenso, con voz desgarradora, ritmos rápidos, algunos un tanto pesados. Prometía al principio, pero fue cayendo un poco en la monotonía de temas. Poco virtuoso, pero con mucha fuerza.

Like a shouty Hundred Reasons and not in a good way.

I've found myself accidentally in a post punk/hardcore/metal forum with a load of lonely blokes. Is there a version of this project for people interested in the evolution of modern music?