City By The Light Devided | 05/02/2006 (Island Records)

01. The Other Side Of The Crash / Over and Out (Of Control) 02. Counting 5-4-3-2-1 03. Sugar In The Sacrament 04. At This Velocity 05. We Will Overcome 06. Arc – Lamps, Signal Flares, A Shower Of White (The Light) 07. Running From The Rain 08. Telegraph Avenue Kiss 09. The Lovesong Writer 10. Into The Blinding Light 11. Autumn Leaves Revisited

Album Review: No Review. Album Credits: n/a

War All The Time | 09/16/2003 (Island Records)

01. For the Workforce, Drowning (3:16) 02. Between Rupture and Rapture (3:03) 03. Division St. (4:14) 04. Signals Over the Air (4:10) 05. Marches and Maneuvers (4:27) 06. Asleep in the Chapel (3:46) 07. This Song Brought to You By a Falling Bomb (2:16) 08. Steps Ascending (4:26) 09. War All the Time (4:33) 10. M. Shepard (3:36) 11. Tomorrow I'll Be You (4:07)

Album Review: While the number of youthful groups of men in form-fitting T-shirts performing pensive, often anguished post-hardcore music punctuated with arty lyrical references has become overgrown and/or ridiculous in the past few years, New Jersey's Thursday deserves props for putting all of its fragile eggs in a huge, well-appointed major-label basket. War All the Time, its Island debut, arrives grandiose and gatefolded, with moody, urban impressionist artwork and a thank-you list that lasts for miles. Helmed by longtime Thursday producer Sal Villanueva and mixed by Rumble Fish, the album rocks on the dynamics between singing and screaming, between rage unleashed and thoughts cast inward. Lyrically, the band's earnestness is admirable. "In the spring, you will bloom, like her heart"; "We'll douse ourselves in gasoline and hang our bodies from the lampposts" -- coupled with musings on suicide and life's never-ending grind, vocalist Geoff Rickly and his mates are providing diary material for 10,000 lonely teenagers. But despite its righteous gospel, startling dynamic shifts, and hurtling minor-chord choruses, War inevitably begins to resemble one long, 40-minute song. Touches of programming, plenty of overdubs, and some piano do help to separate things, especially on the raw, dirge-like "This Song Brought to You By a Falling Bomb," a respectable brother to U2's "October." But an identically spiraling guitar line twists its way through both "Asleep in the Chapel" and "Steps Ascending," and despite his emotional delivery and obvious erudition, Rickly's bloodied-knuckle lyricisms start to run together over the endlessly crushing mid-tempos. The framework of the new, thinking man's hardcore movement that Thursday marches in is guided by the principles of its martial predecessor. Uniformity in style and the common themes of disaffection and social rebellion have always rallied the youth around the records. But as more and more groups climb out of the steadily glowing underground embers and bask in the glow of major-label fireworks, that signature sound is becoming dangerously homogenized. Credit Thursday with an album that doesn't dilute its lyrics or fervor. But in the quest for a new musical rebellion, the song is starting to remain the same. - Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide Album Credits: Tim Payne: Group Member, Vocals (Background), Bass Ken Schles: Photography Tara Podolsky: A&R Jordan Coopersmith: Live Sound Arun Venkatesh: Programming, Engineer Rumble Fish: Mixing Steve Pedulla: Group Member, Vocals (Background), Guitar Tucker Rule: Group Member, Drums, Vocals (Background) Tom Keeley: Group Member, Vocals (Background), Guitar Geoff Rickly: Group Member, Vocals Joe Pedulla: Engineer Lee Zappas: Assistant Engineer "Commander" Cody Brown: Mixing Assistant Dave Ciancio: Vocals (Background) Gretta Cohn: Cello Dave Crisafi: Technician Andrew Everding: Keyboards Erin Fraley: Engineer Tim Gates: Keyboards Sal Villanueva: Producer, Engineer Mike LaPierte: Assistant Engineer Ben Lazar: A&R Marc Meltzer: Vocals (Background) Jonah Mantranga: Vocals Dean Bryan: Technician Bob Ludwig: Mastering

Five Stories Falling | 10/22/2002 (Victory Records)

01. Autobiography of a Nation (Live) (4:24) 02. Autobiography of a Nation (Live) (4:24) 03. Standing on the Edge of Summer (Live) (4:18) 04. Paris in Flames (Live) (4:49) 05. Jet Black New Year (4:49)

Album Review: The release of Thursday's Five Stories Falling EP offered a convincing argument for the New Brunswick, NJ, band's status as true comers in the hardcore rock hierarchy and unequivocally proved their mastery at creating tumultuous, anthemic emo-rock, built upon a fiercely confrontational affront and a melodic subtextual base. Albeit, Cure influences are readily palpable throughout (most apparent in the leadoff track, "Autobiography of a Nation"), the five-cut disc (featuring four live tracks from their 2001 Full Collapse CD, and one unreleased studio recording) showed Thursday's astonishing ability to completely captivate a live audience while also allowing for a fully realized demonstration of their cathartic guitar-heavy sound, replete with sentimental takes on impending death ("Standing on the Edge of Summer") and unreserved, freely vented rage ("Jet Black New Year"). - Roxanne Blanford, All Music Guide Album Credits: John Seymour: Live Recording Justin Borucki: Photography Arun Venkatesh: Engineer Dr. Timo G. Less: Mastering Rumble Fish: Mixing Marc Debiak: Design, Layout Design Steve Pedulla: Guitar Tucker Rule: Drums Tom Keeley: Liner Notes, Guitar Geoff Rickly: Vocals Sal Villanueva: Producer, Engineer

Full Collapse | 04/10/2001 (Victory Records)

01. A0001 (:36) 02. Understanding in a Car (4:24) 03. Concealer (2:19) 04. Autobiography of a Nation (3:55) 05. A Hole in the World (3:27) 06. Cross Out the Eyes (4:08) 07. Paris in Flames (4:33) 08. I Am the Killer (3:35) 09. Standing on the Edge of Summer (3:42) 10. Wind-Up (4:23) 11. How Long Is the Night? (5:44) 12. I1100 (1:40)

Album Review: Thursday displays a peerless version of the emo sound for a music scene that may not be ready for what the band has to offer. Full Collapse starts out with a warm, daydreamt piece, "Understanding in a Car Crash," that might give listeners a feeling that they are listening to a more modern, upbeat version of the Cure. While generating intelligent music, Thursday does its best to skirt the line of emo-pop without being unexciting or blasé. The key to this possibility lies behind the music that Thursday creates. Lead singer Geoff Rickly's vocals are smooth yet not immature, strong while not being overbearing. Icy sharp backup screams catch the listener off guard. The melodic-to-crunchy guitars followed by the well-engineered drum sound and rhythmic bass only add to the fray. Tracks such as "Cross Out the Eyes" lull the listener with the thought that Thursday may be another in a long line of monotonous emo-pop bands; however, at the appropriate moment the guitars start to feedback and the screams kick in. Taking emocore up a notch, Thursday is not afraid to develop a sound that the independent music scene has been in favor of for quite some time. Full Collapse is a breath of fresh air and has the potential to be liked by fans of harder music everywhere. ~ Kurt Morris, All Music Guide Album Credits: Tim Gilles: Engineer, Mellotron, Mixing, Strings Mike Chapman: Cover Photo Joe Darone: Vocals Dr. Timo G. Less: Mastering Thursday: Main Performer, Art Direction, Design Erin Farley: Engineer, Guitar Sal Villanueva: Producer, Engineer, Guitar Patrick Larson: Art Direction, Design Dennis Keeley: Photography

Waiting | 01/18/2000 (Eyeball Records)

01. Porcelain (4:40) 02. This Side of Brightness (3:35) 03. Ian Curtis (3:47) 04. Introduction (1:58) 05. Streaks in the Sky (4:30) 06. In Transmission (3:41) 07. Dying in New Brunswick (4:06) 08. Dotted Line (4:19) 09. Where the Circle Ends (3:11)

Album Review: No Review. Album Credits: Tim Gilles: Mastering Charles Newman: Engineer Mike: Guitar Thursday: Main Performer Sal Villanueva: Producer, Engineer Alan Douches: Mastering Dennis Keeley: Photography, Cover Photo