Discharge's Grave New World album has a reputation... and it isn't a good one. I've heard people tearing down this record for years, but I'd never actually listened to it, and just accepted the critiques on blind faith. However, when I saw the record was available from Tim's collection, alongside a few of the band's classics, I figured that maybe the time was right to see if it was as bad as everyone says.
After seeing that Jeff had Grave New World available from Tim's collection, I immediately queued it up on Spotify to listen to it on the car ride home. Sometimes I can enjoy the shambles of a band trying to do something different, so I was kind of excited to check out this messy Discharge (yes, I'm aware of how that sounds)... however, I only made it partway into the second song when I texted Jeff from the car to say no thanks and that he could sell it through eBay. It was a rough listen and I could easily see why people generally do not like this album. But then months later when I was posting about the Ignorance record from Discharge, I thought that I might want to try Grave New World again.
Look, I totally get why people wouldn't like this album, but there is something about being the contrarian that attracts me, and after approaching Grave New World knowing what to expect, I didn't think it was terrible. Sure it's A TERRIBLE DISCHARGE RECORD, but taken out of that context I found that I could kind of enjoy it (although it would be better if they cut the 15 minute long song The Downward Spiral). Since I have affection for owning bad records from bands that I really like, I reached back out to Jeff to see if he still had that copy of Grave new World. My luck, my loss... he did.
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