Grade's first album And Such Is Progress, was included in Alternative Press's 10 Essential Metal-core Classics, and in 2008 they were featured in AP Issue 240 as one of the 23 bands who helped shape punk, alongside such legendary bands as BLACK FLAG, BAD BRAINS, FUGAZI, CRO-MAGS, SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, UNBROKEN, DESCENDENTS, DRIVE LIKE JEHU and HUSKER DU.
Grade's albums (LP) include Such is Progress (1996)(1998 re-issue), Separate the Magnets (1997), Under the Radar (1999), The Embarrassing Beginning (2000), and Headfirst Straight to Hell (2001). They have played and toured with hundreds of influential bands like Fugazi, Jimmy Eat World, At The Drive-In, Cave-In, The Explosion, Taking Back Sunday and were signed to Victory Records.
Weave
Grade Lyrics
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The lyrics of Grade's song "Weave" is a contemplative reflection on the confusing strategies and inhibitions that can spoil everything. The singer is uncertain about where to begin and where to stop, and wonders how one can build a better future. The lines "we don't inherit we just borrow from the future lend me the future and I'll build" can suggest that the future is not a predetermined destiny that we are born into, but something that we can actively shape if we borrow its potential and work to build it. The lyrics also touch upon the idea of social disdain being part of an evolutionary process towards deactivating the self-infliction of incapability, suggesting that rejection of certain societal norms and values can be a way of breaking free from limitations and realizing one's potential.
Overall, the lyrics of "Weave" convey a sense of uncertainty, but also of possibility and agency. The singer seems to be grappling with the challenge of navigating a confusing and inhibiting world, but also recognizes the potential to create something better if they can borrow from the future and build on it.
Line by Line Meaning
our strategies lend themselves to confusion
Our plans and tactics often lead to misunderstandings and complications
our inhibitions spoil everything
Our fears and hesitations ruin every opportunity we get
where should I begin
I am unsure of where to start
where do I stop
I don't know when to end
where do I start
I don't know where to begin
we don't inherit we just borrow from the future
We don't own anything, we only use what will eventually belong to those who come after us
lend me the future and I'll build my social disdain is apart of an evolution
Let me have access to what's to come and I'll use it to improve myself. Rejecting societal norms is part of progress
to deactivate the selfinfliction of incapability
To stop causing harm and limitations to oneself due to lack of ability
lend me the future and I'll build
Give me hope for tomorrow, and I'll work towards creating a better future
I'll shut out from commercial intercourse but with this
I'll disconnect from the consumerist society, but with this new perspective
where I stop where do I start lend me the future and I'll build
I am uncertain of where to begin or end, but with access to tomorrow, I can create something great
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Peermusic Publishing
Written by: GREG TAYLOR, KEVIN FINLAYSON, KYLE BISHOP, MATTHEW JONES, SHAWN MAGILL
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redmachine Kieran
I love you for uploading this and educating people on Grade.. one of the best bands ever!!!!
DookieFlea
SO FUCKING HARD TO FIND GRADE ON YOUTUBE. THANK YOU! Classic Punk - screamo before it existed - a thousand times better than the music past off as "screamo" or"emo" nowadays.
Richard Storrow
my favourite. years ahead of everyone else, killer live
phuckingemailmehere
man i love this album it took some getting used to because i had seperate the magnets first then later found this cd at a show (got lucky) but you can order just about any band no matter how small i guarantee if you goto revhq.com you will find anything from back in the day vinyls splits the good hardcore.....they have this album so that tells ya something they even have the chokehold content with dying album its remasted and sounds awesome!! Both awesome Canadian Hardcore!!
Scott Moses
Yeah it sucks that all the people today that love this kind of music and love Grade has never heard any of this old stuff... IMO I think i thinks its there best stuff... Kids this is what started screamo and music like this... Enjoy :)
Stig Tripp
And here I thought all the screamo bands of that era were American or European, this is fuckin' awesome \m/
Scott Moses
your welcome! I never got to put all of this album up due to copy rights.. i might still work on it though! keep a look out!
Toni Mars
Great!
red rey
I only know of this band from Much Music in Canada!
phuckingemailmehere
after the dreads the albums were dreadful haha