"Counting 5-4-3-2-1" is a song by American

post-hardcore Post-hardcore is a punk rock music genre that maintains the aggression and intensity of hardcore punk but emphasizes a greater degree of creative expression. Like the term " post-punk", the term "post-hardcore" has been applied to a broad conste ...

band

Thursday Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. In countries which adopt the "Sunday-first" convention, it is the fifth day of the week. Name Th ...

, the first single from their fourth album, ''

A City by the Light Divided ''A City by the Light Divided'' is the fourth studio album by Thursday, released by Island Records on May 2, 2006. Background Thursday's third album and major label debut '' War All the Time'' was released on September 15, 2003. Following its re ...

''. "Counting 5-4-3-2-1" was released to radio on April 11, 2006. The song was originally written during the ''

Full Collapse ''Full Collapse'' is the second studio album by American post-hardcore band Thursday (band), Thursday. It was released on April 10, 2001, through Victory Records, to whom the band signed after leaving Eyeball Records. With the addition of guitari ...

''-era, but was re-arranged in a new key and was deemed suitable to be recorded. Keyboardist Andrew Everding commented on the song's meaning and corresponding music video: " ounting 5-4-3-2-1specifically comes from not being happy in the town that you grew up in and wanting to get out as quickly as possible. When we do videos, we send out a call and receive treatments and that one was one of the first ones that we got from Artificial Army. We were originally going to do two videos…a low-budget animated video and then we were going to do another video to connect it, but then we started seeing what the animation was about. We usually go back and forth with ideas. But for the most part, we trust the director. It was our first storyline video but there are some performance elements to it."

Personnel

Geoff Rickly Geoffrey William Rickly (born March 8, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and author, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of rock band Thursday. Rickly is also a member of hardcore punk band United Nations, and the ...

- vocals *Tom Keeley - lead guitar, vocals *Steve Pedulla - rhythm guitar, vocals *Tim Payne - bass guitar *Tucker Rule - drums *Andrew Everding - keyboards, synthesizers

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