History YMMV / TheFallOfTroy

* TrueArtIsAngsty: Much of ''Manipulator'' was apparently inspired by the band’s then-recent loss of friends due to drugs.

* EarWorm: Plenty of them. Any Thomas Erak clean vocal spot is usually rife with this. The best example is probably “F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X.”, which may explain why it became a BlackSheepHit.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: “I Just Got This Symphony Goin’”. The screamed vocals work ''so well'', and not to mention that awesome intro riff.
** It's even better [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRxp-rVHos live.]]
** Lots of it, really. ''Phantom on the Horizon'' may be the band’s best album, but the first three albums have lots of great songs, too.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: It’s not uncommon for them to be described as “Music/AtTheDriveIn meets Music/TheMarsVolta”, which is somewhat strange for this trope since the core of the two bands was the same two members. The fact that Thomas Erak even sounds quite a bit like Cedric Bixler Zavala probably has a lot to do with why the comparison is made so often.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: Much of ''Manipulator'' was apparently inspired by the band’s then-recent loss of friends due to drugs.

* BaseBreaker: Fans weren’t too fond of the simpler sound of ''In the Unlikely Event''. ''Manipulator'' also got this, but to a lesser extent.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: Much of ''Manipulator'' was apparently inspired by the band’s then-recent loss of friends due to drugs.

** Lots of it, really. ''Phantom on the Horizon'' may be the band’s MagnumOpus, but the first three albums have lots of great songs, too.

* MagnumOpus: ''Phantom on the Horizon'' is usually considered to be this. Some fans prefer the earlier recordings of these songs on the ''Ghostship Demos'', but those seem to be the two most popular choices.

* EarWorm: Plenty of them. Any Thomas Erak clean vocal spot is usually rife with this. The best example is probably "F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X." which may explain why it became a BlackSheepHit.

** “Macaulay [=McCulkin=]“, a StalkerWithACrush song that gets worse and worse as it goes, eventually ending in “[[IfICantHaveYou I’ll be waiting on the side of your house with an empty bodybag and a loaded .45]]”

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "I Just got this Symphony Goin'." The screamed vocals work ''so well'', and not to mention that awesome intro riff.

** 'Macaulay [=McCulkin=]', a StalkerWithACrush song that gets worse and worse as it goes, eventually ending in "[[IfICantHaveYou I'll be waiting on the side of your house with an empty bodybag and a loaded .45]]"
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: ''In the Unlikely Event'' and to a lesser extent ''Manipulator'' received complaints for being less complex than the band's previous material.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: Much of ''Manipulator'' was apparently inspired by the band's then-recent loss of friends due to drugs.

** 'Macaulay [=McCulkin=]', a StalkerWithACrush song that gets worse and worse as it goes, eventually ending in "[[IfICantHaveYou I'll be waiting on the side of your house with an empty bodybag and a loaded .45]]"

** 'Macaulay [=McCulkin=]', a StalkerWithACrush song that gets worse and worse as it goes.

** ''Macaulay McCulkin'', a StalkerWithACrush song that gets worse and worse as it goes.

* NightmareFuel: The second track of ''Phantom on the Horizon'' (see ImAHumanitarian)

* NightmareFuel: One of the tracks on ''Phantom on the Horizon'' is about the crew of the ship getting lost after the encounter with the ghost ship, running out of supplies, and turning to cannibalism out of desperation.

NightmareFuel: One of the tracks on ''Phantom on the Horizon'' is about the crew of the ship getting lost after the encounter with the ghost ship, running out of supplies, and turning to cannibalism out of desperation.