Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 105

I'm ready for more! Pretty much anything to get my mind off of Browns preseason football.

 

Are you a fellow browns sufferer?!?!

 

I am. Unfortunately tonight I was also an Indians sufferer too.

 

New American Classic awful? Not voting Decade? When this is all over we need to make a list of all your tbs hot takes lol

 

New American Classic is a top 10 TBS song for me.

 

Me too...
Dude, are you a fellow clevelander?!

 

NAC is not good.

Decade is fine, but Union is better. Decade would have been better if the second half of the song wasn't just "I've got a bad feeling about this" X 100.

 

Yes I am!

Well...grew up in the Painesville area, lived in Mentor while working in Cleveland, now in the Northfield/Macedonia/Twinsburg area and working in Akron.

You?

 

the first two are whatever, little devotional actually makes me hit skip. Adam's vocals are out of control on that one

 

the way Adam sings "answers" for whatever reason has just always really grated on me. The intro is cool though, I will give it that

 

Eastlake, grandparents live in mentor to this day. Haha dude, small world

 

Mentor High School alum over here.

 

Very nice! I lived right across there in Heatherstone for a few years after college. I went to Riverside.

 

Yes it is! Did you go to high school at North?

 

WYWTB is one of those few albums where after all these years, I still don't skip a single song.

 

I don't mind the repetition of "I got a bad feeling about this" a the end of Decade. I actually love it. And just dismissing it as repetition seems kind of lazy to me. Lyrically, yes, it's an undeniable fact that it's repetitive, but Fred starts it out real slow and soft and then builds it louder and louder until it becomes the "I got it bad" scream at the end. Same feeling you have when you wait to long to act on any bad situation. You can see disaster ahead but you don't do anything until it's too late. It works perfectly for me.

 

Yeah, Decade is a top 10 TBS track. love the dynamics and how everything just builds and then drops out with Fred screaming to close. That and Cute Without The E were the two tracks that got me into the band in the first place

 

Again, the song is fine. But Your last couple lines are an insane reach to justify lazy writing, even if Fred sings it well.

 

I don't skip songs on any album really

It's weird how picky people are here

 

I generally only listen to albums where I don't skip songs. TBS is honestly one of the very few exceptions where their good is so good that it's worth putting an album on even if I will skip their garbage songs.

 

I don't think a repetitive lyric always equals lazy song writing. Sometimes the simplest way to do something is the best. To me the way it's delivered is just as important as the words written down and in this case it fits the song perfectly.

 

....holy hell I did. Class 2006

 

Yeah class '06!

 

Haha I figured there was a decent chance that you did. I was class of 2002 (at Riverside)

 

Sure. But none of that is always true. In this case it went way too long. Sometimes less is more.