Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 290

Follow the Format is possibly their best b-side. Love that song.

 

Think there's any sort of connection between the Follow the Format bridge and Another Word for Desperate by straylight?

"What's another word for (I don't need to hear it from you)"
"What's another word for desperate"

 

never considered it actually but it makes total sense!

one of my favorite SR songs as well

 

thanks for posting this, awesome. I love how active this thread is again. that being said I think I prefer the album version in this case, just benefits from that bigger sound, but for the most part I am very much inclined towards the demos from the s/t era lol

 

S/t demos are in my regular TBS rotation, they're so good

 

I am going to shamelessly promote myself and I apologize in advance because it usually drives me nuts when people do this, but I wrote this piece 4 years ago when I saw TBS on the TW tour. It's one of the best things I've written, IMO, but I have nobody to share it with because like 3 of my friends like TBS. It sums up everything I've been thinking reading through this discussion, from them becoming a bit of a nostalgia act/trying not to be:

…On Seeing Taking Back Sunday at 27

 

I could make an argument that Happiness Is and Tidal Wave are the best records they have written. However, TAYF and WYWTB will always remain my favorite.

That said, 35-year-old me would much rather listen to HI and TW than their earlier stuff.

 

I hope we at least see Fred and Matt onstage with them again one day, even if it’s just a one-off performance.

 

I’ll say it every TBS thread, bummed we never got a properly recorded version of this song, especially since the audio is so shitty, haha.

 

God I would love to hear those demos

 

My favorite song of their is probably "Miami", but there are days where it's their actual best non-album track "Your Own Disaster"

 

which version though? There's like three.

 

Yeah I'm of the opinion that their last two albums are the band's best work. Each has quite a few stand out songs that are my favorites by the band. That being said the first two are still two of my favorite albums of all time for pure nostalgia if nothing else.

 

Incredible of Fred to do this.

 

The follow up to TAYF with the same line up would have been huge.

 

"You Were Right" >>>> other songs

 

No one shreds like Fred.

 

Fred > Nolan
All day, every day

 

This is awesome.

 

They should bring Fred back as Eddie's replacement.

 

Get out.




I like them both though

 

I’d be down for a TBS that has BOTH Nolan and Fred

 

it may be well known but i do not know - why did fred leave?

 

The band kicked him out because they felt he was too controlling iirc. I think I remember hearing he wanted a little more compensation too because he claimed to have written most of LN while the guys just goofed around, but who knows really

 

Wasn’t he also a massive jerk to mark and Rubano?