Why does everything require no notes? I feel like I feel this expression more than I see any "notes".
The new song is fine. Adam’s voice, especially on the intro, is nails on the chalkboard for me. John’s parts are my favorite part of the song, and usually I’m not even much of a John fan.
If y’all wanna reward the band putting out boring material then go for it? I didn’t say it’s terrible - just a total snooze. I thought them taking 7 years to follow up Tidal Wave was to do something fresh and exciting. This single ain’t that at all to me. This sounds like a b-side to Tidal Wave to me. Also, New Again isn’t my favorite TBS record (that’s WYWTB) but that album has stronger tracks than this IMO. John’s parts are indeed good here though. Too bad it’s not utilized enough ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Still don’t understand how people are disagreeing with you and actually think this song is great. The best parts are John’s/the outro for sure!
You're just continuing the conversation by engaging. Every morning, I pull myself out of bed, lazily drag myself across the floor to the bathroom, look into the mirror and say to my hollow reflection: "Now tell me that you're better And you rather just forget that Things have gone so far" Then, with renewed energy, I start my day.
I get folks being a fan of this but if anyone is scoffing at people who think this is boring then idk what to tell them… The band could have written this a decade ago and it wouldn’t have impressed me then either. John’s great though!
Pretty sure the obvious main reason it took so long was that there was a global pandemic, which threw a wrench in their lives and plans (as it did many other people’s).
Whenever a band releases a song and it's a simple title and that title is just repeated so lazily throughout the whole song, I find that boring. It's such a generic concept and does very little I find interesting.
I don’t think that’s the case though. The band said they were gonna take a while before the new record well before the pandemic and many musicians wrote during the pandemic thanks to the wonders of file sharing/zoom. I would understand if the band didn’t go back on tour because of how much the pandemic impacted their lives (totally understandable) but they’ve been touring and writing for a while now so..
Is there a shorthand for the pandemic like BC. AD. CP (Covid Pandemic). PC (Post COVID) Just curious Because I have a suggestion.
This is the more interesting question that’s been had in this thread for a while lol I can’t believe it’s been 3+ years already and don’t know how to categorize timeframes lol
@youll be fine makes one snooze joke and you all shit yourself laughing and it’s the talk of the office? But I make HUNDREDS of on par, if not better, and everyone ices me?
All I know is I'm glad they'll finally have an album out because they've owed me one for like five years now, their personal lives be damned
They’ve said repeatedly that they were planning on recording in 2020, but the pandemic messed with their plans. Which was especially hard because they work best when they’re all in the same room, and they live in different states. I’m sure there were other factors, too, some of which might’ve likewise been affected by the pandemic. Like, maybe when things opened up they needed to prioritize playing some shows together again, for various reasons? Maybe they had to sort out new label contract stuff? Maybe there were additional personal life things we don’t know and don’t need to know?
I am very aware that there have been other endemics and pandemics that have not changed shorthand. We don't say PSF (Post Spanish Flu), but I also think that this pandemic is unique especially with how connected the world seems to be now compared to the past. We just have more information circling around all the time and we have different plans for how to handle these situations so I think we will see the effects on the world for some time from this. I do realize that they changed it to BCE and CE for Before Common Era and Common Era to get rid of the religious origins, but still COVID seems so important for modern world history
agreed, there's some solid songs but as a whole it's alright, it sucks it ended up becoming their black sheep album and they never play anything off it anymore. I'd take sink into me lol but yeah, i think it was adam who later reflected that he or the band regrets putting an album out after louder now sounding the way new again sounds. it was weaker production and didn't punch the way louder now did. that's why they went back to eric valentine for self titled so john and shaun could have the recording experience.