yeah I definitely do not like or condone New Again but it's Stairway to Heaven compared to the Self Titled.
I think the bad stuff on both New Again and self titled is mostly equally bad. Self titled just has a more songs I like
New Again songs I like: New Again Sink Into Me Cut Me Up Jenny Carpathia Everything Must Go Tidal Wave songs I like: Death Wolf You Can't Look Back Call Come Running Holy Water Self Titled songs I like: El Paso Faith Best Places to Be a Mom Who Are You Anyway? It Doesn't Feel A Thing Like Falling Sooooo I guess technically I like New Again and Self Titled equally, which is more than Tidal Wave.
I’ve been thinking about getting a New Again tattoo for a while now. Swing is nowhere near my favorite TBS song, but I like the lyric “passion over consequence”. Envisioning a traditional style tattoo with a knife or sword with a banner and “passion over consequence” wrapping around it.
I love the idea of someone close to the band monitoring this thread every so often. Reporting back to management and the band: "Other topics come and go, but they've been arguing about New Again for roughly 4000 posts"
If they judged anything off this thread they would've done a New Again anniversary tour so that's not true
Tidal Wave has about three songs I usually skip (I Felt It Too, Middle Of It All, We Don't Go In There), but that opening run from "Death Wolf" through to "All Excess" is so good that I could never end up putting it below New Again or the self-titled. Plus it has Holy Water, which is my favorite reunion track. Tidal Wave also has a cohesiveness that New Again and self-titled don't really have. So even those songs that I sometimes skip still at least feel like they fit the themes and style of the album.
Cut Me Up Jenny is the only NA song I skip occasionally because of that high pitch shriek Adam does, but I don't outright hate it
The hand motions here are killing me lmao. Also I don't understand why John wears the guitar strap like that. Sounds pretty good though compared to some of the other videos floating around from the tour
New again is bad. But don’t put it on my gravestone. None of my friends would understand and I wouldn’t want that on it anyway.
Further proof that TBS doesn't read this thread, they haven't emergency dropped the album to make people shut up about New Again