Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 518

I love “sink into me”

 

Sink Into Me should have sunk off the final tracklist tbh

 

nah good track

 

i lovedddd Sink Into Me.

specifically these lines:

"Well I'd like to see all roles reversed
To watch you hang on every word
I'd like to see you have your way
I keep my grammar well rehearsed
Correct each stutter every slur
Come on and have your way with me"

"I'd like to be in all the kind
Who could sing, but don't 'cause you're shy
That way I'd live inside your throat
And hang from every word you spoke"

 

The clapping and heys ruined it for me a lil bit

 

It's a bad song and one of the worst singles they could have chosen from on NA to follow-up on their biggest album.

 

Did not realize Sink Into Me was so polarizing. I’ve always dug that song. The only time I saw TBS during New Again was when they opened for Blink in 2009 with Weezer, so I think they only played 3 NA songs during their set

 

Sink Into Me rips, so much fun

 

Sink Into Me is a lot of fun, that riff is great and I loved that they extended the ending instrumental part a few more measures when they played it live. That said, the verse lyrics could’ve cooked a little longer.

 

While I don’t think its a bad song, I do agree that it shouldn’t have been the lead single. It should’ve been the 2nd. If we’re going by timeline of when the album came out, it should’ve been Swing, Sink Into Me right around the same time as the album release, do a soft push of Lonely Lonely sometime in July then release Summer Man in late August as the final single from the album.

Like it was said a few posts ago, Warner Bros. fumbled the bag pretty hard here.

 

How about Long Time Comin’

 

I’m not in the industry and am no-thought-head-empty on what would’ve been good or bad singles. Unless there are stats I’m not aware of, seems clear to me that “Sink Into Me” was “a bad single” insofar as their career didn’t exactly gain momentum at that moment.

Separate from whatever the album did for the band or how they personally feel about it, though, I personally love the sound and feel of New Again, and would include “Sink Into Me” in that. The “hey”s and claps don’t hit as hard as they maybe could, idk, but I really have fun with the energy there. And, the chorus to me is pretty strong classic TBS.

Anyways, at least we all came together in loving 152, which truly is the best version of TBS grown up.

 

Insane that song and Didn’t See That Coming didn’t make the album but Cut Me Up Jenny did

 

Probably not wrong, but that also not how albums used to be promoted. The multiple singles prior to release feels like a newer marketing ploy in the streaming era. I remember it always being one single a couple months before the album released, then it would still ride off that single for another couple months before releasing a second single, then a third about three or four months after that.

 

Folks, we have come full circle!

Taking Back Sunday 2009:

Go on tell me that you're better
And you'd rather just forget
how things have gone so far
Yeah tell that me that you're better
And you'd rather just forget
That things have gone too far

Mark O'Connell 2024:

"I'm better than you,
why am I so much better than you?
I don't know why I'm better than you
But I just am and that's the way it is!

 

And winter passing

 

That’s true. I keep forgetting that bands/artists flooding the zone with singles is a relatively recent development. Still though, Swing should’ve been the lead single to capitalize off the Louder Now momentum.

 

Long Time Comin absolutely rips and it makes me sad to see how few streams it has on Spotify. Didn't See That Coming also should've made the cut.....speaking of, was that song taken off streaming recently? Spotify only has the Orensanz live version.

 

Winter Passing is a good song but very much feels like a B-side

 

I also recall the band speaking very highly of Winter Passing during the making of New Again, and they were all excited about it, and then it didn't even make the album.

 

Not sure, but the Orensanz version is so good with that keys and strings outro. Also I’m just a sucker for a song where a 12-string acoustic is the focal point of the whole thing

 

That didn't stop them from putting "Summer, Man" and "Capital M-E" on the album

 

Sink Into Me being the lead single felt weird considering they'd been playing New Again and maybe Everything Must Go live prior to the album's release (I know at Fazzi's first show at the Crazy Donkey they played two, and I think it was those two, but New Again might have been Carpathia). They also released an early version of Carpathia as a free download if you bought their holiday cards the December before the album came out as well. Carpathia has that fun bassline (even if the lyrics are a bit ehhhh). I just feel like Sink Into Me was a "written to be a hit" song that felt a little forced to me.

 

I am pro-Sink Into Me and anti-Capital M-E and Cut Me Up Jenny, but I like the rest of the album.

 

Weren't they excited about it because it was written in an atypical (for them) time signature? Or it had a time signature change in it? I think it makes sense that it's not on the album tonally, but I do wish it had gotten more recognition. It wasn't even a bonus track for a pre-order or different edition of the album. They dropped it nearly a year later (oddly enough probably right around the time they started plotting to bring John and Shaun back into the band) as a download.