152 was an enjoyable few listens but I've had no desire to return to it and I hate how short it is. Definitely better than TW and S/T, but not sure I would put it above any of their other albums
152 is great. I may like HI better, I’d have to listen to it again as it’s been awhile. But those two are the best post reunion to me by far. I’d put both over WYWTB and LN. TAYF may always be my favorite due to nostalgia and all that, even though it’s not their best work overall by far.
I love the "Sink in, sink in"s that Matt does for backing vocals in Sink Into Me live. He should've sang more.
152 is great. Doesnt overstay it's welcome, has them trying new sounds, production is so smooth. It probably could've used another song like S'old to keep the energy up, though.
I'm listening to Happiness Is right now, and woof I HATE the sound of the drums on this. The snare sounds like a trash can.
I listen to 152 all the time. Absolutely love Lightbringer, New Music Friday, The One, and Keep Going. Amphetamine, S’old, Quit Trying, and The Stranger are all pretty good too. Listen to I Am The Only One Who Knows You and Juice 2 Me the least, they’re the weakest tracks for me, but overall album is solid to me.
If you don’t like “Keep Going,” you’re probably a fake TBS fan. Other than the modern-sounding “whoa-ohs,” that chorus is straight off Louder Now, imo.
The biggest problem with the S/T album is the lack of John. You bring him back and then there’s barely dual vocals, wtf?
I don't hear it. Maybe the lyrical content sounds like their old stuff but it doesn't sound like any of their old stuff to me at all.
I’m an album guy like 95% of the time these days. The only TBS album I don’t listen to is NA. Otherwise it’s full album plays, even the albums that have a few duds on them. I’ll let the audience decide which songs those are from which records.
Can’t keep up with all the BTS, but my interest would be peaked if Adam, John, Shawn, and Fred wrote a record together. Could be persuaded to make it out to a Louder Now play through if the lineup was rad. Extremely unlikely but they headlined the Louder Now release with AVA as direct support and that was in my top 5 shows of all time. I would throw up if they ran it back.
Yeah I used to be a "throw everything on shuffle" kind of person, and somewhere along the line it turned into listening to only full albums (and the occasional curated playlist but I don't have the patience to make them, so it's usually just when somebody makes one for me). I have some issues with the tracking on a couple of their records, but I think for the most part they balanced 152 really well and it would be very jarring to hear Lightbringer not go into New Music Friday at this point. It being kind of on the shorter side definitely makes it easy to just listen to as a whole, anyway.