Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 521

Haha ok the snare on HI isnt THAT bad.

 

Song rules

 

A lot of takes goin on in here...

 

I’ve always liked Jenny!

 

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.

 

When the thread has more NA love than 152 love

 

Listening to Louder Now right now, forgot how good this was. I like the subtle Britpop influence it has.

 

Any examples of that? I'm a Britpop fan and somehow I didn't pick up on it lol.

 

I remember listening to an early version of Carpathia on absolutepunk. Man, that was ages ago.

 

I find Adam's vocal affects to be sort of Brit-poppy, particularly stuff like "Miami", "Makedamnsure", "Divine Intervention", etc. The bonus track "Sleep" has got that kinda vibe too.

 

I heard from Fred once that "Liar" was born out of an attempt to write a Strokes song in the vein of "Reptilia". Obviously the end result is quite different but you can kinda hear it

 

Eddie once said something similar about "A Decade Under the Influence" starting as an attempt to write a song similar to The Smashing Pumpkins "1979". Interesting how the songs evolved from those starting places but you can still sort of hear it in their construction

 

I know its been talked to death about the lack of Fazzi’s voice on New Again, but goddamn this video just makes another case for how good he was. Just listen to those harmonies.

 

he's insanely talented. he filled in effortlessly for Envy On The Coast on their tours too recently.

 

i saw envy play in like, some loft apartment above a surf shop on long island in like 2010 and fazzi was on the drums and it was awesome lol

 

Oh holy crap. I completely forgot about this show, but I went to that. Wild.

 

That EOTC live album is so goddamn good. Fazzi forever.

Edit: Another thing I’d like to add to this is that Fazzi is genuinely the nicest band dude I’ve ever met. Same with Fred.

 

Without the context of the post above yours I thought this was Japanese post-rock band Envy and honestly, that sounds sick. EOTC ruled too, though.

 

Huh, I get what you mean now. That's pretty neat actually.

 

I relistened to New Again because of this thread and woof... I know there's an impulse to critically re-evaluate "underrated" albums but this thing really ain't great. Adam's all over the place with his vocal delivery and pacing, the guitars squeltch and the main leads follow the vocal melody, the lyrics indulge their worst impulses, the intensity of the performances is all mismatched to the compositions, and the production is clearly by someone who does not understand why people like this band. Such a letdown, especially coming off Louder Now, which is like the pinnacle of third wave emo as radio rock.

I'd have kept about 4 songs and rerecorded all of them except "Everything Must Go" (which I'd remaster). Summer, Swing, Carpathia, EMG

 

Pretty much my exact list of what would make a good EP

I don't think the rest is worth trying to save lol

 

Is it true that the producer kept MF’s vocals off New Again because they thought he sang too well? I remember my first listen, it being so apparent that they no longer were doing the classic TBS dual-vocal thing.

 

Adam's vocals are painful to listen to on this album, which is why I dislike it so much. It'd be so much better if he wasn't clenching his gahdamn jaw on every single song. I remember the first time I finished listening to it (plus the bonus tracks), I realized that I was clenching my jaw too. This album gave me physical pain lmao.
On relistens it's grown on me though.