Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 523

That would be pretty sick! It's sill cool that you got to contact them about it.

 

Neil's screams in those two first albums are so perfect. I wish they'd bring him back on for new stuff!

He's a standup comic now for those who don't know and he's really funny!

 

Neil is awesome! He and I recently opened up for the Cash Cab guy, it was a blast lol

 

And yet, somehow, drummers are like “these are the best drum sounds ever!”. What gives?

 

Yeah I don't get it. Bill Stevenson and Neal Avron are the GOATs for drum sound production imo. Bill is a godlike drummer so that makes sense lol

 

to be fair to Eric Valentine, Third Eye Blind’s self-titled and Queens of The Stone Age’s Songs For The Deaf are two of the best-sounding rock records of all time imo. not much else he has done really does it for me that I can recall, and I certainly struggle with the drum sounds he got with this band (S/T in particular). I do remember reading somewhere I think though that Mark really pushed for that exaggeratedly boxy kick sound, but I could be making that up.

 

I think some of it is a matter of scheduling not working out? (If I remember correctly, there'd been brief talks about El Paso but it didn't amount to anything in the end).

For a few of the TAYF10 shows, he would come out and do his parts on those songs. They also flew Michelle out for the acoustic set they recorded in LA for that DVD (she pops up at shows in Boston from time to time and has come out for her parts if those songs are on the setlist; she did it for their 20 year tour too).

 

you’re not making it up, I remember reading that too. oddly enough my fav drum sounds from this band was on New Again. never cared for the rest of them.

 

Hi Mark!

 

I doubt you’re making that up, considering that almost every TBS album has terrible-sounding drums haha

 

This thread has taken me on a journey. I've gone from not giving too many shits about TBS for a while, to getting excited about a tour with Fred, to now me wishing we could get a New Again tour. ITS NOT EVEN A GOOD ALBUM

 

fixed

 

This got me to laugh out loud.

 

Fixed your fix.

 

Louder Now really holds up for me.

 

Louder Now is still my favorite. It aged surprisingly well.

 

Happiness Is is their best album. Shoot me!

 

Couldn't agree more

 

Learning how to play what’s it feel like to be a ghost to shake the cobwebs off on playing guitar and wow am I rusty but damn that song is so much fun to play

 

Hi Eddie!

 

I pretty strongly disagree about the dual vocals being a mainstay for this band. I mean, we haven’t gotten them in heavy dose since LN. They’ve delivered five records without it (outside of an occasional song or parts of a song) & even if you don’t like those records as a whole, they’ve proven well enough that they don’t need dual vocals to write good songs.

I would be curious as to why though. They can obviously do it, as evident most recently with The One, so it’s pretty clearly a deliberate effort to move away from that to focus more on harmonies and flourishes.

 

TIL that's not Nolan screaming lol

 

IMO Matt Squire’s production on Erase Me is a hell of a lot better than the production the band did on Voyuerist (one of my favorite records by them too) lol

 

It was Fazzi and Matt Rubano who were trying to get weird with it and I loved it personally. They needed to switch it up but between going with the wrong producer and pushing back on some classic TBS sounds/styles - they held themselves back a little bit on NA

 

It’s better than any of the records they’ve put out post-NA ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Happiness Is holds up pretty well though and is easily their best record with Nolan and Shaun.