They played it every night of the 10 year TAYF tour, actually. But it seems unlikely they would do it again.
It's kind of a "formulaic" song for that era of the band, but man it's so good, pretty much everything you could want out of a Taking Back Sunday song. If anyone can recommend me bands other than TBS that sound like this, I'd love some recs, active or not. Something about this era/style of production is just so good to me.
Ballad of Sal is one of my favorites. they played it every night at the very first run of TAYF10 shows back in 2012 and i think broke it out a few times during the 2010 reunion shows.
It's funny how I absolutely have never listened to The Color Fred based on name alone. I can't explain that, as I was a huge TBS fan when he left. But thems the facts.
This all reminded me of Bonus Mosh Pt. 2. This song debuted on TV didn't it? I remember conflating that this was a demo in my mind. Listening back, I'm surprised I liked it as much as I did.
I remember I hauled off and bought Breaking Pangaea just cause it was Fred and being surprised how much I didn't like it
June is another band, it may have even had the "recommended for fans of" sticker and I bought it and wasn't impressed
In 2003, I literally bought When Broken is Easily Fixed with no prior idea who they were other than the sticker on the CD said "For Fans of Taking Back Sunday"
Yeah, I remember June too. Bought that album as well, haha. I always thought This Providence and Hidden in Plain View were two of the better bands around that era who had duel vocals and reminded me of early TBS.
Please tell me you have listened to Northstar. Northstar was one of TBS's favorite bands around that time.
I bought sooooo many shitty albums based on the sticker on the front of the CDs back in 2002-2006ish. (Silverstein, Northstar, HIPV, This Providence not included in above statement)
Northstar is one of the best bands that should have been much more massive than they ever got. Pollyanna is a masterpiece.
I know I've told this story (somewhere on this site) but one of my best impulse buys in 2002 was All-American Rejects s/t album at the Hot Topic register. No clue who it was, but it wasn't even in a CD case. It was $5 and was in a paper sleeve with no artwork or anything. Also bought MCR's Bullets and Yellowcard's One for the Kids blindly without having any idea who they were. Some of the blind purchases worked out.
there was a band called Ambry that had stickers advertising similarities to Thursday, Taking Back Sunday, and MCR. that plus the cover art encouraged me to buy it... pretty sure I plagiarized one of their songs on my Myspace page back in 2005 lol
That was kind of the best era to be honest. I remember buying Mean Everything To Nothing without having any idea who the band was based on the cover art and promo sticker... threw it in the CD and it proceeded to completely rewire me.
I don’t think I ever purchased anything based on the hype sticker but I definitely purchased things if the bands were included in liner notes.
Oh yeah, absolutely. Both albums are great but Pollyanna is a classic, got the vinyl reissue last year. I figured I would probably have heard of most recs from around the same era that would come out of that post, (love HIPV, June was fine, never heard of Driver Friendly but I dig it so far) and just wanted to see where the convo would lead us. One of the other bands who really went all-in on dual vocals on their first album was A Thorn for Every Heart - I loved it back in the day but don't revisit it often.