Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 529

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.

 

That sticker also convinced me back then.

 

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.

 

One of the worst CDs I ever purchased based on those FFO stickers was by the band Wakefield. Woof.

 

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.

 

dropping in the absolute goat of all tbs deep cuts.

 

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.

 

The best of the best. It's easily a top ten TBS song. easily.

 

Similarly to how they brought back there's no I in team when shaun and John rejoined - I would lose it if Fred actually does join again on tour and they brought this into the setlist. would be one of the best deep-cut tip of the hat to OG fans a band could do. I don't know if they've ever even played it live before?

 

lenny my age - this u?

 

21 years ago......I need a long nap.

 

It would be weird to bust out a demo song that never went beyond the demo stage.

 

This!

Also this one sounds so much like TBS:

 

While I don't disagree with you, it wouldn't surprise me if more people in any given crowd at one of their shows have listened to it more often than some of the tracks from their last five albums.

(this is not a dig at the albums)

 

That’s an entirely different point though.

 

AMBRY MENTIONED

I love this record

 

Seeing the Just Surrender album art unlocked a memory of running some app on my college MacBook during classes back in like '08/'09. You'd start some pandora radio station and it would rip songs in terrible quality and put directly into itunes.

 

WAIT JUST A MINUTE.

I bought TWO June albums and liked them both, especially their second album, Make It Blur.

I was originally thinking of The Junior Varsity when I responded to this.

 

The hidden track starting at the 9:59 mark is soooo good.

This one was somewhat popular?

 

I just got to that this morning, fantastic stuff. I know Josh was on drums but I wasn't expecting Coheed vibes from the Arsonists Wife

 

loved that first June record

 

Lmao this was my first pick in the Record of the Week thread and damn near everyone hated it (I also thought it was mostly bad after a first listen in over 15 years). I think I heard about these guys from a post from Eddie on the TBS website back in the day. Better Scene Than Heard is a banger though.

 

Man this is bringing back a flood of memories. In 2007, Bayside headlined the Victory Records tour and openers were The Sleeping and June. I called the venue prior to the show for set times and they told me June was going on right before Bayside so I purposely showed up at that time and the venue had it wrong and I missed June.