Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 546

Halfway thru my Tidal Wave revisit, and “I Felt It Too” still gives me chills the same way it did the first time I heard it. One of favorite TBS songs of all time.

 

Finished 152. I appreciate the vibes, didn’t love the auto tune, pitch correction. Smiles was a stand out. I like that it’s a tight 30 minutes and TBS’s take on ballady dream pop on this one. That was super fun to do a run through on a bunch of records on a band I’ve been sleeping on for over a decade. The Fred Era is my favorite but it’s wild how different these albums with John and Shaun are to the OG releases.

If they do a Louder Now tour I will 100% scoop tickets. I really hope they do a record with Fred next. Also I love people showing up to hear the TBS hits on this tour are going to get their brains melted by Foxing opening. Will probably go back and listen to their first 3. Louder Now tour with AVA is a top 10 shows of all time for me. Shoutout to The Rave in Milwaukee. Lots of special memories at that venue growing up.

 

I'm not a fan of the autotune/pitch correction either but I've come realize that if it wasn't there, the vocals wouldn't mesh as well with the sleek/shiny production so I just take them as there and try to focus on something else on the music.
I am so stoked for Foxing. I'm 4 albums into their discography and they're awesome!

 

That there are actually people out there that think New Again is their best album, let alone a better album than S/T is really mind-boggling. S/T has some signature TBS songs on it, New Again has arguably 2 ok/good songs on it...

 

152
new again
happiness is
WYWTB
TAYF
louder now
tidal wave
self titled

 

See, this is a great example of what I was talking about before.

 

152
Tidal Wave
WYWTB
Happiness Is
TAYF
Louder Now
Self-titled
New Again

 

152
WYWTB
New Again

…haven’t listened to another full album besides those three in too long to have any other well defined opinions, lol. Those get the job done for me.

 

So where did all the drama with TBS end up? Are they still a band?

 

Why would TBS still not be a band?

 

Foxing opened their holiday show at least once that I can remember, and they were sooooooo enjoyable

 

So is Mark moving his whole album thing around now that he and Eddie are cool again? Looks like they in a studio working on / taking promo shots for something.

 

Maybe Eddie is helping him make better music.

 

I don't think I had seen the white Follow the Money hoodie colorway before.

 

it’s their best album :)

 

TAYF
WYWTB
Self titled
Happiness Is
Louder now
—
Tidal wave
—
—
152

(listened to new again once when it came out and have never revisited it)

self titled is pretty much perfect, happiness is is good but has endured less to me over time, louder now has always been overrated (although with some bangers), tidal wave is mostly a skip, 152 is awful and the most boring thing they’ve ever done

 

el oh el

 

So you've chosen violence.

 

Loving self-titled and hating 152 is truly, as the kids say, “cursed.”

 

You can call 152 a lot of things but “boring” cannot be one of them.

 

Self-titled is just Louder Now with the same shitty EV production but worse guitar playing.

 

and WAY worse songs

 

Eric Valentine is not a shitty producer, I stand my ground.