Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 295

I'd say the big difference between those two songs is that "Holy Water" has that gorgeous, massive chorus that could fill a stadium and "Jenny" has a godawful flat anticlimax of a hook that completely ruins any momentum the song had going. but yes to everything you said as well

 

Also none of these songs are, in a technical sense, out of tune. You might find them grating. But they're on-key.

 

Holy Water is like a TBS version of a War on Drugs song and it's awesome.

 

oh no...I’m right with you on this.

 

I always saw TBS as a cautionary tale for fans - be careful what you wish for. I love Shaun and John (love The Needles The Space) both as people and as musicians but I would agree that the records post-NA have been quite stale over all.

Would have it been better if Fred came back? Who knows but one would hope ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Every time I remember Andy Jackson was almost in TBS instead of Fazzi, I think of what a catchy album they would’ve probably made with him

 

I do agree Jenny’s chorus falls flat but I like the rest of the song enough to make up for it. I think Miami’s chorus is fantastic tho. It’s short and sweet and totally unique against the rest of their discog. Plus that little swooping guitar lick in the background is perfect.

I think the run of C songs on NA is where it in general is lacking, ironically starting with Cut, but the following 3 are my bottom 3 on that record. They all kinda feel like the same song and none of them are very interesting.

 

Carpathia best song on the album challenge

 

It's between that, Swing, and EMG for me. And maybe New Again.

But those are pretty much the only 4 from that album I revisit very often (As in, I listen to them once in a while and and not so much for the rest of the album lol). Every once in a while I'll listen to Summer Man or Capital M-E too.

 

EMG and Where My Mouth Is. Daz it.

 

These two and Sink Into Me are the only songs I ever seek out from this album.

 

Carpathia and EMG are two of my overall most played TBS songs.
I used to love Swing, but now I find the chorus to be very boring and anti climatic

 

Everything Must Go

Swing
Summer Man
Lonely Lonely
Where My Mouth Is

Carpathia


Don't need anything else from this album

 

Carpathia
Where My Mouth Is
EMG
Swing
Summer Man
Catholic Knees
Capital M-E
Cut Me Up Jenny
New Again
Sink Into Me
Lonely Lonely

 

::taps microphone::

*testing, testing*

"Carpathia stinks."

 

much like El Paso, i neverrrrrr understood the love that song got.

 

“Carpathia” is getting hate now?

 

Are we ranking New Again songs? Okay!

Cut Me Up Jenny
Summer, Man
Swing
Lonely, Lonely
Carpathia
Catholic Knees
Everything Must Go
Capital M-E
New Again
Sink Into Me


That’s right.

Also; their b-side “Winter’s Passing” is goddamn incredible. I can understand why they left it off the record since it doesn’t really fit the overall vibe of the record but man... I wish they kept it in somehow. I would have ranked it very high up.

 

Never really got into Winters Passing, but LOVE Didn't See That Coming

 

Love both Winters Passing and Didnt See That Coming

 

I can't resist rankings

Everything Must Go
Carpathia
Where My Mouth Is
Summer Man
New Again
Sink Into Me
Swing
Lonely Lonely
Catholic Knees
Capital ME
Cut Me Up Jenny

 

Wtf this ain't the BLINK thread!

 

Everything must go is so good and the only song I go back to ever

 

Didn’t See That Coming is so good - totally forgot about that for a second.

 

I think the only reason EMG isn't #1 for me is because I wish they touched up the vocals in the chorus and bridge a bit more