Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 340

I could absolutely see If I Surrender as a tbs song. Not so much WYWTB era but it definitely shares some similarities with the direction Louder Now was going in. I see it a bit in Hate To See You Go as well.

 

I've been loving his youtube channel lately. He's a very open dude and tells a lot of cool stories from his career. Can't believe he was asked twice to join Dashboard Confessional but didnt take it. Also mentions he auditioned for Breaking Benjamin which would've been an odd pairing.

Sounds like he got back the rights to the Color Fred album, which is why he was able to put the old music videos on his youtube page. Also mentioned he's working on a vinyl repressing of it, and is gonna make a few color variants.
I'd just love if he repressed Terrible Things. That really was a strong album, and it's a shame he mentions how poorly it sold. This song is definitely one of my favorite things he's written:

 

I could see the odd verse or bridge or whatever being plucked from Fred's album for TBS songs (Like Hate to see you go's verse or the overlapping parts of Complaintor as has been mentioned) but overall Fred's album is a little bit "poppier" than TBS I'd say.

 

Yea, Fred's style is definitely more poppy and upbeat than TBS overall. I'd say his solo stuff definitely follows a more conventional style as well.

 

Yeah for sure. I kind of can't believe people are actually saying they could see Color Fred tracks on Louder Now.

 

the only one i think could really fit on a tbs album is minnesota, which also happens to be the best on the album

 

I wouldn't say it's THAT unbelievable but yeah not with the songs as they are now. It would have been so interesting to see what Adam would have added to some of the more TBS-ish ones if Fred had brought them as rough songs during his era though.

 

I would absolutely buy The Color Fred (album) and Terrible Things S/T on vinyl if they were repressed.

 

we’re right and we should say it

color fred songs make more sense fitting on a TBS record than the straylight run song they cover did, and yes i know it originated with adam writing

 

TRACK 1
Set Phasers To Stun

TRACK 2
Bike Scene

TRACK 3
A Decade Under The Influence

TRACK 4
Beat Up Car

Track 5 (hardest for me!)
My Blue Heaven

TRACK 6
New American Classic

TRACK 7
Better Homes And Gardens

TRACK 8
Catholic Knees

TRACK 9
Miami

TRACK 10
Error: Operator

TRACK 11
Everything Must Go

TRACK 12

 

1 You Know How I Do
2 Bike Scene
3 Cute Without the 'E' (Cut from the Team) L
4 There's No 'I' in Team
5 Great Romances of the 20th Century
6 Ghost Man on Third
7 Timberwolves at New Jersey
8 The Blue Channel
9 You're So Last Summer
10 Head Club
11 Slowdance
12 I'll Find A Way

 

I just have no interest in listening to solo Fred for whatever reason. The latest John Nolan solo record on the other hand, is my shit.

 

truly can't imagine how Hate To See You Go, If I Surrender, and Get Out would make sense on the same album as What's It Feel Like to Be A Ghost, Liar, Spin, Error: Operator, Miami, and I'll Let You Live lol

 

His solo material is kinda amazing. Height, Sad Strange Beautiful Dream and Abendigo are all really great

 

sure, but they’d fit right in with twenty twenty surgery and up against lol

 

they absolutely wouldn't, i just didn't want to list every song on the album lol

 

There's no song on Bend To Break with verses that sound anything like the verses on Up Against or Twenty-Twenty Surgery. The bass parts on those tracks alone are totally foreign to anything on that record.

 

divine intervention is also totally out of place on louder now but would fit right in on the color fred stuff

 

now i just want to hear fred’s version

 

I think Divine Intervention fits the vibe of Louder Now pretty well. The acoustic tracks on Bend To Break have a way different vibe.

 

Bend To Break is a relatively straightforward pop-rock record (it's a good one too). The two albums TBS did with Fred are way more musically diverse and interesting than that, especially Louder Now.

 

I loved the song If I Surrender but I never really got into the whole record

 

i like bend to break more than pretty much any TBS album outside of the first two

 

got to meet fred once and he showed me and my friend his vegetable oil car

thats it folks thats the story thanks for comin out