Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 440

Ranking New Again over anything isn't ok

 

I love the commitment some of you have to the bit of considering that very middle-of-the-road rock album some abnormality of awfulness.

 

Once again begging someone to make a New Again thread

 

pretty sure this thread would completely die if the bimonthly reassessment and ranking of New Again went somewhere else. it's not like we do anything else in here!

 

The only misses for me on self-titled are Money, Faith, and This Is All Now, but you could take a few of the demos from the deluxe, replace those songs and it would probably be in my top 3.

 

I always really liked This Is All Now

 

Top tier

 

This Is All Now is great.

 

one of my s/t favourites for sure, John absolutely murders that bridge

REPENT REPEEEEEEENT

 

Mackey Sasser definitely should have made the album.

 

and You Were Right!

more like You Were Wrong leaving it off the album amirite fellas

 

Eh, the demos are pretty whatever to me. The whole known body of work that is the self-titled era has no more than an EP's worth of material that I'm into.

"This is All Now" rules and is clearly top tier TBS, though, lol. Dunno how one listens to that album, considers it mostly quite good, and then picks that as one to cut.

 

imo new again is more consistent than the s/t but they're about equal in my mind, their faults are just different, e.g. i'm guessing adam's voice is worked over on the s/t but i think he sounds pretty good there, and he sounds just awful on new again

 

"you were right" is one of my absolute favorite tbs songs, it should've been officially released in some fucking capacity (other than unstreamable bonus disc) already

i run cooler on the remaining demos than most ppl in this thread, for instance i prefer "you got me" to "morning sickness" even though the vibe of the latter is something i wanted them to tap into more on the actual record

 

finally, if someone told me new again was their favorite tbs record, i could almost guess where they were coming from, because it is like an alternate universe taking back sunday where their grungier and weirder aspects were more foregrounded. it's a messy record but some people like mess. to my knowledge no one has ever said the s/t is their favorite tbs record

 

Saw TBS last night and my friends and I had a wager on how many times Adam would say "Ladies and gentleman, John Nolan on the gee-tar!"

 

Well how many times was it????

 

Only time will tell. Legend says he’s STILL saying it.

 

John sobbing, desperately trying to remove the instrument from his body, while Adam stands there in a trance, eyes rolled back, pointing and repeatedly uttering,

"Ladies and gentleman, John Nolan on the gee-tar!"

 

The over/under was 4.5.

He said it 3 times which honestly was a little disappointing

 

I aaaaaaaam ready to rank agaaaaain

 

ive got the demos and Adam and John talking about each song if you need the tracks.

 

I could have sworn these were all on Spotify before, guess they took them down at some point?