Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 521

So you're saying this is their St. Anger? /J

 

Really?? I thought they were the best snare sounds they’ve had since WYWTB.

 

I listen to 152 all the time. Absolutely love Lightbringer, New Music Friday, The One, and Keep Going. Amphetamine, S’old, Quit Trying, and The Stranger are all pretty good too. Listen to I Am The Only One Who Knows You and Juice 2 Me the least, they’re the weakest tracks for me, but overall album is solid to me.

 

If you don’t like “Keep Going,” you’re probably a fake TBS fan. Other than the modern-sounding “whoa-ohs,” that chorus is straight off Louder Now, imo.

 

I still pretty much listen to 152 as a whole record vs. a song here or there.

 

The biggest problem with the S/T album is the lack of John. You bring him back and then there’s barely dual vocals, wtf?

 

I’ve never seen anyone who matters dislike 152. Me and all my pals love 152.

 

you and all your pals?

 

to be fair I like maybe 3.5 of their records so I am probably a fake fan

 

like clockwork

 

I don't hear it. Maybe the lyrical content sounds like their old stuff but it doesn't sound like any of their old stuff to me at all.

 

Haha ok the snare on HI isnt THAT bad.

 

Song rules

 

A lot of takes goin on in here...

 

I’ve always liked Jenny!

 

I’m an album guy like 95% of the time these days. The only TBS album I don’t listen to is NA. Otherwise it’s full album plays, even the albums that have a few duds on them. I’ll let the audience decide which songs those are from which records.

 

Can’t keep up with all the BTS, but my interest would be peaked if Adam, John, Shawn, and Fred wrote a record together. Could be persuaded to make it out to a Louder Now play through if the lineup was rad. Extremely unlikely but they headlined the Louder Now release with AVA as direct support and that was in my top 5 shows of all time. I would throw up if they ran it back.

 

Yeah I used to be a "throw everything on shuffle" kind of person, and somewhere along the line it turned into listening to only full albums (and the occasional curated playlist but I don't have the patience to make them, so it's usually just when somebody makes one for me).

I have some issues with the tracking on a couple of their records, but I think for the most part they balanced 152 really well and it would be very jarring to hear Lightbringer not go into New Music Friday at this point. It being kind of on the shorter side definitely makes it easy to just listen to as a whole, anyway.

 

When the thread has more NA love than 152 love

 

Listening to Louder Now right now, forgot how good this was. I like the subtle Britpop influence it has.

 

Any examples of that? I'm a Britpop fan and somehow I didn't pick up on it lol.

 

I remember listening to an early version of Carpathia on absolutepunk. Man, that was ages ago.

 

I find Adam's vocal affects to be sort of Brit-poppy, particularly stuff like "Miami", "Makedamnsure", "Divine Intervention", etc. The bonus track "Sleep" has got that kinda vibe too.

 

I heard from Fred once that "Liar" was born out of an attempt to write a Strokes song in the vein of "Reptilia". Obviously the end result is quite different but you can kinda hear it

 

Eddie once said something similar about "A Decade Under the Influence" starting as an attempt to write a song similar to The Smashing Pumpkins "1979". Interesting how the songs evolved from those starting places but you can still sort of hear it in their construction