Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 532

I'm curious how they'll be spending the time from their last show in mid-December to this tour in mid-August. Eight months is kind of an unusually long amount of empty space for this band, with the exception of the Covid years. They only have a few one-off shows during this time. Wonder if they'll start working on the next batch of songs (with Fred!?!?).

 

They’re going to sit and listen to Mark’s new solo album, learn it and then tour the album front to back.

 

I think @dylan is Mark's burner account btw

 

don't threaten me with a good time!

 

I wonder if they've got stuff planned for the UK when they go over to do that fest there? Or they're just taking some time to rest up after a relatively extensive 2024? Honestly I'm surprised they're doing any kind of tour this year and not just doing a bunch of fest performances (I think this Coheed one takes them out of doing Riot Fest?)

 

God, if I had a dollar for every time I heard this…

 

Follow the Money

 

FOLLOW THE MONEY
FOLLOW YOUR HEART
FOLLOW THE LEADER
LIKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

 

I'm better than you
Why am I so much better than you?
I don't know why I'm better than you
But I just am and that's the way it is

 

I still can't believe these are actually lyrics and not a parody.

 

Has there ever been such meaningful lyrics written?

 

It’s embarrassing how many times I’ve caught myself singing this in a goofy ass voice recently.

 

"But I just am and that's the way it is"

Just hilariously bad

 

Maybe we've been too hard on Bert McCracken.

 

another preview has dropped on IG….

they don’t know
cause they don’t wanna know

 

Kino

 

I just can’t deal with how much I don’t believe Adam can actually sing the songs on 152. The album isn’t bad but he’s not that good of a vocalist. I feel like I can hear the auto tune

 

I isolated the vocals on "The One" before and both Adam and John's voices are noticably modulated at certain parts.

 

TBS could rip out good studio records with autotune for the rest of their career & I would not give a fuck. Who cares? If the songs are good, the production is good, and it’s fun to listen to, then isn’t that great?

At this point I feel I’m only really here for the studio records.

I’ve seen them a handful of times & it’s always been a just fine performance, but fun as hell. Idk that I’ll ever go out of my way to see them again, but something like Fred could pull me out because I’ve never seen them with that lineup.

 

Absolutely. The record is the document that will live forever.

 

Come to think of it, Fred - Adam - Shaun - Nathan - Mitch is in fact a brand new lineup that has only played one song live: the Starland performance of "Liar"

 

When I go see TBS live, it’s more about like…having a shared experience with 2000 other people where we’re yelling the bridge to cute without the e together. Most of the time I don’t even notice how Adam sounds enough to care if he sounds exactly like he does on the record . If I wanted to hear the record I could stay home and listen to the record.

Fortunately my ears are bad from like a decade of not wearing earplugs to shows, so I don’t pick up on the autotune on the record so much and listening to that is an enjoyable experience for me. I don’t listen to the isolated vocal tracks because I don’t see the point in doing that? I guess so I can tell what parts were autotuned and point it out on the internet?

 

Depends on the song from 152 of course, but at my date “Amphetamine Smiles” was the best Adam sounded that night.

 

He sounded great singing that song at my date, too. I hope they leave it on the setlist for the next tour!

 

Really taking me back with a The Audition shoutout. A buddy of mine loved their album Champion.