Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 176

I love Blue Channel.

Unrelated, but I also love Bleu cheese.

 

I can't sanction your Holy Water opinions, but you're back in my good graces with this.

 

But the first 5 second of blue channel are better than all of bike scene!

 

Third best song and third worst song on every other album. GO...

 

Blue Channel and Head Club are easily the worst on TAYF

 

Hey you and I agree on something

 

Best/worst

Timberwolves at New Jersey/Head Club
Set Phasers To Stun/This Photograph Is Proof
My Blue Heaven/Error Operator
Swing/Cut Me Up Jenny
This Is All Now/Money
All The Way/Like You Do
All Excess/Homecoming

 

I'll try it for fun. Lotta ties though....

Bike Scene, You're So Last Summer, You Know How I Do/Head Club
180, Little Devotional/New American Classic
Makedamnsure, My Blue Heaven/ Error:Operator
Everything Must Go/New Again
Call Me in the Morning/ Tracks 4-9
We Were Younger/They Don't Have any Friends
I Feel It Too/Tidal Wave

 

Stop the bike scene hate.

 

People don’t like Bike Scene? Strange.

 

Holy Water is for all intents and purposes a good song, but it would’ve worked better if they recorded it in a different key, preferably a half-step down like they do when they play it live.

 

Also, I Felt It Too is one of the top 3 best tracks on TW. That final minute and a half of that song is one of the best things the band ever put on an album

 

I guess following the best/worst trend, here's an update to my post from earlier

There's No I in Team/The Blue Channel
180 By Summer/The Union (hate saying that b/c there really isn't a bad song on WYWTB)
My Blue Heaven/Up Against
EMG/Cut Me Up Jenny (Swing is a close 2nd for best song on NA, so shout out to all you folks stanning for that song out there)
Call Me in the Morning/Money
Gardens/Like You Do (We Were Younger Then is a close 2nd best for this album, I wish the band played it)
Fences/Homecoming

 

please rank the TBS albums in order from least hints at the moon landing conspiracy to most

 

I don't hear anything wrong with the production at all so when people say that I'm just confused

I don't really listen to the b sides because there isn't a convenient way to do so and I always feel like they're overhyped

 

Eric Valentine's kick and snare drum sounds have always bothered me on any album he's produced. The guitars always sound extra compressed and the basses always sound like they were strung with old flatwound strings so they hardly cut through the mix. That's just a personal observation though. I know a lot of people/bands see it differently and like his production. To his credit though, whoever mixes his albums (not sure if it's him or someone else) is a wizard.

I agree though that it sucks there's not a convenient way to access the B-sides. That being said, "You Were Right" "Semi-Automatic" and "Mackey Sasser..." are all great songs imo

 

Only album Valentine has produced that I actually think the production works on is Third Eye Blind.

 

He did great work on Third Eye Blind and Songs For The Deaf. Outside of those, his style doesn't work that well.

 

Valentine did Louder Now and I have no issues with that production. S/T just has a lot of boring/bad songs, you can blame Valentine but he didn't write those tunes.

 

Half the songs on that album are among the band's best though

 

Savior & This Is All Now are the only songs there that I would consider close to among their best work.

Maybe Faith as well, but probably not.

 

Sad Savior, This Is All Now, Best Places, Call Me In The Morning, and You Got Me are all great

 

this is so correct even though i like "since you're gone" (i like p much every song on the s/t and i think its major flaw is that it's the only tbs record that doesn't cohere as a whole at all)

 

valentine's drum sound on third eye blind's blue is great, i have no idea what happened to him between that and louder now with all those plastic tones

 

i still think louder now sounds mostly great though