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it’s the best tbs song

 

the faith you found I’ve never felt

 

I thought the lyric was ‘Genuine’

 

It is

 

Ok good I’m not crazy

 

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I think Best Places is probably their most overrated song. I think there's a version of that song somewhere floating around that's probably incredible (you can hear it in the short clip the released and live versions prior to recording), but the final version just isn't it. For the record, I do enjoy the song overall. It sounds like it was trying to capture that same energy as TAYF, but ended up sounding overproduced and like a band trying too hard to be TAYF era TBS. I've said it a million times before, but Eric Valentine just isn't the right producer for this band.

 

Yeah not long after announcing the reunion they posted a demo of Best Places on their site as a free download. I enjoy that version 100x more than the album version.

 

I love Best Places and will not hear this down talk of it.

 

LOL. I've been singing this song wrong for a decade.

 

It was a decade under the influence.

 

Eh the Best Places demo has less polish which is good but the background vocals and outro in the album version are way better.

I usually avoid demos of album versions tbh cause this is a song where its perfect version is somewhere in between the two and there's nothing I can do about that now lol

 

Haha. What did you think the full line was if it started with gentleman?

As far as misheard lyrics on songs which should have been on albums go, I'm not sure what the chorus to Mackey Sasser is. I always heard "As we sink slow through the noose" but lyrics sites seems to have it as "sink slow through the notes" which is admittedly a lot less dark haha (although sing and not sink would make more sense).

 

Haha I'm not totally sure tbh. I always sang it like "gentlemen and unprepared"(?) but I just liked the way it sounds.

 

I never really paid much attention to the lyrics but I thought it was “January,” with him just cutting off the y sound lol

 

I guess what I'm learning is that the catchiness is really more about the way the lyric is sung, not the actual lyric itself. And of course the "if you, you see something, then you, should say something" part is killer.

 

It's definitely one of their catchiest choruses. I get a bit of a Third Eye Blind vibe from Brooklyn. It could just be the Eric Valentine connection playing tricks on my mind though.

 

I’ll Let You Live is the band’s best closer that isn’t Everything Must Go.

this whole section is absolutely golden:

You represent and actively encourage all of my worst habits
They all are proof that we’re both capable of the most terrible things
Don’t test me

 

I love that these guys are still selling out tons of shows.

 

Same goes for 180, Little Devotional and ...Slowdance, 20 20, Miami and Long Time Comin’

Shaun’s no slouch either but Rubano really elevated those songs with his approach to the instrument.

 

Missed the Best Places talk, but I gotta say I love the original intro they had for it

 

I remember being at this show in Philly hearing this song and being like “oh damn, they’ve still got it”

 

I’m a “Call Me In The Morning” guy myself. I prefer melodic catharsis to all that yelling in “I’ll Let You Live”. I also just prefer the more hopeful message as an ending vs that one, which makes me a bit queasy.