Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 289

the drums on "Stood a Chance" are the best-sounding drums

 

The first half of Tidal Wave, from Death Wolf to All Excess is unskippable. It's so good. The back half is a little more uneven (I usually skip I Felt It Too, In The Middle Of It All and We Don't Go In There) but still has some great tracks. Call Come Running is quite possibly the catchiest song they've ever written. Holy Water is one of my favorites in their entire discography.

 

my favorite for sure

 

WYWTB>Happiness Is > Tidal Wave > Louder Now > TAYF > self titled > New Again.

it is decided

 

ok I can agree to all of this except skipping "I Felt it Too", maybe my favourite on the whole album lol

"In the Middle" is def the weak point but it's still solid

 

I liked I Felt It Too on first listen, but it lost its luster over time. I do like the ending of the song though when those drums start to pick up.

 

I feel that way about almost all of their ballads/slower songs. They all kinda sound the same and are all good not great. When I listen to TBS I just want energy.

 

sorry but the ballads on the pre-s/t stuff sound very different to the ballads after, the only thing they really have in common is that they're slow tempo

"I Felt it Too" has such a great melody with some of the most moving lyrics on the album, and seconding that the drums picking up with that almost post-rock guitar is absolutely fantastic. it's a totally different beast from their early acoustic ballad stuff

 

Tidal Wave is their most mature and their most complete record. It’s in their absolute top tier

 

i love that song and think the chorus is brilliant. it's really interesting how people think about music. i think cut me up jenny is the best song on the album and i'm pretty sure most people hate it.

 

I wish john and shaun would take a hike and fred would come back. This current lineup is quite stale by now and should have only lasted one album cycle imo.

 

yeah, definitely can't agree with that at all

 

Tidal Wave was a great album which i don't listen to nearly enough.

 

Has any interesting trivia or whatever popped up in the Talking Back Sunday youtubes? I've not watched any of them. Are they just hanging out or what?

 

Here's the demo!

 

Quite the variety of takes in here! They're all hot....but Scoville units differ.

 

Never forget.

 

Rumor is that it was always Bonus Mosh Pt. 1

 

Follow the Format is my favorite never-actually-released TBS song.

 

I used to have that song on my ipod in high school and totally forgot that it existed until this second. thanks for posting!

 

I've never heard this! Was this a WYWTB b-side? I like it a lot.

 

my sister had a limewire version of Louder Now that had "Follow the Format" under the name "My Blue Heaven" and also "Knives" was on there under "Twenty-Twenty Surgery" lmao

when I went to buy it from Best Buy at 15 she was like "why are you buying that, I already have it" and I was like "...no you don't" lol

 

I believe it was the first song that Fred recorded with the band. It was released quite a bit before WYWTB. It just appeared on the internet one day. It's so hard to remember. The internet was weird back then.

@Jason Tate Do you remember ha?

 

That makes sense. I'm not the biggest fan of Fred's voice, but I certainly enjoy his writing/guitar work.

 

yeah it was definitely WYWTB-era, definitely about Jon and Shaun leaving the band.