Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave (September 16, 2016) Album • Page 10

I think I like New Again just a little more than the self titled. I like them both, but I revisit them the least. I love Swing though. What a tune.

 

I looooove Cut Me Up Jenny. I also just love New Again in general. Going to listen to it now, haha.

 

definitely agree. Furthermore, the b-sides are some of my favorite TBS tracks.

 

HI has some great b-sides for sure.

I think the only era with better b-sides is the NA era.

 

It's been a while since I listened to them, but I think the b-sides to their self-titled were really great, too.

 

Tbs always keeps their best songs as b sides.

 

This is true. "Didn't see that coming" "Brooklyn" "You should have waited" "Can You Feel that."

 

I'm still unsure why New Again is so polarizing

 

I haven't heard a lot of their bsides. I wish they release a collection of them, but they obviously won't for a couple of reasons

 

New Again is a fun catchy record that is miles ahead of the last two clunkers

 

I've listened to Tidal Wave (the song) like 200 times this week. I love it. No idea why, considering people have been comparing it to The Gaslight Anthem or Against Me and I've never really been into those bands

 

Now that's a hot take.

 

hmm, I agree.

 

Gdi Sanchez

 

I really have to relisten to New Again. I think some of it's bad reputation rubbed off on my perception of it.

 

In Defense Of New Again:

NA deals with a lot of adult themes, has a much darker and aggressive bend to it musically, and is a bit more straightforward than the other TBS albums but that doesn't make it bad at all. It shares more in common with WYWTB than anything. It's got the energetic opener, the alt rock jam (Decade, Summer Man), the heavier track (The Union, Swing), the acoustic ballad with lush textures (New American Classic, Where My Mouth Is) a nice little stylistic curveball (Photograph, Carpathia) the structurally interesting barn-burner with a powerful bridge (180 By Summer, Catholic Knees), and the epic closer. The deep cuts in between add to the character of both records and fill out the tracklist nicely. I'm sad that people and even the band hates NA, it's a truly great rock album

 

New Again just contains songs that are boring and lack anything memorable, that's my reason for not being a fan

 

i like new again but I also think it's their worst

 

think the self titled is only marginally better tho. higher highs (barring "everything must go" which is prob the best tbs song), lower lows

 

The last two records are garbage. There was so much build up when the original line up got back together and it went nowhere.

 

Happiness Is...the best

 

happiness is is fucking great and their best album since louder now, sometimes I think it's their best album

 

Louder Now is their worst. It's super front loaded, after the fifth track most of the songs are pretty disposable. I still like all those songs, but they are on the weaker side of the catalog.

@CoffeeEyes17 is doing a much better job of defending New Again than my approach of "shut up guys, those songs are good"

 

❤️

 

"Miami" is a jam and might be their catchiest track.