Taking Back Sunday - 152 (October 27, 2023) Album • Page 98

Eddie literally commented positively on their new songs lol

 

152 was fine.. like, i don’t go back to it because there’s nothing special about it that makes me want to listen to it again, but it isn’t awful or anything like that. there’s some really cool ideas. i also remember it being incredibly short and that bugged me a little because i have been waiting forever for new material from them.

i think Eddie will apologize online at a later time or just delete this post. dude has moments like this periodically. he’s just angry and can’t move on for whatever reason.

 

152 is very special to me. The One, Keep Going, and Lightbringer are top TBS tracks for me. Lightbringer has easily become one of my all-time favorite songs.

 

Yeah this

 

152 is probably a top 20 album for me

 

Yep this is exactly how I feel about it

 

what the fuck is happening here

 

Album is good

 

alright fine whats everyones opinion on New Again

 

did he already delete it?

 

no its still there from what i can see

 

I love you

 

What’s the drama today with them?

 

yeah what was that even posted on and tbh what was he hoping to accomplish by posting it?

 

There’s a screen cap of the post that I assume was originally on Facebook about them having that whiskey collaboration, I guess. (No idea if his Facebook post still stands since I’m not on Facebook.) Weird that it came up now when the collaboration was initially announced back in the summer. I know they posted about it fairly recently (there’s a video on their Instagram with Shaun and his dad that was sweet), but I have no idea what Eddie was hoping to accomplish with his post.

 

a lot of eddie's facebook posts seem to be cries for attention. its kinda sad to see, but i try not to pass any judgement considering what he's struggled through.

 

I checked my last.fm today and I fear TBS will be my top band on Spotify Wrapped lol

 

probably a top 5-10 for me. quit trying is incredible.

 

Goated

 

I feel for Eddie, he seemed like the
backbone of that band, holding it all together for years and feels like when he has his own struggles they carried on and kind of left him behind, but who knows.

But yea, this seems a bit out of touch and odd since he seemed to have been pretty positive about 152.

 

I don’t pretend to know or fully understand the psychology behind addiction, but part of me believes the comment about the music was the addict part of Eddie’s brain lashing out. Everything else he said was totally valid though and I get why he would be upset. There’s a lot of hypocrisy in the band’s actions, but something about that comment at the end just doesn’t sit right. OR maybe Eddie legitimately didn’t like 152 but didn’t wanna shit on their parade at the time, and this was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I don’t know. It sucks either way. I hate to say it but I don’t see another album coming from this band, especially with whatever’s going on with Mark. And if you’re gonna close the book on a band’s story, 152 is a great record to close out on.

 

I'm very confused about what's happening and I feel like I missed some posts somewhere or someone who I have blocked made comments that put things in perspective that I'll never know.

It feels like the Eddie post comes out of nowhere and I'm not especially clear on what the band has done that's a slap in the face... but it sounds like they put out a TBS whiskey? And that's what he's upset about? I'm really not in the loop.

 

I think he’s upset because he was kicked out due to his issues with alcoholism and he thinks it’s a slap in the face they are putting out their own whiskey? It’s definitely some mental gymnastics on his part and sad to see. I really hope Eddie gets the help he needs .

 

I’ll try my best to sum it up:
-Eddie left TBS/got kicked out (apparently) due to his alcoholism
-Band says during & for some time after his departure that the door is open for Eddie to come back whenever he is ready, despite never remaining in contact with him after the fact.
-Band continues touring for 6 years, releases a record without Eddie and tours on that record. Eddie voices positive sentiments for the new material, but no one in the band publicly acknowledged those kind words.
-During the 152 writing process/release, Adam gets sober.
-Band makes a recent business deal with a distillery to attach their name to some of this distillery’s whiskey despite Adam’s sobriety and the band kicking Eddie out for his alcoholism, even though Eddie was the glue that kept things together through Adam’s substance abuse issues between 2002-2006 when they were at their biggest commercial success.

I’m sure there’s A LOT more to it than just that. There may have been some really harsh things said when Eddie left that made any sort of reconciliation impossible.

Either way, I can see Eddie’s POV and there is some hypocrisy there, but at the same time we don’t know the whole story.

 

Thank you for the very succinct summary!