Taking Back Sunday - 152 (October 27, 2023) Album • Page 100

right lol, "they should just break up" these men literally have families. if you don't want to listen to them anymore or think their music is 'bad', simply do not listen lol there is so much other music out there worthy of your time and attention.

 

My favorite internet take is always "I personally don't care if they make music anymore so they should break up"

 

i would be a sad panda if TBS broke up

 

I think the band will take some time off in 2025. If we’re lucky, maybe we will get some Straylight Run shows.

 

Also let’s be serious, 95 percent of TBS fans won’t notice or care that Mark isn’t a part of the band anymore. It has and always will be the Adam/John show for most people.

 

Technically the band is 2/3rds Straylight Run now so maybe they can rebrand lol

 

Is John better at singing for Straylight shows

 

I’d be willing to see.

 

i saw straylight a few times in their heyday, they sounded great but the energy was always low during their sets. i never went for them , just saw them if they were on the bill. i remember once i saw them with Bayside & FYS. they were definitely the odd band out on that lineup.

edit: found the lineup, guess it was a whole tour, anyone else hit this one up? Tours: Bayside / Straylight Run / Four Year Strong / The Status | Punknews.org

 

this is my question as well

Sad to see Mark go, but I do not see any chance of them calling it quits due to that. Here's hoping they're gonna use early 2025 to get back in the studio and get some new music out ASAP, because I love 152.

 

Taking Back Straylight

 

Obviously, Mark is working on releasing something so my guess is we get some sort of an official statement from him when he announces that project.

 

Yeah I could see the old "creative differences" thing being thrown out there, especially since the clips I've heard of his stuff sound very much not like 152 haha

 

95% of TBS fans don’t seem to know any of the music after Louder Now based on my experience at shows the last few years so….

 

I haven’t seen them in a couple years but I have seen them over 35 times and I can agree with this. People check out during the happiness is - tidal wave songs

 

Mark got tired of wearing that salmon-colored suit.

 

When they play Amphetamine Smiles, you can hear the talking in the crowd louder than the band playing. The first verse of Lightbringer has been ruined at almost every show I’ve been to this year because of people around me talking.

TBS crowds in 2024 have the worst cross section of concert attendees. Especially on a tour where only 1/3 of the set is from those first three albums.

 

In Cleveland, I thought the 152 songs were pretty well received by the crowd.

I know I mentioned this in July, but the only reference they made toward Mark was Adam said prior to the tour they “were put in a pickle” and then introduced the fill-in drummer. Did not mention Mark by name nor address his absence at all.

 

Yeah I’m willing to get behind the creative differences argument for that very reason. Also when they put out that BTS video for the production of Amphetamine Smiles, Mark just kinda sat on the couch looking really checked out for some of it, except for when Shaun’s bass line came in, and he called out how good it was.

 

I always assumed it was somewhat of a similar situation to what went on with Eddie. In that they were leaving space for him to be able to come back when he was well enough or in the right mind frame and that’s why they haven’t officially said One thing or another. Because they haven’t removed him from the band in their minds whether or not he feels differently because they’ve continued to tour without them as a different story though.

From what I heard from Mark around the 152 release though, he wrote a fair amount for it and liked it.

 

I understand people wanting the band to make some kind of official statement or announcement, but at the end of the day, Mark might be going through something they don’t feel is their place to speak on, they might want to attempt to fix things, or they just truly don’t know themselves what the future holds. I find it weird that Eddie of all people is saying something, admittedly, if nobody else has.

 

Kind of surreal, given everything in the band's history, to be down to Adam and the two who originally quit.