Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 518

Yeah, for a hit that came out in 2006, they didn’t really seem to make it their set closer until the last few years it seems.

I have seen them 15+ times and it really hasn’t been until recently they have closed with it.

 

With the exception of album play shows I think it’s been consistently right before mds for a while now, actually

 

The tayf10 it was played early because it was part of the pre-tayf set, but it was the last song of that pre-tayf set (funny story—I remember somebody being mad that they didn’t play any TAYF during their show on this tour and it was because they did that whole 8 song set before going into tayf, and I guess that person didn’t stick around past that).

apart from album play shows (which are outliers in my opinion unless they’re going to play the song twice or out of order, and even still on wywtb nights for the 20 year tour they closed with it), they’ve fairly consistently done cute and mds as their final two (sometimes with a song wedged between them) since maybe 2015? I feel like there was a period in time where cute was coming like 4 or 5 in 2013, but mds has been last for over 10 years now, especially when they do a fest.

 

I feel like MDS has been their closer for the better part of a decade now. If you take a look quick glance at setlist.fm, it’s pretty consistently the final song (save for the 20 Tour on nights when they played LN in full).

 

Please no lol it’s by far their worst in my eyes

 

Revisiting that Where My Mouth Is live video always bums me out because it sounds so much better than the tamer, kinda dull sounding studio version

 

yeahhh I'll skip another s/t lol (unless it all sounds like This is All Now)

 

I don’t think those songs are really that similar?

 

In MDS Adam wants to break someone down so badly, in Sink Into Me Adam wants someone to sink their teeth into him.

 

I'm offended someone put Sink Into Me into the same sentence as MDS

 

Both songs are good, of course. When I listened to them back to back to see if I could see what the comparison was, I was reminded that “Sink Into Me” is underrated and could be really fun live.

Though, “MakeDamnSure” is for sure better. Truly a top tier TBS track for me, in spite of me caring for Louder Now less than most seem to.

 

I love “sink into me”

 

Sink Into Me should have sunk off the final tracklist tbh

 

nah good track

 

i lovedddd Sink Into Me.

specifically these lines:

"Well I'd like to see all roles reversed
To watch you hang on every word
I'd like to see you have your way
I keep my grammar well rehearsed
Correct each stutter every slur
Come on and have your way with me"

"I'd like to be in all the kind
Who could sing, but don't 'cause you're shy
That way I'd live inside your throat
And hang from every word you spoke"

 

The clapping and heys ruined it for me a lil bit

 

It's a bad song and one of the worst singles they could have chosen from on NA to follow-up on their biggest album.

 

Did not realize Sink Into Me was so polarizing. I’ve always dug that song. The only time I saw TBS during New Again was when they opened for Blink in 2009 with Weezer, so I think they only played 3 NA songs during their set

 

Sink Into Me rips, so much fun

 

Sink Into Me is a lot of fun, that riff is great and I loved that they extended the ending instrumental part a few more measures when they played it live. That said, the verse lyrics could’ve cooked a little longer.

 

While I don’t think its a bad song, I do agree that it shouldn’t have been the lead single. It should’ve been the 2nd. If we’re going by timeline of when the album came out, it should’ve been Swing, Sink Into Me right around the same time as the album release, do a soft push of Lonely Lonely sometime in July then release Summer Man in late August as the final single from the album.

Like it was said a few posts ago, Warner Bros. fumbled the bag pretty hard here.

 

How about Long Time Comin’

 

I’m not in the industry and am no-thought-head-empty on what would’ve been good or bad singles. Unless there are stats I’m not aware of, seems clear to me that “Sink Into Me” was “a bad single” insofar as their career didn’t exactly gain momentum at that moment.

Separate from whatever the album did for the band or how they personally feel about it, though, I personally love the sound and feel of New Again, and would include “Sink Into Me” in that. The “hey”s and claps don’t hit as hard as they maybe could, idk, but I really have fun with the energy there. And, the chorus to me is pretty strong classic TBS.

Anyways, at least we all came together in loving 152, which truly is the best version of TBS grown up.

 

Insane that song and Didn’t See That Coming didn’t make the album but Cut Me Up Jenny did

 

Probably not wrong, but that also not how albums used to be promoted. The multiple singles prior to release feels like a newer marketing ploy in the streaming era. I remember it always being one single a couple months before the album released, then it would still ride off that single for another couple months before releasing a second single, then a third about three or four months after that.