Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave (September 16, 2016) Album • Page 48

My TBS album rankings

Where You Want To Be - when the band honed their songwriting a bit more
Tell All Your Friends - the scene classic
Tidal Wave (set to eclipse TAYF) - the album when they finally shrugged off their past and dropped an instant classic.
Louder Now - their Slippery When Wet, fantastic mainstream rock album.
Happiness - When the band found its feet and wrote some solid stuff.
New Again - the growing up album
Self Titled - the band finding its feet again

Honestly. I wouldnt say they have a bad album just some lesser than others. To be honest i think TAYF gets ranked higher in my list on status alone. Its grat but to be hinest i rarely listen to it these days, i. Busy doing grown up things. The self titled is the only album where i will skip multiple songs.

It may be a controversial point but im actually at the point where i would happily pay the same price to see them play only reunion era songs live as i would be seeing them play a set of classics.

 

Maybe try putting on "All Excess" and start bobbing your head a bit. Sometimes that helps me when I'm not totally feeling a tune or something.

 

I'm listening to All Excess now. Definitely got some Angels and Airwaves guitars going there.

I think that song will be mood dependent for me.

There's a ton of interesting melodies in this album.

 

Thing I love most about this new LP is how immediate everything is. Track to track straight in with no space to breathe. The last couple LP's have had like 30 second long ring outs on the guitars at the end of songs which killed any momentum it had picked up from the song.

 

I remember it killed the beginning of the album especially . Took way too long for the intro to kick into "flicker, fade" and it took too long for "stood a chance" to start up after

 

Is it just me or does Adam sound better than he has in quite some time on this record?

 

After the first 3 songs were released, I wasn't really excited about this release. I gave the album a listen and actually liked it a lot more than I thought I would. It is still getting spins from me and could easily be in my top 10 albums of 2016 up to this point.

 

Seems to be the consensus. He seems to have taken off some of he southern accent at times. Don't get me wrong he's kind of got another Americana thing going and still uses the southern accent but there are times when I'm like Wow that sounds like louder now or where you want to be

 

I felt it too kind of sounds like they took the sound from slow dance and expanded it

 

I Felt It Too continues to blow me away every time I listen to it.

Unfortunately the rest of the album pales in comparison imo. I still really enjoy it but I find myself going back to I Felt It Too more often than anything else

 

Never thought I'd say this, but the title track is definitely growing on me some.

Also, in "You Can't Look Back", I wish they would have expanded on the acoustic-twangy guitar sound they dabble with early in the track.

 

The band replied on instagram that hopeless will replace the booklet. Awesome move , I'm just glad they still put lyric booklets out. I'm loving this, most consistent tbs album since wywtb.

 

Man, I love the main verse riff on We Don't Go in There. I don't know if I love this as a whole, but it definitely grabs me more than Happiness Is... did. My favorite is still the self-titled, just can't beat opening up with El Paso.

 

We don't go in there is a stand out for sure

 

Self titled is better than I remembered going to be rocking this band a lot this week

 

You think so? I thought he doubled down on the accent haha

 

I think he traded the accent for more of an Americana vibe which is kind of southern idk I guess he did. But maybe the music finally fits the accent haha

 

Self titled would have been received better with a better producer.

 

Money is such a strange song

 

So I was kinda "meh" on Fences the first several times, but there I was on my Saturday morning walk listening to it and the lyrics hit me, and boom - grown man nearly brought to tears in the middle of the jogging trail. Fuck I love when music does that to you. That's what I came for. And it's why I love this band!

 

I like that song and I've always thought a great music video for the band would've been them walking into a biker bar, putting that song on the jukebox, and then getting into a bar fight.

 

Haha I can see that working

 

This album makes me want to up my fandom

 

Some of the chord progression on the latter half of the record are just so fun and so good, whew, what an awesome album.

 

Feel like the back and forth between Adam and John is the best thing they've done together since Tell All Your Friends, and comparable to what Fred and Adam did on Where You Want To Be.