Louder Now

[Arrowhead_lts]

any taking back sunday fans here? i was disappointed with the album "where you want to be" but with my expectations low for their next album "louder now" i will enjoy the album more. anyone else excited for their new album?

[IndependentClauses]

wow, they've already got another one coming out? That's pretty good for a major label band.

Hopefully it is 'louder now'- that would be good.

[Chris Suyeda]

I've got my hands on an advance copy of this album; it's good.

I'm not the biggest fan of Taking Back Sunday, but I must say that this album is promising. Nothing ground-breaking or life changing, but it is good.

It's due April 25. If you have some spare cash, I recommend getting it.

[Arrowhead_lts]

you got yourself an advance copy?! how?!
is there anyway you can send it to me or something?!

[IndependentClauses]

I'll check it out on Rhapsody first....unless it's phenomenally better than their previous efforts, I can't see myself buying it.

[Arrowhead_lts]

I'll check it out on Rhapsody first....unless it's phenomenally better than their previous efforts, I can't see myself buying it.

what's rhapsody? like a p2p program?

[IndependentClauses]

Rhapsody is an online streaming music service. I pay ten bucks a month and then I can listen to an unlimited amount of songs from an enormous group of bands- bands like relient k, jack johnson, coldplay, green day, all the way down to indies like menomena, world music, indie labels like Secretly Canadian, old music from the 60's and 70's....some bands don't submit their music, though- like I know the Beatles and Radiohead don't allow it, and I don't think the Rolling Stones do either.

But for ten bucks, I can hear any and every new release I want. You can't download them for free (it's .79 cents a download, which IS cheaper than itunes) but if you spend a lot of time at your computer, like I do, then it's a sweet deal. It's at www.listen.com

[Arrowhead_lts]

oh i see. i just got 4 songs of this album from some friends on another website and im not to happy. maybe i should have just waited for the whole album to come out.

either way, im a bit disappointed.

[IndependentClauses]

well, i couldn't say i didn't expect it to tank. That's sad though. what made it so bad?

[Arrowhead_lts]

too put it simple, its nothing new! at all. :(

[antihero0009]

wow, they've already got another one coming out? That's pretty good for a major label band.

Hopefully it is 'louder now'- that would be good.
was one-eighty by summer not "loud" enough for you? Did you not enjoy Adam's and Fred's "loud" voices ending a decade under the influence?

[IndependentClauses]

I haven't heard all of "A Decade Under The Influence", so I don't know for sure what you're referencing. If you're talking about the fact that they scream, then here's my thoughts:

That was screaming for the sake of screaming.

Screaming for the sake of screaming and screaming because you just can't express the emotion in notes is completely different.

It's like the difference between taking a mandatory class so you can graduate and taking a course you actually enjoy- you can do well in both, but the only one that matters in the long run is the latter.

[antihero0009]

hmm...well put

[antihero0009]

just thought that i would let everyone know that for 6 more days this site will have all 11 tracks of "Louder Now" up and playing...so go check them out in advance and tell me what you think.

http://www.mtv.com/music/the_leak/#/music/the_leak/taking_back_sunday/louder_now/index.jhtml

[IndependentClauses]

Louder Now just came out.....anyone like it?

I just listened to the first three tracks, and my first opinion is this:

"Taking Back Sunday has finally completed that which always seemed to be their life's goal: to sound exactly like Your Favorite Weapon-era Brand New, only without the tongue-in-cheek humor and creative melodies."

but I'm listening to the rest of it just to make sure.

[antihero0009]

so with taking back sunday being my favorite band...i feel ashamed to speak these words...Louder Now sucks.

[IndependentClauses]

Yeah, it's pretty much targeted straight at 13-year old girls. There's not any redeeming quality I heard (although to be fair, I only got through track 6 before I had to leave, forcing me to end my listening session).

[redbassist66]

to qoute myself about TBS "no the band was popular because of Tell All Your Friends. the band is still riding the wave of the "John Nolan Era" the song structures have gone so far downhill, allowing teenage girls to enjoy the music. making them popular."

it doesnt surprise it sucks

[IndependentClauses]

Well, it doesn't really suck, per se. It's more along the lines of 'pigeonholed'. They're retreading a sound that they accidently found.

[redbassist66]

well thats my new word of the day "pigeongoled"

[IndependentClauses]

pigeongoled: when King Midas walks around Central Park.

[Chris Suyeda]

The album is starting to grow on me. After seeing their music video on MTV; I popped in the CD and took another listen.

I'm enjoying it more each time.

[redbassist66]

i'm proud of myself, i've gone, what, two weeks without hearing a single track off Louder Now. I honestly have no respect for this band. They are the definition of "sold out"

[antihero0009]

i'm proud of myself, i've gone, what, two weeks without hearing a single track off Louder Now. I honestly have no respect for this band. They are the definition of "sold out"
Merriam-Webster
1. Sold-Out
Pronunciation: 'sOld-'aut
Function: adjective
1. : having all available tickets or accommodations sold completely and especially in advance
2. Green Day

[IndependentClauses]

2. Green Day

Man, I hate going to bat for Green Day over and over and over, but I have to.

Green Day is not sold out. Green Day is grown up. They made the same album over and over in the nineties and they finally got bored with it and decided to do something different. That something different happens to be a lot more melodic and easygoing because as people mature, their songwriting become mellower (the Get-up Kids disbanded and The New Amsterdams were formed, Heatmiser broke up and Elliot Smith came out of it, Ben Folds Five broke up and Ben Folds came out of it mellowed, and on and on and on). That's why Metallica sucks now- they built their empire on fury and they're just not furious any more. They've mellowed out of it.

People just don't stay the same- that's not the way life works. And music is a reflection of who a person is and how they are thinking and feeling. Thus, if a person matures, as they are supposed to, so will their music. And that's the case with Green Day.

Green Day didn't sell out- they just grew out of snotty four-chord punk songs and moved on to 7-minute power-pop epics.

[antihero0009]

good point...i just want my old green day back :'(

[IndependentClauses]

yeah, that is sad. But thankfully, you have tons of Old Green Day albums to play....tons. I'm actually glad they stopped making "Dookie" over and over....

[redbassist66]

Yeah Dookie was good but it gets old after the 4th album

[IndependentClauses]

Basically. That's why I was actually happy to hear American Idiot.

and of Taking Back Sunday, I heard their radio single on the radio the other day and it just made me sad. Such basic music. Such repetitive lyrics. So annoying.

[lonesomexloveus]

anything after tell all your friends sucks.
and they're my favorite band.

when john nolan left, so did the talent.

[IndependentClauses]

when john nolan left, so did the talent.

I think that in 20 years, that's all people will say.

[Katy_lts]

Wow, pretty negative reaction on here to Louder Now, that's really surprising. Every other forum I've been on, the album has had a really positive reaction...

Personally this is my favourite Taking Back Sunday album, I was never really into Tell All Your Friends and Where You Want To Be... this album surpasses both of them albums in my opinion.

Then again, I'm not really that big of a Taking Back Sunday fan.

[redbassist66]

yeah this forum is a little more criticle of pop-punk

[lonesomexloveus]

yeah this forum is a little more criticle of pop-punk
im pretty much critical of everything in general.
but you knew this already ;)

[redbassist66]

im pretty much critical of everything in general.
but you knew this already ;)

yeah you are a bitch...


just kidding

[lonesomexloveus]

yeah you are a bitch...


just kidding
bwahahahha no youre not ;)

[Kripes]

Why is this in emo again?

[redbassist66]

it's not really but it falls under the "nu-wave" emo catagory. and kids think they are emo

[Katy_lts]

Plus you're not going to get many people writing about Rites of Spring and Fugazi and such because these "emo" kids today probably don't even know that them bands exist & they were the start of the "emo" movement.

Taking Back Sunday is stereotypical "emo" to kids today, along with My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco. :/

[antihero0009]

fugazi was emo? :raise:

[Kyle89]

I agree, but I think Fall Out Boy is pop-punk, with the skater look, away from emo, and apparently Panic! At The Disco is Electronica or something like that.

[redbassist66]

I agree, but I think Fall Out Boy is pop-punk, with the skater look, away from emo, and apparently Panic! At The Disco is Electronica or something like that.

yes FOB is pop-punk but people think they are emo. same with Panic!

It is sad that you say Rites of Spring and most kids don't know what you are talking about

[Kripes]

Dino Cazares of Fear Factory said a couple hours ago on MTV that there's too much emo music going on right now. :(

[Kyle89]

Being the musical nazi that I am, I bashed the parts of nu-wave emo that I hate in my first MSN blog. Basically it was a message to those 13 year-old girls that Louder Now is targeted at. Being 14, that's my audience. I have no room to talk, but I needed to let out a little anger on my keyboard.