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  1. Taking Back Sunday, Thursday & The Colour Revolt in Phoenix

    July 15, 2011 by Guest

    By: Greg Grits

    I had the distinct pleasure of spending part of my fourth of July weekend with Taking Back Sunday in Phoenix, AZ at The Marquee Theater. It’s been a few years since I last joined them and not only are they back with their strongest album in a long while, but this tour also marks the return of TBS’s original line up.

    The show started with The New Regime who were decent, but ultimately forgettable. After a few more drinks The Colour Revolt took the stage and if you haven’t seen this band, you’re missing out. They were the best parts of mewithoutyou with their own style, but end of the day were just super awesome. I bought their record after the show.

    Next up was Thursday, a band I loved in my younger days, but who lost me somewhere along the way. Their set was great, exactly how I remembered them. Tight, full of energy. Their set was mostly newer material, but they did bring out the deep classic “Jet Black New Year” off of the somewhat obscure Five Stories Falling EP and the place erupted with happy fans.

    Taking Back Sunday took the stage in grand fashion, kicking off their set with “MakeDamnSure,” which made the whole room release all the energy they’d been storing up until that point. It’s always gutsy to open a show with one of your biggest hits, but this definitely set the stage for the rest of the night. Despite the fact that I had promised a review for this show, I needed to mosh to this set. Taking Back Sunday practically demands it (in fact, I think they may have literally demanded it). I did, like a pissed off 15-year-old and it was the most fun I’d had in a while. Their set was a great mix of old favorites and new songs that reminded me why I love this band. So much energy, and a sense of passion that can sometimes be forgotten in all of the “chillwave” and “reverb.” TBS played a great show and they’ve still got it.


  2. Thursday’s new album Common Existence

    February 2, 2009 by J-Man

    So.
    I’m supposed to be reviewing Thursday’s new album Common Existence. It’s the band’s first album to be released on Epitaph Records. It’s the 5th full length album of their twelve year career. It lives up to Thursday’s signature high-energy multi-layered sound, and the music seems good.

    The reason I say “seems”, is because the recording/production/mastering value on this CD is so crappy, every song on it seemed to melt into the next without distinguishing itself from the song before it. I couldn’t pick out a “favorite song”. There wasn’t a song that made me want to play it over and over again, singing along. For the majority of the time I was listening to the album, I couldn’t even pick out what Geoff Rickly (lead singer) was singing about.

    The album was recorded at Dave Fridmann’s Tarbox Road Studios, and I kind of wonder if maybe his studio is literally a box full of tar. The vocals sound like they are being sung through a can, in a garage. The drums sound like they were recorded in the same can. All of the instruments are mixed too high, and drown out the vocals throughout most of the songs. This is a big mistake for a band that is so lyrically driven.

    All of these things put together makes for a very messy sounding album that is almost immediately forgettable.

    As far as I can tell, Thursday brought the rock like they always do. Concerning Common Existence the band has said that Epitaph really encouraged them to be more socially and politically active, leading to songs like the very personal “Friends in the Armed Forces”. I really can’t wait to see them play some of these songs live, since I really had a hard time enjoying the recordings of them.

    Verdict:

    -Thursday is still awesome

    -This album probably has some very good songs on it

    -Dave Fridmann and the production crew at Tarbox Road Studios really dropped the ball on this one.