titus andronicus - the monitor

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my mans here has really good quality live video here http://www.youtube.com/user/ZacMagnum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U52u-UtWd1Y&feature=related

kinda disappointed this dude has a beard tbch

idk tbh i get that a dude has to play it safe with his voice while on tour cause he has 4 billion songs to sing but imo without the unhinged ott delivery that song is not as fun to me?

also was not expecting that spoken voice to go with that singing voice

yeah agreed xp

I'm all for the idea of wordy, triumphant anthems via Springsteen-Neutral Milk Hotel-Arcade Fire-Hold Steady, but that voice wore me out before half the album was done.

too bad b/c the 2nd half is the best part. start from "a pot in which to piss" if you try again.

yeah seriously

"for the glory of the Newark Bears"

Oh I didn't give up, I made it all the way through the last 14 min track. Still wore me out, kind of like Meat Loaf does. Yeah, there's greatness in there, but maybe the kind you only need to hear once. A decade. Now if they had Meat Loaf do guest vocals, I'd see that.

stream of live in studio set by Titus Andronicus on 89.3 The Current here in mpls:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/05/titus-andronicus-live/

In all honesty, Titus Andronicus was probably too big for the Project Lodge. Stickles became a bit frustrated as the crazies up front kept disconnecting his mic cable. There were several “oh shit’ moments when the P.A. system was almost knocked over entirely, to the point that one of the Lodge’s employees felt the need to jump up front and hold the speakers up. During “Titus Andronicus Forever,” kids were even attempting stage dive off of the Lodge’s one-foot stage. During the heart-wrenchingly powerful “Richard II,” a kid crowdsurfed under the relatively low ceiling, in danger of kicking down a projector box mounted up there for film screenings and art shots. Then again, that's probably how a fucking punk show should be.

y'all convinced me to buy this -- and i'm really enjoying it

I really dig this album, and I enjoyed seeing them live (opened for Vamp Weekend when they played Washington Heights), but for some reason they often seem to be cribbing off this Springsteen/NJ thing more than advancing it, and when I hear something like, "Baby we were born to die," I'm 50% thrilled cause I'm a huge boss fan but also 50% put-off because it feels cheap (much in the same way that NJ band Thursday sings Needle and the Damage done in 'Understanding in a Car Crash' and I'm momentarily in love cause Neil Young <3<3 but then it feels less like a homage and more like heavily relying on the sentiment I already have for these lyrics and not creating new sentiment). Also, it feels weird to be championing 2003 emo music in 2010.

this music isnt 2003 its timeless

i thought they were dope live too but they need a hype crowd 4 the manic group catharsis moments 2 really hit

I am liking this, mostly because it is so loose and ragged

Okay fuck this has totally clicked with me and I love it so much.

I was just coming here to post that, this album is fucking great...

Yeah, I take back any reservations I had -- tho Gaslight Anthem is getting more plays than this now for me.

ditto but i really played the shit outta this for a month

unless the-dream's album is fucking titanic, i'm not sure if anything will surpass this on my year end list, prob not even lcd

This over Gaslight + Against Me for you, J0rdan?

i actually have only listened to gaslight twice so far, which is far less than AM! and titus, so not sure about that -- right now titus is my top 1, with against me! in the 3-5 range -- i just dig the total overblown epicness of the titus album which encompasses a bunch of really awesome musical moments -- also titus is a bit more identifiable to me, since i'm about to me drinking in my parents (non-) basement (lol miami) and was never actually a teenage anarchist

i remember just hating this band when i saw them a couple years ago, but i'm absolutely loving this. such an unbelievably well-sequenced record!

i've also just moved to dc after almost ten years in boston, and this is hitting me on this emotional level that music that sounds like this rarely does. i also don't know if stickles is bemoaning or wallowing in all that emotional isolation half the time, which is something i never wondered about, say, bright eyes (who i never really liked) - ultimately that makes this record so much more confusing and exhausting to listen to, which is of course the point

i would like to add to matt's point upthread that it's also perfect when you're hungover and alone in your room on a sunday morning in a city you don't know very well yet, dealing with unresolved Boston Issues and trying not to romanticize the idealized version of boston that doesn't exist - obviously this is a symptom of my own experiences but there's something specific about having lived there (and having had so much exposure to that "soul killing hellhole version of boston") that drastically affects my opinion of this record

i didn't articulate that very well at all but you know what i mean

god damn this album rules so much

When I'm an old man, I can be the quiet type,
and I can go without a moment of fun for the rest of my life.
I can read a good book, and I can be in bed by ten,
and I can get up early, go to work and come home, and start it all over again.

But while we're young, boys, everybody raise your glasses high,
Singing, 'Here's to the good times, here's to the home team.
Kiss the good times goodbye, oh yeah,
Kiss the good times goodbye.'

btw um

they played for 2 hours

i fucking love them

i peed next to stickles in a trough urinal and i said "does this make you feel like a horse too" and he said "i always feel like a horse"

http://i11.tinypic.com/4bfnofo.jpg

for all fucking time

this album is top 10 ever for me

i feel like i need to find stickles and hug him but i don't think he showers at all

me and my mans handed our glasses off to our dates to go into the pit during titus andronicus forever

lol

CONTACTS, SON

glasses define my face dogg there is no doing without

otherwise i can't even be seen ~while~ craning your neck

lol

*glasses fall down on a photo of h*os*

DEAL WITH IT

is what you're saying

well

talk about our grandkids
stroke our grey beards
funny we're still doin car bombs
after all these years

busy tonight with the excerpts, hoos

'car bombs' urgh

so irish

just want to reiterate: one of the best sets ever seen by a hoos

this album is still pretty cool now I'm giving it another listen

I mean I only gave it a listen coz hoos' current girl sitch reminded me of his posting itt but it's kinda synching up with me too in some weird way

love.

me + one of my bros are seeing these dudes tonight! PSYCHED