titus andronicus - the monitor

haha really i'm just about him for 'new england,' total Song of My Teenage Years, and the nice harmonies on 'mermaid avenue'

i mean, billy bragg is alright i guess, i just listened to 'life's a riot' for the first time in oh let's say three years, this is about as often as i want to listen to it, i always enjoy it

anyway i got to "there will be parties" etc on 'richard' and went 'oh that is where i have heard that before' and it just seemed ... odd. like there's three tracks i think where patrick stickles drops in bits of billy bragg songs and i do not understand. it just seems a curiously unprovoked piece of bricolage, what did billy bragg ever do to new jersey

dude drops awful lot of borrowed lines in. i like it. highlight is the new new jersey/tramps like us bragg-boss one-two.

tramps like us were born to quote Brits like Bragg.

Titus were fun opening for Okervill River in DC a little while back but most of the crowd was there more for the headliners.

yeah i heard it was less than rowdy. i only want to see them if it's rowdy.

They were fucking rowdy and fucking great the free Seaport Show in NY tonight. Well, the event used to be Siren@Coney Island, now called "4 Knots." The setting is good though: hot but lots of room, surprisingly loud, an energetic crowd. Anyway, only the 3rd time I've seen this band, but tonight they were so galvanizing. So much passion and energy, it really took a lot of the crowd by surprise I think, after so ho-hum schmindie.

what was the most lol thing said during between song banter

"I'm out of breath, out of shape. So why do I get athletes foot. That's a joke."

:-/

p terribly formed

It was a low point, sure. His banter makes you think his songs won't be interesting, admittedly.

. . .

this guy

hoos i meant to text you a titus lyric tonight but i forgot

^these guys

<3

amy klein left the band

http://stereogum.com/854822/amy-klein-quits-titus-andronicus/news/

http://i.imgur.com/IiH4e.png

the stickles show

guess that NYT article was right

So last spring, she sublet her room in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn and toured the country in an old Chevy minivan.

“I’m fulfilling my artistic goals,” Ms. Klein said.

artistic goals: fulfilled

ok just put this on for the first time in a while and:

slays

new album lets go u fucks

they were awesome tonight in baltimore - opened with a very faithful version of "the boys are back in town" while wearing matching sweatshirts, the overall success of which was a surprise to say the least

played a bunch of new stuff too - whatever the new song is with the "built to last! built to last!" chorus is a killer

you were at that show!!! i am so jeal

d planet opened right??

yeah, they were really great too - to quote one over-enthused underage kid to another over-enthused underage kid in front of me, "they're SO MUCH MORE than 'ghost with a boner!'"

i wanted to see em in august when they played asefu's but there was some complicated reason why i couldn't (iirc the girl i was dating at the time's old boyfriend was in one of the opening bands and there was a non-zero chance i was gonna get bonked with a guitar if we showed up - or something)

the girl i was dating at the time's old boyfriend was in one of the opening bands

lol i think you told me this at the time

"they're SO MUCH MORE than 'ghost with a boner!'"

otm though i gotta admit the record kinda disappointed after i'd seen them & spent weeks listening to the shea stadium show on soundcloud

http://youtu.be/z_KgDBCvAPE

i have always been uncomfortable with jordan's animated gif at the start of this thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=0dX6LL7b8Y0

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

great song, v excited for the new record

fire

streamin' and as a result prob leaked somewhere (or already leaked and motivated them to stream it) http://www.npr.org/2015/07/20/423220507/first-listen-titus-andronicus-the-most-lamentable-tragedy

This kind of puts me in the same position as the last Arcade Fire, where I honestly can't tell whether I like it, think it's stupid, or like it *because* it's stupid.

(And don't even get me started on my dating life...)

lol

titus are def kind of cheesy and painfully honest/earnest but also have such a sense of humor about themselves that they should get a pass, imo. this record is exhausting in a way the monitor wasn't even, despite its length, but the highs are really high. (things like the 5-minute silent intermission are...not among the highs although i get the intent)

https://twitter.com/TitusAndronicus/status/623842678913007616

btw i listened to "the monitor" again (for like the 20th time) on a road trip recently and man, this album is just so, so so good. perfect driving album too, it must be said

they are p good at being an anthemic rock band and really bad at being anything else

this is fucking great

"look alive" just came on and i'm

so

in

wait that was "lost my mind" ok but u get me

ilx is the only place in my life where this band is revered and not endlessly mocked.

i don't even know what it was i don't even care

this is so good

hoos i meant to text you a titus lyric tonight but i forgot

― J0rdan S., Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:36 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was just thinking this revive needs a sarge

:/

I'll give this a listen, but I've never heard the first record and I listened to Local Business once. I sort of feel that The Monitor was a perfect album for me at the time and it remains a beloved favorite of recent years, and I'm okay with this band being just that for me.

That's very much how I oriented myself after I heard (maybe twice?) Local Business--'they were there when it counted'--but the strong tracks on this new thing are really doing it for me.

w/e part-timers, local business is awesome

yeah i have friends who swear by it but idk

well i'm fucking in

this is gonna do me just fine

Anyone daunted by the album's length would be advised to skip ahead to "Fired Up" which, well, I don't wanna throw around superlatives, but I really love it

I'm getting goosebumps listening to this. 30 minutes in and loving it—but I guess I have another hour to go!