titus andronicus - the monitor

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!

I Lost My Mind ---> Lookalike is fucking perfect

also Lookalike alone makes the album for me, i almost don't need the rest

haha wait

i keep fucking this up

I Lost My Mind (t@) ---> I Lost My Mind (DJ) i guess is what i mean?? the tracklisting keeps confusing me

oh its a daniel johnston cover wow

man that little signal riff that goes between lookalike and the johnston cover gets me

this should have its own thread? idk

uhhhh what the heck is stickles doing http://uproxx.com/music/2015/07/titus-andronicus-the-most-lamentable-tragedy-pitchfork-patrick-stickles/3/

guy sucks

seems like maybe he is attempting a parody version of controversial response tweets? at least i hope so?

seems p obv

complete album stream was a bit much to take in all at once, but I went back for "Dimed Out" & it felt like watching a dozen skateboarding videos at once

THE MOST LEGIT MUSIC SITE IS @STEREOGUM SHOUTS OUT THE GOD @TOMBREIHAN #BadReligions THEY ACTUALLY LISTEN TO ROCK AND ROLL SOMETIMES +@

— Titus Andronicus (@TitusAndronicus) July 27, 2015

if you asked me if i wanted to hear some sped-up bruce with a guy yelling over it, i'd probably say okay. but i'm not really getting this atm

"fired up" was the first of the emo street band cuts to really click with me i think

also i know ugh genius and everything but stickles himself has been annotating the lyrics which is sorta fun, sorta feels like reading in the margins of a precocious high school kid's notebook

http://genius.com/albums/Titus-andronicus/The-most-lamentable-tragedy

between the piano, the harmonies, the strings & sax Mr. E Mann really has a great Born to Run feel to it

the bigger moments really nail that feeling better than they ever have imo

also am i crazy or is "fired up" ganking from glory days

i'm officially in love with the whole first half of this, but i can still barely hang on past the intermission

i'm gonna try like i did with the monitor & start listening to it from the end backwards

Dude was such a doofus in the Replacements doc

Beginning and chorus of Lonely Boy sounds suspiciously like Havets Blå by Danish band Kliché...

Dude was such a doofus in the Replacements doc

― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, July 30, 2015 2:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh i didn't actually see that, should i?

craig finn on fb:

I had the pleasure of attending the final of five shows Titus Andronicus played at Shea Stadium to celebrate their fantastic new record The Most Lamentable Tragedy. I had actually stopped by Shea Stadium for a visit about a week earlier and saw a bit of rehearsal, which ended up being like a private concert from one of my favorite bands. At the end I got up and we jammed on some covers and Patrick put forth the idea of possibly coming on stage during one of the shows that week.
I wasn’t able to attend until Tuesday eve, but what a show I saw. It was so so so hot. Possibly one of the top 5 hottest shows I’ve been to. (THS at Buffalo Mohawk still might be the hottest. Or Hi Tone Memphis. Or….) Titus played for 2.5 hours and it was glorious. They are such a great band and are firing on all cylinders. Patrick had texted me that I should be prepared to help sing “You May Be Right” by Billy Joel and “Bastards of Young” by the Replacements. Before the show I reviewed the lyrics.

When I got on stage we did pretty well with “You May Be Right” and a surprising amount of the crowd knew every word! Then Patrick said they were going to do some “Old School Minneapolis shit”, obviously introducing the Replacements song, right? He then hit the opening riff for THS song “Stuck Between Stations”. it was awesome. We did that one and then “Bastards” and then I got off stage and they continued to tear the place down. Ted Leo got up there shortly after me and they did an amazing Pogues cover as well as “Dancing in the Dark” by Springsteen. The whole show ended (of course) with the best, and punkest, version of “Freebird” that I’ve ever heard.

It’s an honor to be friends with Titus Andronicus, and it was amazing to be a part of one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Go see them play live this Fall, you won’t be sorry.

Stay Positive,
cf

the first half is pretty solid & up there with The Monitor for me but I always lose interest with the second side somewhere after Come On Siobhan.

https://www.slantnews.com/story/2015-09-17-titus-andronicus-twitter-rocks-just-as-hard-as-the-bands-does

Avoided the new one ever since it came out on the grounds that a) the last one sucked, and b) I figured that I didn't have time in my life for 90+ minute album by a band I mentally file as like-not-love. A few months later, I have even less time in my life for a 90+ minute album, but I finally broke down and am playing it now anyway and it's...pretty good! Could definitely use an editor--as much as the formless ten minute track I've listened to tries my patience, the sheer number of minute(ish)-long interludes feel like an even greater waste of time--but "Lonely Boy," the *first* "I Lost My Mind" (there are two songs by that name here) and especially "Fatal Flaw" are great Springsteen-by-way-of-early-Clash punk.

So let's get fucked up, and let's pretend we're all okay.
And if you've got something that you can't live with,
Save it for another day, all right?
Save it for another day.

i mean, let's get it imo

― jihad mane (J0rdan S.), Sunday, April 4, 2010 3:37 AM (seven years ago)

dag

haven't got into anything they've done since but this still goes hard

^^^

Pulled this out last week. Still great.

I was trying to figure out what the new album (A Productive Cough) was reminding me of and the surprise answer was Dexys' Don't Stand Me Down.