i liked that its underneath a p tuneful and introspective album despite the rocking
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:26 (fourteen years ago) link
xp- yes! my live titus andronicus experience was at a bbq at sxsw and there was one 14 year old kid who was just absurdly into it, arms flailing around and screaming along to every word. it really loosened up the crowd and everyone moshed and sang along at that part.
― make tha trap say hay (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link
when i saw them at pfork 08 i thought they were one of the worst live bands i had ever seen, but then i saw them in a lil club opening for los campesinos! & they were really cool
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
the middle of this album ("a pot in which to piss" & "four score & seven") is some http://i1.tinypic.com/833rrc8.jpg shit
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:32 (fourteen years ago) link
also the climax of the 14 min final track
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:33 (fourteen years ago) link
k i'm downloading this
― make tha trap say hay (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:33 (fourteen years ago) link
between this & the real estate album, new jersey has put out two of my favorite indie records in a while -- i like that they're pretty much total polar opposites soundwise -- i guess in reality they're both about suburban malaise (lol new jersey)
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:34 (fourteen years ago) link
this is kind of far and away the best album i've heard this year
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:46 (fourteen years ago) link
btr than vmp wknd???
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it might be a bit of afterglow but i think so! it's possible that vampire weekend will be better over a long run but this album is honestly just O_O
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah idk i love the VW album... this is A GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
the recording on this is also way more hi-fi which i think is cool
― suge knight btw (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link
this album is super EPIC
― just sayin, Friday, 26 February 2010 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i keep jogging to this but i sort of distrust my motivations
― thomp, Thursday, 18 March 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
jordan s were you a fan of the bright eyes album lifted, or: the story is in the soil, keep yr ears to the ground
― thomp, Thursday, 18 March 2010 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
?
your motivations for jogging???
― no chapo (Lamp), Thursday, 18 March 2010 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
those too, actually
― thomp, Saturday, 20 March 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
liking this album a lot more than the debut so far, but i gotta say
your life is over >>>>> you will always be a loser
― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Diggin this album
― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
― thomp, Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:34 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark
i've never heard this, but i dig bright eyes in general
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney! i actually thought you might
maybe i'll go out & buy this later today
― ksh, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
:D :D :D
still not really feelin this as much as u dogg but im going 2 see them i think next week or smthn hype
― Lamp, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think this band is my thing but they're playing a super small venue here soon (like less than 50 people), could be fun.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
j0rdon did you like Desparacidos (bright eyes dude's rock band)?
― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
saw these dudes a year or so ago, nothin' wrong w/ them but they just played totally straight ahead rock, like bar band shit, so I wasn't expecting all the indie hype
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
that will absolutely be a lot of fun xxp
― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Chris Richards in the Washington Post Clicktrack blog says:
They sound like the Pogues filtered through the Boss and then doused in gasoline, sweat and Red Bull.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/03/sxsw_choc_quib_town_yelawolf_c.html
I keep meaning to give them a listen, not sure if that description encourages or discourages me.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
really dig this album but cringe at the bright eyes comparisons, oberst is fucking torture for me
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
hope it's more WIDE AWAKE Oberst than, say, any other Oberst
― ksh, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
altho i do like some Lifted and, uh, some of his other tunes too
ha... was listening to this the other day and my girlfriend asked if it was new Bright Eyes.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I heard some of this, and it sounded great.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
never heard anything by them, if it sounds like this album i will check it out tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure if it's exactly like them, but it has a certain ants in your pants anthemic type vibe
http://www.myspace.com/desaparecidos
(BTW go down to the comments and stop some weird embedded video that autoplays)
― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
― ksh, Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:37 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
ehhhh kindof. more like oberst when he's at his most explosive.
― borntohula, Thursday, 25 March 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
honestly, I think the main thing reminding anyone of Oberst is actually about something Oberst does well -- the singer's voice here has that same kinda nervy, manic quaver at the ends of phrases, that shaky on-the-edge sound from the earliest Bright Eyes stuff. if not for that in particular, this record would "sound like Bright Eyes" only to the same vague extent it sounds like dozens of other things that sound like that. umm.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 25 March 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i sort of felt like it was something the guy could have learnt off of the oberst records. i think that's one of the reasons i don't trust it
― thomp, Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
(also this record and 'lifted' both have this thing where they kind of go: let me explain my angst to you in the most earnest and thorough and complete way possible! which i sort of am starting to feel too old for.)
― thomp, Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
idk, haven't listened to much bright eyes but mr. titus andronicus' delivery is in a more tuff, cool and as a result ...detached (?) way than anything i've ever heard oberst sing. not that it's not emotionally potent, but not to the same extent. like, his veins and muscles bulge out of his neck and his face turns all red when they perform live, but then he looks up and he's just a dude having fun playing rock and roll.
― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
OH SNAP JORDAN PROJECT LODGE AWESOME
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Its just the voice. Don't let that make you think there is any other reason to compare them to Bright Eyes.
― Evan, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
^this.
― sofatruck, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like "lover i don't have to love" is kind of histrionic enough to be a titus andronicus song
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah what evan said, there's an unmistakable similarity but they strike much different chords imo, though they're probably going for something similar. oberst to me is whiny as hell and super self-loathing (and his lyrics...) and mr titus, who i'm just now getting into, is much more brash and confident and (lol) "punk"
― k3vin k., Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
"connor oberst and the e street band perform an opera by craig finn"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 26 March 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"craig finn as walt whitman" gave me chub tbh
that first description is actually kinda otm, lol
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Friday, 26 March 2010 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
agree w/ matt that this reminds me of Desaparecidos
― just sayin, Friday, 26 March 2010 09:34 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i have friends who swear by it but idk
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 23 July 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
well i'm fucking in
this is gonna do me just fine
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 July 2015 08:10 (eight years ago) link
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
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Monday, 27 July 2015 10:33 (eight years ago) link
I'm getting goosebumps listening to this. 30 minutes in and loving it—but I guess I have another hour to go!
― Benjamin-, Monday, 27 July 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
I Lost My Mind ---> Lookalike is fucking perfect
also Lookalike alone makes the album for me, i almost don't need the rest
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 July 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
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
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 July 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
oh its a daniel johnston cover wow
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 July 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link
man that little signal riff that goes between lookalike and the johnston cover gets me
this should have its own thread? idk
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 27 July 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
uhhhh what the heck is stickles doing http://uproxx.com/music/2015/07/titus-andronicus-the-most-lamentable-tragedy-pitchfork-patrick-stickles/3/
― extremely lag∞n postings voice (slothroprhymes), Monday, 27 July 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
guy sucks
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 27 July 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
seems like maybe he is attempting a parody version of controversial response tweets? at least i hope so?
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 27 July 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
seems p obv
― gawker's psychotic monkeys (imago), Monday, 27 July 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
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
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Monday, 27 July 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
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
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 00:26 (eight years ago) link
"fired up" was the first of the emo street band cuts to really click with me i think
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
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
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
between the piano, the harmonies, the strings & sax Mr. E Mann really has a great Born to Run feel to it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
the bigger moments really nail that feeling better than they ever have imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
also am i crazy or is "fired up" ganking from glory days
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
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
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Dude was such a doofus in the Replacements doc
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
Beginning and chorus of Lonely Boy sounds suspiciously like Havets Blå by Danish band Kliché...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link
― Ma$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?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
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
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
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ufo, Thursday, 30 July 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
https://www.slantnews.com/story/2015-09-17-titus-andronicus-twitter-rocks-just-as-hard-as-the-bands-does
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 September 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Monday, 9 November 2015 04:30 (eight years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Monday, 30 October 2017 10:54 (six years ago) link
haven't got into anything they've done since but this still goes hard
― devvvine, Monday, 30 October 2017 11:02 (six years ago) link
^^^
Pulled this out last week. Still great.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 2 November 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
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.
― Simon H., Friday, 2 March 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
oh my god A Productive Cough is so good
just did a quick first listen, but <3 <3 <3 "Crass Tattoo"
― sleeve, Friday, 16 March 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor - The Poll
― devvvine, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
I'M REAL HYPE RIGHT NOW
― j., Monday, 3 September 2018 00:27 (five years ago) link
I cannot praise this record enough.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 04:28 (five years ago) link
New Bob Mould-produced album comes out in a couple weeks.
It's quite good! It fits the "return to form," cliche since the balladry of the last one is conspicuous with it's absence. Punk storytelling at its finest regardless. I think it will be well-received when it comes out.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 10 June 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
It is with a heavy heart that I announce to you the sudden and untimely death of Matt "Money" Miller, founding keyboardist of Titus Andronicus, cover model of "A Productive Cough," lead vocalist of "Home Alone (On Halloween)," my beloved cousin and the dearest friend I ever had pic.twitter.com/im7ioAFN3p— Titus Andronicus (@TitusAndronicus) March 17, 2021
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 March 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
https://imagescdn.juno.co.uk/full/CS676430-01A-BIG.jpg
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 March 2021 13:46 (three years ago) link