Title Fight

On a completely irrelevant note, I started this blog one year ago today. I'm not quite sure why that's important, since celebrating with Title Fight needs no special occasion. But here they are anyway. Oh, and thanks to Anonymous and Shadman for helping out with this post.

Title Fight are a four-piece band from Kingston, Pennsylvania that formed in 2003, when the band was only about 13 years old. Since then, they've put out a slew of demo's and EP's, as well as two full-lengths in recent years. They've also been endlessly touring with tons of amazing bands, while being an amazing live act themselves. They've definitely become one of pop punk/hardcore's most noteworthy bands around now, and though relatively young, have started to become somewhat influential.

Title Fight are often associated with merging pop-punk and hardcore influences, though they have been incorporating elements of emo and alternative rock recently as well. They've also got some serious 90's nostalgia going on. Basically, what you're left with is a list of diverse, but ultimately tremendous bands to cite as being influences, including Lifetime, Jawbreaker, The Promise Ring, Youth Of Today, Hot Water Music, Kid Dynamite, Hum, Gorilla Biscuits, Brand New, and Knapsack.

They've got an interesting discography, since there's a ton of early stuff that tends to kind of get neglected in regards to their music. It's not radically different (there's certainly a very prominent pop-punk leaning to it in comparison to the new stuff), and not nearly as well produced. A lot of these things are just demos from when the band was in high school or whatever. They then a split (with The Erection Kids, who feature members who would later form Balance And Composure, and two 7"'s. Kingston and The Last Thing You Forget, which is also what the compilation combining these three releases is called. (the 7" alone is missing from the downloads, but the first three tracks on the compilation are the same as the 7", with practically the same artwork). They signed to SideOneDummy and put out two LP's in 2011 (Shed) and 2012 (Floral Green) respectively. They also just did a split with Touché Amoré. In terms of essentials, The Last Thing You Forget, Shed, and Floral Green would be my picks. But it is interesting to listen to the earlier stuff and really hear the progression that they've made, since it's astounding and quite captivating. I almost forgot: I don't have the singles for "Shed" or "Secret Society", which all have b-sides exclusive to those releases (though they're mostly just acoustic versions of their A-side). Besides that, enjoy.

Down For The Count Demo (2003)

1. Negative Nancy

2. Major Gain

3. Surf, Sand, And Hardcore

4. Down For The Count

5. Ignorant

Demo '04 (2004)

1. All In All

2. Never Helping Out

3. Leatherface

4. Anything

Demo '05 (2005)

1. Champ Of A Kind
2. Hometown Hero

3. Matchbook Ending

4. The Mitch

Demo '05 v2 (2005)

1. Hope

2. 53 Reynolds

3. Call It Quits

4. Flying Solo

Light Up The Eyes (2006)

1. Light Up The Eyes

2. Let Down

Acoustic (2007)

1. Preteen Scream

2. Miss Perfect

3. Freeze Frame

4. You're A Liar

5. Track 5

6. Track 6

7. Acoustic (Jamie)

The Erection Kids vs. Title Fight (2007)
1. The Erection Kids - ...And She Says She Has Nothing Left
2. The Erection Kids - Where We'll Be
3. The Erection Kids - Thanks To You
4. The Erection Kids - Loss For Words
5. Title Fight - Room 200
6. Title Fight - Evander
7. Title Fight - Anaconda Sniper
8. Title Fight - Goldwaite
9. Title Fight - Neck Deep

Kingston (2008)

1. Memorial Field

2. Loud And Clear

3. YourEyeAh

The Last Thing You Forget (2009)

1. Symmetry

2. Introvert

3. No One Stays At The Top Forever

4. Memorial Field

5. Loud And Clear

6. YourEyeAh

7. Room 200

8. Evander

9. Anaconda Sniper

10. Goldwaite

11. Neckdeep

12. Western Haikus

America's Hardcore (2010)
14. Dreamcatchers

Missed (2011)
1. Missed
2. Dreamcatchers

Shed (2011)

1. Coxton Yard

2. Shed

3. Flood Of '72

4. Society

5. You Can't Say Kingston Doesn't Love You

6. Crescent-Shaped Depression

7. Safe In Your Skin

8. Where Am I?

9. Your Screen Door

10. 27

11. Stab

12. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)

Flood Of '72 (2011)

1. Flood Of '72

2. Flood Of '72 (Acoustic)

Floral Green (2012)

1. Numb, But I Still Feel It
2. Leaf
3. Like A Ritual
4. Secret Society
5. Head In The Ceiling Fan
6. Make You Cry
7. Sympathy
8. Frown
9. Calloused
10. Lefty
11. In-Between

Off The Board: A Studio 4 Family Compilation (2013)
1. Another One

Touché Amoré/Title Fight (2013)

1. Title Fight - Face Ghost (Touché Amoré Cover)

2. Touché Amoré - Crescent-Shaped Depression (Title Fight Cover)

Spring Songs (2013)

1. Blush

2. Be A Toy

3. Receiving Line

4. Hypnotize

Hyperview (2015)

1. Murder Your Memory

2. Chlorine

3. Hypernight

4. Mrahc

5. Your Pain is Mine Now

6. Rose of Sharon

7. Trace Me Onto You

8. Liar's Love

9. Dizzy

10. New Vision

Here's two live radio sets, both from 2009, so they consist entirely of TLTYF songs. The quality on WERS is a bit better than the other, and if I happen to come across more live sets I'll add them too. If you have a live set or something of their's, please send it in.

Live On WERS (2009)

1. Loud And Clear

2. Evander

3. Memorial Field

4. No One Stays At The Top Forever

Live On WCDB Radio (U Of Albany) (2009)

1. Memorial Field

2. Evander

3. Western Haikus

4. Goldwaite

5. Symmetry

6. YourEyeAh 

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