When you're a punk rock band from New Jersey named after Shakespeare's most gruesome drama and you named your first album after a Seinfeld reference, you probably have some pretty big ambitions. That's likely why you decided to make your second album, The Monitor, a relationship concept album styled entirely as a Civil War pastiche, with not a single song coming in within the typical three to five minutes in length.
“Four Score and Seven” is really a two-parter, starting off as a no-win situation and ending somehow worse off. Its themes make more sense within the greater jock vs. nerd aesthetic of The Monitor, but it's pretty clear that Titus Andronicus is not on the side of the Alpha Betas (see Revenge of the Nerds for any necessary clarification). The closing chant of “It's still us against them” leaves “them” open to your own person target of ire, but, for Titus, it seems directed right at the frat boys and quarterbacks who are most likely shouting along.
Hype Machine, ain't nothing wrong with that: http://hypem.com/#!/search/four%20score%20and%20seven/1/.
A little video never hurt nobody.
Bonus fact on how my brain works: Yes, the aliases I have given my adoption birth parents, Sam and Diane, is partially because there is a track on The Monitor called “The Theme from 'Cheers.'”
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