Tell All Your Friends is the debut studio album by American rock band Taking Back Sunday. The group had several lineup changes before settling on vocalist Adam Lazzara, guitarist and vocalist John Nolan, guitarist Eddie Reyes, bassist Shaun Cooper, and drummer Mark O'Connell. Taking Back Sunday released a five-song demo in early 2001, after which, they toured for most of the year. They rented a room in Lindenhurst, New York, where they wrote and demoed songs. In December 2001, the band signed with Victory Records and began recording Tell All Your Friends. The album, produced by Sal Villanueva, was recorded at Big Blue Meenie Recording Studio in New Jersey.

In early March 2002, a music video was released for 'Great Romances of the 20th Century' and the song was distributed to radio stations. Tell All Your Friends was released on March 26. It sold 2,000 copies its first week, charting at number 183 on the Billboard 200 chart. That summer, Taking Back Sunday toured with Brand New and Rufio. In December, a Fight Club-inspired music video was released for 'Cute Without the 'E' (Cut from the Team)'. The group spent the early part of 2003 touring with The Used and The Blood Brothers before headlining their own tour. After the tour, Nolan and Cooper left the band and were replaced by Fred Mascherino and Matt Rubano. In September, 'You're So Last Summer' was distributed to radio stations and the band began co-headlining a tour with Saves the Day which lasted until November. In November 2003, a music video was released for 'You're So Last Summer'.

Tell All Your Friends has received mostly positive reviews from critics. In September 2005, the album was certified gold in the U.S. for having sold 500,000 copies. With sales of 790,000 copies, Tell All Your Friends is Taking Back Sunday's best-selling album. It is Victory Records' longest-running release on the BillboardHeatseekers and Independent album charts, charting for 68 weeks on the former and 78 on the latter. In 2012, the band went on tour to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Tell All Your Friends. The band played an acoustic set on the anniversary tour, which was later released in 2013 as the live album TAYF10 Acoustic.

Background[edit]

Guitarist Eddie Reyes, who had played in The Movielife, Mind Over Matter and Inside, and guitarist Jesse Lacey of the Rookie Lot^[1] founded Taking Back Sunday in Amityville, New York in November 1999.^[2] Lacey moved to bass with the addition of guitarist John Nolan. The group also included vocalist Antonio Longo of One True Thing^[1] and drummer Steven DeJoseph.^[3] At a party, Nolan reportedly romanced Lacey's girlfriend, after which Lacey left the band.^{[4][nb 1]} Lacey formed Brand New a year later.^[6] Nolan contacted Adam Lazzara to fill in on bass,^[1] which resulted in Lazzara moving from North Carolina to New York. Lazzara had met the band when they played a show near his hometown in North Carolina.^{[2][nb 2]}

DeJoseph left, leaving the band without a drummer. Mark O'Connell, a friend of Reyes, heard about the vacancy and joined the group.^[8] After recording Taking Back Sunday's self-titled EP, Longo left the band and eventually played with Guilt Like Gravity and the Mirror.^[6] In December 2000, Lazzara switched from bass to lead vocals.^[9] He never thought he would become the group's singer: 'I remember getting into [Reyes'] Windstar with that [EP] and just driving around singing those songs, just to make myself actually do it.'^[10] O'Connell suggested that the group needed a bassist, and brought in Shaun Cooper.^[10] In February 2001, Taking Back Sunday released a five-track demo^[9] before touring for a year.^[11]

Composition[edit]

Lazzara and Nolan shared an apartment, often staying up talking until 5:00 am, and began showing each other compositions on which they were working. Neil Rubenstein, who later became the group's tour manager, would often find them composing songs with acoustic guitars.^{[nb 3]} Taking Back Sunday had a room in Lindenhurst, New York, where they practiced and composed every night;^[10] their first song written was 'Great Romances of the 20th Century'.^[13] The band frequently recorded demos.^[14] The band wrote music together, while Lazzara and Nolan wrote lyrics.^[12] One member would typically come up with a part, which the rest of the group would expand into a song.^[15] Many songs feature Lazzara and Nolan use call-and-response vocals.^[16] By December 2001, the group signed to Chicago-based Victory Records^[9] and had enough material for an album.^[14]

Reyes said that the album was written solely for 'fun and the love of music, no expectations.'^[17] Their lyrics were inspired by personal experience.^[18] Nolan and Lazzara had a concept where some of the lyrics could be read 'like a play where one line is the boy and the next line is the girl ... Sometimes when you read the lyrics it's a little boring and it's more interesting this way'.^[13] About half their song titles, according to Nolan, came from 'sitting around late at night watching TV'.^[13] The title of 'Cute Without the 'E' (Cut from the Team)' came when a friend of the band said that someone he knew was 'cut from the team'.^[14] 'Great Romances of the 20th Century' includes an audio sample from the film, Beautiful Girls (1996).^[13] During the chorus of 'Ghost Man on Third', Lazzara said he does his 'best Daryl Palumbo impression'.^[19] Lazzara said 'The Blue Channel' and 'Head Club' were songs that the band used 'to get enough songs to fill a record so we could go on tour'.^[20] The album's sound would later be described as emo,^[21]emo pop^[22] and post-hardcore.^[23] Around this time, Taking Back Sunday was influenced by emo bands the Get Up Kids and the Promise Ring.^[14]

Production[edit]

Although other labels expressed interest in Taking Back Sunday, Victory encouraged them to record an album.^[13]Tell All Your Friends was recorded over a period of two weeks^[24] in December 2001 at Big Blue Meenie Recording Studio in New Jersey with producer Sal Villanueva.^[12] The sessions ended up costing $10,000.^[24] The band arrived without a drum set, presuming that the studio would have one. Engineer Tim Gilles said, 'No major studio in America has their own [drum] set. You've gotta be fucking kidding me'.^[13] The group wanted to re-record 'Your Own Disaster' from their demo, but was unable to due to time and money constraints.^[13] Instead, it was re-recorded for Taking Back Sunday's next album, Where You Want to Be (2004). Villanueva contributed guitar work^[12] and co-mixed the recordings with Rumblefish. The album was engineered by Gilles, Erin Farley, and Arun Venkatesh, with mastering by Gilles at Surgical Sound.^[25]

Rubenstein contributed vocals to 'There's No 'I' in Team', 'Timberwolves at New Jersey' and 'Head Club'. Nolan's sister, Michelle, sang on 'Bike Scene' and 'Ghost Man on Third', and Matt McDannell contributed vocals to 'Head Club'.^[12] Nolan suggested his sister 'because I knew she had an amazing voice'.^[13] In a 2011 Alternative Press article, Cooper said that the band was unhappy with 'some of the choices that had been made without us'; the introductions to 'Great Romances of the 20th Century' and 'The Blue Channel' were changed by studio technicians without the band's input.^[26]

Release[edit]

In January 2002, Taking Back Sunday toured with Rival Schools.^[27] A music video for 'Great Romances of the 20th Century' directed by Christian Winters, a friend of the band, was released on March 4.^[28] Winters made the video before the group signed with Victory, and the record company enjoyed it.^[13] The song was distributed to radio stations on March 12,^[28] and Tell All Your Friends was released on March 26.^[29] Its cover art was taken by John Clark.^[12] To promote the album, Victory founder Tony Brummel targeted people who were familiar with the label and also fans of emo. In Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, Victory gave out 20,000 sampler albums at a cost of about $100,000; Brummel considered this a better investment than attempting to gain radio play. RED Distribution, who handled distribution for Victory, was aware that the group did not have radio play and began posting about the album on emo websites. A Yahoo! Group with over 1,300 Taking Back Sunday fans allowed them to download demos of 'Bike Scene' and 'Head Club', a tactic which was hoped would increase sales.^[30]

– John Nolan in 2005 on the album's title

For three weeks beginning in mid-March 2002, Taking Back Sunday participated in the Victory Records tour^[28] alongside Catch 22, Grade, Student Rick and Reach the Sky.^[27] The band then toured that summer with Brand New and Rufio.^[32] During this tour, shows were often selling out and being upgraded to bigger venues, which in turn would sell out. When this occurred, the group were given bonus money. Nolan said: 'And it was the first time we actually came home and had money, like we made money from the tour'.^[33] Until this point, the members would have gone back to work as soon as tours finished. Nolan said it 'was a really big one for me ... like, 'Wow, I'm not like just struggling to get by right now, we are actually kind of making a living doing this'.^[33] In September, they toured with Midtown and Recover.^[34] During the tour, Lazzara sustained a head injury,^[35] which forced the group to drop off the tour.^[36] In November and December 2002, Taking Back Sunday toured with the Starting Line and Northstar.^[37]

On December 10, a music video was released for 'Cute Without the 'E' (Cut from the Team)' on Launch.com.^[38] The video, conceived and directed by Winters, was inspired by the 1999 film Fight Club (a favorite of Nolan and Lazzara).^[14] Lazzara's original idea for the video had men fighting women, which was rejected by Winters and Victory Records^[39] before Lazzara and Winters expanded it in the final version.^[14] In January 2003, Taking Back Sunday toured with the Used and the Blood Brothers.^[40] They headlined the Takeover Tour in March and April, with support from From Autumn to Ashes and Recover.^[41] The group was due to tour the UK with Brand New in May and June, however, all of the shows were cancelled amongst rumours of the band breaking up.^[42] In early May, the group issued a statement, explaining that 'There have been a series of personal events with members of the band ... We need very much to take a step back at this time'.^[43] Around this time, Nolan (citing exhaustion from touring) left the band, and Cooper followed shortly afterwards. According to Lazzara, Nolan and Cooper were 'having trouble because everything was happening so fast. Going from being home ... to being gone all the time and having your whole life consumed and almost defined by the band that you’re in is a lot to handle'. The band briefly considered breaking up.^[44] Nolan and Cooper formed Straylight Run with Nolan's sister, Michelle, and Breaking Pangaea drummer Will Noon.^[45]

From June to August 2003,^[46] the group performed on the main stage at Warped Tour.^[47] Reyes contacted his friend, Breaking Pangaea frontman Fred Mascherino, who auditioned for Nolan's place;^[44] on August 5, it was announced that Mascherino was a member of the band.^[45] Bassist Matt Rubano, who grew up with O'Connell, then joined the group.^[44] Rubano was asked to audition by O'Connell but was initially hesitant, since he was not a fan of emo music^[48] or aware of the band; however, he bought the album and learned Cooper's parts.^[49] On September 16, 'You're So Last Summer' was released as a radio single.^[50] From September to November Taking Back Sunday co-headlined a tour with Saves the Day, supported by Moneen.^[51] In November, a music video for 'You're So Last Summer' was filmed at Fulton State Park in New York. The video, directed by Winters,^[52] debuted on MTV on November 24.^[53] In the video, the band plays while Public Enemy vocalist Flavor Flav (in full regalia) jumps. According to Lazzara, the group was making fun of itself: 'We had two guys leave our band and there were two main singers, so we were trying to think of a way to bring the new band members into the video, but not have Fred singing the old guy’s part. And the funniest way to do that was to use Flavor Flav.'^[44] On December 3, the band appeared on IMX.^[54]

Critical reception[edit]

According to AllMusic reviewer Kurt Morris, Tell All Your Friends is similar to the Movielife's This Time Next Year (2000); Taking Back Sunday's 'ability ... to sound so blatantly' like the Movielife was 'almost their undoing'. Morris wrote that the vocals strongly resembled those of the Canterbury Effect, and called Taking Back Sunday 'a bit more rockin'' than the Movielife: 'They have cultivated punk, hardcore, emo, and pop and hybridized it better.' However, Morris called the album 'nowhere near original or creative'.^[29]Rolling Stone's Gil Kaufman wrote that the album 'sidesteps many sad-sack emo pitfalls' with 'pop-infused hardcore' and 'enlightened, dramatic lyrics' describing 'heartache that teeter[s] between despondency and dark vengeance'.^[61] Peter White of Drowned in Sound wrote that the album contained He added that the album featured 'Nihilistic, angry pop gems covered in monster riffs' that 'screams to rival anything on an Obituary record'.^[58]Chart Attack reviewer Steve Servos noted that Lazzara's 'somewhat raspy voice' was able to switch 'with ease from melodic vocals to all-out screams'.^[56]

CMJ New Music Monthly writer Andrew Bonazelli noted musical similarities to fellow Victory band Thursday. In Tell All Your Friends, 'a series of double teams, two guitars butt heads', merging 'clean-channel pop melodies' with 'chugging metal progressions' to create 'cathartic, schizophrenic anthems'. Bonazelli called the songs 'bombast[ic]' and 'occasionally dazzling'.^[57] Stuart Green of Exclaim! wrote that the album was 'a spirited and well-produced' work, although noting it arrived 'at a time when there's a flood of similar sounding bands. It's not bad, but it just doesn't stand out either.'^[59] Olli Siebelt wrote for BBC Music that the band brought 'a welcome mix of original styles to an overcrowded playing field', with 'an interesting mix of southern Californian post-punk, nu-metal and old school hardcore'. According to Siebelt, Taking Back Sunday composed 'fantastically catchy songs' which were 'poppy and fun' and 'upbeat and emotionally aggressive.' Siebelt compared the album to All and the Descendents, retaining 'enough of its own identity' to lift the band above its peers.^[55]

Commercial performance[edit]

Although it was reported that 15,000 copies had been shipped,^[28] only 2,000 copies were sold in Tell All Your Friends' first week of release.^[62] The album spent one week (at number 183) on the Billboard 200,^[63][64] and 68 weeks on the Heatseekers Albums chart, peaking at number 9.^[64][65] It spent 78 weeks on the Independent Albums chart, peaking at number 8,^[66] and peaked at number 23 on the Catalog Albums chart.^[67] Despite little airplay, Tell All Your Friends sold 110,000 copies by March 2003;^[30] near the end of the year, sales stood at 252,000.^[68] By April 2004 the album had sold nearly 400,000 copies,^[69] and by September 2005 it was certified gold by the RIAA.^[70] By May 2009, the album had sold 790,000 copies in the US.^[71] As of April 2010, the album has sold over one million copies worldwide.^[72]Tell All Your Friends is Taking Back Sunday and Victory Records' best-selling release.^[71] It would also become Victory's longest-running record on the Billboard Heatseekers and Independent Albums charts.^[73]

Accolades and legacy[edit]

Drowned in Sound included the album on their list of top albums of 2002.^[77] According to Alternative Press' Philip Obenschain, Tell All Your Friends 'has remained one of the scene's most celebrated and influential releases'.^[14] Despite its 'not be[ing] their best sounding, most mature or highest in ambition ... it’s Tell All Your Friends' intangible and emotionally charged energy, the uncertainty, the earnestness and the rough edges that make it so special'.^[78] The album was included in Rock Sound's 101 Modern Classics list at number 13, and the magazine considered it '[t]he Hybrid Theory of emo.'^[79]NME listed it as one of '20 Emo Albums That Have Resolutely Stood The Test Of Time'.^[80]

Chris Collum wrote for AbsolutePunk that Tell All Your Friends 'grabs the listener’s attention from the start' and the album expressed 'feelings that are completely genuine, not contrived, rehearsed or formulaic, without being over-the-top or sappy'. Collum called Lazzara and Nolan's vocal delivery 'rapid-fire' in a 'back-and-forth way, as if they were carrying on a dialogue, [that] allows you to really attach to and get a sense of the raw emotion behind the songs'.^[16] In a retrospective review for Alternative Press, Brendan Manley wrote that the album 'is as close as it gets to a modern masterpiece, capturing not just a band at their apex, but an entire scene'. According to Manley, Tell All Your Friends was 'the crossover breaking point, finally bringing what had been percolating for years in East Coast VFW Halls to the attention of the masses'.^[74] Channing Freeman of Sputnikmusic wrote that the album features 'power chords and clean strums and palm muting and reverb'. About whether this was negative, Freeman said, 'With songs this good, it shouldn't be ... It's all here, solid and undeniably catchy'.^[75] Jonathan Bradley wrote for Stylus Magazine that although the album 'is notable not so much for being a blueprint as it is a playbook', it would 'provide the perfect How-To guide for teenagers with guitars all over the United States and beyond.'^[76]

Four of the album's tracks would later be included as part of the Notes from the Past compilation in 2007.^[81]Tell All Your Friends was performed live in its entirety at Bamboozle 2011.^[82] In a 2011 interview with CMJ, Adam Lazzara and John Nolan chose the album's final track ('Head Club') as their least-favorite Taking Back Sunday song.^[83] To celebrate Tell All Your Friends' 10th anniversary, the band toured the U.S. in October and November 2012 with support from Bayside.^[84] In November the album charted on the BillboardVinyl Albums chart, peaking at number 8.^[85] In June 2013, the band released a live acoustic version of the album and a companion film, TAYF10 Acoustic.^[86] The recordings were made in Los Angeles and Chicago. In September, the band performed two electric versions of the album in New Jersey.^[87]TAYF10 Acoustic and TAYF10: Live from Starland Ballroom were released as a double-DVD set in December, and TAYF10 Acoustic was released on vinyl.^[88] In 2014, Cooper said that Warner Bros. wanted the group to re-record Tell All Your Friends during the Taking Back Sunday (2011) sessions; Cooper replied to them, 'Are you nuts?'^[89] In 2015, Lazzara said that he disliked his vocals on the album: 'I was just yelling everything hoping it fit in there somehow, trying to paint with some strange color'.^[20]

Track listing[edit]

All music written by Taking Back Sunday. All lyrics written by Adam Lazzara and John Nolan.^[12]

Bonus tracks

Personnel[edit]

Personnel per booklet^[12] and back cover.^[25]

Chart positions[edit]

Original release

Reissue

Certifications[edit]

Notes and references[edit]

Footnotes

1. ^This event later inspired Brand New to include 'Seventy Times 7' on their debut album, Your Favorite Weapon (2001). Nolan wrote about the event from his point of view in Taking Back Sunday's 'There's No 'I' in Team', and he and Lacey later reconciled.^[5]
2. ^Lacey became hostile towards Lazzara and Taking Back Sunday. This situation, according to Alternative Press, 'spawned one of the most public intra-band rivalries in emo history.'^[6] In 2015, Lazzara described Lacey as 'a dick. He just sucks. He's not a good person.'^[7]
3. ^Rubenstein, Lacey, Nolan and Lazzara were part of a songwriting collective known as the Long Island Band Pool. If a musician had a lyric they could not use, they suggested it to another member of the collective. Lazzara called it 'a real communal thing happening at the time.'^[10] Rubenstein contributed the lines 'best bet worst ex' to 'Bike Scene' and 'Don't call my name out your window; I'm leaving' to 'Head Club'.^[12]

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Taking Back Sunday is an American rock band from Long Island, New York. The band was formed by guitarist Eddie Reyes in 1999. The band's members are Adam Lazzara (lead vocals), John Nolan (lead guitar, keyboards, vocals), Shaun Cooper (bass guitar), and Mark O'Connell (drums), and they are joined by Nathan Cogan (guitar) for their live performances. Nolan and Cooper left the group in 2003 before rejoining in 2010.

The band has released studio albums with various past members Fred Mascherino (guitar, vocals), Matthew Rubano (bass guitar), Matthew Fazzi (guitar, keyboards, vocals), and Eddie Reyes (guitar). Louder Now (2006) was the band's breakout mainstream album, notably because of the popularity of its lead single 'MakeDamnSure'. The album sold over 900,000 copies and peaked at No. 2 on the United States Billboard 200, surpassing the band's previous Billboard 200 peak in 2004 at No. 3 with Where You Want to Be.

Before the release of their first studio album Tell All Your Friends (2002), they released Taking Back Sunday's EP in 2001, when the band featured former lead vocalist Antonio Longo. At that time, the EP received very little attention, eventually resulting in the band seeking a new lead singer, Adam Lazzara. Lazzara had at first joined the band as its guitarist, left a few months after it formed, then replaced original bassist Jesse Lacey (now of Brand New) during the EP's recording sessions. John Nolan and Shaun Cooper left the band in 2003 only to rejoin in 2010, in time for the band's release of their eponymous album Taking Back Sunday (2011). The album was produced by Eric Valentine and released through Warner Bros. Records.

In 2014, the band released their sixth studio album Happiness Is to positive reviews. The album reached number 10 on the US Billboard 200. In 2016, they released their seventh album Tidal Wave.

• 1History
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History[edit]

Early years (1999–2002)[edit]

Guitarist Eddie Reyes, who had played in The Movielife, Mind Over Matter and Inside, and guitarist Jesse Lacey of the Rookie Lot^[1] founded Taking Back Sunday in Amityville, New York in November 1999.^[2] Lacey moved to bass with the addition of guitarist John Nolan. The group also included vocalist Antonio Longo of One True Thing^[1] and drummer Steven DeJoseph.^[3] At a party, Nolan reportedly romanced Lacey's girlfriend, after which Lacey left the band.^{[4][nb 1]} Lacey formed Brand New a year later.^[6] Nolan contacted Adam Lazzara to fill in on bass,^[1] which resulted in Lazzara moving from North Carolina to New York. Lazzara had met the band when they played a show near his hometown in North Carolina.^{[2][nb 2]}

DeJoseph left, leaving the band without a drummer. Mark O'Connell, a friend of Reyes, heard about the vacancy and joined the group.^[8] After recording Taking Back Sunday's self-titled EP, Longo left the band and eventually played with The Prizefighter and the Mirror.^[6] In December 2000, Lazzara switched from bass to lead vocals.^[9] He never thought he would become the group's singer: 'I remember getting into [Reyes'] Windstar with that [EP] and just driving around singing those songs, just to make myself actually do it.'^[10] O'Connell suggested that the group needed a bassist, and brought in Shaun Cooper^[10] of Breaking Pangaea.^[6] In February 2001, Taking Back Sunday released a five-track demo^[9] before touring for a year.^[11]

Victory Records (2002–2005)[edit]

Prior to the release of their debut album Tell All Your Friends, a music video for 'Great Romances of the 20th Century' was released on March 4, 2002. It was directed by Christian Winters, a friend of the band.^[12] Winters made the video before the group signed with Victory, and the record company enjoyed it.^[13] The song was distributed to radio stations on March 12,^[12] and the full album was released on March 25.^[12]

Around this time, Nolan (citing exhaustion from touring) left the band, and Cooper followed shortly afterwards. According to Lazzara, Nolan and Cooper were 'having trouble because everything was happening so fast. Going from being home ... to being gone all the time and having your whole life consumed and almost defined by the band that you’re in is a lot to handle'. The band briefly considered breaking up.^[14] Nolan and Cooper formed Straylight Run with Nolan's sister, Michelle, and Breaking Pangaea drummer Will Noon.^[15] Taking Back Sunday added Fred Mascherino on guitar and vocals as well as Matt Rubano on bass.

The group's second album, Where You Want To Be, was released on July 27, 2004, on Victory Records. Although sounding slightly different from Tell All Your Friends by using some different musical instruments,^[16] the new album managed to do well commercially; propelled by the single 'A Decade Under the Influence', Where You Want To Be went on to debut at the No. 3 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with around 220,000 copies sold. It became one of the best-selling independent rock albums within a year, selling 634,000 copies by June 2005.^[17]Rolling Stone Magazine listed Where You Want To Be as one of the top fifty records of 2004.^[18] Instead of spending marketing money towards trying to get radio play, Victory Records used the internet and fans to spread the word about the upcoming album. They targeted consumers familiar with Victory Records as well as fans of emo music. They distributed a label sampler that included songs from Where You Want To Be to get fans excited about the release. They used the Taking Back Sunday street team, consisting of about 25,000 individuals, to promote the album. In return fans could get pre-sale tickets, win shoes and other various prizes.

Taking Back Sunday toured frequently for eight months in support of Where You Want to Be.^[19] The band received even more mainstream exposure by appearing on late night talk shows Jimmy Kimmel Live!; as well as contributing Where You Want to Be's second single, 'This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)', to the soundtrack for Spider-Man 2. They also contributed the song 'Your Own Disaster' to the Elektrasoundtrack.^{[citation needed]}

Major label debut (2005–2007)[edit]

On June 10, 2005, it was announced that the band had signed with major label Warner Bros. Records and would begin recording their third album later in 2005.^[17] That month, the group contributed 'Error: Operator' to the video-game adaption of Fantastic Four,^[20] and it was later added to the film's soundtrack as well.^[21]

On September 21, 2005, it was announced that Taking Back Sunday had begun recording their third album with Eric Valentine.^[22] The group chose Valentine because he had produced Queens of the Stone Age's Songs for the Deaf (2002) and Third Eye Blind's self-titled album (1997).^[23] On April 25, 2006, Taking Back Sunday released their third album, entitled Louder Now, on Warner Bros. Records. The members' comments on the album reflected the dramatic change the band had undergone in the two years since their last release. Matt Rubano noted that the move to a major label was not something the band took lightly, but it was a move that made sense given the band's tumultuous past.^[24] Lazzara stated that fans seemed to feel their live shows had more energy than their recordings, and that Louder Now brought more of that across.

Taking Back Sunday received mainstream exposure by appearing on the late night talk shows The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as the teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation in an episode entitled 'What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?'.

In December 2006, the band released its first documentary, Louder Now: PartOne, featuring behind-the-scenes tour footage and four live concerts. Following months of touring to support Louder Now, Taking Back Sunday appeared in the American leg of Live Earth on July 7, 2007. During the summer of 2007, Taking Back Sunday was also a part of Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour, along with My Chemical Romance, HIM, and several other bands.

On October 30, 2006, the band's former record label, Victory Records, released Notes from the Past, which featured four songs from Tell All Your Friends, six songs from Where You Want To Be, and two B-sides: The Ballad of Sal Villanueva and Your Own Disaster ('04 mix). The band then released Louder Now: Part Two on November 20, 2007, a DVD of unreleased live concert footage from their show at Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California, which included special features such as the video for 'Twenty-Twenty Surgery', made to be released in Europe. The DVD was packaged with a companion CD featuring eight live tracks, two B-sides that were previously unreleased in America, and a special 'Twelve Days of Christmas' track.^{[citation needed]} In 2007, the band contributed the song 'What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?' to the soundtrack for the science fictionaction filmTransformers,^[25] although the song did not appear in the film.

Departure of Fred Mascherino and New Again (2007–2010)[edit]

In October 2007 the band announced that Taking Back Sunday and guitarist Fred Mascherino would be parting ways, which came after he decided to focus on his then upcoming solo album with The Color Fred. He was later replaced by Matthew Fazzi,^[26] who would provide guitar and backing vocals.^[27] Mascherino went on to reveal in later interviews: 'There were just problems between the five of us about writing, who was going to do it and how we were going to do it, we weren't being very productive because we were fighting too much about that stuff. The band was more about cooking food than making music.'^[28] This statement inspired the band to write the track 'Capital M-E', which features lyrical references to Mascherino's departure and the comments he made afterward.^[29] In 2010, Fred Mascherino posted a picture of himself and Adam Lazzara with the caption, 'Today was a good day' indicating that he and Lazzara have since made up and are on good terms again.^{[30][better source needed]}

On November 6, 2008, Taking Back Sunday revealed in Rolling Stone that their fourth studio album was to be titled New Again and would feature the tracks 'Winter Passing', 'Lonely Lonely', 'Catholic Knees', and 'Carpathia'. They stated that 'Winter Passing' was '...a slow dance like the last song at your 8th grade dance [that] moves more like an R&B tune than a rock and roll song', and that 'Carpathia' will include the first bass solos in any Taking Back Sunday song. They also commented that 'Catholic Knees' is 'one of the heavier songs we've ever written', and that 'Lonely Lonely' is 'relentless – two and a half minutes of punching you in the face'.^[31] In the build-up to the release of New Again, the band released a number of tracks—the first of which was 'Carpathia'—on December 21, 2008 as free digital downloads to those who purchased the band's Christmas holiday set,^[32] with a physical limited vinyl release of the track as well as a live version of 'Catholic Knees' released on April 18, 2009,^[33] secondly title track 'New Again' as a free single download from the band's website on April 16, 2009, followed by the first full single 'Sink into Me', released on April 20, 2009, premiering on BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe show, and being made available digitally short after. On May 16, 2009, 'Everything Must Go' was released to stream on the band's MySpace. Every Monday, the band released a new song on their MySpace from New Again labeling it 'New Music Monday'.^[34]

During their tour supporting New Again, the band played in Dublin, Ireland where guitarist Matt Fazzi fractured his foot.^[35] Despite this, the show in Belfast, Northern Ireland went on and the rest of the tour was completed, which included stops in the UK at Sonisphere Festival and the Kerrang! awards show.^{[citation needed]} On August 18, 2009, the band released a digital live album entitled Live from Bamboozle '09.^{[citation needed]} The album consists of 13 live tracks recorded at The Bamboozle, where they played in May of the same year.^{[citation needed]} In September 2009, the band announced they will be co-headlining with The All-American Rejects and Anberlin for a full US tour.^{[citation needed]} They are also set to release a live acoustic DVD around spring 2010 following the tour.

On February 12, 2010, the band released a previously unreleased b-side from New Again, entitled 'Winter Passing', on their official website.^[36]

Throughout February and March the band played the Australian Soundwave tour, playing songs from various albums to crowds of almost 30,000.^{[citation needed]}

Taking Back Sunday and lineup change (2010–2012)[edit]

On March 29, 2010, Matt Rubano and Matthew Fazzi announced that they were no longer members of Taking Back Sunday.^[37][38] The band's official website also posted a picture of the original line-up with the members' eyes crossed out, indicating a possible reunion of the Tell All Your Friends era lineup.^[36][39] On March 31, 2010, tbsnewagain tweeted a link to a video announcing the new lineup of the band. The video ended with a quick stream of words which ended with, 'Sometimes it takes some time to remember where you were headed in the first place and the people you intended to go there with. There's no hard feelings, just the future.'^[40]

On April 12, the band made an official announcement confirming that John Nolan and Shaun Cooper had re-joined the band. It was announced that they would soon begin the recording process of their fifth studio album with Louder Now producer Eric Valentine.^[41] On the same day, Adam Lazzara did an interview with Alternative Press, in which he discussed how the original line-up got back together and how both Matt Rubano and Matt Fazzi were not fired, but rather 'let go'. The band finished writing in El Paso with around 15 songs completed, according to Mark O'Connell.^{[citation needed]} Pre-production on the new album began on August 17, 2010, the same day their live acoustic album Live from Orensanz was released.^[42] On December 20, 2010, the band put out a new Christmas song entitled 'Merry Christmas I Missed You So Much'.^[43] On April 6, 2011, the band played at Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey, to record footage for an upcoming video for the song 'El Paso'. Adam Lazzara requested that the audience put away their phones and cameras during the recording. They played the song three times during the set.^[44] During this performance, the band also debuted a new song entitled 'Faith (When I Let You Down)', live for the first time.^[45] 'Faith (When I Let You Down)' was released as the official first single from the album on May 3, 2011, with an acoustic version of 'Great Romances of the 20th Century' as the b-side. On June 7, 2011, the second official single 'This Is All Now' was released on iTunes, with the b-side being an acoustic version of 'Ghost Man on Third'.^[46] On June 26, 2011 in an interview with Robert Herrera of Punkvideosrock.com, Mark and Shaun stated that the reason they returned to their original lineup was because they no longer felt it was Taking Back Sunday without the original members. Mark stated they were miserable as a band, weren't having fun, and didn't like the direction the band was going so they decided to reach out to the original members and after meeting with the band in Texas found that 'the chemistry was still there.'^[47]

On July 8, 2011, Taking Back Sunday released an official music video for 'Faith (When I Let You Down)'.^[48] On November 3, 2011, Taking Back Sunday released an official music video for 'You Got Me'. This is the second single from their self-titled album. The video was created with the help of Steve Pedulla and Ward McDonald and it features guitarist Eddie Reyes dancing solo on a theater stage. Taking Back Sunday played Warped Tour 2012 at all locations. In honor of Record Store Day 2012, the band released a limited press vinyl LP entitled 'We Play Songs', featuring four live acoustic tracks.^[49]

TAYF10 anniversary tour (2012–13)[edit]

Taking Back Sunday embarked on a 'Tell All Your Friends' 10th anniversary tour for 2012, during which the band performed their debut album in its entirety.^[50] The full US tour featured Bayside as main support, with Transit, Man Overboard and Gabriel the Marine as special guests. An audio and video recording of the acoustic version of the tour was released for digital download through the band's website on June 18, 2013.^{[citation needed]}

On June 7, 2013 2:33PM, Taking Back Sunday took to Twitter to confirm that the recording of their 6th studio album had begun; they tweeted: 'Phase one of recording the new record starts now... Happy Friday!'^[51] The band, who are working alongside producers Marc Jacob Hudson and Ray Jeffrey, have confirmed that pre-production of the 6th studio record has been completed, and that drum and bass tracking has begun.^[52] On July 1, 2013, the band announced that guitar and vocal tracking had begun as well.^[53] They announced on Facebook that the album will be released in early 2014.^{[citation needed]}

On August 29, 2013, Adam Lazzara and John Nolan performed an acoustic set at the Leaky Lifeboat Inn, in Seaford, New York, where they debuted a new song with a working title, 'The Bird You Cannot Change'.^[54] On September 11 and 12 the band played a new song at Starland Ballroom called 'Flicker Fade'. Song title was later confirmed during a televised concert on September 12 on AXSTV. On October 13, the band performed a new song, with the working title, 'Anywhere That You Want to Go / Beat Up Car'.

From October 25 through November 2, former Underoath vocalist Spencer Chamberlain began filling in on lead vocals following the premature birth of Adam Lazzara's son.^{[citation needed]} On November 8, Lazzara and Nolan performed at the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University as an acoustic act.^{[citation needed]} This featured the appearance of a Stony Brook violinist named Dylan Ebrahimian who also will appear on Taking Back Sunday's next album due in 2014.^{[citation needed]}

Happiness Is, Tidal Wave and departure of Eddie Reyes (2014–present)[edit]

On January 11, 2014, Taking Back Sunday revealed that a new album, Happiness Is, was available for pre-order on iTunes, as was a new track: 'Flicker, Fade'.^{[citation needed]}Happiness Is was released on March 18, 2014 through Hopeless Records.^[55]

The band embarked on a North American headline tour in 2015 with The Menzingers and letlive..

On June 27, 2016, the band's next album, Tidal Wave, was announced for release on September 16.^[56] Material for the album was written in between tours for Happiness Is.^[57]

On April 13, 2018, it was announced that founding guitarist Eddie Reyes has parted ways with the band.^[58] This was later confirmed by Reyes stating the reason for his departure was due to his battle with alcoholism and hope to join the band again in the future. In the meantime, he has also stated to have started a new band.^[59]

On the subject of ever touring with previous members of Taking Back Sunday, John Nolan said in an interview: 'I don’t think that’s something that really interests us. This lineup has been together for three albums now and we’re really focused on continuing to develop and evolve together. Revisiting old songs with past band members just seem like an exercise in nostalgia.'^[60]

On October 12, 2018, the band began announcing a compilation album to celebrate their 20th anniversary, along with a world wide tour. The album is to be titled Twenty, which will be released on January 11, 2019.^[61]Twenty consists of songs from Taking Back Sunday's Victory Records and Warner Bros. Records albums, which are now owned by Concord Music.

Musical style and influences[edit]

Taking Back Sunday has been described as alternative rock,^[62][63]emo,^{[11][64][65][66]}post-hardcore,^[67][68]pop punk,^[69]pop rock,^[70] and emo pop.^[71] Charles Spano of AllMusic described the band as a 'New York-based emo band that blend Southern California post-punk, nu metal and old school hardcore.'^[11] Taking Back Sunday's influences include Dag Nasty, Bad Brains, Quicksand, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Celtic Frost, Sunny Day Real Estate, Kreator, Nirvana, and Radiohead.^[72][73][74]

Band members[edit]

Discography[edit]

Studio albums

• Tell All Your Friends (2002)
• Where You Want to Be (2004)
• Louder Now (2006)
• New Again (2009)
• Taking Back Sunday (2011)
• Happiness Is (2014)
• Tidal Wave (2016)

References[edit]

Additional notes[edit]

1. ^This event later inspired Brand New to include 'Seventy Times 7' on their debut album, Your Favorite Weapon (2001). Nolan wrote about the event from his point of view in Taking Back Sunday's 'There's No 'I' in Team', and he and Lacey later reconciled.^[5]
2. ^Lacey became hostile towards Lazzara and Taking Back Sunday. This situation, according to Alternative Press, 'spawned one of the most public intra-band rivalries in emo history.'^[6] In 2015, Lazzara described Lacey as 'a dick. He just sucks. He's not a good person.'^[7]

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External links[edit]

• Complete discography of Taking Back Sunday, billboard
• 'Photo Gallery from Philadelphia 03/22/15'. Matt Christine Photography. Retrieved March 15, 2015.