Tell All Your Friends

Taking Back Sunday

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 2002)
• Original Release Date: March 26, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Victory Records
• ASIN: B0000634G4
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (376 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,566 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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About the Artist
TAKING BACK SUNDAY started with Eddie Reyes, punk rock for life who was calling Long Island home in 1999. A fertile area for some of today's most (insert synonym for promising here) advantageous, bright, favorable, felicitous, fortunate, golden, halcyon, happy, opportune, propitious, prosperous, rosy, timely, well-timed young artists, Eddie quickly found three friends nearby with a shared musical vision and recruited one from a little further away (current vocalist Adam Lazzara originally moved to NYC from High Point, North Carolina) to play bass. After their initial demo circulated, (insert line-up change here) Victory Records quickly signed the band and put them in the studio with Sal Villanueva of Thursday fame running drills.

TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS, their debut album was released in March 2002 and the band continued to tour, winning fans over by their (insert synonym for exciting here) agitative, animating,impressive, zestful live shows. By the summer of that same year, only a few short months later, shows were selling out in advance and word of mouth continued to spread. Sharing the stage with Boxcar Racer, The Used, Jimmy Eat World, New Found Glory quickly followed and the band saw less and less of home and more and more fans dedicated to the catchy yet meaningful songwriting layered over a unique blend of rock's best attributes. Lyrics such as "Why can't I feel anything from anyone other than you" taken from Cute Without the 'E' (Cut From The Team) and "You could slit my throat, and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize, for bleeding on your shirt" taken from their upcoming single You're So Last Summer became anthemic sing alongs with audiences quickly overpowering stage wattage output at tour stops from coast to coast. Believe it or not the entire band writes as well. All of them play guitar and write melodies. No fact checking necessary, even drummer Mark O'Connell is very involved in the writing process.

Fast forward to spring of 2003: TAKING BACK SUNDAY embarked on the Takeover Tour, their first national headlining tour. Playing to (insert synonym for sold out here) wall-to-wall crowds in most of the US and Canada (2,200 fans in Toronto when the band had never stepped foot over the eastern border) helped the press take notice and features in Rolling Stone, Spin, Alternative Press (cover) and Revolver quickly followed.

By now TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS had surpassed 200,000 records sold. The band had plans to travel to Europe and then return to the US to spend the summer as one of the main stage acts on the 2003 Vans Warped Tour. (insert line-up change here) Instead they welcomed Fred Mascherino and Matt Rubano to the mix. Mascherino comes to Taking Back Sunday from one of their favorite bands, Breaking Pangaea, best known for significant college radio airplay and critical raves. Fred's strong backing vocals, guitar virtuosity and insightful lyrics bring an added dimension to the Taking Back Sunday sound. New Bassist Matt Rubano is a native of Baldwin New York and a life long friend of Mark's, so the chemistry between the two is unmistakable. Matt has recorded and toured with a variety of artists from all genres of music, but is best known for his work on Lauryn Hill's grammy winning debut, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill".

Debuting the new line-up at the last three Warped shows in Philly, NY and NJ respectively allowed the band to dispel the rumors of a (insert synonym for break-up here) adjourn, take apart, terminate and allowed TAKING BACK SUNDAY to blast through songs from the record and introduce some new ones which received a more than favorable review from fans and press alike. Their third video for You're So Last Summer will feature a guest appearance by Public Enemy's Flavor Flav. Why you ask? "Why not," would be their reply, there are no rules.

Product Description
Taking Back Sunday draws forth images of what would be born of a marriage between Thursday and Saves The Day. The songs feature passionate,heartfelt lyrics that any listener easily identifies with. In December 2001,Victory Records signed Taking Back Sunday and put them in the skillful hands of producer Sal Villanueva and engineer Tim Gilles (Thursday's 'Full Collapse'). The result is a beautiful blend of passion, emotion and sincerity that is unrivaled in the budding emo-rock scene today. "Tell All Your Friends" is truly destined to be one of the breakout albums of 2002.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My first Taking Back Sunday album!, October 21, 2004

By	Chris Ochman "The Eclectic Listener" (Stafford, VA) - See all my reviews

I was very impressed when I heard this CD in a friend's car, so I went out and bought it!

I was not disappointed in the least.

This really does satisfy my punk/emo needs. Full of emotion, young adult problems, they really do make it bleed realistically.

Favorite tracks, "Cute without the "E"!

*grins*

Go out and buy some good music, but I can't guarantee you'll like it, because this stuff IS a bit different. Loud, and a bit confusing. But emotional and at times, eye opening.

A favorite lyric from this album "...and you can slit my throat, and with my last gasping breath, I'll apologize for bleeding on your shirt."

Stuff like that is just like...WOW.....

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best album of this millennium, so far, March 31, 2005

By	Kevin Davis (Charlotte, NC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As another reviewer said, this is a masterpiece. This is surely the most satisfying album since Weezer's 'Blue Album' in 1994, and, like the Blue Album, I've played this CD over and over (seemingly ad infinitum) and am still not tired of it. Taking Back Sunday took the emo-punk stylings that had been developing (with bands like Thursday and At the Drive-In) and perfected it. Ever since this album, emo has dominated the rock scene (with many bands imitating Taking Back Sunday and Thursday) in much the same way that Nirvana and Pearl Jam led the grunge revolution in the early '90's. The dual vocals, twin-attack guitars, stop-break rhythms, occasional screams, and, of course, emotional lyrics and singing are the signature features of this style of rock. Either you like it or hate it (so it seems). If you don't like it, surely you have better things to do than going around and bashing emo bands on Amazon (and typically promoting death metal bands).

A side note: For those who don't know, this is TBS's first (and best) album and features the original TBS line-up. A couple members (due to creative differences) left the band and have created another band, Straylight Run, who have a softer, piano-based style. Straylight Run is also an incredible band.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars all around great cd, July 24, 2002

By	greg (york, pa) - See all my reviews

alright, they're are a lot of reviews for this cd that have me scratching my head. the first thing is tbs doesn't sound nearly as much like thursday as everyone makes them out to. sure there are some similarities, but nothing to make a big fuss over. I think this review from pastepunk.com sums up the cd very well...

"...THURSDAY and TAKING BACK SUNDAY represent many of the same qualities as that band, but wholly in their own terms....music this original has never sounded so good. TAKING BACK SUNDAY are melodic but biting; the music is bouncy, but insanely gripping; the lyrics are personal and edgy; and most importantly, the music is undeniably deluged in a trench of tension...these guys want to play until they drop. How often does a band put out a release where every song is a standout track? (There's 10 songs, 33 minutes of music). Constant dual vocals (one of which sounds very similar to the singer of BRAND NEW) give these guys a consistently frenetic sound, and the back and forth tradeoffs add a nice amount of heft...Music this melodic shouldn't sound so dark but that's what makes it so darn attractive...I'm honestly out of glowing praise to give - these guys have decimated all of my prior preconceptions of how to categorize bands. Don't let anyone fool you though given how melodic the songs are - this band hits hard and pushes the envelope in energy and songwriting skills. "Tell All Your Friends" is undoubtedly going to be one of the best releases of 2002."

enough said