Taking Back Sunday

Editor's Review:

Aficionados of the emo scene will tell you it's been around for longer than most think and trace it back
through Sunny Day Real Estate all the way to Ian McKaye's short-lived gig Embrace in the Summer of '85. The debut CD from Long Island's Taking Back Sunday sheenly glides past all neo-sob-rock and marries ‘80s soft-core in such an effortless fashion you'll be breaking out the wristbands — fuck that, headbands — and be Reagan-hating before you know it. The lyrics are more interesting than most out there, but are
perhaps a little too self-absorbed and interpersonal. Why don't subcultural musicians take a stand anymore?
Tell All Your Friends is a hands-down winner, going for great strides of innovation and idealism in a
genre many thought was wrapped up and commodified.

– Dan Ambrose

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Record Label Victory Records Released June 2003

Tracks You Know How I Do Bike Scene Cute Without the 'E' (Cut From the Team) There's No 'I ' In Team Great Romances of the 20th Century Ghost Man on Third Timberwolves At New Jersey The Blue Channel You're So Last Summer Head Club