Artist: Taking Back Sunday
Album: Tell All Your Friends
Year: 2002
"So sick, so sick of being tired / and oh so tired of being sick" yelps Adam Lazzara on the first verse of opener "You Know How I Do", and you can tell he means it. Tell All Your Friends is an album from an ancient time in second-wave "emo" where bands played with massive distortion in low-budget studios and said "if we just make everything louder people won't hear the production value... and if we just yell the lyrics, they'll just yell along". See Your Favorite Weapon or Full Collapse for more examples of this. While follow-up Where You Want To Be would prove to be both more mature and refined then the debut, Taking Back Sunday showcase here an intensity that doesn't need to be contained, a rawness that's more honest then under produced. Adam's iconic "Your lipstick his collar / don't bother angel / I know exactly what goes on" shows something Taking Back Sunday would never show for the rest of their career: not just emotional intensity, but the idea of going all out. This album is full of highlights like "Timberwolves At New Jersey", "There's No 'I' In Team" and "Bike Scene", but the whole album is strong and I highly recommend you blare this out your car stereo as I do. Oh, and go see their original line-up while you still can.
Hear it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzo1D6gxjPM
Your lipstick, his collar, don't bother angel, I know exactly what goes on...
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