Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (LP)

Tell All Your Friends is the debut album of emo/rock/hardcore/pop band Taking Back Sunday, and was released in 2002. By all accounts, the recording process was tumultuous and harrowing. Their first day in the studio they arrived without a drum set assuming one would be provided. Then the lead vocalist lost his voice for a few days. The members all had to request time off their day jobs to drive from Long Island to Jersey City to record. All in all, a very stressful experience. The album was features call and response lyrics, pop melodies, and metal screaming. A mish mash of genres that somehow becomes a cohesive whole. The lyrical content of the album is heavily influenced by the personal life of John Nolan, vocalist and lead guitarist. Amongst other things it deals with the fallout from Nolan seducing his childhood friend and bandmate's girlfriend at a party. The raw emotion is the main thing that noted in almost all reviews of the album. 

Taking Back Sunday is an American rock/emo band from Long Island, New York. The band is filled with turbulent emotion in both the music and behind the scenes. Their genre has been described as emo, punk, rock, and hardcore, all interlaced with a sprinkling of pop. The tangled romantic and personal drama of the band would require a whiteboard and multiple colored markers to explain. Consequently the lineup has shuffled and morphed over the course of the band's lengthy tenure. As of this writing the current band members are John Nolan, Adam Lazarra, Mark O'Connell, and Shaun Cooper.

Tracklist:

1.  You Know How I Do
2. Bike Scene
3. Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team)
4. There's no 'I' In Team
5. Great Romances Of The 20th Century
6. Ghost Man On Third
7. Timberwolves At New Jersey
8. The Blue Channel
9. You're So Last Summer
10. Head Club