Artist: Taking Back Sunday
Album: Tell All Your Friends
Allow me to rectify one of humanity’s greatest mistakes; despite being snubbed at every major award ceremony, Taking Back Sunday released Tell All Your Friends in March of 2002, and arguably, since then, all of music has been a footnote.
As all things do in the remarkable androcentric Emo genre, the album metastasized after an incident with a girl. Back in the early 2000s, John Nolan, co-lead singer and guitarist of TBS, reportedly slept with the girlfriend of Jesse Lacey, lead singer of Brand New. A feud was born and both bands quickly released retaliatory albums, hurling passive-aggressive call-outs in Brand New’s “Seventy times 7” and TBS’s “There’s No I In Team.”
While Brand New’s Your Favorite Weapon’s self-pity and sociopathic honesty is the kind of high school accessible in which we used to wallow, Tell All Your Friends comes up swinging with consistently-relevant aggressive vitriol. Let’s be honest, “Great Romances Of The 20th Century” will always be one of the greatest songs of the 21st century.