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Taking Back Sunday
Released 2004

Ohio Is for Lovers [Multimedia Track]
04:04
4,361 plays

Right Side of the Bed [Multimedia Track]
03:44
3,610 plays

Smashed into Pieces [Multimedia Track]
03:44
3,187 plays

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songs

- 1
- Set Phasers To Stun
- 03:03
- 193,406 plays

- 2
- Bonus Mosh Pt.II
- 03:06
- 161,703 plays

- 3
- A Decade Under The Influence
- 04:07
- 243,497 plays

- 4
- This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)
- 04:11
- 196,949 plays

- 5
- The Union
- 02:50
- 132,460 plays

- 6
- New American Classic
- 04:35
- 192,716 plays

- 7
- I Am Fred Astaire
- 03:43
- 127,637 plays

- 8
- One-Eighty By Summer
- 03:53
- 171,345 plays

- 9
- Nubmer Five With A Bullet
- 03:49
- 168,816 plays

- 10
- Little Devotional
- 03:07
- 132,502 plays

- 11
- ...Slowdance On The Inside
- 04:26
- 168,115 plays

- 13
- Ohio Is for Lovers [Multimedia Track]
- 04:04
- 4,361 plays

- 14
- Smashed into Pieces [Multimedia Track]
- 03:44
- 3,187 plays

- 15
- Right Side of the Bed [Multimedia Track]
- 03:44
- 3,610 plays

- 16
- Masterpiece [Multimedia Track]
- 03:46
- 2,962 plays

- 17
- Drug Like
- 07:27
- 2,775 plays

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album review

Where You Want to Be builds on the hardcore-power-meets-pop-skills of Taking Back Sunday's debut, Tell All Your Friends, and reveals the group to be, in many ways, a quintessential latter-day emo band. Not because they're redefining the style's sound, but because their music is defined by so many of emo's nearly cliché tendencies. A gerund-led band name? Check. Cryptically bittersweet titles like "Little Devotional"? Present and accounted for. Shouty, anthemic vocals, string-driven ballads like "New American Classic," and wordy, confessional lyrics ("Give me a chance? Whatever...you're so hit or miss, and that's so '93") are all in place as well. However, while Where You Want to Be might be more than a little (stereo)typical, it's not embarrassing; songs like "A Decade Under the Influence," "One Eighty by Summer," and "Number Five With a Bullet" do have some real impact, and show some songwriting growth since Tell All Your Friends. But since the band doesn't take the occasionally cringe-worthy risks of some of their emo brethren, Taking Back Sunday sometimes comes off as less than distinctive, and the album can sound like a generic soundtrack to generic teenage angst; even though it's a nearly universal subject, it should never sound routine. Where You Want to Be is definitely a solid album -- especially considering that it was recorded so soon after half the band was replaced -- but crafting something a little more unique would take Taking Back Sunday's music that much farther. [Where You Want to Be was released with a bonus CD of songs and videos from like-minded Victory Records artists, including Hawthorne Heights, Bayside, Action Action, and Silverstein.] ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide