History Music / TakingBackSunday

* NonAppearingTitle: Quite a few including the entirety of their first two albums, given that most of their song titles are hard to fit into actual lyrics. It's easier to list the exceptions, which include (but aren't limited to): "My Blue Heaven", "[=MakeDamnSure=]", "Twenty-Twenty Surgery", "What's it Feel Like to Be a Ghost", "Liar", "Miami", "Sleep", "If You See Something, Say Something", "Swing", "Cut Me Up, Jenny", "Where My Mouth Is", "Catholic Knees", "Call Me In the Morning", "It Doesn't Feel a Thing Like Falling", "Faith (When I Let You Down)", "We Were Younger Then", "Beat Up Car", "Stood a Chance", "Tidal Wave", "You Can't Look Back", "Holy Water", "In The Middle Of It All", "We Don't Go In There" and "I'll Find A Way To Make It What You Want".

* MoodWhiplash: "Spin" from ''Louder Now'' is perhaps their heaviest song. By contrast, the next track on the album ("Divine Intervention") is an acoustic ballad. Their places on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness are mentioned below.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: They are usually a 4-6. Their heavier songs, like "Spin" and "El Paso" are an 8, while their softer songs, like "New American Classic" and "Divine Intervention" are a 1.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''Tidal Wave'' is a Heartland Rock album, of all things.

* NotableMusicVideos: "Cute Without the 'E'" is a shout-out to ''Film/FightClub.'' "You're So Last Summer" features the band performing with [[Music/PublicEnemy Flavor Flav]]. "Faith (When I Let You Down)" is a spoof on Internet celebrities that follows a character known as the "OMGWTFTBSCAT" (an anthropomorphic cat).

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Seemingly spent creatively, Taking Back Sunday decided to go back to their roots in a big way: they reunited the ''Tell All Your Friends'' lineup, bringing John Nolan and Shaun Cooper back to the fray in 2010. They recorded their fifth and SelfTitledAlbum in 2011, which expanded the band's songwriting while still keeping their signature sound. [[RevolvingDoorBand Surprisingly]], the band have managed to keep this lineup, and have since released another two albums with this lineup, ''Happiness Is'' in 2014 and ''Tidal Wave'' in 2016.

* YourCheatingHeart:
** "The Ballad Of Sal Villanueva", "Ghost Man on Third", "Cute Without the 'E'", and "The Blue Channel," to name a few.
** "There's No 'I' in Team" and "This Photograph is Proof" for the other side of the picture.

* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: "Cute Without the 'E'" only has three chords in it, but you can barely tell with how much is going on musically.

* MoodWhisplash: "Spin" from ''Louder Now'' is perhaps their heaviest song. By contrast, the next track on the album ("Divine Intervention") is an acoustic ballad. Their places on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness are mentioned below.

* CallAndResponseSong: Part of their signature style early on - seen most notably in "One-Eighty by Summer".

Taking Back Sunday (or TBS for short) is a PostHardcore/{{Emo|Music}}/AlternativeRock band from Long Island, NY. They are most famous for their intense, confessional lyrics, their use of complex vocal lines with multiple vocalists, and their [[RevolvingDoorBand frequent lineup changes]].

* AlbumTitleDrop: Their first three albums all have this somewhere. ''Tell All Your Friends'' is dropped on "Cute Without the 'E'," ''Where You Want To Be'' on "Set Phasers to Stun," and ''Louder Now'' on "What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?"

* BreakupBreakout: Jesse Lacey formed Brand New after leaving TBS, and there is still much debate over which band is more popular.

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* OutOfGenreExperience: "El Paso".
** Arguably most of ''Tidal Wave''.
* PornStache: [[http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/marsarmygurl/Adam%20Lazzara/untitled3kc.jpg Adam]].

* TakeThat: "There's No 'I' In Team" is a less than loving response to Brand New's "Seventy Times 7."

* YourCheatingHeart: "The Ballad Of Sal Villanueva", "Ghost Man on Third", "Cute Without the 'E'", and "The Blue Channel," to name a few.

Guitarist Eddie Reyes, who was already a veteran of the Long Island punk scene, formed the band in 1999 with vocalist Antonio Longo, bassist Jesse Lacey (who later went on to form Music/BrandNew, drummer Stephen [=DeJoseph=], and guitarist/singer John Nolan. After releasing a fairly obscure EP and several lineup changes, the band replaced Longo with Adam Lazarra, Lacey with Shaun Cooper and [=DeJoseph=] with Mark O'Connell (the latter two changes occuring during recording of the EP, leading to two different lineups performing on the EP). With this lineup, the band released ''Tell All Your Friends'', a hugely influential slice of post-hardcore that spawned four singles and was a critical darling.

* FantasticDrug: In the music video for "Faith", the OMGWTFTBSCAT snorts... [[CrowningMomentOfFunny catnip]].