As years continue to pass, this quality only adds to the album's longstanding appeal.ДЇor Reyes, Tell All Your Friends was sweet victory after more than a decade spent riffing away in some of the most important hardcore bands to come from Strong Island (in addition to the Movielife, Reyes can list Mind Over Matter, Clockwise and Inside to his resume, among others), but the musical bliss would be short-lived. The album also produced so many lines now ingrained in our collective conscious (like вЂњSo obviously desperate/So desperately obviousвЂќГ‚ or вЂњBoys like you are a dime a dozenвЂќГ‚), it's hard to think of the release without immediately conjuring up a lyric that takes you right back to that time and place when you heard it.

There'sВ something magical about the interplay between Lazzara and Nolan, both in the lyrics and performances, and Nolan's void has never beenВ adequately filled. The vocals are the final flourish the simple reason for Friends' greatness, compared to everything else to follow it. Reyes and vocalist/guitarist John Nolan are just as effective laying down choppy, single-note lines like on the verses for вЂњCute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team)вЂќ as they are grinding out pummeling breakdowns like in вЂњThere's No I In TeamвЂќ.Г‚ The rhythm section never fails to keep pace, with drummer Mark O'Connell and bassist Shaun Cooper driving along the songs with a wide array of feels and tempos that interlock beautifully within a fairly constrained space. There's an epic grandeur to вЂњYou Know How I DoвЂќ or вЂњYou're So Last SummerвЂќГ‚ that pulls you in for the ride, before a word is ever sung. Sonically, there's just the right mix of well-honed production and controlled chaos, ensuring that the musicвЂќwhich is as bold, melodic and richly layered as anything else you'll hear in theВ genre always impresses with its tonal immensity. It's tough to find flaw with Tell All Your Friends, critically speaking. Tell All Your Friends was the record that changed everything. Friends was the crossover breaking point, finally bringing what had been percolating for years in East Coast VFW Halls to the attention of the masses. In many ways, TBS were the offspring/sibling of all those groups and a bunch more, whether through sound and/or personnel (TBS guitarist Eddie Reyes founded the Movielife Brand New singer Jesse Lacey had previously played bass in TBS). When Friends dropped, the fellow Long Island bands TBS called pals had already turned the punk and hardcore world on its ear, between Glassjaw's vitriolic noise-core, the Movielife's anthemic punk and recently, an inescapable slice of suburban angst called Your Favorite Weapon by a little band called Brand New. Tell All Your Friends is as close as it gets to a modern masterpiece, capturing not just a band at their apex, but an entire scene. At the risk of sounding harsh, there are two very distinct versions of the band that calls itself Taking Back Sunday: the lineup thatВ recorded their 2002 debut, Tell All Your Friends and then, every other group of players singer Adam Lazzara & Co.

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