Not all of the bitter lyrics are about romantic breakdowns, however, as some of the songs are also documents of a downfall of a friendship. Perhaps no other lyrics can be as confronting to an abusive romantic partner as “And will you tell all your friends you’ve got your gun to my head❓” in “Cute Without The ‘E’”, highlighting an abusive relationship is never a good thing to both sides of the relationship, all the while polishing the album’s catharsis of a person’s struggle, thus highlights the meaning of the album title. From trembling relationships (“Bike Scene”), the struggles from a manipulative relationship (the album highlight “Cute Without the ‘E’(Cut From The Team)”) to (ahem, Nolan) infidelities (“The Blue Channel”) and, inevitably, breakup (the breakup sex drama “Great Romance of the 20th Century” and “Head Club”), lead vocalist Adam Lazzara turns the words of romantic bitterness that only can be documented in diaries into beacon for those who desperately seek a shelter after a distraught in their romantic relationships with his youthful, emotive vocals. Speaking of distressed and chaotic lyrics, Tell All Your Friends has a chockfull of them, especially those about romantic relationships in jeopardy.
All of which gave the album a uniform and consistent sonic texture that flourish the album’s distressed and chaotic lyrics, yet not falling into the mistake of redundancy in terms of sound. For instance, the grunge-infused “Bike Scene” also incorporate angelic female vocals (thanks to guitarist and co-vocalist John Nolan’s sister, Michelle), which highlights the song’s theme of a relationship at the brink of a breakup in a melancholic way the blistering drums and guitars of “Timberwolves at New Jersey” also polishes the song’s angry nature and theme of friendship breakdown. What makes the album’s so attracting sonically, it’s that the members and producers are able to craft a similarly engaging punk-edged sound in all of the songs without repeating them in the album. However, before we get to the lyrical themes of the album, let’s first discuss the brilliant instrumentals and productions in this album. While their predecessors such as Jawbreakers and Jimmy Eat World and some peers that emerged earlier in the scene such as The Used introduced the vocabularies of personal teenage issues and the punk-infused sound in the genre, TBS weaved these vocabularies and sounds and put them together, and showcased them as the feature of their now landmark album and, eventually, as that of third wave Emo. However, do you ever wonder how these themes are eventually coined as the feature of music genre “Emo” that we know and secretly indulged today❓For me, the answer perhaps lies in Taking Back Sunday’s debut album-Tell All Your Friends.
Now, before we begin this review, I would like you to answer a question: Do you notice any similar features in the previous albums in this series❓The answer is that all of them are mainly about your typical teenage issue: fighting with romantic bitterness, being a wallflower in your community, struggling from your depressions, etc. Review Summary: …that this is one chaotic album they might need in their chaotic times.
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