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I miss the old mp3.com. The loss of mp3.com goes down as one of the great tragedies of this past 100 years. There were a lot of formerly unknown artists that I first discovered on mp3.com. Sure sometimes the mp3’s were low bitrate, but they were free and you could find new artists based upon their genre, influences or who they sound like. It was pretty cool. Off the top of my head I can recall that Yellowcard, Anberlin and Taking Back Sunday all used mp3.com and that’s where I first heard of them.

Taking Back Sunday is definitely one of my favorite new punk bands. They employ dueling vocals, which was the reason I first liked Blink 182. Unfortunately Blink 182 has gotten away from doing a lot of songs with dueling vocals.

These are my favorite Taking Back Sunday songs, in no particular order.

You’re So Last Summer

This is an excellent song about the confusion of hating and loving someone at the same time. You can listen to streaming audio of this song on their website.

Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team)

You know that girl you can’t stop thinking about, but is dating someone else? This is a song about jealousy and being powerless against her. You have to hear the acoustic version as well. You can watch the video for this song on their website.

Number Five With A Bullet

The title of this song is of course comes from the book High Fidelity. It expresses some of the same emotions from the book.

There’s No ‘I’ In Team

I don’t even pretend to know what this song is about, but I love the almost chaotic way they swap between vocalists and the pouring of emotion.