Question 1

Did Taking Back Sunday write their own songs?

Accepted Answer

Yes, on every album. How the credit is printed changes, though. Tell All Your Friends gives the lyrics to Adam Lazzara and John Nolan and the music to the band. Where You Want to Be, Louder Now, New Again, Happiness Is and Tidal Wave credit Taking Back Sunday as a group with no individual named. The 2011 self-titled album and 152 list the whole line-up on each track. Across the eight albums that works out to 31 tracks naming a member and 56 carrying the band credit.

Question 2

Who wrote "MakeDamnSure"?

Accepted Answer

Taking Back Sunday, credited as a band. Every track on Louder Now carries the same collective line. The single reached number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Question 3

Who wrote the lyrics on Tell All Your Friends?

Accepted Answer

Adam Lazzara and John Nolan, on all ten tracks. The music on that album is credited to Taking Back Sunday as a whole.

Question 4

Why do so many Taking Back Sunday songs list no songwriter?

Accepted Answer

Five of the eight studio albums print a single band credit instead of names. That is a labeling choice rather than a claim that nobody in particular wrote them, and it is why the authorship percentage on this page reads lower than the band's actual involvement.

Question 5

How many albums has Taking Back Sunday released?

Accepted Answer

Eight studio albums between 2002 and 2023: Tell All Your Friends, Where You Want to Be, Louder Now, New Again, Taking Back Sunday, Happiness Is, Tidal Wave and 152.

Question 6

What is Taking Back Sunday's best-selling album?

Accepted Answer

Tell All Your Friends, with 790,000 sold in the United States as of 2009 and over 1,000,000 worldwide. It was certified gold and then platinum in 2023.

Question 7

Which Taking Back Sunday album charted highest?

Accepted Answer

Louder Now, which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 in 2006 after selling 158,000 copies in its first week.

Question 8

Who is in Taking Back Sunday?

Accepted Answer

Adam Lazzara on lead vocals, John Nolan on guitar, vocals and keyboards, and Shaun Cooper on bass. Drummer Mark O'Connell played from 2001 until he left in 2024. Founding guitarist Eddie Reyes was in the band from 1999 to 2018.

Question 9

Why did John Nolan and Shaun Cooper leave and come back?

Accepted Answer

Both left in 2003 and formed Straylight Run. They rejoined in 2010, which put the Tell All Your Friends line-up back together for the 2011 self-titled album.

Question 10

Did anyone outside the band write with them?

Accepted Answer

Rarely. On 152 the producer Tushar Apte is credited on "S'old" and Nathan Cogan Post on "Quit Trying". Every other track across the eight albums is credited to the band or to its members.