Adam Lazzara: (while playing “Rock n’ Ring, a heavy metal festival in Germany) There’s lots of metal going on. Lots of really tough bands playing. And then there’s us.
Fred Mascherino: (On being constantly on tour) You seriously forget your address and home phone number.
Fred Mascherino: (On Louder Now) We were always told that our live show had more energy than our records. On Louder Now we wanted to capture that energy.
Fred Mascherino: (on writting "Louder Now") I would say in the first four days we were writing, we had five songs. And then we went about three weeks without writing anything.
Adam Lazzara: (on the song “MakeDamnSure”) You can make sure of something, but if you make damn sure of something, then there’s gonna be no avoiding it.
Adam Lazzara: The main goal was to give back a little of what music has given us. There are certain bands that I grew up listening to, and still listen to now, that if it wasn’t for them, I don’t feel like I’d still be alive. Hopefully, somebody can go buy our records and get the same feeling.
Taking Back Sunday was on the Projekt Revolution tour in summer 2007, along with Linkin Park, Placebo, and My Chemical Romance.
Matt Rubano's height, about 5'6", is often made fun of by the rest of the band, who refer to him as "the tallest member of Taking Back Sunday."
Some song lyrics are from other then the band members. The line "If You See Something, Say Something" from the song Brooklyn is the NYC metro transit authority slogan, the lyric from Ghost Man On Third, "It's a campaign of distraction and revisionist history," can be found in the book "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," and the chorus in My Blue Heaven is originally from the Breaking Pangea song Wedding Dress.
The video for A Decade Under The Influence was filmed in a shipyard in Brooklyn.
The week Louder Now was released, TBS played New York, London, Belgium, and Toronto.
The baby on the cover of Where You Want To Be is actually guitarist Eddie Reyes. And the back of the cover of Tell All Your Friends was taken by Adam Lazzara.
A title that was thought of for Taking Back Sunday's second album Where You Want To Be was "Make It Your Business."
In the songs I Am Fred Astaire and I'll Let You Live (demo), the name "Bree Ann" is said. Bree Ann is a friend of the band and she is mentioned as a shout-out.
The first and second songs written by the current lineup were Bonus Mosh pt. II and A Decade Under The Influence.
Possible album titles for Louder Now as seen on the Louder Now Partone DVD were: Most Obvious Weakness, Everything You Want, You're So Cool, Sweet Stach, Getting You Out, Understand, The Night Begins, Listen, Proof, Luxury, Priceless, You Are Safe, Permanant, Say Something, and Victory.
Fred Mascherino has a side project called The Color Fred.
Taking Back Sunday performed at Summer Sonic in Japan in August 2006.
TBS first performed the song Brooklyn, a bonus track on the album "Louder Now," on their winter/spring 2007 tour, which launched February 22, 2007 in University Park, PA at Bryce Jordan Center, featuring Underoath and Armor For Sleep as opening bands.
The vocals for the song Divine Intervention from the album "Louder Now" were recorded on a rooftop in Los Angeles, which is why street sounds can be heard in the beginning and end of the song.
Former bassist Jesse Lacey is now the front-man and songwriter for TBS' rival band Brand New.
Taking Back Sunday’s album “Louder Now” was named the #1 album of 2006 by Kerrang! magazine.
Taking Back Sunday’s song MakeDamnSure was ranked at # 52 for Rolling Stone’s Best 100 Songs of 2006.
Taking Back Sunday released their first-ever full length DVD, “Louder Now: Partone,” on December 12, 2006. The CD/DVD release includes live performances, interviews with all five band members, behind the scenes looks, full length videos for MakeDamnSure and Liar (It Takes One To Know One), and much more.
The first key change in a Taking Back Sunday song is during the bridge in Liar (It Takes One To Know One).
“Louder Now” is a certified Gold album.
The band has had two references to the movie "Fight Club" in their videos: the video Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team) has a "Fight Club" theme to it, and in the video Great Romances Of The 20th Century, a promo poster for the movie can be seen in back of Adam when he is on the phone.
Taking Back Sunday won the 2006 mtvU Woodie for Best Tour.
The room they filmed MakeDamnSure was actually a refrigerator for green beans, which was ironic because, according to the band, the room was very hot and smelled like hot dogs actually.
The band’s first record was only made in a couple of weeks.
When the band performed on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on May 12, 2006, they had the Dharma logo from the hit show LOST on their drum set.
The album "Louder Now" peaked at #2 on the Billboard chart.
The second U.S. single and video from the band’s album Louder Now was Liar (It Takes One To Know One). It is the third release from the album, however, since the video for Twenty-Twenty Surgery was released in the UK, but not in the States.
Classifications, as according to bassist Matt Rubano: The Short Guy: Matt Rubano The Thug: Mark O’Connell The Old Guy: Fred Mascherino The Fat Guy: Eddie Reyes The Long Haired Southerner : Adam Lazzara
Each one of TBS’s albums has the number 152 on it, which represents the exit in North Carolina where Adam Lazzara and old friends would take pit stops on there way to concerts or back home.
The band appeared on an episode of "Degrassi: The Next Generation, " titled, "What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?," a song title from the album Louder Now. They also starred on one of the miniature webisodes, “Degrassi Mini’s,” called Adam Lazzara Married My Mom.
The song Spin is on “Madden NFL ‘07.”
The band was nominated for the MTV2 awards for the 2006 VMAs.
Two of Taking Back Sunday's music videos are inspired by movies. Twenty-Twenty Surgery is based off of "Walk the Line," and Cute Without the 'E' (Cut From the Team) is based off of "Fight Club."
The band participated in the 2-day indoor rock festival “Give It A Name” in England in April of 2006.
Discography: 2001 – Taking Back Sunday, EP 2002 – Tell All Your Friends (March 26) 2004 – Where You Want To Be (July 27) 2006 – Louder Now (April 25)
TBS released their self-titled EP in 2001, when the band had all its original members, though it received little attention or fanfare.
The band had a small stint on the 2003 Vans Warped Tour.
The band opened for Blink-182 on the Vans Warped Tour in 2004.
TBS received mainstream exposure by appearing on talk shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night With Conan O’Brien.
Videos include: Great Romances of the 20th Century, Timberwolves At New Jersey, Cute Without the ‘E’ (Cut From the Team), You’re So Last Summer, A Decade Under the Influence, The Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know), Set Phasers to Stun, MakeDamnSure, Twenty-Twenty Surgery, and Liar (It Takes One To Know One).
Fred Mascherino is on Peta2's Sexiest Vegetarians List for 2006.
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