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- Artist: Taking Back Sunday
- Rating:
- Release Date: July 27, 2004
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Enhanced CD-ROM
- Genre: Rock
Review
Where You Want to Be builds on the hardcore-power-meets-pop-skills of Taking Back Sunday's debut, Tell All Your Friends, and reveals the group to be, in many ways, a quintessential latter-day emo band. Not because they're redefining the style's sound, but because their music is defined by so many of emo's nearly cliché tendencies. A gerund-led band name? Check. Cryptically bittersweet titles like "Little Devotional"? Present and accounted for. Shouty, anthemic vocals, string-driven ballads like "New American Classic," and wordy, confessional lyrics ("Give me a chance? Whatever...you're so hit or miss, and that's so '93") are all in place as well. However, while Where You Want to Be might be more than a little (stereo)typical, it's not embarrassing; songs like "A Decade Under the Influence," "One Eighty by Summer," and "Number Five With a Bullet" do have some real impact, and show some songwriting growth since Tell All Your Friends. But since the band doesn't take the occasionally cringe-worthy risks of some of their emo brethren, Taking Back Sunday sometimes comes off as less than distinctive, and the album can sound like a generic soundtrack to generic teenage angst; even though it's a nearly universal subject, it should never sound routine. Where You Want to Be is definitely a solid album -- especially considering that it was recorded so soon after half the band was replaced -- but crafting something a little more unique would take Taking Back Sunday's music that much farther. [Where You Want to Be was released with a bonus CD of songs and videos from like-minded Victory Records artists, including Hawthorne Heights, Bayside, Action Action, and Silverstein.] ~ Heather Phares, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Set Phasers to Stun | Taking Back Sunday | Taking Back Sunday | (3:03) |
| Bonus Mosh, Pt. 2 | Taking Back Sunday | Taking Back Sunday | (3:06) |
| A Decade Under the Influence | Taking Back Sunday | Taking Back Sunday | (4:07) |
| This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know) | Taking Back Sunday | Taking Back Sunday | (4:11) |
| The Union | Taking Back Sunday | Taking Back Sunday | (2:50) |
| New American Classic | Taking Back Sunday | Taking Back Sunday | (4:35) |
| I Am Fred Astaire | Taking Back Sunday | Taking Back Sunday | (3:43) |
| One-Eighty by Summer | Taking Back Sunday | Taking Back Sunday | (3:53) |
| Number Five With a Bullet (Lyrics) | Taking Back Sunday | Taking Back Sunday | (3:49) |
| Little Devotional (Lyrics) | Taking Back Sunday | Taking Back Sunday | (3:07) |
| ...Slowdance on the Inside | Taking Back Sunday | Taking Back Sunday | (6:58) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Ohio Is for Lovers [Multimedia Track] | Hawthorne Heights | Hawthorne Heights | (4:04) |
| Smashed into Pieces [Multimedia Track] | Silverstein | (3:44) | |
| Right Side of the Bed [Multimedia Track] | Atreyu | (3:44) | |
| Masterpiece [Multimedia Track] | Bayside | (3:46) | |
| Drug Like (Lyrics) | Action Action | (7:27) |
