15 Greatest Pop Punk Albums Of The 2000s

6. Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be

Paramore Emergency
Victory

The inclusion of Fred Mascherino was the greatest thing to happen to this band, and the chemistry exuded in the vocal interplay between he and lead singer Adam Lazzara is enough to forgive any little qualms you may have with Where You Want To Be's occasionally cliched approach.

Nearly every song has a rapturous back-and-forth between the two, with Mascherino's parts standing in for the fans who couldn't help but sing along to lyrical chants like "I'm sorry it took me so long" and "I know you know everything" with every last drop of enthusiasm they could muster.

The rhythm section is also substantially more muscular this time around, dropping out a lot of the shrieking, hollow assaults of their debut album in favor of something with a little more oomph.

In the end though, the magnificence of Where You Want To Be comes down to the fact that, "New American Classic" notwithstanding, this album is front-to-back propulsive and worthy of being blasted out the car windows on a road trip.

 
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