Album · Alkaline Trio
Crimson by Alkaline Trio
Crimson is an album by Alkaline Trio, released in 2005. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 11 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Time To Waste”, on 7 lists with a best position of #33.
Alkaline Trio went for the big room on Crimson, their fifth album, out on Vagrant on May 24, 2005. The Chicago punks cut it with Jerry Finn at Conway Studios in Los Angeles between November 2004 and January 2005, after Finn had come out to sit in on their practices back home, and he mixed it too. It turned out to be the last record he worked on with them before his death in 2008. For a while it carried the working title Church and Destroy.
Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano still trade lead vocals, with Derek Grant pounding away behind them, but the punk rock comes draped in overdubs and extra color: Roger Joseph Manning Jr. on piano and keyboards, string arrangements from Warren Fitzgerald, and a spoken-word turn from Heather Hannoura on "Sadie". It's brooding and glossy at once, and "Time To Waste" and "Mercy Me" carried it onto the countdowns.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Crimson on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Time To Waste | 7 | #33 | – | 2005 | |
| 2 | Mercy Me | 4 | #40 | – | 2005–2006 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.