Album · Dashboard Confessional
A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar by Dashboard Confessional
A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar is an album by Dashboard Confessional, released in 2003. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Rapid Hope Loss”, on 3 lists with a best position of #66.
A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar was Dashboard Confessional's third studio album, out on Vagrant in 2003, and the first since the project settled into a full band. Chris Carrabba had started Dashboard as a one-man acoustic confessional, but after The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most became Vagrant's biggest seller and the MTV Unplugged 2.0 taping put him in front of a group, the lineup locked in: Carrabba up front, Scott Schoenbeck on bass, John Lefler on guitar and Mike Marsh on drums.
With Gil Norton producing, the Boca Raton outfit trades bedroom intimacy for arena-sized ring: guitars that chime and crash, drums that shove, and Carrabba's cracked, earnest voice riding big choruses built for a crowd to shout back. "Rapid Hope Loss" is one of the sharpest of them, all nervous momentum and sore heart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rapid Hope Loss | 3 | #66 | – | 2004–2005 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.