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What It Is to Burn by Finch
What It Is to Burn is an album by Finch, released in 2002. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 13 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “What It Is to Burn”, on 13 lists with a best position of #46.
What It Is to Burn, the debut album from Temecula, California's Finch, arrived on March 12, 2002 through Drive-Thru and MCA, cut with producer Mark Trombino over the summer of 2001. Nate Barcalow sings and plays keyboards, Randy Strohmeyer and Alex Linares split the guitars, Derek Doherty plays bass and Alex Pappas drums, and together they make a racket that lives right on the fault line between pop-punk sugar and post-hardcore scream.
Barcalow can croon a chorus sweet as anything and then shred his throat on the next line, and the guitars do the same, chiming one second and tearing loose the next. The title track is the one that broke through, reaching the top 40 on both the US alternative and mainstream rock charts, and "Letters to You" made the UK singles chart at 39. They toured it hard, from the 2002 Warped Tour to Reading and Leeds, it had sold more than 400,000 copies by late 2007, and it has since been held up as a landmark for emo and post-hardcore.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from What It Is to Burn on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What It Is to Burn | 13 | #46 | – | 2003–2005 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.