“Falling Down” by Atreyu

Atreyu eased off the throttle for "Falling Down", a song from their fourth album, Lead Sails Paper Anchor, in 2007. Where most of their catalog runs on metalcore, this one leans toward pop punk, and with the UK-only "Doomsday" out of the count it stands as their second American single. All five members share the writing credit, with John Feldmann producing.

The gamble paid off: it reached number three on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart and number five on Mainstream Rock, and it landed in the game Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits. Sean Stiegemeier's video tips its hat to Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film The Outsiders, with the band and Feldmann himself dressed up as 1950s greasers and slinging mud at each other in the dark.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.