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“A Favor House Atlantic” by Coheed and Cambria

From the album In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003)

“A Favor House Atlantic” by Coheed and Cambria appears on 19 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 2004 and 2005. It was first released in 2003 on the album In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. Its best result is #2 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #53 alternative song of 2004, #7,567 alternative song of all time and #418 of the '00s.

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"A Favor House Atlantic" comes from Coheed and Cambria's 2003 album In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, and like nearly everything the band does it's a chapter of their sprawling sci-fi saga, starring the characters Claudio and Al the Killer. The twist is how direct it is. Strip away the mythology and what's left is a lean, hooky blast of emo, Claudio Sanchez's keening vocal riding guitars from him and Travis Stever while Michael Todd and Josh Eppard drive it hard. All four share the music credit, Sanchez wrote the words, and Michael Birnbaum and Chris Bittner produced.

Vulture later cast it as emo sneaking in under a pop disguise, and it became the band's highest-charting US song, reaching 13 on the Alternative Songs chart. Variety counted it among the best emo songs ever in 2022, and it has turned up in Rock Band and Major League Baseball 2K9.

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

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Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2004	102	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2004	107
2004	46	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2004	91
2004	96	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2004	101
2004	43	WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2004	100
2004	60	K-Rock New York, NY	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2004	93
2004	41	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2004	100
2004	25	CD101 Columbus, OH	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2004	101
2004	81	Y100 Philadelphia, PA	Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2004	99
2004	78	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2004	99
2004	64	WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2004	106
2004	49	Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA	Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2004	105
2004	2	88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2004	88
2004	39	WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ	G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2004	106
2004	61	99X Atlanta, GA	99X Essential 99 of 2004	99
2004	46 (tie)	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 2004	227
2004	63	Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart)	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2004	100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2004	1990	CD101	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	2005
2005	60	96.5 The Buzz	96.5 The Buzz Top 96 of the New Millennium	96
2005	1973	CD101	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	1994

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