Cover of The Swiss Army Romance by Dashboard Confessional
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“Screaming Infidelities” by Dashboard Confessional

From the album The Swiss Army Romance (2000)

“Screaming Infidelities” by Dashboard Confessional appears on 25 radio countdowns from 20 stations between 2001 and 2024. It was first released in 2000 on the album The Swiss Army Romance. Its best result is #3 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #45 alternative song of 2002, #5,520 alternative song of all time and #321 of the '00s.

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Chris Carrabba first cut "Screaming Infidelities" for The Swiss Army Romance, Dashboard Confessional's 2000 debut on Vagrant, and it became the band's breakout once it was picked as the first single from the 2001 follow-up, The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most. He wrote it alone, and it sounds like it: an acoustic guitar strummed raw and a voice that goes from confessional murmur to full-throated bawl, the whole thing aching with the hurt the title promises.

It reached number 22 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart in May 2002, and its video, directed by Maureen Egan and Matthew Barry, won the MTV2 award at that year's MTV Video Music Awards over the Strokes, the Hives and Norah Jones. Carrabba counted the win among his proudest moments. Alternative Press, for its part, found his honesty far more sincere than the coffeehouse whimpering it was often lumped in with.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2001 26 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2001 191
2002 65 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2002 107
2002 92 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002 106
2002 40 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2002 101
2002 76 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2002 100
2002 29 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 2002 107
2002 41 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2002 89
2002 33 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2002 101
2002 45 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2002 100
2002 12 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2002 99
2002 42 Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2002 105
2002 33 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2002 40
2002 29 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002 103
2002 97 Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 2002 104
2002 74 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2002 103
2002 3 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2002 224
2002 76 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2002 99

All-time and decade countdowns

Also listed as: Screaming Infedilities; Screamin' Infidelities.

Charting alongside it in 2002

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  1. 1By the WayRed Hot Chili Peppers
  2. 2AerialsSystem of a Down
  3. 3ToxicitySystem of a Down
  4. 4You Know You're RightNirvana
  5. 5All My LifeFoo Fighters
  6. 6SweetnessJimmy Eat World

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