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Say Anything
Band Los Angeles United States Formed 2000 US | rock
Say Anything formed in 2000 in Los Angeles, United States. Say Anything has 24 chart appearances on 21 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2013. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Alive With the Glory of Love”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted Say Anything most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2007.
Say Anything is Max Bemis's band, and it sounds like it: nervy, verbose, theatrical, a pop-punk engine with a smart mouth and an overactive mind. Bemis started it in Los Angeles in 2000 with friends, Coby Linder behind the drums from the start, and before long they had put out a pair of EPs and a full-length record on their own dime. Doghouse Records signed them in 2003, and a year later came ...Is a Real Boy, a wild, sprawling record that treats emo confession like a Broadway production, all shout-along choruses and wisecracking asides. "Alive With the Glory of Love", from the For Sale... EP, swoons and stomps in equal measure.
The momentum nearly broke them. As the acclaim grew, Bemis's health problems, including bipolar disorder and drug addiction, took the band off the road in 2005, and five members left that year. After rehab he signed with J Records, which reissued ...Is a Real Boy, and a rebuilt band, with Alex Kent on bass, went out co-headlining with Saves the Day and then Hellogoodbye. In Defense of the Genre, in 2007, brought the twitchy "Baby Girl, I'm a Blur".
Bemis called it quits in 2018, months before an eighth album, Oliver Appropriate, but the band was back by 2022, with ...Is Committed in 2024 and a tenth album the year after.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Say Anything on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alive With the Glory of Love | 5 | #5 | – | 2006 | |
| 2 | Do Better | 4 | #6 | – | 2010 | |
| 3 | Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too | 5 | #53 | – | 2007 | |
| 4 | Hate Everyone | 3 | #23 | – | 2009 | |
| 5 | Overbiter | 1 | #40 | – | 2013 | |
| 6 | Baby Girl, I'm a Blur | 3 | #79 | – | 2007 | |
| 7 | Burn a Miracle | 1 | #67 | – | 2012 | |
| 8 | No Soul | 1 | #106 | – | 2008 | |
| 9 | An Orgy Of Critics | 1 | #106 | – | 2007 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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