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“A Decade Under the Influence” by Taking Back Sunday

From the album Where You Want to Be (2004)

“A Decade Under the Influence” by Taking Back Sunday appears on 18 radio countdowns from 18 stations between 2004 and 2010. It was first released in 2004 on the album Where You Want to Be. Its best result is #1 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #30 alternative song of 2004 and #303 of the '00s.

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"A Decade Under the Influence" kicked off Taking Back Sunday's second album, Where You Want to Be, on Victory Records in 2004, and it became the band's breakout single. It grew from a riff by rhythm guitarist Eddie Reyes, and Adam Lazzara wrote the words after splitting with a long-time girlfriend, who had already bought the pair tickets to see Coldplay. They went anyway, and Lazzara has described the car ride as painfully awkward.

The finished song turns that sting into something bigger: a guy slowly working out that he knows far less about the world than he thought. Lou Giordano produced, recorded and mixed it, keeping the guitars jittery and the hooks loud. It reached No. 16 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and even scraped the UK singles chart at 70.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2004	48	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2004	107
2004	32	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2004	91
2004	88	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2004	101
2004	47	WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2004	100
2004	27	K-Rock New York, NY	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2004	93
2004	11	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2004	100
2004	1	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 2004	89
2004	40	Y100 Philadelphia, PA	Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2004	99
2004	51	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2004	99
2004	66	Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA	Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2004	105
2004	49	X96 Salt Lake City, UT	X96 Top 50 Songs of 2004	50
2004	34	99X Atlanta, GA	99X Essential 99 of 2004	99
2004	46 (tie)	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 2004	227
2004	25	88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2004	88
2004	70	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2004	103
2004	19	WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ	G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2004	106
2004	67	Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart)	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2004	100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2010	210	94.1 The Zone	94.1 The Zone 210 Most Played Songs of the Decade	210

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