Song · The Starting Line
“The Best of Me” by The Starting Line
From the album Say It Like You Mean It (2002)
“The Best of Me” by The Starting Line appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2003. It was first released in 2002 on the album Say It Like You Mean It. Its best result is #48 on the Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #404 alternative song of 2003.
The Starting Line cut "The Best of Me" for Say It Like You Mean It, their 2002 debut album, and Drive-Thru Records made it the lead single on June 16, 2003. The whole band wrote it: singer and bassist Kenny Vasoli, guitarists Matt Watts and Mike Golla and drummer Tom Gryskiewicz. Mark Trombino produced, engineered and mixed it.
It got two videos. The first, posted on Launch.com in October 2002, has a guy trying to win over a girl by playing music on a boombox outside her place until the music cuts out and the band takes over; the second went up on MTV.com in June 2003 and got heavy play on MTV2. It barely scraped the bottom of the UK singles chart, yet it grew into the band's most popular song and a touchstone of 2000s pop punk.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 48 | Y100 Philadelphia, PA | Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2003 | 100 |
| 2003 | 98 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003 | 99 |
Also listed as: Best of Me.
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