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Dashboard Confessional

Indie Rock Band 4 albums picked

Dashboard Confessional is an American rock band from Boca Raton, Florida, formed in 1999 and led by singer Chris Carrabba. The name of the band is derived from the song "The Sharp Hint of New Tears" off their debut album, The Swiss Army Romance.

The episode

Their episode.

Ep #742 ·
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What Dashboard Confessional said · 3 records

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The Head On the Door
The Cure ·1985
"Well at least two songs on this record were put on a mix tape for me; it was 'Kyoto Song' and 'In Between Days,' and that was my first introduction to The Cure. I would fall deeply in love with The Cure and Robert Smith's sense of melody and his vocal delivery."
Watch this moment 0:22
Very Emergency
The Promise Ring ·1999
"Very Emergency means so much to me for so many reasons. It was their first with a new bass player named Scott Schaimbach, who I would later get to play with for like the majority of my career in Dashboard Confessional."
Watch this moment 1:38
"This tore away any sense of limitation that an entire scene once felt it had to work within the constraints of hardcore music. Refused did something pretty remarkable; anything that they could express themselves with more power is what they did."
Watch this moment 4:29
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