MakeDamnSure

"MakeDamnSure"
Single by Taking Back Sunday
from the album Louder Now
Released	April 25, 2006 (2006-04-25)
Format	CD, Digital download, 7" vinyl
Recorded	2005
Genre	Emo, post-hardcore
Length	3:32
Label	Warner Bros.
Writer(s)	Taking Back Sunday
Producer	Eric Valentine
Taking Back Sunday singles chronology
"Set Phasers to Stun" (2005) "MakeDamnSure" (2006) "Twenty-Twenty Surgery" (2006)

"MakeDamnSure" is a song by American rock band Taking Back Sunday. It was released as the first single from their third album, Louder Now. It has experienced much more success than the band's other singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and Modern Rock Tracks chart. It is their most successful single to date.

MakeDamnSure is featured in Saints Row 2.

The song ranked at #52 on Rolling Stone's "The 100 Best Songs of 2006".^[1]

Music video

The music video for the song "MakeDamnSure" (directed by Marc Klasfeld) switches between scenes of the band playing in a wind tunnel and scenes of violence and destruction (such as a car crashing from a cliff, or bombs exploding in a village). The wind in the tunnel gradually increases, and when the loud chorus part repeats for the last time, it almost blows them away. As the song slows down, the violent images are replayed, but this time, they are transformed into a short scene considered to be happy, i.e. the scene of the police officers using fire hoses on protesters turns into a scene of a woman watering her plants, and the stadium being demolished turns into a shore view. The video ends as Adam Lazzara, who's viewed singing in profile, slowly turns into a boy, who blows on the microphone, which has turned into a dandelion, whose seeds blow away, and then starts running in an open field, as the camera pans upwards and the video fades away.

Chart performance

On the modern rock chart, "MakeDamnSure" surpassed the performance of the band's previous highest charting song, "A Decade Under the Influence" from the Where You Want to Be album, by reaching number eight. It also appeared on the Hot 100, where it peaked at #48.^[2]

Track listing

CD Single / UK CD # 1:

1. "MakeDamnSure" - 3:32
2. "Sleep" - 3:20

7" Vinyl:

1. "MakeDamnSure"
2. "Sleep"

Enhanced CD / UK CD # 2:

1. "MakeDamnSure" - 3:33
2. "What's It Feel like to be a Ghost?" (Live) - 3:50
3. "Error: Operator" (Live) - 3:03
4. "MakeDamnSure" (Video) - 3:29

References

1. ^ The 100 Best Songs of 2006 : Rolling Stone
2. ^ http://www.billboard.com//song/taking-back-sunday/makedamnsure/7952656