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Biography

Dashboard Confessional is the musical project of singer, songwriter, and guitarist Chris Carrabba. Carrabba, who is from Boca Raton, Florida, grew up wanting to be a professional skateboarder. On his fifteenth birthday, his uncle gave him a guitar. Although he mastered the instrument, he put music on the back burner. It was not until after his high school graduation that he realized his love of music. He joined the punk rock group, Vacant Andys. Shortly afterwards Carrabba joined The Agency. He did not get success until he joined the group Further Seems Forever. The group had a song on the album, The Emo Diaries, Vol. 4: An Ocean of Doubt. The group then split an EP with band Recess Theories and released From the 27th State. After the release of The 27th State, Carrabba began playing low-key acoustic shows in various night clubs and bars. He decided to call his project, dashboard Confessional after a phrase in his song, “The Sharp Hint of New Tears.” He soon signed with Fidler Records, a small indie label. Dashboard Confessional then released their debut three song EP entitled The Drowning in 2000. Dashboard Confessional then released the album Swiss Army Romance. The record would later be re-issued through Drive Thru records. The album contained the single, “Screaming Infidelties.” That single would later become a major radio hit on alternative rock stations. Swiss Army Romance gained Carrabba a huge amount of underground talk. Thus, there was a bidding war for his record signing. Dashboard Confessional eventually signed with Vagrant Records. The 2001 album, The Places You Have Come to Fear The Most, was Dashboard Confessional’s debut with Vagrant. Later that year, dashboard confessional released the four track EP entitled, So Impossible. In 2002, Dashboard Confessional released the EP Summer’s Kiss. The EP contained four of Carrabba’s favorite songs from Swiss Army Romance re-done with a full band accompanying him. In 2002, Dashboard Confessional was featured on the MTV Unplugged DVD / Cd release. The DVD showed fans singing along to Carrabba as he sang “Screaming Infidelities.” During the summer of 2003, Dashboard Confessional released A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar. Dashboard Confessional has helped Emo become a widely accepted mainstream genre of music.

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Hate them...along with emo I hate Dashboard.. hate their voices...hate them... I HATE EMO! It's so annoying. And Dashboard is one band i just want to be...gone, i guess... And how the hell did the song vindicated or whatever the hell its called get into the spiderman 2 movie? GRR...i hate dashboard.	rancidropkick12cents

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Yea well obviously you dont know good music! Dashboard Confessional has really good and deep lyrics. Not to mention there musical ability is pretty damn good. Emo kids rock man!	Emogurl18287
Bahhh just stupid kids, grow up and make a decente critique...	formatc
if i were you, better get a chainsaw then cut your ears so that those emo stuffs youve been hatin for all this time would be gone(just like wat uve sed awhle ago)... and yeah EMO KIDS RAWK!! hahahhahaha DEAL WIT IT!!!!	poch
i heart emo boys!	i_heart_emo_boys187
I agree with rancidropkick12cents.	riff_master
thats great if you don't like emo, just dont go into a dashboard confessional forum and say it. cause people in here obviously won't want to hear it. you don't have to listen to it, no one is forcing you to. I personally think dashboard is awesome though. but if you like emo and you are in this forum, me and my friend have an acoustic band called 'newsfromhome' we have a couple ok recordings on our site. check our site out, www.newsfromhome.tk thanks! we are also on isound too 'newsfromhome'	kenny-nfh
awww i love emo! brand new are great. and emo is great. and vinidcated is great. and i havnt heard any of their other songs...	whoamiagain
i happen to love DC, and sorry but its not going to just go POOF and disapear b/c u hate them...they got onto that soundtrack because they sound good. vindicated is fucking awsome! im sorry you hate them tho...emo is awsome...	its_just_willy
Emo was put on this earth to torture and slowly kill people.	losersalwayswin
YES! thank you...when you listen to it, you slowly die. And to the people that said I dont know good music, you obviously dont.	rancidropkick12cents
emo. what a load of crap its all these quere ass chick pant wearing bitches that cry about their girlfriend dumping them. im surprised they have girlfriends to be dumped by and not boyfriends heres an idea for yall who like that crap. grow some balls, wear mens clothes, learn to work on cars and or dirtbikes, listen to real music like METALLICA, Black Sabbath, Social Distortion, or f-minus you wanna be punks or is it women? ill whoop all your asses then you can go write a song about it....later	honda450guy
duh, hey moron, don't you have better things in life to do than tell people what you do not like? Since you haven't figured this out, I will give you some free advice: Do not listen to Dashboard! And, feel free to apply this advice to other bands you do not like--it works more or less the same.	livelifenow999
i like DC theyre really good live...and on cd...	SiMpLePlAnLoVeR13
Chris Carrabba was approached by the people who made Spider-Man 2 to write the main song.	emochristguy
Hey man, I dont even like that many emo bands but I still find Dashboared's music to be realy good. If you dont like them, why did you even bother coming on to this forum.	MusicMan13
i love lots of music and almost every kind there is, but emo has got to have the most heart in vocals than any other. everyones got there own taste of music and u should respect that. coming on to a forum and taking the time to dis a great band can tell us alot about u. u mine as well just of said " hey im a moron" and saved all of us time to shutup u up so we can use this forum to appreciate this band.	ska_tea
i agree with emo they are pretty good but definently not the best.	starsc8ter
I thin they're a bit overrated myself, I find the lead singer to be a bit obnoxious, thats just my opinion though. I like some of their stuff, jus not all of it. They aint emo i dont think, more along the lines of cheesy punk rock/ acoustic melodramatics, etc	fatally_yours
Well, you like what you like, huh?	Passionate_Blosson
OK THE ONE WHO SAYING THAT EMO SUX.....DO U LIKE METAL OR SOMTHIN CUZ IF SO U CAN LIKE EMO TOO EMO MUSIC IS KOOL MOST EMO HAVE BEAUTIFUL LYRICS I LIKE DEATH/HEAVY METAL AND EMO CUZ EMO IS CUTE AND MAKES ME HAPPY WHEN IM SAD...DO U THINK UR HARDCORE JUST CUZ U SAY U HATE EMO?????CUZ IF SO THEN THATS SCREWED UP.....SORRY IF IM WRONGE THOUGH...NO EFFENCE IF U JUST THINK ITS ENOYIMG BUT IF U JUST THINK ITS HARDCORE TO HATE EMO THEN,,,,I DONT LABEL OR ANYTHING BUT IF I DID ID SAY UR A POREUR	aXa4EVR
i dont care what anyone says, dashboard confessional rock my socks!!! they are teh best band ever in my eyes and i dont give a flying dutchman if yew dont agree much luffness	smurfette666
That's the spirit.	Passionate_Blosson
rocks my socks?	MusicMan13
I like Dashboard- but I prefer swiss army romance over his other stuff- But... to each his own ?	h8apathy
First of all...the person that posted this probly just wanted attention...of which I dont know how you get pleasure out of this..It's all ignorance...makes me sad...are you going to say that I am emo now..lofl...take your hating somewhere else...make love, not war...I think you need some love...How do you come to listen to DC anyways. The good stuff isn't on the radio...sure you'll find it here and there but how did you come to hate it so much...the only way that you could have listened to it would have been to do so physically like pop a cd in or go to a website...really you must tell me...I hate all these pre-conceptions of emo, i mean come ON! all music is emotional GRRRRR! If you dont get anything out of it what's the point...here's some collateral hun... do ya know this one... all of my dreams seem to fall by the side like a discarded thought or the day's fading light but I know that if I could just see you tonight forever at times we may fall, like we all tend to do but I'll reach out and find that I've run into you your strength is the power that carried me through forever Your kindness for weakness I never mistook I worried you often, yet you understood that life is so fleeting, these troubles won't last forever inspired me truly you did from the start to not be afraid and to follow my heart there's a piece of you with me they can't tear apart forever Forever I'll find you, forever we'll be Forever your power and strength stays with me ....that's some dropkick for ya...and here's some dashboard.... I was away for a while But I'm hoping someday you'll forgive me Though I don't deserve it I'll cherish it well if you give me one of your new starts Just one more last chance I swear that I'll earn it If you front me for now I'm good for it I swear I'm better now I swear In earlier days, they'd persecute people They'd carry them off, and hobble their legs For lesser offenses, and how I have harmed you And still you allow me to walk free of pain Though I punish myself I will never settle The debts I've incurred for scorning the face Of absolute beauty, and measureless grace And though I once mocked you I'm dying to pay for it now I'm dying to pay for it now So, hand me the rocks to help weigh me down And tether my legs with a cord tightly bound To the end of an anchor thrown into the sound And test me to see if I will rise against the worst that it can get I wasn't well for a while I savored the things that I knew were sure to destroy me And that seemed to hold me That seemed to carry me where I couldn't go On the strength of my own Well, I should've known That gets me nowhere I've learned that now I swear Though I punish myself I will never settle The debts I've incurred for scorning the face Of absolute beauty, and measureless grace And though I once mocked you I'm dying to pay for it now I'm dying to pay for it now, now, now So, hand me the rocks to help weigh me down And tether my legs with a cord tightly bound To the end of an anchor thrown into the sound And test me to see if I will rise against the worst that it can get Well, I wasn't sure that I could But, I can ...what's the difference...sure a voice could be supporting one but they both FEEL something ........SO I dunno boy...to each his own...you'd be surprised if you opened your ears	thisbitterpill
ok wow. If you hate Dashboard you have a serious problem. Who in their right mind would dislike them? And also who would come onto this blog to just say how much they hated them? I think someone has a bit too much free time. So whatever. Dashboard Confessional rocks and you suck. Get a life.	iLoVeDaShBoArD
umm...so. guess what i'm listening to right now?...oh yes.. DAHSBBOARD CONFESSIONAL BITCHES! yeah I'm not emo so don't think I am. I love all music and i pretty much just made this account to say that Dashboard is an amazing band and they give me orgasms every night when I listen to them. yeah and I love every kind of music so do't even say that they're not good because I know music VERY well and this IS AMAZING!!.. I love rap, hip hop, techno, country, screamo, sappy love songs, disco, EVERYTHING ok love you all and bye!!	Dashboardismyhero
All you "EMO" people...SHUT UP!! who cares what he said its his opinon and stop callin yourself "EMO" no one cares how did Vindicated(I think) get in Spiderman? Well lets take a look.According to my agent the movie was STUPID! and that how it got in the movie. Feel free to Email me about any questions at "GETA_FUC*IN_LIFE!@YAHOO.COM Thank You STUPID IDIOTS	Retard-4-Life
Or at RETARD_IS_A_IDIOT@FUREAL.COM	Retard-4-Life
that takes the cake ^ pretty much what i was about to say	thefrothymonkey
Thank You	Retard-4-Life
Dumbass	MyRejects
whoa. hold on who are you directing that too.	thefrothymonkey
not you	MyRejects
ok just checking.	thefrothymonkey
If you hated them, then why put so much effort as to write something on their personal page. I love Dashboard Confessional, their amazing.	ieatkorgs
cause its fun to watch the fans clamor to defend the band.	thefrothymonkey
Alright here's the thing: People have the right to hate emo music; it's their choice. What bothers me is that they feel like they have to go and make themselves feel better by posting on Dashboard's site saying how bad the music is. We don't care if you don't like it. Just don't listen to it. And if you honestly need that much attention, then I feel really, really bad for you.	aplainmorning
1) Dont try to play ms.common sense because your just gonna get burned 2) Yes it does make me feel better to hate emo 3) Its not even emo for one...people like you make it that 4) See you dont even know what the fuck your talking about 5) I feel bad for you because you obviously dont get out much and live inside that world where everbody abides by the "morals" inside your head Tip for you: Find yourself a pg-13 site before you get exposed to too much of the dark cold world.	thefrothymonkey
For all you new kids that show up every now and then, heres a helpful list of tips for posting on iSound: 1. Don't post on iSound, we don't need more of you 2. If you feel the need to ignore tip 1, then at least don't revive dead threads, the best you can hope for by doing that is to start a heated flame war. 3. READ THE ENTIRE FUCKING THREAD BEFORE POSTING!!! I'm serious, half of the threads on here have long since drifted from their original topic and if thats all you read, all you'll get is flame. 4. Feel like playing mediator? DON'T! We don't need you to try to stop wars on here, you won't accomplish anything, except haveing everyone turn on YOU!. 5. Your favorite band sucks this was by slipknot_ka	thefrothymonkey
Well You have your own oppinions and so does everyone else. But this is mine, DC is one of my favorite bands. Emo is not annoying and well thats just too bad for you because Its not just going to disappear into thin air. You can hate DC but don't listen to them if you hate them so much. I think that if you really hated them then you wouldn't have posted this here. I think that you were just looking to bring attention upon yourself.	OhSoEmO