This is probably one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. "What A Catch, Donnie" from "Folie à Deux"įolie à Deux just makes my emotions go everywhere. This song is amazing live, especially the "I don't care" chant towards the end. THE BEST OF US CAN FIND HAPPINESS IN MISERRRYYYYYYY. I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK, AS LONG AS IT'S ABOOOOUT ME. This one tugs at my heartstrings, which is exactly why it belongs in an inner emo kid playlist. "Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes" from "Folie à Deux" Who can forget Kim Kardashian's appearance in that music video? ICONIC. Like number one.a classic, a true classic. "Thnks Fr The Mmrs" from "Infinity On High"
This is one of the older Fall Out Boy songs that all of my friends know, so it makes for a good song to blare in the car on road trips or drives around town. "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race" from "Infinity On High" I feel as if this one is underappreciated.but it's SO GOOD. "Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year" from "From Under The Cork Tree I will save the songs that we can't stop singing.2. I will defend the faith, going down swinging. "How'd it get to be only me? Like I'm the last damn kid still kicking that still believes. It sums up what I think the band was trying to achieve with the record, the change in style, the comeback, everything. The record then dips back down with another couple of weaker (yet just as catchy) tunes before going out with a blast on the last few tracks, including the record's namesake featuring Elton John, which is perhaps one of my favourites in terms of writing. The middle of the record is taken back up with a collab with Foxes and another with Big Sean, which is catchy as hell and you can tell they had fun with it. I love these guys but I'll be the first to say, that wasn't a great move. Then it drops down into the simpler, dance-pop-esque Alone Together and Where Did the Party Go. The record opens with the two first singles, My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark and The Phoenix, which are hard-hitting, up-tempo tracks. That the band are trying to incorporate as much of what each member loves and wants to hear as they can, in that I suddenly don't doubt that this is an album they made for themselves, and not because anyone told them to.īut clearly some tracks are notably weaker than others.
Sure, sometimes you wonder if Wentz has written certain lines just to get a reaction, and sometimes there's just a little too much happening in some of the arrangements, like in How the Mighty Fall and Rat a Tat, but I kinda like that there's a lot in there.
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The songs are as full of promise, hope and belief as they are of discontent, regret and even a little resentment towards the so called fans that loved 'em and left 'em. It's the actualisation of a desire for change that's been subtly present throughout the transitions from From Under the Cork Tree to Infinity on High to Folie a Deux, and now they've found whatever ingredient was missing to make that happen.Īnd maybe it's confidence, maybe it's just that they don't care what people think, or even if it's about them at all. The band's signature sound lays in Pete Wentz's lyrics and Patrick Stump's voice, but if you took those off this record and just listened to the music, you maybe wouldn't know that it was Fall Out Boy.Īnd I think that was a very deliberate move on their part. The fact that they're not the band I sang to in my high school dark room, whose concert I had to have my mum drop me off to, whose posters I hung on my wall.īecause if they were, I probably would've hated it. I can understand how a lot of fans have become a little upset with how much this band has changed, but I think that's what swayed me on this album. Fall Out Boy are not the band any more I sang to in my high school dark room and that's a good thing.