A Teenage Vow In A Parking Lot
Out of all the bands I love (and I use that word far more for music than I do for people in real life, but mean it just as much) I think the one that seems to get hated on the most is Fall Out Boy - it doesn't really bother me since pretty much everything I listen to is uncool by someone's standards.
So I saw this post over at Ask Hey Chris asking a few people for their top 5 most significant Fall Out Boy songs and thought I'd post mine up too, seeing as I'm supposed to be working but I've finished and now about to go down the studio instead and work on lyrics. Not my favourite FOB songs, just the most signifgicant like the man asked for.
These aren't in any specific order.
Dead On Arrival
The first FOB song I ever heard. There used to be a channel called P-Rock TV which started around the same time as Scuzz TV. They started rotating this video really late at night and I caught the end of the track a couple of times. Dan was in my room a few days later and the song seemed to have been bumped up to a pretty regular rotation and we watched the whole thing and both agreed we'd have to go check them out. Loved it from the first time I heard it.
Sugar, We're Going Down
I listened to the sampler that FOB put out for "From Under The Cork Tree", which contained 30 second samples of each track. This song stood out a million miles above the rest. I took the sampler on my iPod down to rehearsal and played it to the others and made them listen to that hook specifically. It is one of my favourite songs of all time, no contest.
Hum Hallelujah
This came out way before the recent 'Hallelujah' craze, and it works way better than a lazy X-factor cover ever will. This one also stands out to me because of the lyrics - "I love you in the same way there's a chapel in a hospital" is just one of the lines that I really, really wish I'd written.
Catch Me if You Can/Proclamation of Emaciation
This one pushed the lyrical thing even further for me - I was gutted when this didn't make it onto Folie A Deux and just ended up as a track on the Gym Class Heroes album (it has different lyrics and production altogether). I like the fact that not only did it show how far FOB had come from their first album, but also that they were willing to use references that 90% of their audience will never get.
"Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today"
I still find myself singing the first few lines of this song on a fairly regular basis and it made an immediate impact that first time I heard the album. I still love how it sets the incredibly dark lyrical tone over some super-happy melodies, I kinda miss that from the first album, but they're still doing something new which is worth the trade.
These aren't in any specific order.
Dead On Arrival
The first FOB song I ever heard. There used to be a channel called P-Rock TV which started around the same time as Scuzz TV. They started rotating this video really late at night and I caught the end of the track a couple of times. Dan was in my room a few days later and the song seemed to have been bumped up to a pretty regular rotation and we watched the whole thing and both agreed we'd have to go check them out. Loved it from the first time I heard it.
Sugar, We're Going Down
I listened to the sampler that FOB put out for "From Under The Cork Tree", which contained 30 second samples of each track. This song stood out a million miles above the rest. I took the sampler on my iPod down to rehearsal and played it to the others and made them listen to that hook specifically. It is one of my favourite songs of all time, no contest.
Hum Hallelujah
This came out way before the recent 'Hallelujah' craze, and it works way better than a lazy X-factor cover ever will. This one also stands out to me because of the lyrics - "I love you in the same way there's a chapel in a hospital" is just one of the lines that I really, really wish I'd written.
Catch Me if You Can/Proclamation of Emaciation
This one pushed the lyrical thing even further for me - I was gutted when this didn't make it onto Folie A Deux and just ended up as a track on the Gym Class Heroes album (it has different lyrics and production altogether). I like the fact that not only did it show how far FOB had come from their first album, but also that they were willing to use references that 90% of their audience will never get.
"Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today"
I still find myself singing the first few lines of this song on a fairly regular basis and it made an immediate impact that first time I heard the album. I still love how it sets the incredibly dark lyrical tone over some super-happy melodies, I kinda miss that from the first album, but they're still doing something new which is worth the trade.
I could do this for a bunch of bands that have provided the soundtrack to my life, but they don't seem to take that flack that FOB do, so I'm just showing that there are real old-school (well, since TTTYG) fans out there, and I am one of them.
Max x
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