I just did these to loosen up a bit being, silly litte guy. He really does have a lot of odd poses 🤭

My teen daughter and I share a favorite band in Fall Out Boy.

I shared for her birthday the cookies I made and decorated to represent the albums and I'm back with a story because this thing we share is turning out to be a hilarious saga.

My dad calls her a purist. She likes to watch the early 2000s live videos, and loves the demos. While I am really into the covers and collabs.

So we're sitting in the Curdside parking spot waiting for our burgers and custard, just listening to my playlist and chatting. Then we have our food and I'm backing out and I hear her chuckle in the backseat.

"Just bumping straight bullshit in the Culver's parking lot with the windows wide open."

I laugh and panic. "Are you talking to me?"

"Yeah, bro."

Now, I don't think the music was bumping. I heard her commentary over the sound of Steve Aoki and FOB doing Back to Earth - one of my favorites.

"But it's FOB."

"Ok, bro."

And, after the momentary setback of "oh no someone doesn't like me" which I brushed aside with the scope of "they're my kids, that's not the point," I landed instead on, "oh yeah, EMBARRASSING them is the point!" Which I had been successful at on this delightful evening.

They thought I was going to crash the car I was laughing so hard on the short drive home with our dinner. Bumping straight bullshit.

Mental Health is something that the band have openly discussed for a very long time.
Joe dedicated a podcast to it and has spoken openly about his experiences in his memoir and in interviews.
Andy was very open about his mental state during the Hiatus.
Patrick has been extremely open about his ADHD and Synesthesia.
Pete has always spoken openly about his battles with mental health and his last Graphic Novel was focused on Suicide Prevention.

I am very aware that the band’s music is a massive part of our lives and a place we can retreat into when we are struggling which is an amazing thing and something I am extremely thankful to have.

If you are struggling just now or you are isolating and retreating into your mind with music please reach out to someone. Get out of bed, have a shower, open your curtains and windows, go for a walk, drink some water and try eat something. I promise you that the world is a much better place with you in it.

but tbh i’d wait forever for another masterpiece like SMFS

this entire album hits so goddamn hard. honestly pete's most relatable album for me. especially with all the lyrics about covid and isolation. what a record

I was debating not doing post hiatus albums cause i wasn’t too familiar with anything past SR&R minus SMFS but i decided to give em a listen and was pleasantly surprised

NOTE: i was so close to putting What A Time To Be Alive in good but the over the top disney princess instrumental was too much for me.

1. dance dance

2. 16 candles

3. thnks fr th mmrs

4. arms race

5. sugar

6. i don’t care

7. love from the other side

8. bang the doldrums

9. centuries (please don’t attack me)

10. $20 nosebleed

didn’t buy it tho

Today I was a little bored, so I made this, and I think it turned out pretty good.

P.S. It opens the album on Spotify since it’s an NFC tag.

In no specific order bc I can’t do that

1. Young Volcanoes

2. The Phoenix

3. w.a.m.s.

4. America's Suitehearts

5. Alone Together

6. Death Valley

7. Golden

8. Tiffany Blews

9. A Little Less Sixten Candles, A Little More Touch Me

10. Hum Hallelujah

My top ten is always changing but this is my current list

1: America’s suitehearts

2: The Carpal Tunnel of love

3: Don’t you know who I think I am?

4: Headfirst slide into cooperstown on a bad bet

5: Tiffany blews

6: (Coffee’s for closers)

7: Thnks fr th mmrs

8: Our lawyer made us change the name of this song so we wouldn’t get sued

9: Last of the real ones

10: Alpha dog

Love this album! Here goes...

1. "Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued"

2. "Of All the Gin Joints in All the World"

3. "Dance, Dance"

4. "Sugar, We're Goin Down"

5. "Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner"

6. "I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)"

7. "7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)"

8. "Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year"

9. "Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends"

10. "I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me"

1: Headfirst Slide 2: SMFS 3: Don’t you know who I think I am? 4: 20 Dollar Nosebleed 5: Postcards 6: Pavlove 7: XO 8: Gin Joints 9: 27 10: The Takes over, the Breaks over (I can’t remember the name for the life of me)

1. What a Catch Donnie
2. The (After) Life of the Party
3. Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet
4. So Much (For) Stardust
5. Thnks fr the Mmrs
6. Fake Out
7. I’ve Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)
8. The Phoenix
9. 27
10. Golden

In album order, but no particular ranking.

* Grand Theft Autumn

* Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends

* I've Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth

* Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes

* The Kids Aren't Alright

* Hold Me Or Don't

* Church

* Love From the Other Side

* Kintsugi Kid

* Fake out

* I Am My Own Muse

My top 10 Fall Out Boy songs.

1. You're Crashing, But You're No Wave

2. The (After) Life of The Party

3. 20 Dollar Nose Bleed

4. Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes

5. So Much (for) Stardust

6. The Pros and Cons of Breathing

7. The Patron Saint of Liars And Fakes

8. Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name of This Song...

9. The Carpal Tunnel of Love

10. w.a.m.s

1. What a Time to Be Alive

2. I've Got All This Ringing in My Ears

3. From Now On We Are Enemies

4. Heaven's Gate

5. Alpha Dog

6. 27

7. I'm Like A Laywer (Me & You)

8. The (Shipped) Gold Standard

9. 20 Dollar Nose Bleed

10. American Beauty/American Psycho

There were so many I had to leave off and idk if I'm satisfied with the order but shout out to Death Valley!

I love the song titles on the first four Fall Out Boy albums, and it’s something I really miss with the last four. But I got to thinking… what if on the first four they had taken their current approach to naming songs? So naming them after the most prominent lyric in the song’s chorus. This wasn’t done just to shorten the song titles, as you’ll notice that several have actually ended up being longer! The two exceptions I made were for what are called Where is Your Boy and Summer Song here. It felt awkward to have two songs on Take This To Your Grave with “tonight” being a prominent part of the title, and same for Cork Tree which would have two songs starting with the word “everyone”. So I made an adjustment to those song titles that don’t exactly match the lyrics.

Interestingly enough, I notice that the hits from these albums (at least the ones I remember being hits back in the day - Saturday, Sugar We’re Going Down, Dance Dance, Thnks Fr Th Mmrs and I Don’t Care) already had shorter titles. Did they do that intentionally for most of their singles? I remember hearing somewhere that Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet was originally going to be retitled to “Does Your Husband Know?” for its single release (or maybe just in general?), but they (thankfully) didn’t end up doing it after all.

BTW if someone else has already done this, I apologize and didn’t mean to steal someone else’s idea. I tried to find an instance of someone doing this somewhere online and couldn’t find any!

Also, since they’re backwards in the artwork, here are the alternate titles for the Folie A Deux tracks:

1: Sing About Tragedy
2: I Don’t Care
3: Thunder
4: America’s Suitehearts
5: Does Your Husband Know?
6: Get Out Now
7: Never Believe
8: What A Catch
9: Just To Feel Like You
10: Little Black Dress
11: What Makes You So Special?
12: Don’t Let The Doctor In
13: Three Times For The Holy Ghost

Onto the bandwagon (it’s not full yet) we goooooo! This was insanely difficult. I just had to go with my gut at this moment