Old: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN2YfD1bixM
New: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkIWmsP3c_s
So, in celebration of this momentous event, I'm going to post 15 of my favorite FOB songs. I love basically their entire repertoire so essentially this is just a list of the ones that first popped into my mind in no particular order. Enjoy. (:
1) Sophomore Slump or Comeback of The Year {From Under The Cork Tree}: One of my favorites of theirs. I've wanted to get one of the lines tattooed forever (in italics below) and eventually will. It just talks about who they are as a band and what they stand for. "Are we growing up or just going down?/It's just a matter of time until we're all found out/Take your tears, put 'em on ice/'Cause I swear I'd burn the city down to show you the light... I've got a sunset in my veins/And I need to take a pill to make this town feel okay."
2) Of All The Gin Joints In All The World {From Under The Cork Tree}: I'm biased on this one, since it uses a quote from "Casablanca", one of my favorite movies. This song is just fantastically dirty and no one seems to realize it on their first listen. But trust me it is. "Turn off the lights and turn off the shyness/'Cause all of our moves make up for the silence." Dirty yes? Plus it's just so damn catchy.
3) Sending Postcards From a Plane Crash (Wish You Were Here) {Take This To Your Grave}: Considering that this is the number one most played song on my iPod, it's safe to say I enjoy this song. Quick fact, I'm drawn to songs that are sad and self-deprecating. Call it my inner-emo or whatever, but I am. This song plays perfectly into it as he deals with a cheating girlfriend. "I am such a sucker and I'm always the last to know/My insides are copper: I'd kill to make them gold/Conversation got me here, another night alone in the city/Make my bed the grave and shovel dirt onto my sheets."
4) It's Not a Side-Effect of the Cocaine. I Am Thinking It Must Be Love {My Heart Will Always Be the B-side to My Tongue}: From Pete Wentz's new book "Gray" (which I suggest you buy),"Phenylethylamine (PEA), the chemical responsible for the swooning and feelings of adoration, is structurally similar to cocaine." Which explains the odd title choice. It's so catchy and cute, a "we're in this together" love song. "Why can you read me like no one else?/I hide behind these words/But I'm coming out...Put your hand between an aching head and an aching world/We'll make them so jealous."
5) 20 Dollar Nose Bleed {Folie a Deux}: This song combines the amazing talents of a Mr. Patrick Stump and a Mr. Brendon Urie. They both have fantastic sets of pipes and use them perfectly on this awesome track. But then it ends with Pete's impromptu poetry slam gag that he loves so dearly. That is my favorite part word-wise. "It's not me, it's you/Actually, it's the taxidermy of you and me/Untie the balloons from around my neck and ground me/I'm just a racehorse on the track/Send me back to the glue factory."
6) Yule Shoot Your Eye Out {N/A}: My favorite Christmas song of all time! Another quick fact, I hate traditional Christmas music so I listen to songs like this. "The gifts you're receiving from me will be one awkward silence/And two hopes you cry yourself to sleep/Staying up waiting by the phone/And all I want this year is for you to dedicate/Your last breath to me before you bury yourself alive/Don't come home for Christmas/You're the last thing I want to see underneath the tree."
7) Pretty in Punk {Evening Out With Your Girlfriend}: My favorite off this album I believe. It's so cute I can't even stand it. It's a simple, timeless storyline: boy wants girl, girl stays with boyfriend who treats her like crap. "I was terrified and would you mind if I sat next to you and watched you smile?/So many kids but I only see you and I don't think you notice me/Well I've seen your boyfriend and I don't think he treats you right/But that's none of my business, is it?"
8) Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things To Do Today {Take This To Your Grave}: Another song that I'm biased towards... This title is (almost) a direct quote from "Rushmore", another favorite of mine. It's so angry and bitter, it's great. "Light that smoke, yeah, one for giving up on me/And one just 'cause they'll kill you sooner than my expectations..."I could have died with you"/I hope you choke on those words, that kiss, that bottle... Let's play this game called "when you catch fire"/ I wouldn't piss to put you out."
9) I've Got a Dark Alley And a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) {From Under The Cork Tree}: This is their most "emo" song, which of course means I am in love with it. "We're the kids who feel like dead ends/And I want to be known for my hits not just my misses/I took a shot and didn't even come close/At trust and love and hope... We can fake it for the airwaves/Force our smiles, baby, half-dead/From comparing myself to everyone else around me."
10) Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes {Folie a Deux}: Not sure why I like this one, but it's one of my favorites off of their last album. "I'm coming apart at the seams, pitching myself for leads in other people's dreams... I'm a loose bolt of a complete machine/What a match! I'm half-doomed and you're semi-sweet/So boycott love, detox just to retox/And I'd promise you anything for another shot at life/And perfect boys with their perfect lives/Nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy."
11) Thriller {Infinity on High}: This one was really a song written for the fans. It's all about the band not caring what the critics or media say, that they do this for the music. They also thank the die-hard fans who support them no matter what. "The only thing I haven't done yet is die/And it's me and my plus at the afterlife/Crowds are won and lost and won again/But our hearts beat for the die-hearts/So long live the car-crash hearts."
12) 7-9 Legendary (Blink and You'll Miss It) {N/A}: This song is so upbeat and peppy, it's hard not to be won over by it. "I want to choke, get sick off you like second-hand smoke/You've got me sweating like Calcutta nights/It's just heat and epiphany."
13) The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys and a Broken Down Van) {Evening Out With Your Girlfriend}: This is a typical song about life as a teenager. It's all about feeling like you're stuck where you are in life and the only relief you get is by hanging out with your friends. "We're all has-been's and never-were's... We've been down. We've been out/We've been hanging around/Tip our glasses to no direction/Start the van, get me out of this one horse town/Waste this night."
14) It's Hard to Say "I Do" When I Don't {B-side of Infinity on High}: This song pretty much describes my view on marriage/relationships in one of the lines. So it's golden. "Now and again I think "his and her's", "For better or worse"/But the only ring I want buried with me are the ones around my eyes/You're appealing to emotions that I simply do not have."
15) Sugar, We're Going Down {From Under The Cork Tree}: No Fall Out Boy list of any sort would be complete without this song. It's the one that started their rise to fame and the one that got most people to pay attention. It's a love song, and one of the most touching in my opinion. It's all about him finding out his girlfriend is cheating on him and that even though they're relationship may be ending and he's pissed at her, he still loves her and is willing to fight for her. "I'm just a notch in your bedpost but you're just a line in a song/Drop a heart, break a name/We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team/We're going down, down in an earlier round/And sugar we're going down swinging/I'll be your number one with a bullet/A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it."
As I said, I love 99.999999% of Fall Out Boy's songs and suggest that all of them be listened to at least once. Just because it didn't show up here, doesn't mean it's not every bit as amazingly fantastic as the ones on here are.I will forever be a Lake-Effect/Rainy-Day Kid. Long live the car crash hearts because believers never die.
