![]() ![]() "Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year" (2005)Īt this point, Fall Out Boy has shown that they know how to make an entrance - and "Love From the Other Side," their first single in over two years, was no exception.īefore Stump's thunderous vocals begin, a burning guitar line and racing drums set the stage for a triumphant return. While some people may never understand the antlered man in the music video or the instant-classic line "A loaded God complex/ Cock it and pull it," there's no denying that "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" is absolutely legendary. One could argue that "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" took Fall Out Boy from the underground to a household name, as the song reached the top 10 of the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. ![]() What's more, it's been dubbed as a "game-changer" for the genre and is part of just about every "Best Pop-Punk Songs Of All Time" list out there. "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" is lyrically as abstract and quirky as Fall Out Boy's first releases, but its soaring chorus and roaring guitars presented a new magnetism that helped establish FOB as a pop-punk mainstay. Today, "Sugar We're Down" isn't just known as their defining song - it's one of the defining songs of the emo music era. "Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your Boy" (2003)Īfter hardly making waves with their first studio album, Fall Out Boy proved to be a force to be reckoned with upon releasing the lead single from their second album, From Under the Cork Tree. Click here for more details on the special. In celebration of their latest album, looks back on the songs that have made Fall Out Boy both global sensations and musical masterminds.įall Out Boy will be performing as part of A GRAMMY Salute To The Beach Boys on April 9. So Much (For) Stardust will add 13 new tracks to their catalog, but as Wentz told Kerrang, "this is the start of a new thing." And while some may argue the term "saviors," Fall Out Boy's decades-long success as mainstream rock artists - particularly, a group who started out as pop-punk - is practically unmatched among their peers.įall Out Boy's endurance, of course, stems from the music. It's a fitting sentiment for the foursome, who haven't released an album since 2018's experimental MANIA. magazine Kerrang with a short-and-sweet cover line: "The saviours return." They didn't have a huge budget, they didn't rope in a pop-friendly producer (they made it with Thom Wilson, who also did their first two albums and who had previously helmed '80s punk and hardcore classics by the Adolescents, Social Distortion, Dead Kennedys, The Vandals, and TSOL), and they stayed true to the sound of the Orange County punk scene that birthed them, all while writing world-conquering hooks in the process.On March 22, two days before Fall Out Boy released their eighth album, So Much (For) Stardust, frontman Patrick Stump and bassist Pete Wentz graced the front of U.K. It's the band's crowning achievement and a stone cold classic of '90s punk, and it managed to take punk into the mainstream without forgetting where the band came from. (It also remains the best-selling album ever released by an independent label.) It's home to some of the band's most recognizable songs ("Self Esteem," "Come Out and Play," "Bad Habit"), as well as several of their best deep cuts. Smash probably needs no introduction, but for the uninitiated, it - along with Green Day's Dookie - helped bring punk into the mainstream, influenced countless bands in the process, and still holds up today. It's pressed on "lava" covered vinyl, and limited to just 500 copies. ![]() The Offspring recently launched a 30th anniversary reissue of their 1992 Epitaph debut Ignition (available on limited marigold vinyl), and now we're also partnering with them on an exclusive repress of their 1994 breakthrough album Smash. ![]()
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