| Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend |
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1. Honorable Mention
2. Calm Before The Storm
3. Switchblades And Infidelity
4. Pretty In Punk
5. Growing Up
6. The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys And A Broken Down Van)
7. Short, Fast, And Loud
8. Moving Pictures
9. Parker Lewis Can't Lose (But I'm Going To Give It My Best Shot)
Release Date: 2003 | |
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1 of 1 thought this review was well written
Considering this is Fall Out Boy's first ever record, I suppose I should cut them some slack with this. Fall Out Boy rose to fame quickly in 2003, and it probably wouldn't have happened without this record. That being said, it doesn't sound that great.
Usually, I am a sucker for a band's first records. Blink-182's Cheshire Cat, Green Day's Kerplunk!, Alkaline Trio's Maybe I'll Catch Fire. These albums all sound amazing to me. The raw production value of those albums fit perfectly with the band's songs. Sadly, Fall Out Boy's debut release disappointed me.
Fall Out Boy really do sound better with polished tracks and perfectly recorded harmonies. This album, even though it's 9 songs long, is hard to get into. It's difficult to listen through the songs because they sound so similar to every generic band that followed FOB.
That being said, there are some amazing songs on here. All the oldies are here: "The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys And A Broken Down Van)", "Pretty In Punk" and "Honorable Mention" all sound quite good and, as badly recorded as they are, the typical Fall Out Boy style kicks in and you find yourself bobbing along with the infectious riffs.
The band have actually told fans to download this CD. It's recently been re-released by the band's former label for some reason, most likely a cash-in on the band's success. I don't mind, I downloaded that too.
This is the kind of CD you'd buy if you were trying to collect everything Fall Out Boy brought out in CD or vinyl form. It's nothing to write home about. The production is shoddy, and doesn't show off the band's amazing ability to release anthem after anthem well at all. Patrick's vocals sound very average as well, which really makes the song for me.
Buy this if you are an avid FOB fan, if not, just download it.
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none of the bands albums are right, Kerplunk was the second Green Day cd, Maybe I'll Catch Fire was deffinetly not the first and neither was Cheshire Cat
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[quote=Kif]Usually, I am a sucker for a band's first records. Blink-182's Cheshire Cat, Green Day's Kerplunk!, Alkaline Trio's Maybe I'll Catch Fire. These albums all sound amazing to me.[/quote]
That would imply that those are their first records.
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"Usually, I am a sucker for a band's first records."
Replace the word "first" with "earlier", and that's what Kif means. He just worded it in a confusing way.
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Yeah, I know. I just like pointing out things that people have already pointed out. It feels good. 
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Good CD.
Pretty good review, 'cept for the little 'problem' thing up there :P *Thumbs Up*
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Wow. I was always under the impression that the name of the album was "Fall Out Boy's Evening With Your Girl". Lookie, I learned something.
EDIT: 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was GD's first, correct?This Message Edited On 08.17.05
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u said bands followed fallout boy or something to that extent---wtf fallout boy except for their gay singing sounds like amillion other bands that came before
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Kenyu Osuke, just to let you know, GD's first album was called "39/Smooth." The remastered version and I believe a few other songs was 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours.
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39/smoothed out happy hours is ( i think ) an earlyish greatest hits
39/smooth
slapped out happy hours
or something like thatThis Message Edited On 10.02.05
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wait.... why does it say five guys in a van, and why is there five guys on the cover, doesnt FOB have four members??
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The gd thing
39/smooth
slappy
hours
plus that last track on the remastered one=
1039/ smoothed out slappy hours
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gotta love fall out boy. my fingers are killing me from learning sugar we're goin down. gotta love em tho.
-shelly
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Blinks first album was flyswatter, and green days was what a nice green day with three tracks or something?
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my fingers are killing me from learning sugar we're goin down.
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Digging: High on Fire - Snakes For The Divine
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I woudln't brag about that. In fact, I'd keep that your deepest, darkest secret.
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Bans!
Digging: The Mighty Stef - 100 Midnights
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Oh snap.
The only good thing about this is the title.
Digging: Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
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Haha, who got banned?
I don't like this band I find them unoriginal and I don't care for the singer's voice.
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Great review, Kif.
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And once again, Eliminator is gone.
Digging: Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
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