Gun to head and you have to make a greatest hits album that can only have one song from each album. What would that look like? (I love doing these scenarios so much. Mostly because it's fun to go back and compare them as they change every other week) Greatest Hits: 1. Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend - Growing Up 2. Take This to Your Grave - The Pros and Cons of Breathing 3. My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side To My Tongue - My Heart is the Worst Kind of Weapon 4. From Under the Cork Tree - XO 5. Infinity on High - Fame < Infamy 6. Folie a Deux - (Coffee's For Closers) 7. Save Rock and Roll - Miss Missing You 8. PAX AM Days - Caffeine Cold 9. American Beauty/American Psycho - Fourth of July 10. M A N I A - Heaven's Gate 11. Bonus Track (B-Side) - From Now On We Are Enemies Edit: It was a lot harder to do this than I thought it would be.
Every single time I listen to Fourth of July it brings back this random memory of my wife, my kids, and myself in the backyard barbecuing, swimming in our cheap little pool, listening to AB/AP on full blast.
1. Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend - Growing Up 2. Take This to Your Grave - Grand Theft Autumn 3. My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side To My Tongue - My Heart is the Worst Kind of Weapon 4. From Under the Cork Tree - Sugar We're Going Down 5. Infinity on High - Hum Hallelujah 6. Folie a Deux - America's Suitehearts 7. Save Rock and Roll - Miss Missing You 8. PAX AM Days - ? 9. American Beauty/American Psycho - Irresistable 10. M A N I A - Wilson (Expensive Mistakes) 11. Bonus Track (B-Side) - It's Hard To Say I Do When I Don't
I just bought the PAX AM edition of SRAR so hoping to check that out soon. Never bought SRAR for whatever reason, felt the singles were not what I wanted from them at the time but AB/AP brought me back as a modern fan.
ABAP came out during one of the weirder years of my life. I was traveling a lot for theater productions I was in. My nephew was born with some pretty difficult health issues, and my partner (now husband) was in the hospital for almost two months with some near-death health issues as well. Listened to the album a ton in my travels; might be way I'm more fond of it than most. Sorry for the word-vomit, over detailed description of my 2015 life.
Don't be sorry. I'm glad that you had an album that helped you get through some tough times. Honestly, I could probably write a 10,000 word essay on what each album did for me and what I was going through during that time frame from which the album was released until the next album. Folie was the album that helped me get through the aftermath of cancer. (Different band, but Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger also helped me tremendously during that time frame of my life. I still can't listen to Caves without crying like a baby.)
Thanks for sharing! Yes, Andrew McMahon is absolutely someone I could write a book about regarding how much their music has affected me.
I was pissed the first time I saw FOB live, the bridge of Uma Thurman was replaced with a trash Wiz Khalifa verse lol
does anyone else feel like last of the real ones does what champions was aiming for but a million times better? huge, soaring stadium rock
I can see this and boy I fucking love that one. I will say though, lyrically it hits different notes than something like Champions or Centuries.
They should have put Juicy J’s Centuries verse on the actual album and they should have given MAPA a different title lol
If you don't like AB/AP (the song), I think you just need to listen to it with me in my car with the volume all the way up and I'll show you what a tune it is. Best songs on AB/AP: Irresistible, AB/AP, Uma Thurman, Favorite Record, The Kids Aren't Alright
ALTER BOYS ALTER BOYS WERE THE THINGS THAT LOVE DESTROYS im an american im an american YOU ME US THEM WERE JUST RESURRECTION MEN
cuz i missed it FaD > Mania = IOH > SRAR > Cork Tree > ABAP > TTTYG For reference, I got into the band when they released My Songs and binged their discog before SRAR came out, so I missed growing up with them