Yup. I had found some of his writings from one of his books ages ago on Tumblr. Don't remember if anything from Bang the Doldrums were in that book.
"carpal tunnel" is absolutely one of my fav fob songs, i remember streaming it on.... ap.net(???) before the record came out and thinking "wow i really love this band"
The first time I heard Carpal Tunnel of Love was in that Happy Tree Friends video. Takes me back in time.
Wait so Wesley wrote poems and Pete or whoever loved them enough to write songs using them as the lyrics? Never knew this, very fun fact. Sounds like he actually wrote the lyrics for them? TIL 'Carpal Tunnel of Love,' 'Golden,' and 'Bang the Doldrums,' all have plagiarized lyrics from Wesley Eisold • r/FallOutBoy
I don't think he really wrote with/for them. He probably didn't want to get into the situation when asked.
Eh. I heard basically the exact same as what he said from the band back in the day. It was a very weird situation.
Whether the lyrics were written for or simply used by those songs, some of the commenters on that Reddit think the fact that he was initially uncredited was unintentional, and while there was some sort of legal action, there wasn't/isn't necessarily any beef between him and the band, is what I'm getting.
I actually had no idea about this either I've never been a big fan of Carpal Tunnel though, especially Pete's super out of place screaming part
Its funny that chunks of Doldrums were written by Wes, considering there was a very vocal portion of the fanbase who were convinced it was about Mikey Way haha
“It was ice cream headaches and sweet AVALAAAAAANCHE” is my least favorite moment on Infinity lol I love CTOL but that whole bridge doesn’t hold up well at all
Coming back to $20 Nosebleed after a while and realising there was A FUCKING MANIC STREET PREACHERS REFERENCE in the first verse was a 'holy shit' moment for me. Same with figuring out who sings half the chorus of WCS.