Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll

                      

Fall Out Boy

Save Rock and Roll
Released: April 12, 2013

Label: Island Records

What's this? Green's doing an album review? I thought that was Blue's thing. Green, stop doing Blue's thing. Ay, shut up! You can't tell me what to do, I'm an adult.

So when this album came out it actually debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, so kudos to FOB on that one. Track listing is as follows:

                                       1. The Phoenix

 2. My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)

 3. Alone Together

 4. Where Did the Party Go

 5. Just One Yesterday (ft. Foxes)

 6. The Mighty Fall (ft. Big Sean)

 7. Miss Missing You

                                       8. Death Valley
                                      9. Young Volcanoes
                                10. Rat a Tat (ft. Courtney Love)
                              11. Save Rock and Roll (ft. Elton John)

So the first thing I want to mention is thanks to that second song there we know FOB has not given up its behavior if extremely long names for songs. I still really hope that at some point in the future FOB and Panic! at the Disco do a crossover song, simply because if that ever did happen the title would be at least as long as the song, if not longer.

The second thing worth mentioning here is the four features damn if too many more people had showed up I'd accuse this of being a rap album.

Well any album that starts with the phrase "Put on your war paint" probably has something to say, Let's take a look shall we.

So.... when I heard FOB was putting out a new album, I was very interested to hear it cause FOB, they're damn good at what they do. Then I looked it up on YouTube and found My Songs Know and I was liking it. Then I heard The Phoenix, and I was really liking it. Then I heard Alone Together, and for some reason, the first time I heard it, it didn't really find me in the right mood,but I listened to it again recently, and Alone Together is almost certainly my favorite song on this album.

Unfortunately after listening to the whole album, it's not as good as I hoped it would be. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad; I was just hoping for fucking incredible, and this isn't.

On the whole album there's only three songs I can say I really like, Those being the first three of the album (ie. The Phoenix, My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up), and Alone Together)

The only song I can say I actively disliked was Rat a tat, and I feel like that's basically entirely due to Courtney, because as I listen to it again, the parts where she shuts the fuck up are largely fine.

I do want to say before I wrap this up that Patrick stump is a damn talented vocalist, that guy can really fucking belt it, and if for some reason you don't believe me listen to thnks fr th mmrs.

7.5 impressive falsetto lyrics out of 10

P.S. So, to anyone who saw the strange formatting when this was released, my apologies for that, oftentimes what I see when I'm writing it up is not even close to how it looks when it's actually posted. So if I forget to do a preview, and make the wild assumption that it'll look like it does for me, then shit like that happens.