Fall Out Boy – Folie à Deux
It’s almost too easy to hate a band who writes songs about the “emo scene,” but here’s the thing: if you can listen to this record and take completely at face value, you’ll find it at the very least sonically interesting (for the most part) and at best a fun collection of (mostly) well-written songs that are better than most “pop punk” music out there; Fall Out Boy are easily dumped into the Blink-182-clone trash heap but are doing more on Folie à Deux to escape it than in the past, and the result is a more enjoyable album than they’ve ever made.
Singled out The best songs are the singles, which is how it should be, of course: “I Don’t Care” and “Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet”
Friends in high places Guest appearances include Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry, and Lil Wayne
Grade: 3.4 / 5
December 13, 2008
Decaydance/Island Records/Fueled by Ramen
December 24th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
How did Fallout Boy get Elvis Costello and Debbie Harry on their album???