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Fall Out Boy's second album,
From Under the Cork Tree, is a peculiar mix of in-jokes ("Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued") and romantic dramas that post-adolescents are unlikely to care about. But thanks to a lot of taut grooves and dense hooks, these Chicago kids' near-emo is always kind of charming. The opening cut follows a joke about wrist-slitting with a lively group chorus, and the well-wrought refrain of "Dance, Dance" suggests a collaboration between Linda Perry and Thursday. Singer Patrick Stump's guts-spilling can be cloying. But From Under the Cork Tree is buoyed by its self-deprecating humor; the over-the-top screamo parody "I Slept With Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me" proves that in the business of emotional bloodletting, a little misdirection can make a big difference.
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Track List
- Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Title Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued
- Of All The Gin Joints In All The World
- Dance, Dance
- Sugar, We're Going Down
- Nobody Puts A Baby In The Corner
- I've Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)
- 7 Minutes In Heaven (Atavan Halen)1
- Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year
- Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends
- I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me
- A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"
- Get Busy Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop going To Shows)
- XO
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