365 project:"im falling apart to songs about hips and hearts"

33.

artist:fall out boy
album:from under the cork tree

i was never obsessed with fall out boy, but i always liked them. lately sugar, were going down keeps coming on the radio, so tonight when i was picking a CD to listen to on the drive to the mall, i decided to go for this one. i made a good choice, as I've been having a rather shitty day, and this CD perked me right up.

you might be surprised at the number of times I've seen fall out boy in concert. i don't have an actual number, though i could probably figure it out, but i know its more than a handful, quite possibly more than two handfuls. they seemed to tour with every other band i wanted to see for a while, play every festival i was attending, and of course it didn't help that i had a niece who was obsessed with them while i was able to score free tickets every time they came around in the summer.

i never saw a bad fall out boy show. i can never remember walking away after seeing them and feeling disappointed or let down. id say quite the opposite, in fact. they always put on a good show. they wrote catchy songs with great hooks and always looked like they were having fun up on that stage.

there was a fall out boy fall out and i just kind of fell off the bandwagon at that point, but i always loved this CD. i own it on vinyl. the actual record is really cool looking. maybe if i remember ill take a picture of it and post it, because if you haven't seen it, you might enjoy looking at it. one of my favorite things about vinyl is the artwork, and fuct is definitely no exception.

i don't know if I've talked about this at all in this blog, but i went through a few years where i was unable to do anything to my ipod. it was probably a good three years where i was just stuck with what was on there, and couldn't make any changes. fuct was one of the albums that i had on there, and was one of the very few that i didn't want to throw away after i was able to switch things up. as a matter of fact, these songs were some of the very few that i didn't skip.

whenever anyone says the word "dance" around me, i start singing dance, dance. i love to randomly sing lines from sugar, were going down. there are so many good one-liners within this album. it really is a pretty terrific album lyrically.

i used to fill the cooler at my old job while listening to this CD. it really is good "get up and go" music. and now i feel like I'm gushing, so ill stop.

i recommend that if you haven't listened to this CD in a while you pull it off of your shelf, dust it off, pop it in the player and give it a spin. it'll do your soul wonders during such bleak, dreary days.