Fall Out Boy Music:

Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girl Track Listing:
1. Honorable Mention
2. Calm Before the Storm
3. Switchblades and Infidelity
4. Pretty in Punk
5. Growing Up
6. World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys in a Broken Down Van)
7. Short, Fast, and Loud
8. Moving Pictures
9. Parker Lewis Can't Lose (But I'm Gonna Give It My Best Shot)

Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girl Reviews:
Different, But Good!
2007-09-16 - First off, this is Fall Out Boy's very first album so ofcourse it sounds different, but different is not a bad thing. I am a huge FOB fan and bought it as i have all there others, despite the bad reviews. Personally i love this album. its very different to there later works, and much more punkish but i like it. to those who say they bought it because they like fall out boy, but were disappointed, there IS a button you can click to listen to portions of the songs you know. if in doubt, listen to the previews.

there is 9 songs on this album, and an up-beat punk tune to it.
this is before the days of Andy, although there's a different drummer.
its also the before the days of FueledByRamen so the sound quality's not as good, but still entirely hearable and enjoyable.

i would definately reccomend this album to all Fall Out Boy and Punk fans.

garage band to world-wild tours
2007-06-28 - usually a bands first cd isnt the greatest, and this is an example of that. this Fall Out Boy isnt the same Fall Out Boy we know now with their songs with choirs and the grown voice of Patrick Stump. to me in this cd they seem like a garage band playing at a middle school dance, but strangely that is the thing i like most about this cd.

The Songs No One Sings Along To At Shows
2007-02-18 - If you are looking for something in the same style as the pop punk band everyone knows and loves/hates, then you are barking up the same tree. As you can see the reviews here are a little staggared in taste.


From what I've heard about the writing of this CD, Patrick Stump(lead vocals, guitarist of modern day Fall Out Boy) wrote the lyrics, where as Peter Wentz(bassist, lyricist of modern day FOB) writes them later on. This CD is also pre-Andy Hurley, and before Stump played the guitar as well as vocals.

The vocals are rougher due to Stump's inexperience, but shows promise of the Fall Out Boy we know today. The lyrics also seem more painfully personal than modern day, relying more on scathing storytelling than provocative metaphors. The music's roots are more "hardcore", going to punk roots (modern day FOB pretty much taps into everything they listen to).

Sounds almost like early Saves The Day. If you know who Saves The Day is, you'll also know THEY changed their sound too.

This is Fall Out Boy at the base of their roots. This is what they probably may go back to in a great many years (but they just keep striving further and further away from it with each consecutive release).

Mainly its lively "we-don't-give-a-f***" popish punk from the Chicago suburbs. Its a group of some very experienced, and a few very inexperienced musicians wanting to go somewhere else with their sound. And listening to it, I think they wrote it not really thinking anyone would ever listen to it.

I give it 3 stars given the immaturity of their careers, and taking away my absolutely love of this band's writing ability.

As Pete Wentz Says....
2006-11-26 - Even Pete Wentz (plays bass/writes lyrics in FOB) describes Evening Out With Your Girlfriend as "like the worst CD on the planet." He's not being modest. I am a huge FOB fan, but this CD truly does suck. They didn't really know what they were doing back then, and, as other people have said, the harmonies clash all over the place. I like the lyrics ("Next time the phone can wring my neck, it gets no answer") but don't buy this if you're expecting another Take This to You Grave, From Under the Cork Tree, or My Heart Will Always be the B-Side to My Tongue. If you are a freak like me, you might want to get it anyway, to complete your collection, but it's not the kind of thing you're going to want to hear 24/7.

its not that bad
2006-02-04 - mkay i'm a really big fan of fob so this review is like totlally biased but i really like this cd. other ppl r like well its not produced well. well,duh. they didnt have money for stuff like that and they were just kids! give em credit! u can still tell theyre good even if the production was bad!