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Fall Out Boy didn’t just step onto the scene—they crashed into it, reshaping the sound of 2000s rock with their explosive blend of pop-punk energy, razor-sharp lyrics, and anthemic hooks that turned underground misfits into arena-filling rockstars. Formed in Wilmette, Illinois, in 2001, the band came together through Chicago’s thriving punk and hardcore circles, with bassist Pete Wentz and guitarist Joe Trohman spearheading the project before finding the missing pieces in vocalist/guitarist Patrick Stump and drummer Andy Hurley. With a natural knack for crafting infectious melodies laced with introspective and often self-deprecating lyrics, Fall Out Boy quickly carved out a space for themselves, building a devoted fanbase through relentless touring and word-of-mouth buzz.
Their full-length debut, Take This to Your Grave (2003), laid the groundwork for what would become an unparalleled career. While it didn’t initially storm the charts, the album became a cult favorite, solidifying their reputation as one of the most promising new acts in alternative rock. The breakthrough came two years later with From Under the Cork Tree (2005), a record that catapulted them into mainstream consciousness with massive singles like “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” and “Dance, Dance.” These tracks, driven by Stump’s soaring vocals and Wentz’s lyrical wit, became anthems of the mid-2000s, turning the band into one of the defining acts of their era.
Rather than settling into a formula, Fall Out Boy doubled down on reinvention with Infinity on High (2007), which infused their pop-punk roots with grandiose production and R&B influences. Tracks like “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” and “Thnks fr th Mmrs” showcased a band unafraid to evolve, leading to even greater commercial success. However, as fame intensified, so did internal pressures. Following Folie à Deux (2008), a more experimental album that polarized fans and critics, Fall Out Boy went on hiatus in 2009, leaving their future uncertain.
Their return in 2013 with Save Rock and Roll marked one of the most triumphant comebacks in modern rock history. Fueled by the fiery lead single “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up),” the album reintroduced them to a new generation of fans. They continued their momentum with American Beauty/American Psycho (2015), featuring hits like “Centuries” and “Uma Thurman,” and Mania (2018), which pushed their sound into electronic-tinged territory. Their most recent album, So Much (for) Stardust (2023), saw them return to their roots while embracing their love of theatrical, cinematic rock.
Over the years, Fall Out Boy has amassed a staggering collection of accolades, from Grammy nominations to American Music Awards and MTV Video Music Awards. They’ve headlined festivals, toured the globe, and maintained a level of relevance few bands from their scene have managed to sustain. Beyond the music, Pete Wentz’s Decaydance Records played a crucial role in launching acts like Panic! at the Disco, further cementing their influence on the alternative rock landscape.
Outside of their chart dominance, the band has been deeply involved in philanthropy. They have supported organizations like UNICEF and the Make-A-Wish Foundation and even donated tour proceeds to various charities. Whether through their music or activism, Fall Out Boy has consistently found ways to leave an impact beyond the stage.
(#-B)
20 Dollar Nose Bleed – Folie à Deux (2008)
27 – Folie à Deux (2008)
7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen) – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More “Touch Me” – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
Alone Together – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
Alpha Dog – Welcome to the New Administration (2008) / Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits (2009)
America’s Suitehearts – Folie à Deux (2008)
American Beauty/American Psycho – American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
American Beauty/American Psycho (Remix) – Make America Psycho Again (2015)
American Made – PAX AM Days (2013)
Art of Keeping Up Disappearances – PAX AM Days (2013)
Baby Annihilation – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
Back to Earth – Neon Future I (2014)
Bang the Doldrums – Infinity on High (2007)
Beat It – Live in Phoenix (2008) / Folie à Deux (2008)
Bishops Knife Trick – M A N I A (2018)
Bob Dylan – Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two (2019)
(C-D)
Caffeine Cold – PAX AM Days (2013)
Calm Before the Storm – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
Catch Me If You Can/Proclamation of Emancipation – Welcome to the New Administration (2008)
Centuries – American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
Centuries (Remix) – Make America Psycho Again (2015)
Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
Champion – M A N I A (2018)
Champion (Remix) – M A N I A (2018)
Chicago Is So Two Years Ago – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
Church – M A N I A (2018)
Church (Remix) – Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two (2019)
City in a Garden – Lake Effect Kid (2019)
(Coffee’s for Closers) – Folie à Deux (2008)
Dance, Dance – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
Dead on Arrival – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
Dear Future Self (Hands Up) – Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two (2019)
Death Valley – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
Demigods – PAX AM Days (2013)
Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes – Folie à Deux (2008)
Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am? – Infinity on High (2007)
(E-G)
Electric Touch (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault) – Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (2023)
Eternal Summer – PAX AM Days (2013)
Fake Out – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
Fame < Infamy – Infinity on High (2007)
Favorite Record – American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
Favorite Record (Remix) – Make America Psycho Again (2015)
Flu Game – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
Footprints in the Snow – Llamania (2018)
Fourth of July – American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
Fourth of July (Remix) – Make America Psycho Again (2015)
From Now On, We Are Enemies – Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits (2009)
Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows) – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
Ghostbusters (I’m Not Afraid) – Ghostbusters (2016 Soundtrack) (2016)
G.I.N.A.S.F.S. (“Gay Is Not a Synonym for Shitty”) – Infinity on High (2007)
Golden – Infinity on High (2007)
Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
Grenade Jumper – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
Growing Up – Project Rocket/Fall Out Boy (2002)
(H)
Hand Crushed by a Mallet (Remix) – 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues (2020)
Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet – Folie à Deux (2008)
Heartbreak Feels So Good – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
Heaven, Iowa – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
Heaven’s Gate – M A N I A (2018)
HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T – M A N I A (2018)
Hold Me Like a Grudge – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
Homesick at Space Camp – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
Honorable Mention – Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out with Your Girlfriend (2003)
Hot to the Touch, Cold on the Inside – PAX AM Days (2013)
Hum Hallelujah – Infinity on High (2007)
(I)
I Am My Own Muse – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
I Don’t Care – Folie à Deux (2008)
I Don’t Care (27 Remix) – Welcome to the New Administration (2008)
I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
I Wan’na Be Like You (The Monkey Song) – We Love Disney (2015)
I’m Like a Lawyer with the Way I’m Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You) – Infinity on High (2007)
Immortals – Big Hero 6 Soundtrack (2014) / American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
Immortals (Remix) – Make America Psycho Again (2015)
Irresistible – American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
Irresistible (Remix featuring Demi Lovato) – Make America Psycho Again (2015)
Irresistible (Remix featuring Migos) – Make America Psycho Again (2015)
It’s a Small World – We Love Disney (2015)
It’s Hard to Say “I Do” When I Don’t – Infinity on High (2007)
It’s Not a Side Effect of the Cocaine, I Am Thinking It Must Be Love – My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue (2004)
I’ve Been Waiting – Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two (2019)
I’ve Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
I’ve Got All This Ringing in My Ears and None on My Fingers – Infinity on High (2007)
(J-O)
Jet Pack Blues – American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
Jet Pack Blues (Remix) – Make America Psycho Again (2015)
Just One Yesterday – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
Lake Effect Kid – Lake Effect Kid (2019)
Love From the Other Side – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
Love, Sex, Death – PAX AM Days (2013)
Love Will Tear Us Apart – My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue (2004)
Lullabye – Folie à Deux (2008)
Miss Missing You – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
Moving Pictures – Project Rocket/Fall Out Boy (2002)
My Heart Is the Worst Kind of Weapon – My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue (2004)
My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up) – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up) (2 Chainz Remix) – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
Novocaine – American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
Novocaine (Remix) – Make America Psycho Again (2015)
Of All the Gin Joints in All the World – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
One and Only – Shock Value (2007)
One of Those Nights – Whisper War (2008)
Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
(P-S)
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (But I’m Gonna Give It My Best Shot) – Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out with Your Girlfriend (2003)
Past Life – Llamania (2018)
Pavlove – Folie à Deux (2008)
Pretty in Punk – Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out with Your Girlfriend (2003)
Rat a Tat – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
Reinventing the Wheel to Run Myself Over – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
Roxanne – Take This to Your Grave (2005)
Saturday – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Revisited & Beyond (2014)
Save Rock and Roll – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
Save Your Generation – Bad Scene, Everyone’s Fault: Jawbreaker Tribute (2003)
Sending Postcards from a Plane Crash (Wish You Were Here) – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
She’s My Winona – Folie à Deux (2008)
Short, Fast and Loud – Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out with Your Girlfriend (2003)
Snitches and Talkers Get Stitches and Walkers – From Under the Cork Tree (2006)
So Good Right Now – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
So Much (For) Stardust – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
Start Today – Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland (2005)
Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea – M A N I A (2018)
Stayin Out All Night (Boys of Zummer Remix) – Stayin Out All Night (2014)
Sugar, We’re Goin Down – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
Sunshine Riptide – M A N I A (2018)
Super Fade – Lake Effect Kid (2019)
Switchblades and Infidelity – Project Rocket/Fall Out Boy (2002)
(T)
Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
The (After) Life of the Party – Infinity on High (2007)
The Carpal Tunnel of Love – Infinity on High (2007)
The Kids Aren’t Alright – American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years) – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
The Last of the Real Ones – M A N I A (2018)
The Mighty Fall – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
The Music or the Misery – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
The Phoenix – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
The Pink Seashell – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
The Pros and Cons of Breathing – Take This to Your Grave (2003)
The (Shipped) Gold Standard – Folie à Deux (2008)
The Take Over, The Breaks Over – Infinity on High (2007)
The World’s Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys in a Broken Down Van) – Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out with Your Girlfriend (2003)
This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race – Infinity on High (2007)
Thnks fr th Mmrs – Infinity on High (2007)
Thriller – Infinity on High (2007)
Tiffany Blews – Folie à Deux (2008)
Twin Skeleton’s (Hotel in NYC) – American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
(U-Z)
Uma Thurman – American Beauty/American Psycho (2015)
Untitled 1 (Colorado Song) (Unfinished Demo) – Take This to Your Grave (2023)
Untitled 2 (Jakus Song) (Unfinished Demo) – Take This to Your Grave (2023)
w.a.m.s. – Folie à Deux (2008)
We Didn’t Start the Fire – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
We Were Doomed from the Start (The King Is Dead) – PAX AM Days (2013)
West Coast Smoker – Folie à Deux (2008)
What a Catch, Donnie – Folie à Deux (2008)
What a Time to Be Alive – So Much (for) Stardust (2023)
What’s This? – The Nightmare Before Christmas (2006)
Where Did the Party Go – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
Wilson (Expensive Mistakes) – M A N I A (2018)
Wrong Side of Paradise – Llamania (2018)
XO – From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
Yule Shoot Your Eye Out – A Santa Cause: It’s a Punk Rock Christmas (2003)
You’re Crashing But You’re No Wave – Infinity on High (2007)
Young and Menace – M A N I A (2018)
Young Volcanoes – Save Rock and Roll (2013)
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