Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend | ||||
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Released | March 25, 2003 | |||
Recorded | February–September 2002 [1] | |||
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Length | 29:39 | |||
Label | Uprising | |||
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AllMusic | [3] |
Punktastic | [4] |
Rolling Stone | [5] |
Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend is the debut mini-LP and the second extended play (EP) by American rock band Fall Out Boy. Recorded in two days [6] around February to September 2002 [7] on a low budget, the rushed schedule left the band discontent and ceasing to call it their debut album. Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend was released in 2003 through Uprising Records against the band's wishes. In 2005, Uprising released a remastered reissue as Evening Out with Your Girlfriend, without the band's involvement, following the band's very successful major label debut From Under the Cork Tree . It eventually sold over 127,000 copies in the United States by August 2008, according to Billboard . [8] [9] The photograph on the cover of this album was shot by Adeet Deshmukh in Chicago's Pick Me Up Café located at 3408 N. Clark Street. [10] The girl who is pictured on the cover is a waitress at said café, and her name is Lavinia, as noted in the booklet of the album.
Fall Out Boy formed near Chicago, Illinois, in 2001. [11] The band debuted with a self-released demo in the same year and released Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy , a split EP with Project Rocket, in 2002, through Uprising Records. The lyrics to the whole album are written by lead vocalist Patrick Stump. On later albums, bassist Pete Wentz wrote the majority of the band's lyrics. The album is also the only Fall Out Boy album not featuring Andy Hurley on drums. Evening Out was not recorded with five members, contrary to what is shown in the album art. The members at that time were Patrick Stump (lead vocals), Pete Wentz (bass guitar), Joe Trohman (guitar), and Mike Pareskuwicz (drums). Although incorrect, Pareskuwicz and guitarist TJ Racine have been said to be two Chicago musicians the band recruited in their early days, who left after Evening Out was released before Stump picked up the guitar and Hurley joined as the full-time drummer to form the band's current lineup. Stump explained that "TJ Racine was already out of the band by the time [Fall Out Boy] tracked [(recorded) the album]" and that TJ "wasn't in the band for that long". Pareskuwicz did indeed handle the drumming duties for the album. After the release, he left the band, and Andy Hurley would join as the current drummer and record the follow-up album Take This to Your Grave (2003). Trohman played almost all the guitars on it, with Stump playing a small part on "Moving Pictures". The entire album was recorded in two days and the rushed nature left the band dissatisfied and did not want it released. Stump also stated "I don't consider it a real album." The band was not involved in the 2005 re-release and did not receive royalties for either version, with Patrick Stump stating "both were a scam on us". [12]
Songs from Evening Out were played by the band in their early shows to a small local audience before they received mainstream attention. When the band reached mainstream popularity, they did not often mention this album.
"Calm Before the Storm" was later re-recorded with additions to the arrangement, including backing vocals (screaming) from bassist Pete Wentz, for the follow-up album Take This to Your Grave later that year. "Pretty in Punk" is a play on the title of the John Hughes film Pretty in Pink , and "Parker Lewis Can't Lose (But I'm Gunna Give It My Best Shot)" is a reference to the television show Parker Lewis Can't Lose . Different recordings of "Switchblades and Infidelity", "Growing Up" and "Moving Pictures" were released on the band's Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy split EP.
A part of the song "Growing Up" is sung by William Beckett of The Academy Is... in Fall Out Boy's later song "What a Catch, Donnie", from their 2008 release Folie à Deux . The "Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy" version of the song was included as the last track on the band's 2009 greatest hits album, Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits .
As of November 1, 2021, the EP has been made available on major streaming platforms.
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Fall Out Boy's debut album has had no mainstream attention, and it has not reached any charts. Also, no singles were released from this album. The original release is not featured on the official Fall Out Boy website, rather the remastered edition is. Many reviewers, including AllMusic, consider Take This to Your Grave as Fall Out Boy's first album, possibly due to Evening Out with Your Girlfriend being a mini-LP and not a full-length release, or unknown. Also, in the lyric booklet of Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits , the band begins with the making of Take This to Your Grave, completely omitting Evening Out with Your Girlfriend. However, the track "Growing Up" is included as the last track Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits as a "rarity".
As a whole, this first collection of material from the band had little to no following as a result of a combination of a lack of notoriety, limited advertising, and poor production. This album and was not featured by any of Fall Out Boy's official channels until the remastered editions of one song were released a couple of years later on their real debut album Take This to Your Grave. This track was "Calm Before the Storm" and was reissued with additions to the vocals and a new drummer.
All tracks are written by Fall Out Boy
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Honorable Mention" | 3:25 |
2. | "Calm Before the Storm" | 4:43 |
3. | "Switchblades and Infidelity" | 3:14 |
4. | "Pretty in Punk" | 3:36 |
5. | "Growing Up" | 2:48 |
6. | "The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys in a Broken Down Van)" | 2:39 |
7. | "Short, Fast, and Loud" | 2:16 |
8. | "Moving Pictures" | 3:31 |
9. | "Parker Lewis Can't Lose (But I'm Gunna Give It My Best Shot)" | 3:22 |
Total length: | 29:34 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Honorable Mention" | 3:25 |
2. | "Calm Before the Storm" | 4:41 |
3. | "Switchblades and Infidelity" | 2:02 |
4. | "Pretty in Punk" | 3:35 |
5. | "Growing Up" | 2:48 |
6. | "The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys in a Broken Down Van)" | 2:38 |
7. | "Short, Fast, and Loud" | 2:18 |
8. | "Moving Pictures" | 3:28 |
9. | "Parker Lewis Can't Lose (But I'm Gunna Give It My Best Shot)" | 3:18 |
Total length: | 28:13 |
Notes
Take This to Your Grave is the debut studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy, released on May 6, 2003, by Fueled by Ramen. When the band was signed to Island Records, the label employed an unusual strategy that allowed them to sign with independent label Fueled by Ramen for their debut and later move to Island for their second album. Sean O'Keefe had helped with the band's demo, and they returned to Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin to record the bulk of their first album with him. Living on a stranger's floor for part of the time and running out of money halfway through, the band recorded seven songs in nine days, bringing them together with the additional three from the demo.
Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III is an American musician who is the bassist and lyricist for the rock band Fall Out Boy. Before the band's formation in 2001, Wentz was a fixture of the Chicago hardcore scene and was the lead singer and songwriter for Arma Angelus, a metalcore band. During Fall Out Boy's hiatus from 2009 to 2012, Wentz formed the experimental, electropop and dubstep group Black Cards. He owns a record label, DCD2 Records, which has signed bands including Panic! at the Disco and Gym Class Heroes.
Patrick Martin Stumph, known professionally as Patrick Vaughn Stump, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Fall Out Boy, originally from Wilmette, Illinois.
Joseph Mark Trohman is an American musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the American rock band Fall Out Boy, as well as the lead guitarist for heavy metal supergroup the Damned Things. Fall Out Boy began in 2001 as Trohman and Pete Wentz's side project from the hardcore punk scene they were involved with, and the band has scored four number one albums on the US Billboard 200, as well as numerous platinum and multi platinum singles in the US and abroad.
Arma Angelus was a metalcore band from Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1998 and disbanded in 2002. Members of the band were Pete Wentz, Tim McIlrath, Jay Jancetic, Daniel Binaei, Adam Bishop and Timothy Miller.
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Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in 2001. The band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, lead guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The band originated from Chicago's hardcore punk scene and was formed by Wentz and Trohman as a pop-punk side project; Stump joined shortly thereafter. The group went through a succession of drummers before Hurley joined. Their debut album, Take This to Your Grave (2003), became an underground success and helped the band gain a dedicated fan base through heavy touring.
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Folie à Deux is the fourth studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy, released on December 10, 2008, by Island Records. As with their previous two albums From Under the Cork Tree (2005) and Infinity on High (2007), its music was composed by lead vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump, with lyrics penned by bassist Pete Wentz. Regarding the writing process, the band considered Folie à Deux to be their most collaborative record.
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Save Rock and Roll is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Fall Out Boy, released on April 12, 2013, by Island Records. It was the band's first album in five years after Folie à Deux (2008).
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