Folie à Deux
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100
This one just goes further, with more layers and cameos from Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry, Lil Wayne, and others. Costello endorsement or not, Folie À Deux won't change the minds of people who use "Wentz" pejoratively. But Fall Out Boy seems more comfortable than ever with that.
10y
80
A record that doesn't attempt to re-create the sound but the spirit of 1967, when rock bands would try anything on their LPs, especially if it included lots of orchestration.
10y
80
It’s a big, stupid guitar-pop album, as much in thrall to Jim Steinman rock operas as it is to The Neptunes, and held together by what had always made Fall Out Boy sound like Fall Out Boy.
10y
80
‘Folie a Deux’ or ‘a madness shared by two’ is FOB’s fourth album and it is a record that catches a band right in their pomp. This is an album bristling with well constructed sing-alongs and choruses that remain lodged in your head for weeks.
80
The combination of hotshot producer Neil Avron (also known for his work with Linkin Park) and Stump's nostalgic leanings mean that each chug, roar and wail of the band's guitars come shrinkwrapped within squeaky-clean studio compression. And while this all may sound suspiciously over-indulgent, the fact is these self-styled 'soft-core' rockers are fulfilling their own prophesy.
75
Passionate, splashy, and ambitious, Folie isn’t flawless by any stretch, but it’s no folly either.
70
Unfortunately, Fall Out Boy rule with an iron fist. Potentially tight tunes like “The (Shipped) Gold Standard” are ‘roided out with bombastic keyboards, ham-handed guitar overdubs, rigid drumming, and grating compression.
10y
70
The musical mix on Folie à Deux suggests a band with an advanced case of ADD, ricocheting between genres and eras, tempos and time signatures, often several times in a given song. But there is monomaniacal focus in the lyrics of Pete Wentz, FOB’s bassist, pin-up and poet/jester.
70
While Folie a Deux at times feels like the band are showing off the contents of their Rolodex, the album’s standouts are so good that they will undoubtedly become standards for the band’s live shows for years to come.
60
Folie A Deux is mostly a barrelling, hugely confident record that should see Fall Out Boy swiftly elevated into mainstream rock's premier league.
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1y
60
Whether or not this is enough to inspire acolytes the likes of which this writer had a first-hand audience with some three years ago remains to be seen, though Folie à Deux does look certain to satisfy fans' appetites as much as it may surprise and intrigue certain others.
13y
60
In places, it's all but impossible to discern whether they're stating what they believe or satirising the self-regarding abjection of adolescence. Perhaps they haven't decided yet.
6mo
60
Folie A Deux recalls the high-impact pop oof "Private Eyes"-era Hall & Oates, and that's preferable to sounding like Blink 182.
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1y
60
Folie à Deux is mainly more of the same, but its guest list (Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry et al) trumps fellow emo-peddlers My Chemical Romance and Panic at the Disco.
60
Folie A Deux's A-material stands up alongside that of previous albums, but Infinity On High is still the standard-bearer.
57
Through Folie à Deux, Fall Out Boy both fertilizes and justifies Fall Out Boy, a feat so granite and overwhelming that there is simply no choice left for the listener, the person defined not by aural exposure but by a willingness to explicate Fall Out Boy, but submission.
55
Fall Out Boy is a very good band, Patrick Stump is an excellent frontman, and Folie A Deux has some great moments. But the bad easily cancels out the good, making for a very mediocre album.
50
A tiring series of affected gestures, empty musical feints, and strained lyrics, which come together to form an album that preens and fidgets like a neglected child.
50
Though Folie a Deux is still riddled with problems, it’s still a musical leap in the right direction for the band, as it adds just enough new elements to keep things interesting while not straying too far from the sound that made them big in the first place.
13y
Can I get punched in the nose for twenty dollars? No? I guess I don’t need the money then.
I’ve never been the biggest fan of Fall Out Boy, especially nowadays. I’ve seen them make a lot of worst lists over the years, which I totally understand…if it’s 2013 and after. This is their underrated masterpiece.
I’m all for certain artists expanding their sound, and with this album, this band does it incredibly well. I’d personally say this was much better ... read more
UNDERRATED ALBUM! Believe it or not, Fall Out Boy was, for a time, a good band. And while this may not have been their most well-received record, it's definitely my favorite.
Fall Off Boy's best output, no cap. This is their little black dress.
They should have stayed broken up honestly.
I'd be lying if I said this rating wasn't partially motivated by nostalgia. I listen to some of these songs and I'm just taken back to childhood, especially Disloyal Order Of Water Buffalos, I Don't Care, and America's Sweethearts. But even outside of that it's just... high quality pop punk from front to back. A bit of experimentation to keep it interesting, but it doesn't stray as far as the bands latter efforts (MANIA, SRAR, etc). Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet might just be ... read more
“emo forever”
#4 - “the best album that finished fall out boy’s pop punk era”
the fourth and the last album is the best album of fall out boy (so far). in this album instrumentals sounds pretty good and patrick’s vocal is not annoying like it was in the previous album (mEeEaNdYoOOu). the album has own cozy atmosphere like “sitting around and singing songs about love” and album well tolerated us to 2008.
even though, this album finished pop punk ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes 4:17 | 91 |
| 2 | I Don't Care 3:34 | 90 |
| 3 | She's My Winona 3:51 | 87 |
| 4 | America's Suitehearts 3:34 | 86 |
| 5 | Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet 3:54 | 92 |
| 6 | The (Shipped) Gold Standard 3:18 | 89 |
| 7 | (Coffee's for Closers) 4:35 | 87 |
| 8 | What a Catch, Donnie 4:50 | 88 |
| 9 | 27 3:12 | 85 |
| 10 | Tiffany Blews 3:43 | 89 |
| 11 | w.a.m.s. 4:38 | 86 |
| 12 | 20 Dollar Nose Bleed 4:17 | 91 |
| 13 | West Coast Smoker 2:45 | 88 |
Total Length: 50 minutes
Year End Lists
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