What’s your favorite deep cut from the 2005 album? Sound off in the comments. 🖤 Tags: #FallOutBoy #FromUnderTheCorkTree #Emo #2005 #MusicNostalgia

If you don’t feel the urge to roll down your car windows and scream "We’re going down, down in an earlier round" when this album comes on, check your pulse.

Posted by: The Nostalgia Mixtape | August 2023

The answer: It’s devastatingly good.

Let’s set the stage. It’s May 2005. "Hollaback Girl" is on the radio. MySpace is the king of the internet. And Patrick Stump—a vocalist in a band full of hardcore kids—decided to belt out the most verbose, heart-on-fire lyrics ever written.

We are talking, of course, about Fall Out Boy’s sophomore major-label album. The one that turned them from cult heroes into arena-filling superstars practically overnight. But looking back, is this album actually good, or are we just slaves to nostalgia?