Fall Out Boy: From Under the Cork Tree (bonus tracks release)

CML call number: CD/ROCK/Fall
Kelefa Sanneh wrote in the New York Times, 3/16/06: "Thanks to a nation of enthusiastic high-school kids, emo bands are everywhere; plaintive punk has become the soundtrack of white adolescence. … A genre that was once mocked for its supposed earnestness is now home to some of the most flamboyant boys in rock 'n' roll. Fall Out Boy has sold almost two million copies of its current album, 'From Under the Cork Tree' (Island Def Jam); the record company celebrated by rereleasing it on Tuesday, with bonus tracks and remixes. … [E]mo bands … use terms like 'sugar' and 'honey' to underscore arch lyrics about boys who claim to hate themselves almost as much as they hate their exes. … Fall Out Boy's current single is 'A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me,"' which matches its ridiculous title (and infectious tune) with hopeful and spiteful lyrics: "I don't blame you for being you/ But you can't blame me for hating it.' Deliberately overripe songs like this blur the line between earnest lament and theatrical parody. … [N]o one can claim that these emo boys aren't putting on an enormously entertaining show."