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From Under the Cork Tree (2005)

Where the lyrics of From Under the Cork Tree take you, and where it was really made.

The album's lead single was nearly dropped by its own label, yet the record became the band's first top 10 album and its best seller.

Key places

Ocean Studios in Burbank, where the album was recorded (2005)

Recording site The Enterprise (Burbank) — The album was recorded here from November 2004 to March 2005, the band's first long stay in California. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Second studio album by the American rock band Fall Out Boy
• Released 3 May 2005 by Island Records, the band's major label debut
• Music composed by Patrick Stump; all lyrics written by bassist Pete Wentz
• Produced by Neal Avron
• Became the band's breakthrough mainstream success

Background

• Fall Out Boy formed near Chicago, Illinois, in 2001
• The songwriting split of Stump composing and Wentz writing lyrics expanded an approach used on some songs of the 2003 debut Take This to Your Grave
• Wentz said the lyrics were about the anxiety and depression that comes with looking at your own life
• The band signed with the indie label Fueled by Ramen and received an advance from Island Records, which financed Take This to Your Grave
• The band headlined tours worldwide and played various music festivals in support of the album

Recording

• Recorded at Ocean Studios in Burbank, California, from November 2004 to March 2005
• The first time the band stayed in California for an extended period
• The group lived in corporate housing during the sessions
• The schedule was much more gradual than the rushed sessions for Take This to Your Grave
• Two weeks before sessions began, the group abandoned ten songs and wrote eight more, including the lead single Sugar, We're Goin Down
• Stump said the process felt smoother because each member could focus on individual strengths

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in 2001 in Wilmette, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.
• Pete Wentz and Joe Trohman began it as a pop-punk side project; Patrick Stump joined shortly after.
• Andy Hurley became the drummer after several earlier drummers.

Members

• Current members: Patrick Stump (lead vocals, guitar), Pete Wentz (bass), Joe Trohman (guitar), Andy Hurley (drums).
• Wentz writes the lyrics and Stump is the primary composer.

Career

• The debut album Take This to Your Grave (2003) became an underground success through heavy touring.
• From Under the Cork Tree (2005) brought mainstream success with the singles "Sugar, We're Goin Down" and "Dance, Dance", and earned a Best New Artist Grammy nomination.
• Infinity on High (2007) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.
• After a hiatus from 2009 to 2012, the band returned with Save Rock and Roll (2013), its second number-one album.
• American Beauty/American Psycho (2015) and Mania (2018) also reached number one on the Billboard 200.
• So Much (for) Stardust (2023) marked a return to guitar-driven material.

Reception

At release

• Johnny Loftus of AllMusic: an extremely positive review
• Entertainment Weekly: B+ in a short take, calling it peppy pop-punk aimed at the Warped Tour crowd
• Rolling Stone: 3 stars out of 5, noting the band's knack for huge, soaring anthems
• Robert Christgau: C+, saying the band was not terrible but very ordinary
• IGN: 3.6 out of 10, calling the band another addition to an overcrowded pop-punk scene

Reappraisal

• Rolling Stone listed it among the 40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time in 2016

Records

• US Billboard 200 debut at No. 9 with 68,000 copies sold in the first week
• 14 weeks in the Top 20 out of 78 chart weeks
• Lead singles Sugar, We're Goin Down and Dance, Dance peaked at No. 8 and No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100
• RIAA 5× Platinum for five million copies shipped in the United States
• Sold over seven million copies worldwide
• Ranked No. 43 on the IFPI list of the Top 50 Best Selling Albums of 2005
• Canada: two Platinum awards for 200,000 copies (Spanish Wikipedia)

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title comes from a line in the 1936 children's book The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, which Wentz was intrigued by.
• Island Records stepped in when the band wanted to title the first track My Name Is David Ruffin And These Are The Temptations, and the track was retitled.
• Island Records nearly threw away the chorus of Sugar, We're Goin Down, but the song was ultimately salvaged.
• In 2007, the band reached an out of court settlement with American Nightmare vocalist Wesley Eisold over the use of his poetry in some songs, and later pressings list him in the credits.
• The music video for Dance, Dance won awards at the 2006 MTV awards.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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