#fob demos

[9ine9ine9ine6ix]

what about lyrics to a song that would be everyone's favourite fall out boy song if the mixing wasn't dog shit on an iphone speaker (but i still disagree with the popular transcription of the lyrics)

been gone more days this year than i have been home

trading friends for trips to the coast

this hotel room feels more ohohOHoh like a tomb (alt: it's a tale that feels more ohohOHoh like a tune) (but go with hotel room if you're singing this song for the lore) (allegedly)

x2

it's not GOSSIP IF ITS THE TRUTHHHHHHHH

I'M SICK IF ALWAYS WRITING SONGS FOR YOU TO SLIT YOUR WRISTS TOOOO

sO WHICH IS IT

THE BOY WHO WRITES THE SONGS OR THE BOY WHOS IN THEMMMMMMMM

WHOS THE GIRL

IS THIS TRUTH

or IS HE WRITING FICTIONN-~

HAnd over mY hEART gUn to myY HEAd

isweartogodi'm thrOUoUGH WITH THIS

i'm the worst liar i know<3

(the prechorus happens again, and then the chorus, patrick makes some noises, and then pete joins in but honest to god i've never seen anyone try to guess what he's saying so)

pete: FUCK WITH HIS HEADDDDD

patrick: SO WHICH IS IT WHICH IS ITTTTT

(i also think "fuck with your head" and "fuck with their heads" work. I also recognize it could be "so which is it?" FOB lyrics are fluid and some have multiple sets of canon lyrics)

anyways I'm working on trying to remaster the song. seeing as how the only copies of it i can get my hands on are already compressed mp3s (I'm pretty sure the audio was recorded by a phone in a room where the song was being played) it's really hard. Seeing as how the only tool I have is bandlab, it's Really hard. Good news is the audio is NOT beyond repair- I could actually make it like, crunchy but studio passible if yall want a version where the vocal cracks and timing errors are removed. but i have a WIP of just fixing the mixing and removing as much crunch as possible and it's going good!

[idontknowwhyimhere102]

Frothing at the mouth and growling like a feral dog at the My songs know what you did in the dark demo ArRARARARAREAHAHAHHAHAHAHARARARARARAAHHH

[hammer-to-matt]

Fall out boy demos. They weren't realeased because the world would have imploded.

No gate keeping here! The songs in order are as follows:

Legendary - Fall Out Boy

Austin, We have a problem - Fall Out Boy

Hand of God - Fall Out Boy

Proclamation of Emancipation - Fall Our Boy ft. Travie Mccoy

Star 67 - Fall Out Boy

Pavlove - Fall Out Boy

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[All are images of that meme with people going insane with lyrics from different Fall Out Boy demos. The first one reads "We get legendary tonight, little darling. Uh huh, little darling". Image two reads "We are pretty boys for secret girls. Oh, who are we kidding?". The third image says "Trading friends for trips to the east coast". The fourth reads "Get plastic. Stay Tragic". The fifth image reads "Fall alseep, Phone in hand. God bless, God bless, Star six seven". The final image says "I want to make you as lonely as me so you can get-get addicted to this."

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[catament]

i want to make you as lonely as me

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

no like really even without the timeline context of when it leaked Hand of God is so incredibly messed up like???? FOB's always been good at public indictments of the way they've been treated, that's like, a significant amount of their discography especially prehiatus and ESPECIALLY Cork Tree which does it very bitterly and sardonically but Hand of God feels like it takes it a step farther with "which is it, the boy who writes the songs or the boy who's in them?" because like YES there is more than one way to interpret that and I'm cool with that but it's doing a massive disservice to FOB and to Pete's writing to skim over the point within the larger whole of the song that they are one and the same. the boy who writes the songs IS the one who's in them, that's been true for most of Fall Out Boy's career. they're SUPER vulnerable in their songwriting, even when it's sarcastic and tongue in cheek, there's always a piece of truth in it. they wrote an entire fricking song about Pete's suicide attempt. the boy who writes the songs has always been the one who's in them, this isn't mutually exclusive. and Hand of God is IMMENSELY self-referential. it's literally Pete writing about himself. "who's the girl, is this truth, or is he writing fiction?" were all questions asked repeatedly on their forums and in Q&As with Pete.

"I am the worst liar I know" coming from the song that is possibly the most raw, honest draft or demo from Cork Tree — which also contains lyrics such as "we're only liars, but we're the best" (tongue in cheek turnaround of criticisms against the band) and "you only hold me up like this because you don't know who I really am" and "if you say this makes you happy then I'm not the only one lying" and "it's just a matter of time until we're all found out" and "I'll keep singing this lie if you keep believing it" (in a song that was essentially the band's mission statement, for lack of a better term) and "the record won't stop skipping and the lies just won't stop slipping and besides my reputation's on the line" (in a song that Pete himself said was way too personal to play live and has also said was the first half of a story that Hum Hallelujah, which is explicitly about his suicide attempt, later completed) and "I went to sleep a poet and woke up a fraud" (Music or the Misery is on a different edition but the point still stands) and "I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type" (in a song titled sarcastically after the medication Pete overdosed on) — is fricking insane. there's a completely unfiltered, untwisted-into-sarcasm honesty in Hand of God and even though it (rightfully, because it would have been Too Much) didn't make it onto the final album, it functions as as much of a thesis statement as Sophomore Slump does. it functions as as much of a confessional as Dark Alley. Hand of God is at the heart of Cork Tree, practically haunting it, and it isn't even on the album.

[vampylily]

pete on so much for stardust. (x)

[dallmustdie]

FALL OUT BOY, DROP THE MY SONGS KNOW WHAT YOU DID IN THE DARK DEMO AND MY LIFE IS YOURS ‼️🗣

[eerilyxunfamiliar]

Sometimes I forget there are waves and waves of new fans and you haven’t all been clawing through YouTube since 2005. This one is for the Patrick Girlies

Find more here cos we don’t fucking gatekeep in this house

[ortegavi]

i just found out today there is a young and menace piano version. this is actually BEAUTIFUL like why have i been robbed and forced to listen to the studio version???? THIS VERSION SHOULD’VE BEEN THE ONE ON THE MANIA TRACKLIST

[cutemeat]

Do you know if the og sunny pilots would be considered lost media or not?

idk if i would say "lost"? just because it seems like they do have the copies of that version of the show still.

and I assume they wrote scripts for those? Maybe not, but if they did we'd have those too to unearth if we couldn't get the footage due to digital decay or smth tho i hope they would've digitized them at SOME point even if they don't intend to ever share them. The thing is they just haven't released the home videos past sharing a few parts as bonus features and showing clips in featurettes lol... So yeah, unless they mention that the dvds/tapes are no longer viable or lost then i'd classify it as unreleased rather than lost.

[mygaymindpalace]

Music makes adulting easier

Gotta love forgetting about how much you have to spend because you're jamming

(plus I'm lowkey feeling myself 🤙)

[trickstump]

having a sister who likes the things you like is good because when your collective favorite band comes out with an outrageously expensive limited edition item you can go “we’ll go halvesies on that as a gift” and having a dad who is super into records is good because he’ll buy software and hardware that allows you to rip mp3s from vinyl so you can then distribute those limited edition tracks on that stupid expensive ass vinyl like robin hood. as intended.

[rightearring]

Hi!! do you have any song recommendations?

hi :3 yes i do! i really love what can a lover do by team dresch. butch baby’s EP stoned butch blues fucks severely. i’m a huge scissor sisters fan + one of my faves is backwoods discotheque II. home and little birds both by neutral milk hotel always hit home for me, judas by the reverent marigold always makes me cry. on a more electric note i love tobre’s new EP delivery photo! i will stop there but know there is more lmao

[hammer-to-matt]

How come nobody talks about the lines they removed from Dance Dance? I was screwing around and found the demo here but the lines "We were only thoughts, the only songs stuck in your head. We'll leave you kicking and screaming so you can thank us in the end." are so insane to me. I am kicking and screaming, Peter.

[ar-bi-trary]

i fear the setlist ramifications so badly tonight

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

Zhekun Wang, Hand of God No. 2 (2024) // Fall Out Boy, Hand of God (unreleased, 2004)