fall out buck
talking to @soleadita about buck’s taste in music and i started to ramble about his top fob songs from his high school years in the replies, but it got too long so i’m making a proper post about it here! i’m a firm believer buck went through a mild edgy phase. he started high school in 2005, aka the year from under the cork tree by fall out boy was released, and i’m entirely convinced that album set the tone for the rest of buck’s high school years. so here, in my professional emo opinion, are buck’s favorite fall out boy songs.
this is only including songs from albums that would’ve released during his high school years, if anyone wants a part 2 with the other fob albums or even other artists lmk
(i’m working with buck being born in 1991 btw because we don’t have a strict timeline for that)
also i’m putting this under the cut because it got so very long, but if you’re curious and don’t feel like reading everything i had to say, here are the songs i chose:
- our lawyer made us change the name of this song so we wouldn’t get sued
- i’ve got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth (summer song)
- 7 minutes in heaven (atavan halen)
- XO
- i’m a lawyer with the way i’m always trying to get you off (me & you)
- the (after) life of the party
- bang the doldrums
- G.I.N.A.S.F.S.
- disloyal order of water buffaloes
- (coffee’s for closers)
- what a catch, donnie
- 27
- pavlove
(in order of release)
from under the cork tree (2005)
this album would’ve come out right as he was finishing middle school, so he went into his first year of high school with these songs already released. it was the (private) soundtrack to his summer (he was not about to get called gay by the other guys he was trying out for the football team with, thanks), you cannot convince me otherwise.
our lawyer made us change the name of this song so we wouldn’t get sued
first track baby opening song to the album!! i feel like, at fourteen in his small town in pennsylvania, he felt really edgy for liking this band. for liking more alternative music in general. and he liked having that sort of control over feeling like an outsider, because he’s felt a little off his whole life, but now he was choosing to be different.
lyric buck wrote on his arm in sharpie during math class:
I’ve got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth (summer song)
i feel like this was his favorite track off this album. he listened to the lyrics for the first time and felt a little bit like someone carved his chest out.
lyrics that made him the most insane (all of them. this song is so buckcoded but i tried to narrow it down):
7 minutes in heaven (atavan halen)
this is definitely the song he most related to when he listened to this album again as he got a little older.
lyrics he used to skip over but that now make his chest feel tight:
(like come on lmao this is so buck coded it’s painful)
XO
buck at fourteen just liked this song. his parents hated it, especially when margaret bothered to listen to the lyrics and realized exactly what the song was saying.
lyrics marge hated the most (and that, in turn, buck liked the best):
infinity on high (2007)
this album would’ve come out in the second semester of his sophomore year, for reference he’d be fifteen going on sixteen
i’m a lawyer with the way i’m always trying to get you off (me & you)
new album! i feel like this would be his first favorite song, and he’d have it on repeat for days until he got sick of it. the sexual innuendos meant more, too, now that he was a little older.
lyrics he sang to the point where he’d get kicked out of class for singing too much:
the (after) life of the party
he listened to the very first line of this song and related to it on a level he simply could not explain. also he belts the chorus in the shower to this day (eddie finds it endearing, even if buck’s terrible).
the first line in question:
bang the doldrums
i feel like this song, like 7 minutes in heaven, is one he liked more as he got older. at fifteen/sixteen he liked it, but at 18, 19, 20? i can just imagine buck went back to this song and listened to it so often even his roommates learned the words.
also it’s objectively hilarious that this song was originally written for shrek
lyrics:
G.I.N.A.S.F.S.
y’all get it. this was one of his favorites in high school. buck goes back to this song after eddie leaves the 118 and he’s with taylor.
these are the lyrics that would make him grip the steering wheel so tight his knuckles would turn white:
(like come on lol. especially considering this song is literally titled gay is not a synonym for shitty it’s so stupidly fitting lmao)
folie a deux (2008)
this album came out his senior year of high school (he would’ve been seventeen)
disloyal order of water buffaloes
okay there’s a lot here but i think not just lyrically but sonically buck really loves this song! the quiet, organ intro that immediately jumps into a guitar and then loud, booming drums? come on, it’s so fun :) and i do think that buck relates to a lot of it lyrically as well. it became an instant fave the second the album started (literally, because this is the first track)
the lyrics i feel like he related to most at angsty seventeen:
(coffee’s for closers)
i don’t have anything particularly intelligent to put here, i just feel like this is the song he listened to when he would work out, just listen to the beat, to patrick’s vocals, and let any meaning of the lyrics fall away as he ran around his neighborhood. idk i just imagine him bopping to it on his ipod.
his favorite lyric:
watch a catch, donnie
this one is one of buck’s favorite fall out boy songs because he simply loves it. i feel like they’re a very personal band to him, i feel like he relates to a lot of lyrics and we know buck feels so much so deeply, that being able to just belt out to this song and listen to it and enjoy it without it cutting all too deeply is nice.
that being said, this lyric definitely hits home for him:
27
this was his PEAK #edgelord song. this song nearly convinced him he should start wearing guyliner. he played this song for a girl once and she hated it, but instead of seeking her approval he just turned the volume up louder and never spoke to her again. peak angsty, edgy, high school buck every time this song came on. he thought the lyrics were inspired. and the fact that this song is about the 27 club? he found that so creative. loser (affectionate).
also he loved to sing the guitar solo as loudly and obnoxiously as possible in the shower
his favorite lyrics:
pavlove
yes, he owned the deluxe version. obviously.
rolling with the fact that buck is seventeen going on eighteen here, and knowing he just gets more and more reckless as he got older, i feel like this captured some of his self destructive tendencies in a way that made him feel uncomfortably seen.
i could honestly put the whole song here, but especially this lyric:
(”i wanna make you as lonely as me” like that’s totally angsty teenage buck towards his parents)
anyway this is horrifically long. let me know if you want a part 2 :)
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