has anyone here heard of fallout boy?

[mark414]

i am absolutely amazed at how many people, especially uncool, don't know shit about music people have heard of this band.

they're from chicago but their drummer is from milwaukee and i have known him for a few years now.

they all played in hardcore and metal bands for years and just got together as fallout boy to joke around...but when they started writing good songs they had other ideas...

i think it is hilarious because when i was in high school some kids would make fun of me for going to milwaukee every weekend (i grew up an hour away) and hanging out with loser metalheads.

and now those kids love fallout boy. those same loser metalheads i used to hang out with.

and that is the end of my name dropping/simple irony post

[BlondieK143]

1. Of course.

But then again, I've heard of LOTS of bands.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. I think I might have an album or two by them on my harddrive

But I can't keep track of all the stuff I have so I'm not sure. I have heard of them though.

[GirlinContempt]

3. You should share your music with me

EDIT:
P.S. I love that I'm talking to you and yet still leaving posts on the DU

[ghostsofgiants]

13. I do that a lot

I've had two entirely different conversations simultaneously with the same person over MSN and on a message board more than once.

[GirlinContempt]

14. We're hardcore

[ghostsofgiants]

15. More along the lines of nerdcore I think, haha

But it's all good.

[GirlinContempt]

16. Nercore

is hot. Music blog ahoy

[xmas74]

21. I do the same thing to some of my friends.

I leave posts while talking to them and then tell them that I posted to them. They always try to one-up me on the reply. There is a music message board that I go to that has nothing but posts by me and another person trying to one up each other while im'ing each other at the same time.
After awhile some of the other posters started complaining that they wanted in on the joke so we just started cutting and pasting our im conversations on the boards.

[enigmatic]

4. Have they got a webby?

I haven't heard of them, but I'll put 'em on..

[mark414]

6. check em out

http:/www.falloutboyrock.com/

i haven't heard their new album yet...but their first one is super catchy...make sure you try to hear that one

[enigmatic]

8. Thanks!

I'll E them in the morning..

[mark414]

9. you can't go wrong

with a band that has songs like

"tell that mick he just made my list of things to do today"

and

"champagne for real friends; real pain for sham friends"

[Lannes]

5. No but Im always up for hearing new bands

What label are they on?

[mark414]

7. they just signed to ISLAND records

they are absolutely blowing up, it is unreal

http://www.falloutboyrock.com/

[Lannes]

10. Good label

Last time I heard they give their artists alot of creative freedom.

[mark414]

11. http://www.falloutboyrock.com

kick for my dudes...and the web address for anyone who didn't see it

[mark414]

12. guess not...

but here's a nice article about em, for anyone who cares

Fall Out Boy Rise Up
Chicago punks seize the charts with attitude

Pete Wentz first realized his band Fall Out Boy was huge when the floor started to collapse at a gig. He was playing bass on a Warped Tour stop in Detroit last summer and 4,000 kids were packed into an area meant to hold 350.

"It's like being one of the guys on the Titanic -- you don't realize it's sinking until they tell you it's sinking, but you notice these bizarre things happening," recalls Wentz, 25. "Like, the stage isn't level."

Fall Out Boy cut off their set after two songs that day, but the melodic Chicago punk quartet survived for a Warped encore -- on the main stage this summer. Helped by relentless touring and an aggressive online marketing push, the band's second CD, From Under the Cork Tree, debuted at Number Nine earlier this month, selling 68,000 copies.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7349378/falloutboy?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple3

[Book Lover]

17. I thought you meant the Pipboy from Fallout

[ghostsofgiants]

20. This is what I always think of when I hear the name

As I assume was their intent.

[mark414]

22. you are right

at one of their first shows, they were playing and they still didn't have a name. so in between songs they asked people to shout out band names because they needed one. some kid yelled out fall out boy...and they liked it so much they kept it

[ghostsofgiants]

23. That's awesome

Any band that names themselves a Simpsons reference is cool by me...even though the band Evergreen Terrace scares me, haha.

[gmoney]

24. "My eyes! Ze goggles... zey do nothing!"

Ranier Wolfcastle's shining moment...

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

18. I met the lead singer

I love the band, but don't know his name... seems like a nice guy!

How cool =)

[mark414]

19. that would be patrick

i don't know the other three guys that well, as they are all from chicago, but you are spot on. they are all class acts and i couldn't be happier for em.

glad you like em