SAVE ROCK AND ROLL by FALL OUT BOY: Album Review

So, finally after almost three years, my boys are back. I can still remember those times when it was even hard to digest the fact that they had "broken" up, but whatever, they are here now and if we believe on what they say on this album, they are here to stay and stay for long since, "Oh no, we won’t go, Cause we don’t know when to quit". So here I go, trying my best to hold back all the emotions that comes while I listen to this album and write the review.

To start with, I must say that unlike FUCT and IOH, this album is not perfect, actually far from it, it also falls short of Folie a Deux. But nonetheless it's FOB and this album is better than just great and hence better than 90% of the stuff out there and will definitely make my top 10 list by the end of the year.

Without delaying further, I conclude that Save Rock and Roll is the best song on the album, hands down, simply the best and obviously  one of their best. The thing I like about the album is it's track listing. Right from the start, I explodes with Phoenix and without giving you a moment of rest it leads to Light 'Em Up. Also, to put Save Rock and Roll in the end is the perfect finishing touch to this album.

Phoenix - 5/5 :
                         Perfectly badass! They are angry, they are full of rage and they will raise you like a phoenix only to turn you into a remix! "You know time crawls on when you’re waiting for the song to start.So dance alone to the beat of your heart", "You’re wearing our vintage misery, No; I think it looked a little better on me.", "

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up) -5/5 :
                                                       "All the writers keep writing what they write.
                                                        Somewhere another pretty vein just dies
                                                        I've got the scars from tomorrow and I wish you could see
                                                       That you're the antidote to everything except for me
                     
Alone Together -5/5
                                "This is the road to ruin.And we’re starting at the end" - freaking brilliant!
" Let’s be alone together.","


Where Did the Party Go -5/5
                                         This generation's Dance Dance!

 " I don’t believe a word you say, but I can’t stop listening." 
" I will appear to you if you make yourself shake fast enough." - once again, simply brilliant!

"My old aches become new again
My old friends become exes again."

"Whoa, where did the party go?
We’re ending it on the phone."

"I know I expect too much
And not enough all at once
You know I only wanted fun then you got me all fucked up on love."

" You and me are the difference between real love and the love on TV."

" Silent film stars stuck in talking cinema life."

 Just One Yesterday  - 5/5
                                          "Then I’d trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday
                                           (I know I’m bad news) For just one yesterday
                                           (I saved it all for you)."

"I want to teach you a lesson in the worst kind of way
Still I’d trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday."

"I don’t have the right name
Or the right looks
But I have twice the heart."

"And now I’m here to give you all of my love
So I can watch your face as I take it all away."

 The Mighty Fall  -3/5
                                      " I can’t stop it when there’s chemicals keeping us together."
" But if you ask me two’s a whole lot lonelier than one." " Hell yeah, I'm a dick, girl, addicted to you."

Miss Missing You  -5/5
                                    " I know I’m the one you want to forget.", 
                                    "Baby, you were my picket fence
                                     I miss missing you now and then
                                    Chlorine kissed summer skin
                                    I miss missing you now and then."
" The person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger.",
                                     "I will sing to you every day
                                      If it will take away the pain
                                     Oh and I’ve heard you got it, got it so bad
                                    Cause I am the best you’ll never have."

Death Valley - 1/5
                              Nothing good for me about this song. idk what they were thinking while making this "song". The dubstep effect in the end is kinda cool but why would I listen the whole song for that you-blink-and-you-miss effect.
                           

Young Volcanoes - 5/5
                                   "The only song without any favorite line but it's a very good song nonetheless."

Rat A Tat - 3/5 : " I’m the lonelier version of you". The only good line for me form this song and it could be one the best lines on the album!

Save Rock and Roll - 5/5
                                    If only I can quote the whole song here, but here are some  of my favorite lines from the song."I need more dreams, And less life" , " I cried tears you’ll never see", "You are what you love
Not who loves you"," How’d it get to be only me?","No, no. Wherever I go, go. Trouble seems to follow."


Album Rating :  4.3 /5 . 

Apart from their music, the best part of being a listener of FOB is to enjoy all those double meaning punches and lines that are nowhere to be found.They are still there but not that frequently as they used to be but still they have not lost their touch and already I can not wait for their next work. I'm just glad enough that they are back and more than elated for just loving this album.So as I try to look into the future, I find it hard to listen to this album more than their previous ones, but for the time being , this will be my jam and what a jam it is!

My Top 10 Albums of 2012

Finally it is here. After delaying it time after time, I have now managed to rightfully utilise my 'precious'  time to compile this list. Believe me, it's not an easy job and definitely not as easy as it was like last year. As I've grown up, I have noticed two things that has changed in my listening pattern and behavior. First is my grown hesitation to try any new artist. It's like getting saturated with the genre of music that you're already into or the artist that you're already listening. It feels like pasturing into a totally different unknown territory where you are not sure of what you're about to get. It's adventurous, exciting, and boring and time wasting at the same time. The second thing is actually the continuation of the first thing i.e. accepting new artists and sound in a lot more numbers than before. For example, I could never have imagined myself even listening to Muse or The Killers and definitely not giving them time enough to name them on my top 10 list. But the fact that I was listening  to a lot of Radiohead last year, has instilled in me something that I call now 'Too-Rad-to-Ignore' complex. This thing happened to me more than one time last year. With almost all the albums on this list, it was like I had to come back again and again to give them another try because I knew that it were not the albums but me who was not good enough to listen those albums. So yeah, I adapted and now I feel lucky enough that I did and now I can listen to a lot more of awesome music while still enjoying my other old library. Now this is something really amazing.

1. Battle Born - The Killers  :                                   4.8/5                                                                                                                                          Easily the best of the year. Head and heals above the rest. Though it maybe the weakest The Killers' album yet, but it doesn't stop it from being at the top. Try The Rising Tide and Carry Me Home.
2. Don't Panic-All Time Low :  4.5/5                                                                                                                                            Best Pop-Punk album of the year! No wonder it comes from the guys who claim 'Enema of the State' as their favourite all time album. Though this may never achieve the popularity of Enema but it clearly is the closest thing to modern age Enema. Simply sick!Try If These Sheets Were The States and Paint You Wings.
3. ¡Tré! -Green Day  :                                                                                                                          4.5/ 5                                                                                                                                         Man, this was tough. Never was into the trilogy. But this final instalment did the trick. Right on from the start it feels like you are going to experience something wonderful and by the time you go through the whole album it becomes an instant classic. Try Brutal Love and X-Kid.
4.  The 2nd  Law - Muse :  4.5/5                                                                                                                                              Has to be in the top 5. Took me a while to get into the album, partially because of how epic Madness is, but this album is magical. Though people may say that it sounds too much like other bands like Queen or U2, but I would say that this is what Muse are good at. There is no problem for me if a band imitates some other band unless they do it good. And good they have done! This album feels like a U2/Queen album but a lot better ;) and this is why it is up here. Try Prelude and Unsustainable.
5. Born To Die- Lana del Rey:         4/5                                                                                                                                               Well, this is even strange for me too to place this album this high. I will still not say that I'm a huge Lana fan but this album is for sure one the year's best. Try National Anthem and Dark Paradise.
6. Living Things- Linkin Park:    4/5                                                                                                                                                   It hurts a bit to place this album this low. At the time of release I thought that this would be definitely in my top 5, but thanks to the now top 5s. But nevertheless it's great. It's just that it has some very low points to counter some of it's really high points. Try Powerless and Lie Greed & Misery.
7. Handwritten - Gaslight Anthem : 4/5                                                                                         This is the only album on this list which is not at it's right place. Haven't gone through the last quarter of the album yet but maybe after an year or two when I'll look back, this may become one the best of all time! First half, is definitely the best from any of the other album on this list, but it's just that I was never brave enough to rightfully judge the whole album :( . Try Handwritten and Mulholland Drive.
8. ¡Dos!- Green Day : 3/5                                                                                                              From here on now, I have to just complete my top 10 list. It's a shame that I never managed to get into a lot of albums that I tried this year and one of the reasons is because of the albums like this. Dos has some very good songs but then again, the rest of them are just simply forgettable. Try Nightlife, Amy and Wild One.
9. Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired - Joyce Manor: 3/5
10. Floral Green - Title Fight : 3/5

Other albums and EPs of 2012 :

Candy Hearts - The Best Ways To Disappear EP  : 4.6/5  If not for an EP, I  would have placed in my top 5 albums list. This is that good. Try Sick Of It! This EP is so so good ! :)

blink-182- Dogs Eating Dogs EP : 4.5/5
Coheed and Cambria- Afterman: The Ascension
The All-American Rejects - The Kid in The Street
Free Dimensional - Diamond Rings
Kendrick Lamar - good kid m.A.A.d city
Green Day - ¡Uno!