And the song at No. 4 invites you to open your mind and shake your behind.
So when Idolator started I was pretty lukewarm-to-bitchy about Fall Out Boy, but over the course of this year, thanks in part to the ravings of ex-Idolator boss Brian Raftery and the whole shared adoration for the Josie & The Pussycats soundtrack thing–not to mention the fact that in the year that Indie Rock Broke it was kinda nice to hear songs with guitars that didn’t sound like they’d been forcibly neutered before they were committed to tape–I relented. Especially after hearing the ferociously epic pop song “The Take Over, The Break’s Over.” You’ve got the pogo-stick guitar and ratatat drumming that usher in the proceedings, the chorus that is never going to not make me think of Pebbles’ “Girlfriend” in an abstract way*, the swooping hoisted-fist-worthy dual-axe action at the end, and the line about conjugal visits. It’s audaciously all over the place in a “let’s see if this will stick” sort of way, but (probably for that reason) it went pretty much nowhere as a single, garnering a fraction of the spins that even the old (and way inferior!) “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” did over the course of this past year and being pretty much a hit only in the alternate musical universe that is TRL. (Dear bands out there: This is a(nother!) sign that I should never, ever pick your singles. So don’t ask, because it’ll just be too painful for all of us.)
Fall Out Boy - The Take Over The Breaks Over [MySpace]
Fall Out Boy [MySpace]
Idolator’s 2007 Top 40 List Of Awesomeness
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* Yeah, I have no idea. Maybe it’s a lasting effect of sleeping through my clock radio a lot back in the late ’80s.
I think ‘Thnks Fr Th Mmrs’ was the best track from Infinity On High, but this song is also awesome.
Have you guys been updating this list in full to date? If not, could you, in a post?
As the caught-in-the-pits resident FOB fanboy around here, I’m glad to hear that Raftery [and some of us, including, I hope, me] got you to relent. Thanks for the FOB love all the way up at #4.
@lax_dangerhouse: I can’t pick a best-of from Infinity On High. This whole record is terrific. Other excellent choices [in addition to "The Take Over..." and "Thks..."]: “Thriller”, “This Ain’t A Scene…”, “I’m Like A Lawyer…”, and “The (After) Life…”. All are different and great in their own way.
@hotshot: We have, but we’re going to repost the list in full later for the purposes of getting everyone TOTALLY PUMPED for monday’s no. 1 reveal.
I think like 80% of this song is really cool. The very beginning is great. The “we don’t fight fair” part is catchy. The chorus is right on. But the guitar and vocals on certain parts of the verses are really blah. I don’t know, this song just doesn’t do it for me like a certain other FOB song, MAURA. And that song is SUGAR WE’RE GOIN’ DOWN. I don’t CARE if you say that the guitars sound like Creed, and that you’re sort of right about that. “Sugar We’re Goin’ Down” has got a bass line that takes no prisoners, and the lyric “Isn’t it messed up how I’m just dying to be him?” is a triumph of pitiful yet anthemic songwriting.
You are wrong. I wish I had a video camera so that I could record an angry and very profane message expressing my feelings about just how wrong you are and put it on YouTube.
I think this was only really released as a radio single overseas (charted in the UK, Australia, New Zealand etc.) but the video got seen all over the net and MTV played it anyway since Fall Out Boy rule TRL. Either way, this was pretty much the only single from Infinity that didn’t make my year-end list, nice refrain but I kinda hate the main riff, always considered it one of the low points of the album.
Also this is probably their worst video in a brief career already full of cloying self-referential videos featuring talking animals and other cutesy bullshit.
Pussycat Dolls, indeed.
@GovernmentNames: GN, wondering if you’ve seen this, which is “official” because it’s posted by UMG:
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@kaate: i’m sending you a vid cam as a going away present for this express purpose right now.
@DHMBIB: Haha no, I had not seen that, yikes. “Carpal Tunnel” was released as a digital download as a warmup for the release of “This Ain’t A Scene,” so it wasn’t really a proper single (although I like the song), I guess they had a net-only video to go along with it.
@GovernmentNames: that video was also on fuse over the summer, although fall out boy wasn’t credited; the clip was credited to Switchblades and Infidelities instead because of that whole fuse/universal music group lawsuit where umg videos weren’t played on fuse for about a year.
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Hum Hallelujah was the best track on that album. Any song that samples Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is automatically the best song an the album.
fall out boy? seriously? you actually listened to one of their songs? that guy’s teeth alone guaranteed i’d never try one of their tunes.
Most rockin’ Maroon 5 song ever.
Also, doesn’t hold a candle to Silverchair-”If you keep losin sleep”
Also, it blows.
Such a good song.
And seriously, the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack is most excellent.
@FionaScrapple: I’m surprised at how little attention the Silverchair record has gotten. It’s really quite good.
@T.: You’re basing whether or not you listen to a song on how someone’s teeth look? Seriously?
Last time I checked, you listen with your ears, not your eyes.
Also, me being very late to the party — I can’t believe I didn’t weigh in on those Josie & The Pussycats posts. I think I was starting a new job, and was distracted, and etc.
Anyways, yes, that movie rocked! I think it is my personal “funniest movie ever”.
Also, not only is the soundtrack freakin’ awesome, it was my “Best Pop/Rock Album Of 2001″, and “Three Small Words” is on my “Top 10 Songs Of The ’00’s” list.
Seriously.
I’m so late on this, but the only thing I like about this song (but I really LOVE it) is the end when all the choruses, pianos, drum rolls, and little bridges start piling on top of one another, and it sounds like something out of RENT or some shit.