Fall Out Boy: Believers Never Die- Greatest Hits

Chicago natives, Fall Out Boy released Believers Never Die- Greatest Hits last week after six highly successful studio albums.

This is the band’s first greatest hits compilation and is comprised mostly of songs that have been released as their singles through the years, along with two brand new bonus tracks.

The track list starts out strong with a few old Fall Out Boy favorites. Dead on Arrival which was originally released in 2003 on the bands second studio album, Take This to Your Grave kicks off the album. The memorable vocals of Patrick Stump, along with the impossibly fast guitar riffs (as featured in the game Rock Band) make this a great opening song.

Following Dead on Arrival is one of my personal favorites, Grand Theft Autumn/ Where is Your Boy. This song was also released on Take This to Your Grave, and while it didn’t achieve the top 40 radio success that some of the band’s following singles have, it has become a favorite among fans and definitely deserved a place in the greatest hits album.

Among the typically well known singles such as Dance, Dance and Sugar, We’re Going Down, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the band included their cover of Michael Jackson’s Beat it which features the background guitar of John Mayer. Though it’s hard to improve on a classic, I tend to lead toward this song more than the original. Though the overall integrity of Beat It stays intact, the band adds a rock edge to it that can be described as nothing but awesome.

Alpha Dog is one of the two songs to not be featured on a studio album yet, although it appeared as a demo clip called ALPHAdog and OMEGAlomaniac on the Welcome to the New Administration MixTape, a viral marketing project for Fall Out Boy’s album Folie A Deux. This song mixes a lot of usual Fall Out Boy sounds and follows the typical template of their other songs, with a memorable chorus, an upbeat verse tune, and a slower bridge part, smattered with chanting background lyrics from bassist, Pete Wentz. This song, much like other singles from the band speaks a lot of fame, and their position in the limelight.

While the second new song, From Now On We Are Enemies is almost peppy enough to make you want to get up and punch dance, I feel the only strike against it I feel is the overly high pitched sound. Although Stump excels at high notes, the song is mainly comprised of nothing but. It has the sound of something that has been sped up and turned into a youtube chimpmonk rendition of a previously slower, lower keyed song.
Overall, if you are a Fall Out Boy fan, this album leaves nothing to be desired. The band has included all of their best song from all five of their previous albums, along with a few new tunes that definitely don’t disappoint.