If Fall Out Boy are the state of rock, or rather the pinnacle of rock, commercially speaking, in the year of our Lord 2006, then Kid Rock is the greatest rapper to have ever walked the Earth, his reach to touch the face of God Himself weighed down only by his own enormous ego and a midget’s corpse.
‘Sugar, We’re Going Down’ is unprecedented in its banality – never, ever has a band mixing pop and punk done it with such a disregard for either genre. It’s candy coated, pumped full of E numbers and quite probably will give you ear and throat cancer if you so much as play five seconds of its pointless duration. Kids can be forgiven – sometimes the young know not what they do, let alone why they do it (it's this magic thing called 'marketing', get used to it) – but should an adult, a man or woman of post-puberty age, be seen purchasing this from their local HMV, then someone should assume the role of public executioner and do said sorry individual a fucking favour, before they subject family or friends to this atrocity. Perhaps, unbeknownst to the best of us, this release is simply a Battle Royale-style experiment – those that buy it with a credit card will discover that it explodes in their hands upon hitting the street. I hope and pray to the God of Rock Him or Herself - we've each got our own, so pray to yours - to see pedestrianised city centres stained red this weekend.
Protestors will claim that its catchy, and they might have a point – the chorus to this hangs about your head like a bad stink follows an eight-pints-and-a-dodgy-doner dump – but so are STDs, and no one wants one of those down their trousers. Fall Out Boy are a boil on the end of rock's sock-clothed cock, a puss-filled annoyance that’s better off popped and wiped clean. Kill it, end it, get on with ROCKING. They are an infestation that must be treated, an infection that requires an immediate antidote; Fall Out Boy should be strapped to a barber's chair and force-fed AC/DC records until their teeth are black and their hair's lost its fashionable floppiness. Shit, that said they’re not even pretty enough for the pre-teen crowd to wet their My Little Pony panties over, so what the fuck is the point of them?
Please, for the love of rock and roll music, all 50-odd years of it, do not buy into this sub-The Noise Next Door crap. You’ll feel better for it, really. Don't misunderstand this review as bashing for the sake of it, either: words need to be written, to be spoken, to be screamed. This is not rock music, nor is it pop music. It's shit music. As for Laverne, she knows what she’s done – another body against the wall when the time comes, believe.
yes
Fall Out Boy is like AIDS
by that I mean
funny to joke about but it's gonna offend a lot of people and you don't really want it yourself
Bad AIDS
Fall Out Boy
Are much better than all that worthy indie shite that you lot seem to "buy into."
Don't be ridiculous
Fall Out Boy outclass
Sufjan Stevens.
LIKE NOT ROFL.
o
fob r ok but i really dont actually like them i think ther a little old
1
have to say i agree, i quite like them
a
Chris Morris reference?!
on DiS?
picked up by NO-ONE!
ha
o, so you would know hmmmmmmmmm??
my sis is a FOB freak if she seen this she would cut your head off with a saw
agreed
my first reaction on first hearing this, not knowing who it was, in a bar, was "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT PLAYING", except maybe not in capitals. i'm not that cool.
i fucking love this song
its hilarious
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Too many 'I'm Diver and I like to get pissed and eat shit food' references.
Balls.
Wrong
I'm Diver and I like to get drunk and eat good food.
I've not had a kebab for a year.
Balls indeed.
What did you really think?
The review seemed to be a bit on the fence.
That's the best review ever.
I get fed this at work. They keep playing it on the virgin radio bollocks. if anyone buys it from me i will do my best to show them a world of pain.
Roffle.
I expected DiS to champion these, for some reason.
Good review.
I'm in love
with Diver all over again after this... why did we never marry up North, my love? I was just thinking about our friend's feature on them from a few years ago in a fanzine that got us guffawing so. Oh deary.
I'm meeting our friend tomorrow...
wanna come say HI?
whats happening
tomorrow? say hello... i'm hanging with my mum, cos I can.
This reviewer
is shit - thats about as meangless as the above review, i like the song and so do many others so it obviously has value to alot of people, how is that shit?
because you people
don't deserve objects of value?
it shouldn't have value
because it's shit
hahahaha
"midget corpse"
A Bit Generous With The Numerical Score
Eh, Mike?
The two that posters that defend FOB amuse me for some reason. And then I say, There but by the grace of God go I. The poor chaps were probably run over by a bus or used for biological experiments as children.
But that's me being flip. All these shit bands apparently sell a lot of records. Not all those kids could be suffering from mental defect, could they? Maybe there's something in the water. Just be careful is all I'm saying.
true but
Hehe. Yes, you're right, Fall Out Boy are ridiculous. But it is without (much) shame that I'm prepared to announce I bought their new album, From Under The Cork Tree, not too long ago. Bought it fully aware that it was the kind of music that 13-year old punk wannabe kiddies listen to in America, but bought it because their music is fuck-off hilarious and catchy as hell. In the right way. No, it sure ain't anything that really has a nodding aquaintance with the words 'classic', 'profound' or even just 'good', but it's fun. And danceable. 3 cheers for Fall Out Boy.
I once heard
fall out boy do a cover of "love will tear us apart". I'm still traumatised by the experience.
love will tear whaat?
"love will tear us apart" is hardly the best song in the world anyway.. and joy division were hardly the best band.
eugh
Musical snobbery is "a boil on the end of Earth's sock-clothed cock".
Ridiculous.
whereas
fallout boy are the stains on the bed the morning after a lonely night in
goddammit
this isn't anything to do with musical snobbery; fall out boy are just really, really shit
Brilliant review!
Logged in again after three years just to say that.
PS; Yeah, I know this is a new account.
thats
the best review ever posted on DiS
the first time i heard this song i thought it was absolutely hilarious...
fallout boy
should do the decent thing and succumb toi the lukemia that their name suggests is inevitable.
this song
wont get out of my head. horrid horrid horrid. and theyre all pretty ugly too.
I don't think I've heard this.
I feel an unhealthy, almost morbid, urge to listen to it now.
omg mike
u av totes crosed a lin.
dis sng iz ace!
Sub-The Noise Next Door
wow.
Fall Out Boy/Boy Kill Boy
Suddenly there's a lot of Boy Bands around...
"Bad AIDS"
The presence of musical Bad AIDS would suggest there must be a musical equivalent of "Good AIDS".
What would be the musical equivalent of Good AIDS? Yellowcard?
kylie
she's infectious but does you no harm.
In agreement
The first time i heard this song i was almost physically sick, it is for twats who think they are immensely trendy by listenin to absolute bile.
why do i bother?
you dont like the song, youve made that much apparrent.
but if your going to write an article, give us some constructive criticism! why it this song bad? you spent 5 paragraphs just sayiying "its shit". two words would have sufficed, then you could have used the rest of the space to construct a decent argument to support this.
I think...
"‘Sugar, We’re Going Down’ is unprecedented in its banality – never, ever has a band mixing pop and punk done it with such a disregard for either genre. It’s candy coated, pumped full of E numbers "
...therein lies your answer. Granted, for some people 'saccharine' isn't a bad word, but this is a pop band dressed up in hardcore clothes and tattoos. They're like Howard (or was it Jason?)from Take That (with the dreads and the nosering like he was really a crusty), or those sweets shaped like insects.
"constructive criticism"
Eh? Explain how this crap is worthy of any constructive comment? It's probably been described as shit for 5 paragraphs because that's what it is. And I still think that's too lenient. 62 paragraphs minimum, just saying "it's shit" over and over. Maybe then everyone could get a clear understanding of just how shit it is.
And yes, I'm aware this isn't what you'd call constructive, but I didn't read your 'constructive' argument for them either. So don't make points you don't intend to follow, and leave us alone!
.
Great review, I could not have put it better myself. People who make, sign, promote this shite should be shot!
MY REVIEW
it's aaalright!
an inoffensive slice of nothing, really
What is punk then anyway?
Please don't be so elitist about your music. Punk Rock is exactly that - a catchy chorus. Blink 182 got praised for their ability to create vain, simple 3-chord rock and 'Sugar, We're Going Down' is a great example of that. It's not there to get you marvelling at its musical beauty like something out of 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', it's a song that is made to get "pre-teens" jumping up and down aimlessly. You didn't even say WHY you thought it was so bad in the first place.
So yes, I think you're right, this is candyfloss, and candyfloss with E-numbers, but who cares because it tastes a whole lot better.
Arse.
It's not fucking punk rock. Its cunt-pop.
Fall Out Boy? Wish they would fall out.
Oh dear. Yet more cack-stains to be cleansed from the face of music. What I don't understand is why the fuck does anyone like this lot? They're shit! I'm going to claw a blackboard for a bit, might help me forget the shite I hear on the radio.
And don't get me started on Blink 182! Fucking Jesus I hate that whiny rat-bastard singer!
The
Reason it's bad is that it was probably written in about 3 minutes, no regard to basic decent songwriting, and they always get a whiny, painfully scene person to front and sing in whiny white-boy voices.
The song is shit. Very shit.
And why the fuck does the bassist act as a frontman? Is it now fashionably for the frontman of a band to remain in the background?
And as for those sideburns, god knows that that cunt was thinking.