Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend
Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend is the debut mini-LP by American rock band Fall Out Boy. It was released in 2003 through Uprising Records. In 2005, Uprising released a remastered reissue as Evening Out with Your Girlfriend, following the band's very successful major label debut From Under the Cork Tree. The photograph on the cover of this album was shot by Adeet Deshmukh in Chicago's Pick Me Up Café located at 3408 N. Clark Street.[1] The girl who is pictured on the cover is a waitress at said café, and her name is Lavinia, as noted in the booklet of the album.
Background and development
Fall Out Boy formed near Chicago, Illinois in 2001.[2] The band debuted with a self-released demo in the same year and released Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy, a split EP with Project Rocket, in 2002, before the release of Evening Out. The lyrics to the whole album are written by lead vocalist Patrick Stump. On later albums, bassist Pete Wentz wrote the majority of the band's lyrics. Contrary to popular belief (due to differences in Stump's voice), Wentz did not sing lead vocals in any songs on the album. The album is also the only Fall Out Boy album not featuring Andy Hurley on drums. Evening Out was not actually recorded with five members, the cover art shows that but it is just an illustration. Members at that time; Patrick Stump (lead vocals), Pete Wentz (bass guitar), Joe Trohman (guitar) and Mike Pariskuwicz (drums) recorded it. Although incorrect, Pariskuwicz and guitarist TJ Racine have been said to be two Chicago musicians the band recruited in their early days, who left after Evening Out was released before Stump picked up guitar and Hurley joined as the full-time drummer to form the band's current lineup. Stump explained that "TJ Racine was already out of the band by the time [Fall Out Boy] tracked [(recorded)] [the album]" and that TJ "wasn't in the band for that long." Pariskuwicz did indeed handle the drumming duties for the album. After the release, he left the band and Andy Hurley would join as the current drummer, before the follow-up album Take This to Your Grave (2003). Trohman played almost all the guitars on it, with Stump playing a small part on "Moving Pictures". The entire album was recorded in two days and was not supposed to be released. Stump also stated "I don't consider it a real album." The band was not involved in the 2005 re-release and did not receive royalties for either versions, "both were a scam on us."[3]
Songs from Evening Out were played by the band in their early shows to a small local audience, before they received mainstream attention. When the band reached mainstream popularity, they did not often mention this album but songs would continue to sporadically appear in set lists at concerts.
"Calm Before the Storm" was later re-recorded and remastered with additional backing vocals (screaming) from bassist Pete Wentz, for the follow-up album Take This to Your Grave later that year. "Pretty in Punk" is a play on the title of the John Hughes film Pretty in Pink. The songs "Switchblades and Infidelity", "Growing Up" and "Moving Pictures" were originally from their Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy split EP.
A part of the song "Growing Up" is sung by William Beckett of The Academy Is... in Fall Out Boy's later song "What a Catch, Donnie", from their 2008 release Folie à Deux. The song is also included as the last track on the band's 2009 greatest hits album, Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits.
Reception
Chart perfomance
Fall Out Boy's debut album has had no mainstream attention, and it has not reached any charts. Also, no singles were released from this album. The original release is not featured on the Official Fall Out Boy Website, rather the remastered edition. Many reviewers, including Allmusic, consider Take This to Your Grave as Fall Out Boy's first album, possibly due to Evening Out with Your Girlfriend being a mini-LP and not a full-length release, or unknown. Also, in the lyric booklet of Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits, the band start off with the making of Take This to Your Grave, completely omitting Evening Out with Your Girlfriend. However, the track "Growing Up" is included as the last track Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits as a "rarity".
Critical reception
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Patrick Stump (of Fall Out Boy).
- Honorable Mention – 3:25
- Calm Before the Storm – 4:41
- Switchblades and Infidelity – 3:13
- Pretty in Punk – 3:37
- Growing Up – 2:56
- The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys in a Broken Down Van) – 2:38
- Short, Fast and Loud – 2:16
- Moving Pictures – 3:33
- Parker Lewis Can't Lose (But I'm Gunna Give It My Best Shot) – 3:23
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