Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits

Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Fall Out Boy
Released November 17, 2009 (US)
(see release history)
Recorded 2002–2009
Genre Pop punk, alternative rock, pop rock
Length 64:00
Label Island
Producer Various
Singles from Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits
  1. "Alpha Dog"
    Released: October 26, 2009
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
BBC favourable[2]
Blare [3]
Drowned in Sound (5/10)[4]
IGN (7.9/10)[5]
Kerrang! [6]
Rock Sound (8/10)[7]
Rolling Stone [8]
Toro [9]

Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by American rock band Fall Out Boy. It was released on November 17, 2009 in the United States by Island Records, containing all of the songs the band has released as singles throughout their career thus far in chronological order, as well as two new songs and two rarities. It is available as a CD or CD/DVD set with music videos. The album features an original wrap-around illustration by artist Daniel Danger.[10] The artwork was revealed on October 9.[11]

Believers Never Die was released after Fall Out Boy toured as support for blink-182's 2009 summer reunion tour, and shortly before Fall Out Boy announced an indefinite hiatus in late 2009. Of the two new songs, "Alpha Dog" was released as a single on October 26, 2009 and peaked at No. 60 in Australia.[12] A demo version of it was on the Welcome to the New Administration mixtape, under the name "ALPHAdog and OMEGAlomaniac". Believers Never Die was generally received positively by critics. It appeared on the charts in some countries but its commercial success was limited. In 2013, the greatest hits set was followed up with Save Rock and Roll, the band's first studio album since Folie à Deux (2008). In February 2014, Believers Never Die was certified Silver in the UK by the BPI, marking 60,000 shipments.[13]

Album information

Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits debuted at No. 77 on the US Billboard 200 chart,[14][15] finding its greatest success in Australia where it reached No. 25 on the Australian Albums Chart.[16] In the UK, Believers Never Die peaked at No. 88 and was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry in 2013 for 60,000 shipments.

A limited edition CD/DVD version was released with the same album cover.[17] It included the original CD as well as a DVD with most of the band's music videos. The DVD also features commentary from the members of the band on each video. The only official video by Fall Out Boy not included in this DVD is the music video for "Alpha Dog", which was released later. Neither the songs nor their respective videos for "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" and "Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On a Bad Bet" were included in Believers Never Die because they were not actually released as singles, contrary to popular misconception.

A music video for "Alpha Dog" was released on 20 November, containing snippets of all Fall Out Boy's previous music videos along with some images of photo shoots, autograph signings and other activities not seen before on film. It begins with Pete Wentz saying that "no one should try this at home..."

Believers Never Die features two new songs, "Alpha Dog" and ""From Now On We Are Enemies"". In an interview bassist Pete Wentz commented, "For the first new song 'Alpha Dog,' we had written like half of it and put [it on] our mixtape" as a demo to promote what would be the band's 2008 album Folie à Deux. "People really reacted to it, so we started to record over some of it. We saved a couple parts, and then we had to write the second verse and bridge. The other song, 'From Now On We Are Enemies', we wrote as a brand new song [...] The two new songs are different than any other Fall Out Boy songs. They seem like they could have been Folie à Deux B-sides, but they wouldn't have fit on the record. I'm not sure. They are the songs that have the most electronic stuff going on in them." "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out", one of the rarities, was a song taken from the compilation album A Santa Cause: It's a Punk Rock Christmas which contains songs by different bands, released in 2003; the last track and rarity is "Growing Up", a song from the band's 2002 Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy split EP.[18] The version of "What a Catch, Donnie" on this album features lead vocalist/guitarist Patrick Stump singing the overture of "Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet". The original version of this song featured Elvis Costello singing the part, but was taken out of this release because Fall Out Boy's record company could not create a deal with his record label, Decca Records, in time.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Fall Out Boy.

CD
No. TitleFrom album Length
1. "Dead on Arrival"  Take This to Your Grave (2003) 3:16
2. "Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy"  Take This to Your Grave (2003) 3:12
3. "Saturday"  Take This to Your Grave (2003) 3:38
4. "Sugar, We're Goin Down"  From Under the Cork Tree (2005) 3:51
5. "Dance, Dance"  From Under the Cork Tree (2005) 3:01
6. "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me""  From Under the Cork Tree (2005) 2:50
7. "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race"  Infinity on High (2007) 3:33
8. "Thnks fr th Mmrs"  Infinity on High (2007) 3:28
9. ""The Take Over, the Breaks Over""  Infinity on High (2007) 3:35
10. "I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You)"  Infinity on High (2007) 3:35
11. "Beat It" (featuring John Mayer; Michael Jackson cover)Live in Phoenix (2008) 3:49
12. "I Don't Care"  Folie à Deux (2008) 3:39
13. "America's Suitehearts"  Folie à Deux (2008) 3:41
14. "What a Catch, Donnie"  Folie à Deux (2008) 4:57
15. "Alpha Dog"  originally a demo from Welcome to the New Administration 3:42
Total length:
 64:00
Bonus tracks (on all editions, except where noted)
No. TitleFrom album Length
16. ""From Now on We Are Enemies""  new song 3:36
17. "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out"  A Santa Cause: It's a Punk Rock Christmas (2003) 3:41
18. "Growing Up"  Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy (2002) 2:56
19. "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" (Bonus track in Japan[19])Infinity on High (2007) 3:23
Total length:
 64:00
Limited DVD
No. Title Length
1. "Dead on Arrival"    
2. "Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy"    
3. "Saturday"    
4. "Sugar, We're Goin Down"    
5. "Dance, Dance"    
6. "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me""    
7. "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race"    
8. "Thnks fr th Mmrs"    
9. ""The Take Over, the Breaks Over""    
10. "I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You)"    
11. "Beat It"    
12. "I Don't Care"    
13. "America's Suitehearts"    
14. "What a Catch, Donnie"    
15. "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" (Bonus track in Japan)  

Album notes

Charts

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[16][20] 25
Japanese Albums Chart 19
Irish Albums Chart[21] 79
UK Albums Chart[22] 88
US Billboard 200[14][15] 77
US Alternative Albums (Billboard)[23] 14
US Rock Albums (Billboard)[14] 21

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
United Kingdom (BPI)[24] Silver 60,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone

Release history

References

  1. ↑ "Believers Never Die: The Greatest Hits > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
  2. ↑ Fall Out Boy Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits Review BBC. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Fall Out Boy / Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits / Universal". Blare. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
  4. ↑ Grant, William. "Reviews > Fall Out Boy - Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits". Drowned In Sound. Archived from the original on 5 December 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
  5. ↑ "Fall Out Boy's Greatest Hit Review > Overview". IGN. Archived from the original on 21 November 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-11.
  6. ↑ "Fall Out Boy: Beievers [sic?] Never Die (Mercury) KKKKK - Illinois pop-rockers remind us what we'll be missing", Kerrang! (1287), Wednesday 11 November 2009: 51 Check date values in: |date= (help);
  7. ↑ Kelham, Andrew. "Reviews > Fall Out Boy - Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits". Rock Sound. Archived from the original on 20 November 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
  8. ↑ "Fall Out Boy: Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
  9. ↑ Skinner, Jesse. "Fall Out Boy's Hits". Toro. Archived from the original on 14 November 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  10. ↑ "fall out boy - greatest hits cover". Tiny Media Empire. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
  11. ↑ girlbehindthecurtain (October 9, 2009) http://www.falloutboyrock.com/news/default.aspx?nid=5381&cmnt=1 Fall Out Boy News FallOutBoyRock.com. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  12. ↑ "The ARIA Report: Issue 1030 (Week Commencing 23 November 2009)" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. p. 2. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Certified Awards Search" (To access, enter the search parameter "Fall Out Boy"). British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Billboard Rock Albums by Greatest Gainer; week of December 5, 2009 Billboard. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Allmusic Fall Out Boy Billboard Albums Allmusic. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Fall Out Boy - Believers Never Die - The Greatest Hits - Music Charts". Acharts.us. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
  17. ↑ girlbehindthecurtain (November 6, 2009) New FOB Song From Believers Never Die Greatest Hits FallOutBoyRock.com. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  18. ↑ Patrick Stump tweet on Believers Never Die Growing Up Twitter. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  19. ↑ ビリーヴァーズ・ネヴァー・ダイ-グレイテスト・ヒッツ デラックス・エディション BELIEVERS NEVER DIE-GREATEST HITS Universal Japan. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
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  21. ↑ "Discography Fall Out Boy". irish-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  22. ↑ "Chart Log UK: Adam F - FYA". Dipl.-Bibl.(FH) Tobias Zywietz. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
  23. ↑ Billboard Alternative Albums by Greatest Gainer; week of December 5, 2009 Billboard. Retrieved July 11, 2011
  24. ↑ "British album certifications – Fall Out Boy – Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Silver in the field By Award. Click Search
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