From Under the Cork Tree is the second studio album by alt-rockers Fall Out Boy. It was released on May 3, 2005, through Island Records as the band's major label debut. The music was composed by lead vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump, with all lyrics penned by bassist Pete Wentz, continuing the band's songwriting approach they took for some songs on their prior 2003 effort Take This to Your Grave. Neal Avron handled production duties. The album was Fall Out Boy's breakthrough mainstream success. Spearheaded by the lead single "Sugar, We're Goin Down", the album debuted at #9 on the US Billboard 200 with 68, 000 first week sales, a position it stayed at for two non-consecutive weeks, earning the band their first Top Ten album and becoming their longest charting and best-selling album. It logged fourteen weeks in the Top 20 out of it's seventy-eight chart weeks.
Tracklist:
- Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued
- Of All The Gin Joints In All The World
- Dance, Dance
- Sugar, We're Goin Down
- Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner
- I've Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)
- 7 Minutes In Heaven (Atavan Halen)
- Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year
- Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends
- I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me
- A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"
- Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows)
- XO
