**** Live In Phoenix [LIVE]

Fall Out Boy

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 1, 2008)
• Original Release Date: April 1, 2008
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Label: Island
• ASIN: B0014DC16I
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,596 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist
Multi-platinum Island Records group Fall Out Boy kicks off the new year with "****LIVE IN PHOENIX," their first long-form CD+DVD two-disc package, set to arrive in stores on April 1st. The core of the program will be their full-length Honda Civic Tour concert of June 2007 from the Cricket Pavilion in Phoenix, with all 22 songs contained on both the CD and DVD layers.

In addition, the DVD layer will include all 8 of Fall Out Boy's Island Records video clips in chronological order - from their debut single "Sugar, We're Going Down" (MTV2 Award winner for 2005), "Dance, Dance" (MTV VMA Viewers Choice Award for 2006), and "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More `Touch Me'" (all three from their 3 million worldwide-selling Island debut album of 2005, From Under The Cork Tree); up through "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race," "The Carpal Tunnel Of Love," "Thnks fr th Mmrs," "The Take Over, The Breaks Over," and "I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)" (all five from Infinity On High, their RIAA double-platinum second Island album, released February 2007).

Bonus material on the DVD layer will include a making-of-the-video feature for "I'm Like a Lawyer... (Me & You)," and plenty of behind-the-scenes footage and out-takes. Special bonus feature on the CD layer will be a studio recording of Michael Jackson's "Beat It." Grammy-award winning artist John Mayer appears on "Beat It" with the legendary guitar solo.

"Beat It" was one of several cover versions performed by Fall Out Boy in September as house band at their VMA Fantasy Suite, the night of the annual MTV VMAs at the Palms in Las Vegas, where they won the coveted Best Group award. The suite was THE place to be during the show, as Fall Out Boy interspersed their own songs (and covers of "Beat It," "Top Gun Theme," and Akon's "Don't Matter"), with a guest appearance by fellow Island Def Jam artist Rihanna, and drop-ins from Panic! At the Disco, Cobra Starship, and Gym Class Heroes.

Fall Out Boy's 2007 release Infinity On High was the follow-up to From Under The Cork Tree, their Island debut of May 2005, which spent 72 weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart and has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. Since their first major market headlining North American arena tour in spring 2006, Chicago's Fall Out Boy - Patrick Stump (vocals/guitar), Pete Wentz (bass), Joe Trohman (guitar), and Andy Hurley (drums) - have appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone, Spin, Blender, and Alternative Press and have performed on NBC's Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS's The Late Show with David Letterman, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, and more.

Product Description
Multi-platinum group Fall Out Boy present their first ever LIVE concert CD+DVD "**** Live in Phoenix". Taped last June at the Cricket Pavilion in Phoenix for the 2007 Honda Civic Tour, the DVD features over one hour of LIVE music from all three Fall Out Boy albums including the hits, "Saturday," "Sugar We're Going Down," "Dance, Dance," "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race" and "Me & You." Also featured on the DVD are all eight Fall Out Boy music videos in chronological order, the making of "Me & You"- filmed in Uganda - and plenty of behind-the-scenes footage and out-takes from last summer's Honda Civic Tour. The CD + DVD package includes an 18 track LIVE CD featuring select songs from the concert and a previously recorded, never before released studio recording of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" with a special guest guitarist.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The band dropped the ball on this, April 6, 2008

By	PAC MAN "ROBBAGE" (NEW YORK) - See all my reviews

The band dropped the ball on this. I like this band, but this is the worst and most poorly put together live album I have ever heard. First off, the cd doesn't inlcude the entire concert and it's not because of time constraints on the cd. The cd is only 50 something minutes. Second, track 9 is a studio version of a song in the middle of a live concert. WTF? I have never seen that in my entire life. A recorded studio track in the middle of a concert. Why not put it after the concert is finished and include the entire concert? This is weak and lazy of the band. At least the dvd is the entire show. I mean who puts a studio version of a song in the middle of a concert cd, it made me laugh. They could have easily put it at the end and put the entire concert on the cd.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bad Sound Ruins a Great Playlist, April 9, 2008

By	L. S. Constine "Joshsc" (Stanford, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: **** Live In Phoenix (MP3 Download)

Despite featuring gems from across their career such as "Grand Theft Autumn" the single that never was, and the climactic "Saturday", this album is nearly unlistenable. Sounding like a Fall Out Boy concert heard from the concession stand in the lobby, the band's punches and crescendos come out flat. Fall Out Boy's true strengths lie in the crisp harmonies between and punchy dynamic changes. 'Live In Phoenix' fails to capture the spontaneity, energy, and humor so apparent in the group's music videos, or the tight interplay of instruments and Patric Stump's soaring voice from their studio work. Pass on this pacifying between album moneymaker, and delve into their back catalog. More classics include studio versions of "Calm Before The Storm" and "Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today".

-Josh Constine
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sends chills down your spine., April 1, 2008

By	Emily Watts (Phoenix, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was actually at this concert. And I gotta say, it sounds EXACTLY like it did on that hot June 22 night. Patrick still sends chills down my spine with "Golden" and I tap my legs and mouth along the words no matter how much I try to stop myself.

Nothing beats Fall Out Boy live, and if you can't catch them live, this is the second best thing. WELL worth the money!