
Island - Island
Release date: 2008-04-01
DVD
Actors: Fall Out Boy
Color, Concerts, Emo, English, Music, Music Video, Music Video - Pop/Rock, Performance, Pop, Pop/Rock Music, Punk-Pop, Rock, Rock/Pop, USA, United States of America, Vocal Music




Rock has meshed into so many sound alike bands over the years, but Fall Out Boy have remained true to their roots, giving fans a little extra with pyrotechnics at their shows for all their googles of girly fans. At a time now with more rap artists like 50 cent, Jay-Z and Lil Wayne dominating the music charts, shoving rock musicians out of the way, it's been harder for the full style rock bands to make it big. Fall Out Boy have been deemed one of the last alternative rock bands to succeed.
Their songs are sharp, witty, crafty and with pop anthems to the T. This Live DVD Proves it. Live In Phoenix is a heck of a show for any fan. It was filmed on the band's 2007 Phoenix, Arizona stop of the Honda Civic Tour. Fall Out Boy seems to still have the connections to fans that they had in the beginning and adding more. They will probably be around for a long time.
If you're an old-school kind of fan of FOB, then you might not like this DVD very much. There's too much of the element of really putting on a show in an egotistical way, especially on Pete's part. All the shots of the audience are of the airhead fans who only like FOB because "they're hot" and wear I <3 Pete across their tits.
Musically the performance is good. The theatrics however are not, they are too over the top and obviously planned to show off for the DVD in an egotistical way like I said. It's nice that the DVD includes music videos but it is not ALL of their videos, only videos from the last two albums (Cork Tree and Infinity on High) - none from the Take This To My Grave album. The behind the scenes stuff really really sucks though. Especially compared to their behind the scenes antics on their previous two DVDs, which were great.
I would highly recommend their previous two DVDs My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue and Clandestine Industries Presents: Release the Bats because I feel that those are more accurate and a much better representation of them.