Save Rock and Roll

Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
Critic Score
Based on 20 reviews
2013 Ratings: #579 / 1115
User Score
Based on 968 ratings
2013 Rank: #507
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
The Young Folks

Overall, Save Rock and Roll is a great album—it’s obvious that Fall Out Boy’s sound has matured even more since their 2008 album Folie a Deux.

83
A.V. Club

Save Rock And Roll is the band’s most personal album yet, a tribute to being passionate and young when time makes the former difficult and the latter impossible. It’s an arena album that longs for small punk clubs.

70
Drowned in Sound

Save Rock and Roll isn't life or game changing but it's probably the album FOB needed to make - if only for themselves - and as an honest portrait of the roller-coaster ride that is FOB's career, it finds them on a high.

70
Consequence of Sound

If this is what rock and roll sounds like today, let the dogs of society howl.

70
NME

That's not to say this is a bad record, just one that's clearly in love with pop music, and one that'll require another leap of faith from the band's hardcore fanbase.

70
AllMusic

In 2013, when so many bands are donning tweed caps and pining for a past that never existed, it's kind of fun to have a band tackle the modern world in all its mess as Fall Out Boy do here.

70
PopMatters

At its best Save Rock and Roll is more than a Pop Tart it’s a musical anti-ageing pill.

PipePanic
30

I remember having good memories with this album. I know all the words to every song. I remember all the hooks, all the instrumentation and all of the fun moments of this album. I look back fondly on those memories as I grow older and have a new perspective on life.
Anyway this album is a bag of gross moldy dicks with maggots and poo poo coming out. Boring, badly written pop rock that has very little appeal. Nothing of this screams essential, apart from maybe 3 fun tracks. It's all ... read more

ElectricMess
NR

There’s such beautiful irony in that title...

Docky
70

Regretting The Past Albums
Album Number 13.

Fall Out Boy is def one of the most divisive bands of the last 20 years, while at first most people seemed to like them over time and especially after their hiatus, the popular opinion has become quite divisive...is that for good reason? Well...yes and no, (FOB are one of my fav bands so I'll try to be as unbiased as I can here) yes because their music has been getting quite worse since they came back and while them going pop is a genuine attempt at ... read more

bentoonie
57

wow this is nowhere near as good as i remembered. still not a terrible listen after going through M A N I A though

serjtankian
40

serj tankian disapproved

Zeum
55

a few pretty decent songs but almost nothing sticks out as special

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Added on: March 28, 2013