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	2003–2009
Genre	Pop punk, pop rock, alternative rock, emo
Length	64:00
Label	Island
Producer	Various
Singles from Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits
"Alpha Dog" Released: October 26, 2009

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
BBC	(favourable)
Blare
Drowned in Sound	(5/10)
IGN	(7.9/10)
Kerrang!
Rock Sound	(8/10)
Toro

Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits is the greatest hits album by American rock band Fall Out Boy. The album was released on November 17, 2009 in the United States by Island Records. It contains all of the songs the band have released as singles throughout their career thus far in chronological order, as well as two new bonus tracks and two rarities. The first single "Alpha Dog" was released on October 26, 2009. A demo version of it was on the Welcome to the New Administration mixtape, under the name "ALPHAdog and OMEGAlomaniac". The album features an original wrap-around illustration by artist Daniel Danger. The artwork was revealed on October 9. The record was released after the band's tour as support for blink-182's 2009 summer reunion tour and shortly before the group announced an indefinite hiatus in late 2009.

Believers Never Die debuted at No. 77 on the US Billboard 200 chart, finding its greatest success in Australia where it reached No. 25 on the Australian Albums Chart. The album was released to overall positive reviews by music critics.

A limited edition CD/DVD version was released with the same album cover. 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 the 20th of November, containing snippets of all their previous music videos along with some images of photo shoots, autograph signings and other activities not seen before on film. The music video opens 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 it 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, with songs by different artists and bands, released in 2003; the last track and rarity is "Growing Up", a song from the band's 2003 debut mini-LP Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend. The version of "What a Catch, Donnie" on this album features lead vocalist and 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.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

CD

All songs written and composed by Fall Out Boy, except where noted.

1. "Dead on Arrival" – 3:16
2. "Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy" – 3:12
3. "Saturday" – 3:38
4. "Sugar, We're Goin Down" – 3:51
5. "Dance, Dance" – 3:01
6. "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me"" – 2:50
7. "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" – 3:33
8. "Thnks fr th Mmrs" – 3:28
9. ""The Take Over, the Breaks Over"" – 3:35
10. "I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You)" – 3:35
11. "Beat It" (featuring John Mayer) (Michael Jackson) – 3:49
12. "I Don't Care" – 3:39
13. "America's Suitehearts" – 3:41
14. "What a Catch, Donnie" – 4:57
15. "Alpha Dog" – 3:42

Bonus tracks

    16. ""From Now on We Are Enemies"" – 3:36
    17. "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out" – 3:41
    18. "Growing Up" – 2:56
    19. "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" (Bonus track in Japan) – 3:23

Limited DVD

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" (featuring John Mayer)
12. "I Don't Care"
13. "America's Suitehearts"
14. "What a Catch, Donnie"
15. "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" (Bonus video in Japan)

• Each video has an audio commentary by the band.

Album notes

• On the last page of the album booklet it shows the website thefortysixthirtytwo.com, which may contain a mosaic of names of the people who signed up to the site http://www.intelligenceisartificial.com/ which Pete linked to from his blog http://petewentz.com/post/202169707/dont-click-this-it-will-only-make-things-worse on October 1 also with the warning "dont click this. it will only make things worse for some of us and better for the rest." This is because he tweeted "4632: remember we warned you not to enter. thanks for everything over the years guys." on November 17 (the day thefortysixthirtytwo.com went live and Believers Never Die came out).
• The last page also lists the website keepsmewarmatnight.com, but strangely, the site does not exist, however name.com says that the domain is taken. Some fans speculate that the website is related to the Secret Order, a club established in the band's early days known for being very exclusive, with details about its activities kept under lock and key. Upon release of the album, the website may have been taken down.
• A message is written on the inside spine of the CD case which reads ""ARE YOU WATCHING CLOSELY?"" During the band's Honda Civic Tour in support of their 2007 album Infinity on High, Pete shouted out "Are you watching closely?!".

Charts

Charts (2009)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart	25
UK Albums Chart	88
US Billboard 200	77
US Billboard Alternative Albums	14
US Billboard Rock Albums	21

Release history

• Australia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland: November 13
• US: November 17
• UK: November 30
• Japan: November 25
• Rest of world: November 16