Take This to Your Grave

Take This to Your Grave
Original cover. Later versions feature the same photo with a slightly different tint of blue and the names under the title reading Pete Wentz / Patrick Stump / Joe Trohman / Andy Hurley
Studio album by Fall Out Boy
Released	May 6, 2003 (2003-05-06)
Recorded	December 2002 – March 2003
Studio	Smart Studios, Madison, Wisconsin Gravity Studios, Chicago, Illinois Rosebud Studios, Skokie, Illinois
Genre	Pop-punk emo
Length	39:24
Label	Fueled by Ramen
Producer	Sean O'Keefe
Fall Out Boy studio album chronology
Take This to Your Grave (2003) From Under the Cork Tree (2005)
Singles from Take This to Your Grave
"Dead on Arrival" Released: April 4, 2003 "Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy" Released: August 4, 2003 "Saturday" Released: December 21, 2003
Alternative cover
The rejected cover, which would later appear on the first vinyl release.

Take This to Your Grave is the debut studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy, released on May 6, 2003, by Fueled by Ramen. When the band was signed to Island Records, the label employed an unusual strategy that allowed them to sign with independent label Fueled by Ramen for their debut and later move to Island for their second album. Sean O'Keefe had helped with the band's demo, and they returned to Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin to record the bulk of their first album with him. Living on a stranger's floor for part of the time and running out of money halfway through, the band recorded seven songs in nine days, bringing them together with the additional three from the demo.

While lead vocalist Patrick Stump had previously written all of the album’s lyrics and took them lightly, bassist Pete Wentz took to the process with considerable seriousness and obsessively picked apart his bandmate's lyrics. The exhausting process led to numerous revisions of single songs and several arguments. The album cover, which shows the four bandmates sitting on a broken futon, features a blue tint reminiscent of jazz records, and was the second choice after the original was rejected by the Fueled by Ramen label.

Take This to Your Grave gradually created interest in the band as they toured across the country, including a five-day stint on Warped Tour 2004. The album produced three singles, including the minor success "Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy", and has often been named as a vital blueprint for 2000s pop-punk, with Alternative Press calling it a "subcultural touchstone" and a "magical, transcendent, and deceptively smart pop-punk masterpiece that ushered in a vibrant scene resurgence with a potent combination of charisma, new media marketing and hardcore-punk urgency". Take This to Your Grave is often regarded as one of the greatest pop-punk albums of all time. In 2017, Rolling Stone placed the album at number 5 on their list of the "50 Greatest Pop-Punk Albums".^[1]