Take This to Your Grave Songwriting Credits by Fall Out Boy

Take This to Your Grave is the debut studio album by Fall Out Boy, released in May 2003 on Fueled by Ramen Records and produced by Sean O'Keefe. It established the band as a leading voice in the early 2000s emo-pop punk scene emerging from Chicago, built on Pete Wentz's confessional lyrical approach and Patrick Stump's melodically sophisticated vocals. Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz wrote all material; the album's 12 tracks include 'Dead on Arrival,' 'Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy,' and 'Saturday,' the last becoming the most significant single of the album and reaching the top twenty on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. The album reached number 159 on the Billboard 200 on initial release but sold steadily through word-of-mouth within the emo-pop punk community, eventually being certified platinum as the band's subsequent major-label success drove back-catalog attention. Take This to Your Grave established the emotional intimacy, literary lyrical style, and melodic intelligence that would define the band's more commercially successful subsequent releases and is regarded as the foundational document of their creative identity. The album's lasting cultural significance lies less in its original commercial performance than in its role as the foundational document of Fall Out Boy's identity, the record that established the Stump/Wentz creative partnership, the emotional confessional style, and the melodic intelligence that would make From Under the Cork Tree one of the defining rock albums of the following decade.