10 Albums That Were Hated Before They Even Came Out

For the past few years, pop punk bands have always been faced with some sort of choice. You can either go down the road of holding onto your integrity like Green Day or Sum 41, or you can just cash in all of your goodwill and blind everyone with nostalgia like Simple Plan. Fall Out Boy weren't going to settle for either option though, and their willingness to experiment led to one of the biggest trainwrecks that the genre had ever seen.

Then again, most of us saw this coming from the day that Young and Menace was released. While starting off like a fairly decent Fall Out Boy tune with electronic additions, the chorus is borderline nonexistent, being replaced with what sounds like Patrick Stump's voice getting more buried in effects to the point where it sounds like a chipmunk has taken over the band for a second. While the initial reception led to the band delaying MANIA and working on it some more, they seemed to spend those few months doing absolutely nothing, with Young and Menace still being here and putting in even more questionable decisions like on Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea or Hold Me Tight Or Don't.

The band looks like they knew they had a dud here as well, going so far as to only play a portion of Young and Menace live and not even bothering to finish the song in time to get to the chorus. What we have left feels more like odds and ends than a proper album, alternating between musical abominations and songs that seem like they're meant to be ESPN background music fodder.