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\n\tTwenty years ago, Fall Out Boy<\/a> found themselves at odds with reality. Their everyday lives consisted of slogging through an intense tour schedule<\/a> and stuffing all four members into one hotel room \u2014 sometimes, lead singer Patrick Stump<\/a>, bassist Pete Wentz<\/a>, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley even slept on the hotel room floor. But in the world of Billboard charts and MySpace blogs, Fall Out Boy was interstellar, skyrocketing into mainstream success<\/a>. All of it was because of their 2005 breakout record, From Under the Cork Tree<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tWith Stump\u2019s penchant for pop hooks and Wentz\u2019s clever wordplay, Cork Tree<\/em> turned the Chicago hardcore scenesters into full-blown rock stars. The LP debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 chart, yielded the band\u2019s first Top 10 hit with \u201cSugar We\u2019re Going Down,\u201d and even earned Fall Out Boy a Best New Artist Grammy nomination. But perhaps more importantly, Cork Tree<\/em> helped the band become the therapists pumping through the speakers of a whole generation of skinny jean-wearing teens, igniting the pop-punk and emo music scene into a blazing force for the masses. It\u2019s the kind of cultural moment that remains dizzying.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe had no perspective on it at the time,\u201d Wentz tells Rolling Stone<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tStump is equally bewildered when he recalls that time. \u201cNo one expected it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n \n\tNow, two decades later, Fall Out Boy are celebrating From Under the Cork Tree<\/em> in all its glory. Last week, the band released a special anniversary edition<\/a> of the album with remastered tracks and special box sets. Earlier this year, Rolling Stone<\/em> named Cork Tree<\/em> as one of the 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century<\/a> and \u201cSugar\u201d made it onto the list of 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t We caught up with Wentz and Stump, the mastermind duo behind the songs on Cork Tree<\/em>, to reflect on making the album, its lasting impact, and all the crazy memories it created.<\/p>\n \n\tThis year, From Under the Cork Tree<\/em> is celebrating 20 years. How does it feel to look back on this record decades later?\u00a0<\/strong>
Wentz: <\/strong>It\u2019s interesting when you\u2019re in something that is so spontaneous. It was not an overnight thing, but we were coming out of Take This to Your Grave <\/em>and going right into this. It was our first record we did that had a big machine that was part of a label. At the time it was kind of like, \u201cOh, I wonder if this thing will come out. I hope they don\u2019t shelf it or whatever.\u201d [Laughs<\/em>] It\u2019s interesting to talk about it 20 years later from that perspective where you\u2019re like, \u201cWell, it did.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n