For some guys, being surrounded by 16 to 18-year-old girls and their rich moms would be a dream. But for guys like me, it’s almost enough to make me never want to attend another Fall Out Boy show for the rest of my life.

Almost.

Friday was the first of two nights of 107.9 The End’s Jingle Ball concert series at Arco Arena, but it was also one of the last stops for The Young Wild Things Tour, headlined by Fall Out Boy. Also playing at the show were Cute Is What We Aim For, Plain White T’s and Gym Class Heroes.

Cute Is What We Aim For opened the show to a predictably poor performance. You merely need to listen to lead singer Shaant Hacikyan’s vocals on the band’s debut album “The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch” to imagine what he sounds like live. Whereas Hacikyan’s recorded vocals are bearable, his live vocals were off key and off beat. Often, he would just hold the microphone away from his mouth so the crowd could sing the lyrics.

I’m sure touring can be strenuous on the vocal chords, but I did not notice this in any of the night’s other performers.

Plain White T’s were the surprise of the night. Not only did these guys sound much more instrumentally sound than Cute Is What We Aim For, but lead singer Tom Higgenson had a much better stage presence than Hacikyan. Higgenson’s voice seemed to have that first-night-of-the-tour freshness, and they in which he energetically jumped around from end to end of the stage made everyone want to stand up and dance.

As girls began screaming and crying at the fight of Higgenson’s acoustic guitar the whole arena burst into a harmonious rendition of “Hey There Delilah.” As for the rest of the Plain White T’s songs, most people just did that thing where you mouth the words as if you know them, but you really don’t have a clue.

On one of those rare occasions that a band plays a cover song better than the original band played the song, Gym Class Heroes covered the Arctic Monkeys’ “Leave Before the Lights Come On.” They were also able to pump life into the crowd with hits like their ode to MySpace, “New Friend Request,” and their ode to Supertramp, “Cupid’s Chokehold.”

Going out with a bang, Gym Class Heroes nearly blew the roof off the arena when they played “Clothes Off!” with guest vocals from Fall Out Boy lead singer Patrick Stump.

This later transitioned into Fall Out Boy’s set which was, by far, the best of the night. Thanks to bassist Pete Wentz’s broken foot, the band was uncharacteristically unenergetic, but still exciting to watch thanks to Joe Trohman’s constant off-the-wall antics.

The band played most of their new songs from “Infinity On High,” and a few from 2005’s “From Under the Cork Tree.” What is really striking is Stump’s vocals, which have improved exponentially. Stump let his vocals shine on songs like “Golden” and “Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am?” He even managed a decent impression of Brandon Flowers when the band covered The Killers’ “Mr. Brightside.”

In one of the most memorable moments of the night, Stump, Wentz, Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley sat on stools around a microphone at the front center of the stage and played their all-acoustic Christmas song “Yule Shoot Your Eye Out” (complete with tambourine). This gave a more personal “coffee house” feeling to an otherwise impersonal arena show.

If anything could have ruined this show, it was the crowd. The combination of Fall Out Boy and 107.9 The End presented a fan base primarily composed of adolescent girls and their parents. This means there was no chance to mosh, crowd surf, or have any other kind of normal concert fun aside from enjoying good music.

Travis McCoy, the lead singer of Gym Class Heroes, humorously made note of the abundance of parents by telling all the kids to thank their parents for conceiving them, buying them tickets and bringing them to the show.

The makeup of the crowd was also apparent to Wentz who requested that the crowd start a circle pit during one of their songs. His response to their attempt was simply, “Cute.”

Somehow, I don’t think cute is what he was aiming for.

Still, concerts aren’t about annoying girls who wear Ugg boots and carry Juicy Couture purses in the pit, and scream, “I love you, Pete Wentz.” Concerts are about the music, and the music was undeniably enjoyable.

Brandon Fleshman can be reached at [email protected]