The Return of Fall Out Boy

patrick's laugh at 1:30 in Young volcanoes, so awesome

the good news is everybody gets to have an outlet
the bad news is everybody gets to have an outlet

we aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare wild

"My Songs" sounds like it sampled Britney. Sooo many hoox on this album.

calling "rat a tat" as the ultimate set of wentz lyrics

I’m about to make the sweat roll backwards
And your heart beat in reverse
Our guts can’t be reworked
As alone as a little white church in the middle of the desert
Getting burned

no emo lyrics have ever really reached the heights of deja entendu

i wonder how many times hearts have beaten in reverse in his discography

Just interviewed Messrs Stump and Wentz for a podcast. Not a band I've ever taken much notice of, but genuinely delightful interviewees.

i think the biggest roadblock for me w/ this record is how much i loved Stump's solo album and his lyric writing...

man, i wish i had your problems. i tried so damn hard with stump solo, really i did. wanted to love it, but could barely manage grudging respect. glad to see FOB back together.

there are ways in which the instrumentation/production doesn't remotely measure up to the band's, but as a showcase for his songwriting/vocals i thought it was pretty stellar.

:( http://www.avclub.com/articles/tail-between-legs-27-solo-albums-that-sent-musicia,96000/

man almost none of those records conform to the "sent musicians back to their main bands" narrative

xxp, yeah that's fair. the production and arrangements sabotage what could (and should) have been a much better album.

pffft

if you can't even get down with spiraling alternate universe time jam "cryptozoology" then i just don't even know

i am generally down with time jam

ahaha i was just sort of reacting to the idea that the production and arrangements sabotage soul punk bc i love that production, those arrangements, so prince

yeah i like how the album is musically very Prince and vocally very MJ.

They told me this album was much more stripped down and simple than they had originally intended. I said that if this was what stripped back sounded like, God only knows what over the top would have sounded like. They said: like white noise.

i mean there is a leanness to it. "my songs" for instance feels like it has very few elements

My god this album.

It's like the rock version of the Carly Rae Jepsen album.

are you having a menage w/ this and the Paramore?

Yes.

commence retina burning

:)

Actually I've been so intensely reminded of my love of both bands this week that I suddenly feel inspired to hear all the emo-crossover I never checked out before (Say Anything etc.)

oh man Say Anything Is A Real Boy is still my fav major label emo album of them all

Yeah that's top of my list.

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rolling emo/pop-punk/bullshit 2013

but yeah between these albums and the MCR breakup is really is a good time to reconnect w/ this stuff. been meaning to check out Brad's rolling thread.

ha xpost

Haha I just cross-referenced all the emo albums that ended up on the people's lists of people I trust.

Say Anything r great, at least that album FOR SURE

yeah paramore and fall out boy this week have really just made me so very happy

WE ARE LIKE YOUNG VOLCANOES :D
how does a song that's a mix of 'hey soul sister' and 'we are young' sounds this wonderful

Omg I hear that.

yeah it should be the worst thing ever but it rules so hard

didn't think "My Songs" would have any traction at all on pop radio, but it's now their biggest hit on the Pop Songs chart since "Thnks fr th Mmrs"

this record sounds super great on big speakers

The day FOB dropped the album stream, I listened to it about three times consecutively during work. And later, almost home, the cars were jammed trying to exit my subway stop parking lot. And my auto is non-mobile for for minutes, like, this really sucks.. but suddenly the local pop radio station here segued their rush-hour dance party into "My Songs," and it was the best moment ever. We were all so stuck in this new summer heat, and I rolled my windows down and turned it way up--the moment in the video where everyone says fk it and leaves their cars to party with it...

Despite the radio broadcast it did sound great out of the car speakers. I have so much love for this album already. I love all of the hopeless prose, there are some great lines on this one.

for

is a real boy is the besssst, and though they've never equaled it in defense of the genre is at least a fun mess. their last record kinda sucked.

Happy for ILM to take me by the hand and lead me into the light on this issue.

i think "alive with the glory of love" is possibly the greatest emo song ever recorded but i don't the rest of the album quite matches up

that song

yes

i think "alive with the glory of love" is possibly the greatest emo song ever recorded but i don't the rest of the album quite matches up

okay yeah but the rest of the album nearly matches up

"spidersong" and "every man has a molly" and "yellow cat/red cat" which is incidentally an incredible slow burn

Do I need to be checking out Brand New and Saves The Day also

duh

Best Saves the Day albums are Through Being Cool and Stay What You Are, imo.

idk actually bc neither brand new or saves the day "crossover" exactly. like, brand new is pretty uniformly grim, and saves the day are amazing but extremely entrenched in pop-punk and emo traditions until in reverie where they decide to sound like weezer (and it's their best record imo but i'm alone in that)

one thing i'd recommend actually is taking back sunday's louder now, which wouldn't be on a lot of Best Emo Crossover lists but is a crucial record in that it creates a lot of the space that infinity on high would expand on the next year. this may be a false narrative but it's kind of how i experienced it

like, produced by eric valentine, sounds like a million bucks, released within the time "sugar we're going down" and "i write sings not tragedies" became massive on radio

déjà entendu is alltime as is Thursdays war all the time. When I get home ill look thru my emo albums for other reccs