The Return of Fall Out Boy

incidentally SRNR had my personal highest hit:miss rato of any FOB album, which I suspect I'm alone on
--Simon H.

I agree almost 100 percent actually - last time I listened I was like "are only the odd numbered tracks good on this?"

IT WAS THE FOURTH OF JULY
YOU AND I WERE
YOU AND I WERE FIRE
FIRE
FIREWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORKS
THAT WENT OFF TOO SOON

you were the song STUCK in MY HEAD
every song that i've ever loved
played again and again and again
and you can get what you want but it's never enough
and i'll spin for you like your favourite records used to

Is this CDQ

on first spin "The Kids Aren't Alright" sounds like the towering standout, though I like the "Pastime Paradise"ish outro on "Twin Skeletons." definitely their most streamlined record, not sure if that's a good thng or not yet

really bombastic but in a way that seems much more...confident than SRAR. like they know definitely what type of band they want to be now, which i don't necessarily think was the case with comeback FOB v 1.0 on the last record.

irresistible has such swagger to it!

novocaine thooooo

stay up
stay woke

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, January 4, 2015 12:57 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

waiiit is "stay woke" really a lyric on the FOB album

patrick might just be saying "stay up stay whoaaa" but that's what i get from it

oh yeah btw this is the song that "uma thurman" reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NDsbEiCxXw

which is definitely intentional

and there'a JET BLACK CROW droning ON AND ON AND ON

still digesting this but "fourth of july" god damn god damn

if anyone's holding off on the leak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNkivNlkjj8

the leak is kinda terrible quality which normally doesn't bother me much but i imagine this album in particular will sound fuller w/ higher quality files?

Too many sharks not enough blood in the waves.

haha ESPN used "favorite record" as bumper music for the rockets-cavs game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBswx7GEARc

THE STENCH
THE STENCH
OF SUMMER SEX
AND CK ETERNITY
OH HELL YES

http://falloutboy.com/post/107910282202/a-statement-from-joe-trohman

fuck cancer.

Technically not cancer but actually worse than most.

But I came here to say "OMG Uma Thurman".

when will brad nelson, maura johnson and tim finney review this record? the world needs it.

A joint review, you mean?

maybe a roundtable

or a karaoke night

all of the above

down

"I'll spin for you like your favourite records used to"

oh yeah btw this is the song that "uma thurman" reminds me of [april march - "chick habit"]

...which is definitely intentional

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, January 4, 2015 2:04 PM (1 week ago)

huh? it's just quoting the munsters theme, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFCnvH2E-6A

haven't heard the whole thing yet, but the tracks linked itt are fantastic

the sample is the munsters theme yeah but stylistically the call-and-answer horn parts remind me of "chick habit"

annnnnd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtgiP95ikIE

probably the track that on first listen tipped my opinion of this record from "really good" to "holy shit"

annnnnnd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjtNPyVwMps#t=157

the chorus on this

essentially imo this song is "death valley" but 1000000000000x better

and now i'm just nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j4Pf228vhE#t=85

YOU AND I WERE

YOU AND I WERE FIRE

FIRE

FIREWOOOOOORKS

top 5 fall out boy song

stop

wait a minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqoVtzqLGoQ

i guess they're uploading the whole record today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsuN8KDa9i0

YOU AND I WERE

YOU AND I WERE FIRE

FIRE

FIREWOOOOOORKS

― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:12 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just listening to this bit (on my second listen-through) and thinking how sharply this record captures what has become perhaps Fall Out Boy's primary aesthetic preoccupation: the way they take bombast, typically a mode of delivery, and turn it into a concentrated property in itself. These songs feel simultaneously structured and destructured by bombast, or maybe I should reverse those verbs - more like, they added too much bombast to ordinary songs until they exploded, and then they pieced together new songs out of the shards.

Particularly telling how the broken delivery of the refrain here immediately gets repeated at the start of "Favorite Record".

otm

I fucking hate you people with no principles

:)

I will def be buying a copy of this - if only because the sound quality on the leak is awful.

Haha wasn't even a dig at buying vs. not buying - I'm only gonna listen when there's a proper iTunes or CDQ quality versh out there

I think FOB is generally very well produced, No Scik Mouthy, so I'd rather be a good lil' boy and wait

shh dayo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMxkSqz_MoA

I have listened to this album like 5 times in a row.

It's like Hesistant Alien all over again.

they're going on tour with wiz khalifa this summer!

this excites me for some reason