Cork Tree is definitely not all killer no filler, but it holds up imo. Infinity always felt like a missed opportunity to me.
― some dude, Sunday, 18 January 2015 03:44 (nine years ago) link
iiii might think this is their best after folie? reserving right to reverse that opinion
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, January 17, 2015 10:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Permission denied *runs "BRAD NELSON DECLARES LATEST FALL OUT BOY TO BE #2 BEST EVER" as NYT's sunday headline*
― 龜, Sunday, 18 January 2015 11:52 (nine years ago) link
this is def the best non-folie FOB album, brad otm
pretty much all of their records have either failed experiments (rat a tat) or egregious filler (l slept with FOB and all I got..., fame<infamy, etc), and this album just...doesn't. even something like immortals is just "not as good as everything else," rather than a throwaway or failure
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 18 January 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
rat a tat rules dude
it sounds like a mega man level
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 18 January 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
i'll take your heart served up two ways
― 龜, Sunday, 18 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
he said I've seen bigger / she saysl I've lived better / and they throw the matches down into the glitter
― 龜, Sunday, 18 January 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
rat a tat rules dudeit sounds like a mega man level --emo canon in twee major (BradNelson)
it sounds like a mega man level --emo canon in twee major (BradNelson)
maybe "the mighty fall" is a more agreed upon example of a failed experiment? not so much for the rap verse but for the fact that the rap verse is by big sean.
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 18 January 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
SRNR is perfect all the way through tho
― uberweiss, Sunday, 18 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
^ This is correct
― 龜, Sunday, 18 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
"Rat a Tat" and "Fame < Infamy" are both top tier, wtf
I will probably never like any of the guest-rapper tracks or recent singles tho (save for the lovably bonkers AB/AP title track)
― Simon H., Sunday, 18 January 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
The Mighty Fall is one of the favorite FOB songs among my kid and his friends.
― how's life, Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
Although they thought the line before the Big Sean rap was "I want to lock you up inside and swallow, swallow the cheese!"
Anyway, I haven't heard this full album yet. I've been listening to the tracks that have been available via itunes and I'm not all that into them. Hoping this changes once I get some context.
My ranking of albums is probably like:
IOH=FAD>SRAR>>FUCT>>>>>TTTYG
― how's life, Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
tttyg feels like an almost entirely different band but idk i think it's one of the more perfectly composed pop-punk records ever
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
wonder how many times i've expressed that opinion in this thread
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
If I had discovered it after In Reverie came out, it would have saved my day.
― how's life, Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Are you saying they copied saves the day
― 龜, Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
Basically a repeat of my experience with 1989. Album that I've been looking forward to basically since the last one came out, been dreading since the first awful single, and landed in my iTunes on release day, probably never to be listened to again. A halfhearted attempt at radio-friendluness that leaves behind all the stuff that that made them melodically and lyrically interesting. They did it so well on the last record! Everything on that one felt like a single. Everything here feels like a b side.
New S-K today takes away some of the sting, but this record is a bummer.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 11:05 (nine years ago) link
:|
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
:(
i'm going to buy a physical copy of it today #grandma
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
Maybe everybody else will like it! I hope they do. It's definitely not for me though.
Just realized that this is the first album since FUCT to not feature any stunt casting.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
Eh, I dunno. I'm giving it a second chance on the trip home. Not as bad as I thought this morning. Still feels a little awkward in places. Gonna load it up on my kid's ipod when I get home. He'll probably love the hell out of it.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
Favorite Record annoys the shit out of me though. No compunctions about saying that.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
oof "Uma Thurman" smh
― EVERY HUGH JACKMAN HAS A VAN HELSING (some dude), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
do not know how any band capable of producing american beauty / american psycho could be worth thinking about for more than 5 seconds much less listening to :(
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
thanks haters
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
i trust u brad
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
i like the album, but "Uma" is bad idea skinny jeans
― EVERY HUGH JACKMAN HAS A VAN HELSING (some dude), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link
idk i think it's weird and exciting, love the way patrick sings the verses
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link
I don't like "Uma" or "Favourite Record" but I remain pro- this album in general
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:02 (nine years ago) link
just doing an actual faux surf rock Pulp Fiction thing with the music makes it all way more on-the-nose than the usual FOB lyric pop culture potpourri imo
― EVERY HUGH JACKMAN HAS A VAN HELSING (some dude), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/OhL1DgbY3va
Me
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:39 (nine years ago) link
um I have comd here to say that brad is still more otm than the rest of u mopes
uma thurman is fking great!munsters theme cmon are you KIDDING me it's super fun
fourth of july is where the big hooks really kick in, i was kinda waiting for something to rly hit & goddamn yes
favorite record too
def loving thismaybe not as much as SRNR but still it's p dope
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:41 (nine years ago) link
cosigning dayo
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:42 (nine years ago) link
"uma thurman"'s resemblance to "misirilou" and "chick habit" makes it pretty much exclusively intertextual about tarantino soundtracks but i think it makes for a really invigorating and strange song, plus the munsters sample is p inspired idk
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
― EVERY HUGH JACKMAN HAS A VAN HELSING (some dude), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 2:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think if I hadn't at some level decided that "more on the nose" = "better" I probably wouldn't have become such a FOB stan.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah but like...."Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner" didn't have a bow tied on it with an "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" interpolation or something.
― EVERY HUGH JACKMAN HAS A VAN HELSING (some dude), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:27 (nine years ago) link
imagine how awesome that would be
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:40 (nine years ago) link
or she's like the wind! omg
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:41 (nine years ago) link
Hungry Eyes FTW IMO
― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:50 (nine years ago) link
oh shit
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
I just watched them do Centuries on Fallon...how can such a nothing song have such a monstrous chorus? FOB are confusingly magical.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
THE BEST
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 07:03 (nine years ago) link
What's the melody at the beginning of Centuries? Wanna say it's Dido's little ditty at the beginning of Stan but don't think that's quite right
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
lol
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:00 (nine years ago) link
suzanne vega, "tom's diner"
― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:08 (nine years ago) link
No, that's not quite it. I think it's the I Dream of Jeannie theme.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
Thanks Tim
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:22 (nine years ago) link
after how's life's post I assumed I had missed some kind of joke
― Tim F, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:25 (nine years ago) link
I admit, I never know which way 龜's going with a post.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link
Haha I honestly don't know who Susanne Vega is
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link