fall out boy - folie à deux poll

Totally. This must be OTM, btw, since I never heard any of these songs until today!:

if you look at the chart performance of the singles, i feel like there's a really clear arc of them doing well on rock radio, then pop radio too, then rock radio kind of abandoning them as 'too pop' and pop radio moving shortly after, so they went from crossover stars to not particularly welcome on either side of the gap in record time.

Yeah. That's really accurate. It sort of baffles me that pop radio had space for something like 'Arms Race' or 'Mmrs'

And shortly before that, the hey day of pop-punk - Good Charlotte, sum41, etc.

this is the best FOB they ever did, sort of crushes me that it wasn't the massive massive MASSIVE moneymachine chart hit it deserved to be. love everything on it except for "W.A.M.S" and "west coast smoker". the five-song run from "the (shipped) gold standard" through "tiffany blews" kills me every time. have a hard time picking between "i don't care", "(coffee's for closers)", "27" and "20 dollar nose bleed". but $20 just for the hell of it.

"This Ain't a Scene..." kind of turned me off.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, February 3, 2012 11:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so insane.

"FOB they" = "thing FOB", or something

I'm downloading Infinity now.

infinity and folie are weird in that they both offer up an astonishing pop-crossover attempt right off the bat ("this ain't a scene" and "i don't care") but then tread water for a while and really come into their own only about halfway through (with "thnks fr the mmrs" and "the (shipped) gold standard"). is it that they think the fans expect the more generic stuff and frontload with it for that reason, or that they know they're badass enough to hold their best shit for the home stretch?

kind of think you're alone in regarding the lead singles as some of the best things on the albums, and i definitely don't understand your view of the running orders in general (although FAD does get really great at the halfway mark)

"America's Suitehearts" probably could've been big since it's the closest they ever came to rewriting "Sugar, We're Going Down" but god that terrible video

kind of think you're alone in regarding the lead singles as some of the best things on the albums...

― some dude, Saturday, February 4, 2012 8:22 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well, me and whoever picks lead singles

you can't even say 'critically underloved' bcz there are people like Maura Johnston etc who've consistently repped

Who apart from Maura/Al (& that ex-Idolator/current-Village Voice kind've crew), critic-wise, repped for this? FoB/MCR/etc seemed like such a huge critical blind spot for the Pitchfork umbrella*, and it's a shame that they're likely to undergo some sort of Hall & Oates**-style period of neglect before getting their dues.

* twentysomethings disdaining "teenage" music, etc
** good reference point for Patrick Stump, actuallly

I repped for it but got onto the album too late to pitch to pitchfork; and I'm guessing scott p would have been conscious about running a late review and what that would have been perceived to mean, if I had pitched anyway.

yeah i mean i was one of the 6 voters the album got in Pazz & Jop in '08, which is more votes than a lot of albums got but by no means a major groundswell, and of course you have to play the 'what if' game with an album that dropped in mid-December

also one of the other voters (not Tim) writes for Pitchfork! but i really think they never would've run a review no matter who pitched it when, that's how they roll for better or worse

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man, "she's my wynona" sticks in my head like nobody's business

Would it be fair to say that this was FOB's Hysteria (in artistic, not commercial, terms)?

voted 'What A Catch' because the hook in that chorus, and Stump's vox...the whole thing still slays me.

and I get such a huge kick out of the arc of those 4 albums. Cork and Infinity kind of blend together for me, and then Grave and Folie are the nice raw/polished bookends. Love me some FOB.

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wtf is this turnout

:,(

I forgot to vote, I think

saddest poll ever

I can't remember if I voted now! I thought I did. (However, I've been playing this almost constantly since I downloaded it. So the thread was definitely not a waste.)

Did two other people vote for "Coffee's for Closers"?

i voted 'coffees 4 closers'

couldve easily voted 'headfirst slide' & cant blieve it got 0 votes

yah put me down for headfirst slide

i also thought i voted for "coffee's for closers"

but maybe i forgot to vote because i don't know anymore

yeah me too -- idk ilx polls can get wonky imo or else i just almost always forget to vote

i've been listening to 'cork tree' this week... cool record, def like it less than the two that followed tho. it's funny to hear them so pop punk, like some drum sounds that could be on a blink record, and then there's these two MASSIVE singles. "nobody puts baby in the corner" is my favorite song even tho it has some o__O lyrics all over the place... esp the outro

or i guess it's a bridge

I really like Infinity the more I listen to it...everything sounds so big & meaty

thx tthread for making me listen to and enjoy this rec, jerks

anyway it's p sweet who knew not me

cheerz

your welcome

best album

yup

yep

uh huh

^^^

Yet another album I never would have listened to without ILM.

I still kind of have mixed feelings about it though.

blows my mind that there's a rock song w/ Lil Wayne on it that's actually pretty great

Jay-Z intro to Infinity On High is another awesome/bizarre moment...

that Jay cameo being so awkward and half-assed is the reason why the Wayne cameo surprised me

http://i.imgur.com/CJbCk.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mabj98z9oL1qmh3mto1_500.jpg

Well yeah, the Wayne cameo is obviously far superior.

I only realized this morning that Pharrell produced Folie à Deux.

he only did "w.a.m.s."