The Return of Fall Out Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsfY8iFbYjE

record is literally called save rock and roll

all right then

That song was so outrageous I couldn't help but like it, starting from the title on. "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark" lol. Stump, you cheeky bastard.

i'm pretty impressed that they've managed to pick a date to play london when I am out of the country.

and by 'impressed', i mean DAMN YOU PETE WENTZ STOP RUINING EVERYTHING

dead

Did Mutt Lange produce this?

pattern with first singles from fall out boy records is:

1) i don't know what to do with this
2) *blasts fourteen times in a row anyway*

yeah i'm kind of like
1. does this even have a verse?
2. better listen again to check!!

I'm going to be saying/singing "I'M ON FIIII-YERRRRRRR" for the rest of the year, probably to the dismay of everyone around me.

i missed the ticket window :(

I'm going to be saying/singing "I'M ON FIIII-YERRRRRRR" for the rest of the year, probably to the dismay of everyone around me.

nooooooo

They're like lawyers with the way they're always trying to get you off!

2 CHAINZ TO BRING THEM ALL AND IN THE DARKNESS BIND THEM

Did Mutt Lange produce this?

Wondered the same thing. Liking it.

playing NYC tomorrow and of course its sold out, FML

i kind of need to hug someone right now and none of my friends who would understand live in this city anymore :/

yesssssssssssss

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

DAMN MY WORK'S LACK OF AUDIO

holy shit this is funnnn

up up up
fiyaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

a constellation of tears on your

lashes

Yeah I'm not sure I even really-- *cranks volume, plays on repeat* ---OMG THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER

"Multi-platinum Grammy-nominated Island Records/Universal Music band Fall Out Boy finally put an end to years of rumors and speculation, with the official announcement today from their hometown of Chicago that the band has returned and will globally launch their new single ‘My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)’ today at iTunes. They commemorated the occasion at the site of the original Comiskey Park, the location of Disco Demolition Night in 1979, as they were burning albums."

http://i47.tinypic.com/2ur8mcj.jpg

So hyped.

will be at the show tonight *________*

!

we hate you right now.

THREADBAN J0RDAN

jerk

Why is J0rdan so bad and hated?

BECAUSE.

anyone who goes to see Fall Out Boy tonight deserves to be murdered

Well, I can't co-sign that.

j0rd's post-show update: I've Got All This Ringing In My Ears And None On My Fingers

xpost - j0rd hypebole, that was meant to be

lol dayo

j0rd's post-show update: I've Got All This Ringing In My Ears And None On My Fingers

― 乒乓, Monday, February 4, 2013 6:47 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

the venue is a shoebox, so prob

the new song is wacky as fuck but "i don't care" was actually just wack, so nbd

lol i love "i don't care" albeit it took me hearing it with the rest of the record to love it

anyway i h8 u jordan

what a strange track. like a widescrean, blue-tinted post-Michael Bay Maroon 5 take on a Linkin Park emo-step breakdown with ironic Metal/Queen operatics thrown on top

<i>pattern with first singles from fall out boy records is:

1) i don't know what to do with this
2) *blasts fourteen times in a row anyway*

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, February 4, 2013 9:53 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink</i>

See also: Carpal Tunnel Of Love.

Cautiously optimistic for the album - played the ever-loving crap out of the last three, still spin them on occasion, haven't liked Patrick Stump's solo stuff as much as I've wanted to.

I'M GOING TO THE SHOW TOMORROW :D :D :D :D :D :D

Plz to rock

THREADBAN MAURA

gah

they played tons of stuff from cork tree and prior... dipped into the last two albums only intermittently and played only the single off the new album. was a very conscious 'back to basics'/real heads know the deal kinda thing i guess, but they sounded incredible. very fun show, would attend secret fall out boy show at 375 cap venue again.

they did play all the singles tho, so that was cool. they actually played a fair amount of stuff from 'infinity on high' too

also pete was wearing a shirt that said "i want you to chase me like the beatles and get me high like bob marley" which i believe was something he tweeted and then made into a shirt lolz https://twitter.com/petewentz/status/223254990897160192

don't talk to me

;_;

i didn't get a chance to read the news stories today so this may be old news but pete said that patrick called him like 18 months ago to write songs but what they came up with didn't "feel right" or whatever. then patrick called him again a few months ago and they got back at it and i guess that's where this album is coming from.

also patrick was looking fine

this song sucks

Digging the new song. It's really weird, but I've been compelled to listen a number of times.

Also, the Fall out Boy tag on tumblr is filled with A WHOLE LOT OF CAPS LOCK

I keep wanting this to break into some guitar shredding.

i don't think it's a very good song but whatever

Maybe it's not a very well-developed song, objectively, but it sure did a great job of amplifying my personal excitement about a new album.

it's a good excuse to go back and listen to my Fall Out Boy albums

I don't think it's their best, either, to be clear, although it has some interesting ideas.

lol this is total trash

youre total trash

that's hurtful

; (

WELL YOU ARE

:)

not into this at all

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Coz_cpLaGSw/SpeedqxAW7I/AAAAAAAAAuc/BAaPs9Ssa5Y/s320/milhouse.jpg

http://www.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/falloutboy.jpg

idk i like this song a lot

feel like if you don't like this song you don't like everything fall out boy stands for

I'll probably love it by Friday tbf

feel like if you don't like this song you don't like everything fall out boy stands for

idk if i'd put it like that, this song is essentially fob covering kanye's "power"

Yeah I was just about to say that it reminds me of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy meets Bon Jovi's It's My Life minus the presence of a piano.

FOB has always been about packaging massive hooks in excoriating sonics 4 me, this new one embodies this MO perfectly imo

that show was so great :D

envious!!!!

i made some girl's day by giving her my plus one, too :)

That is because you rule.

pattern with first singles from fall out boy records is:

1) i don't know what to do with this
2) *blasts fourteen times in a row anyway*

Ha, I've ended up playing this a lot after all.

yeah I mean I would have been worried if this single had just sounded like a folie a deux b-side

no. 3 on digital songs chart...

this song reminds me of like bad late-90s movie soundtracks

Why The Fall Out Boy Reunion Can Go Die In A Fire

1. Three Years Isn’t A Hiatus
2. Grow The Fuck Up
3. They Were Total Dicks About It
4. The Media Onslaught Was Obnoxious
5. What The Fuck Happened To This Guy?
http://media.tumblr.com/46f03aaa6117d11f9425d6a2fe5539a3/tumblr_inline_mia09lxIRL1rrpnx6.jpg
6. This Shit is Terrible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkIWmsP3c_s

they moved the release date up to April 15 and put the album onsale on the FOB site, but i have no idea if that means they ship the CDs as soon as you order them or if they'll come in April.

Woo! Excited about the new album.

Why JadedPunk Dot Com Can Go Die In That Fire First

this new song is clearly just the new salvo in the emo michael jackson fob revolution

this ain't a fire it's a goddamn adam lambert scene

yeah but his songs know what you did in the dark

remember when they digressed?

i think stump looks great + good for him

infinity on high is a wonderful album and i am drunk

FOB is an awesome band for being drunk to

a penny for your thoughts but a dollar for your insides!

i'm honestly not even sure what to expect from this album or if there's any reason to believe it'll be as good as their last 3 albums, but Butch Walker producing has me optimistic, i'm not crazy about "My Songs" but i like that it sounds like the song he did on Pink's last album.

jfc i remember reading so much disgusting stuff on the internet about how "fat" Stump was and now he loses weight and shapes up and he still gets shit? some people just can't win.

BUT he sold out... for a healthier lifestyle

stump's blog entry about fan backlash, titled "we liked you better fat," was so depressing

oh yeah i remember that one now, it was.

yeah

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

nice

I saw them a couple of times at Leeds Festival in the 2000s and to be fair they were a pretty fun live band. But on record? Nah, not for me.

They're at Leeds this year and they'll probably draw one of the biggest crowds of the weekend.

here we go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDZbroaQDc

not totally feeling this one either... seems SUPER arena-rock for them

i mean, both songs

it seems like patrick is really straining his voice... he has a strong voice but the signing on these records doesn't sound organic or something

The Phoenix seems like a song that exists solely to make a video for.

i really dig this song, even more than "my songs," and patrick's more aggressive singing on both songs feels, strangely, extremely organic to me, especially when it's in deliberate contrast with the (from what i can tell) extremely sampled/phased backing.

it just sounds like he's straining to me... like thin and nasally as opposed to his normal powerful/soulful singing

huh, yeah you're right.

have to keep reminding myself that i've never liked their pre-album singles as much as the albums or later singles

http://i.imgur.com/7hEUV8O.png

i did a double take

otm

does anybody know who the producer on this album is? patrick's voice does sound different but it could be any number of things

have to keep reminding myself that i've never liked their pre-album singles as much as the albums or later singles

― some dude, Monday, March 25, 2013 2:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

you are the dude who shits on something on ilx when it comes out and then i read your blog 5 months later and the same thing you shitted on is like your #5 for the year

; )

does anybody know who the producer on this album is? patrick's voice does sound different but it could be any number of things

butch walker

Don't mind these songs but so far, they're a bit of a letdown after Folie a Deux.

have to keep reminding myself that i've never liked their pre-album singles as much as the albums or later singles

― some dude, Monday, March 25, 2013 2:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

you are the dude who shits on something on ilx when it comes out and then i read your blog 5 months later and the same thing you shitted on is like your #5 for the year

― 乒乓, Monday, March 25, 2013 4:19 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm often down on singles and then like the albums or vice versa if that's what you mean. i like to think i'm willing to change my mind or admit when i've been wrong but i dunno if something like what you're describing actually happens that often! unless jokes i make about artists i like just come off harsh, i guess. examples?

If Panic at the Disco would reform with the same 4 dudes from their first 2 albums I would probably care and listen.

haha well I think I said that in a fit of pique - I don't have somedude.xls open but since I started following your blog a few months ago I def felt p surprised at how highly ranked you had some songs which I had a vague memory of you shitting on here on ILM. I'll let you know if I catch you slippin xp

Yeah it's all good. I'm just curious now if those are apparent inconsistencies I can easily explain or that I'm totally unaware of! Singles tend to change a lot for me from first listen to fiftieth, which is prob how it should be imo.

i feel confident in saying that this will probably be the only album ever to feature both big sean and elton john

last album was probably the only album to ever feature both lil wayne and elvis costello (...nobody really famous to contrast w/ jay-z or babyface on the album before that though)

the producer credits!

http://i.imgur.com/Ldl2lQI.png

that's the wayne/elvis one thoug

pharrell only produced "w.a.m.s."

oh my god i never knew babyface produced "i'm like a lawyer"

i feel confident in saying that this will probably be the only album ever to feature both big sean and elton john

― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Friday, March 29, 2013 1:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

tho it was pointed out to me on twitter that MBDTF had elton john + 15 other guests, but curiously no big sean

lol ppl be adding fake song titles to the save rock and roll wiki

""Every Time I Dye My Hair, the Ladies Say, "Hot Damn!""

i was thinking of a fall out boy-ish poll thread title but couldn't think of anything besides puns involving pole dancing

haha it's a shame FOB didn't announce the tracklist for this well ahead of the release date, could've been a good ILX pre-covers project

tho it was pointed out to me on twitter that MBDTF had elton john + 15 other guests, but curiously no big sean

― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Friday, March 29, 2013 3:47 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is the offish "all of the lights" remix w/ big sean, which i assume still has elton's piano in the mix although who knows

I kinda dug "My Songs..." so I'm disappointed "The Phoenix" sounds like what I expected (which makes it a comeback after all, I guess).

"My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark" doesn't sound all that great on the radio. The goofiness in the chorus stopped being funny somewhere around the 3rd listen, and nothing else in this song has grown into anything especially rewarding.

it sounded good as a 6 second bumper wherever i heard it yesterday, espn maybe

Maybe it's too long.

most songs are

it's only 3 minutes! i think it's ok as a single, no better or worse than, like, "I Don't Care."

my joke was bad. suggesting the song should be edited down to 6 seconds.

ha oh that went over my head

Matt ‏@Cheesegod69 14 Mar
shamrock shakes for my real friends, real rock shakes for my sham friends

2 chaaaiiiiiiiinz http://www.fakeshoredrive.com/2013/04/fall-out-boy-f-2-chainz-my-songs-know-what-you-did-in-the-dark-light-em-up-remix.html/

what they do with the instrumental there is pretty cool imo i like it a lot more than the OG track

save for the "trap" drums

hi-hats worked fine on the track, i thought

yeah they sound okay but maybe a bit obvious

yaeh i like the instrumentation on this. 2 chinaz sounds like hes sleepwalking tho

2 chinaz!

haha i typo'd that and immediately regretted having given up display names / not being active enough on twitter to change my name to that

these new synths are some lil' jon synths imo

2 fine chinaz

http://soundcloud.com/falloutboy/young-volcanoes/

i dig it

courtney love sounds amazing on this album fyi

i'm harboring a suspicion that big sean is on this album simply to say "fall out...*boyyiyiyyyii*"

lmao

(this album is awesome btw)

i'm kind of getting emotional over the fact that pete wrote the lyric "blood brothers in desperation"

"Young Volcanoes" is pretty great, although it kinda confirms my suspicion that they've spent the last year stewing with Ruess envy

the rest of the album didn't sound very much like fun. to me

basically it sounds like the album that should have come after 'infinity on high'... it almost feels intentionally corrective to me

word

folie a deux is kind of a warm, gloopy mess that i love... these songs sound much sharper

yeah i'm sure the album sounds like Fall Out Boy, i just kinda lolled at the hammy campfire singalong of "we are [like] young [volcanoes]"

i kind of see from under the cork tree and folie a deux being lineal descendants, linking infinity on high and this new one together would make some kind of symmetrical sense

where are ppl hearing this? did it leak or is it just journo-perks

just journo-jerks i think

it comes out in a week so i'm sure it will be out there soon enough

"save rock and roll" is the most post pitch-perfect thing ever

like...post-anna kendrick's "cups"?

streaming http://falloutboy.com/

yassssss

so far astounding in how it seems to engage with modern pop whoa-whoa bullshit and make it actually great

hahaha holy shit this is great

"Alone Together" first semi-dud imo, children chorus makes it worse not better, but even that sounds so glossy and huge and explosive that it's easy to forgive the retreading. "Phoenix" so insanely good.

i basically pretend this album starts at "alone together" which is prob the most fall out boy thing on here

omg yesyesyes

i will take my fangirl ears off one I get over the excitment of omg a new FOB album imo

this album is just so good

Patrick's voice just gets better and better - he's like the little engine that could

i'm gonna tough it out til next week, ya'll have fun

HOLY SHIT COURTNEY LOVE

hoping that the love cameo is like marilynne faithful on metallica

marilynne faithful lol

i've not heard anything by her outside of her work with metallica, markers where u at

my heart is like a stallion fyi

this hews a lil close to green day for me, terrance malick will prob like it

the title track is prob the most fascinating thing they've ever written

like they wrote a track called "save rock and roll" and not only got elton john to sing on it but also had him sing one of their old lines

so much fist pumping and woo in this I'm loving it

"phoenix" is so massive

otm

never listened to "phoenix" and "my songs" in sequence but man everything is pitched at 100 percent for the first six minutes of this record

i love that run of the final 3 tracks at the end -- especially RatTatTat fkn courtney fuck yeah

i love when elton john pronounces "love" as "LUFF"

though I kinda wish this was 70's elton, his oldman elton low voice is a bit jarring at first

i never think of pete wentz as a bass player but that's a great bass line in "where did the party go" (a realization i come to whenever i listen to "w.a.m.s" also)

"where did the party go" and esp "miss missing you" are full prom dance

lol yes

it is with out a doubt the first record in a new chapter of fall out boy. we made this music for ourselves and no one else at the end of the day. this is meant be played loud, with the windows down on summer nights. four friends with our backs to each other fighting in the darkness against anything and everything that is out there. we bowed our heads, took a knee and plugged back in.

haha god dammit i love this band so much

got nothing but extremely entertained lols for "the mighty fall"

good simple plan bite, big sean

"oh how the mighty fall / in love" is such a classic wentz lyric

the 'took a knee and plugged in' line made me irl lol so hard

"young volcanoes" is so good, i hear so many singles on this record

my girlfriend likened "young volcanoes" to train which has momentarily ruined the song for me

like they wrote a track called "save rock and roll" and not only got elton john to sing on it but also had him sing one of their old lines

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 8, 2013 12:08 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark

i guess i don't know whether to roll my eyes or to fist pump and cheer at somebody writing a song about the state of rock n roll in... 2013

nb without having heard the actual song, obv

lol i was re-reading the infinity on high thread this weekend and i compared "what a catch" to train u_u

"young volcanoes" sounds like the most blatant fun. rip on the record tho

dudes you should've seen the way my eyes glimmered at the start of "miss missing you"

yeah the first time i heard that i was like "ah man brad's gonna die when he hears this"

love young volcanoes so much

I'll take a FOB fun. ripoff every single time over hearing fun. soulessly whoaohhhh ever again

I WANNA SEE YOUR ANIMAAAAALLLL SIDE
LET IT ALL OUUUUUUUT

Not sure if this is outside the scope of the conversation, but has anybody written anything about how FOB became such a critically respected, "important" band? I don't really understand that POV, but I'm interesting in learning how the consensus changed so drastically

don't worry, they really haven't

the answer is Dom xp

critics have always mostly liked them ime

meanwhile, it's courtney bitch

omg the sample of "chicago is so two years ago" on the title track.

oh shi I didn't even notice

Wow @ this record. Up to Just One Yesterday...

i think the biggest roadblock for me w/ this record is how much i loved Stump's solo album and his lyric writing that going back to hearing him as the mouthpiece for rmde Wentz witticisms feels like a downgrade

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.

Join us
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

oh sweet jesus i leave tim alone for 5 minutes

haha don't worry I'm listening to Trick Daddy at the moment.

emo in the wind

fall out thug

thug this to your grave

btw the first two panic at the disco records are essential tim even though they don't feature trick daddy

okay i'm on it.

Maybe once i've started collating these I will start a 'Tim listens to emo-crossover' thread.

nine in the afternoon was awesome too re panic!

"death valley" was the only song i was sort of indifferent toward and now it's enormous

omg @ courtney

i like how it sounds like she's doing the token Pete screamo rant of the album

The first two tracks have grown on me but so far, this does not click with me anywhere near as much as Folie a Deux. No "Disloyal Order" or "Coffee's for Closers" here. (Admittedly, Folie took a little while to grow on me too.)

that album was super immediate for me. happy to give this one time, though.

i like how it sounds like she's doing the token Pete screamo rant of the album

― HOOSTEENA/The Steens of God (some dude), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

it kinda reminds me of the distorted PA shouting off of danger days

This album kinda reminds me of Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals, in a good way.

the drum outro on 'young volcanoes' makes me wish that fall out boy would cover 'monk chant' ... the thought of which is exploding my brain

I missed out on the brief emo canon tangent above, but I would nominate Midtown's debut as a dark horse candidate

OK, I'm pretty hooked right now. "Young Volcanoes" is the only one I skip. "Alone Together" is pretty great. I'm not sure which R&B artist it reminds me of.

"Alone Together" is pretty great but WTF at skipping "Young Volcanoes".

yeah flagged u for that sund4r wtf

ban sund4r

all in favor

i think i only like the first 4 songs + "miss missing you" *ducks*

BAN CRUNCH TOO

its cool i had a good run

i won't lie, i will miss u

ill petition for a spec dispensation 2 still post on proj runway threads, dont worry

whew

remember how i couldn't listen to "young volcanoes" upthread? "young volcanoes" is the BEST

unban bradnelson

you know i only wanted fun / then you got me all fucked up on love

i thought i wouldn't really give a fuck / but now a bitch all in love

^^

Updated thoughts now that I am the proud owner of this album

a)Young Volcanoes is proof that fun. should be fired. Go peddle yr lameass whoa hoa hoas elsewhere, fun. FOB OWNS U

b)Miss Missing You makes me want to go to prom. who wants to take me to prom

YOU SAID I'VE SEEN BIGGER SHE SAYS I'VE LIT BETTER AND THEY THROW THE MATCHES DOWN INTO THE GLITTER

let's talk about daft punk less and this more

yes, this album is awesome

YOUHE SAID I'VE SEEN BIGGER SHE SAYS I'VE LIT BETTER AND THEY THROW THE MATCHES DOWN INTO THE GLITTER

― 乒乓, Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:04 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

fixed myself

i was driving from NY to Philly yesterday and falling asleep at the wheel -- blasting this album really loud and singing along surely saved my life

i'll take your heart served up two ways

the "so we can take the world back from a heart attack, one maniac at a time, we will take it back" part is just

yes but next is even better: "you know time crawls on while you're waiting for the song to start, so dance alone to the beat of your heart"

i'm still waiting for this album to click, has not really hooked me.

it took me what seemed forever to love the first half but here we are

once "miss missing you" kicked in i saw hearts though (evidence upthread)

yeah i might only like 1/2 of this or so but its def clicked - 'phoenix', 'miss missing you' & 'where did the party go' are undeniable jams

"the mighty fall": awesome and funny

"just one yesterday": was so put off by the adele-isms at first but the chorus is deepened necessarily by foxes

yeah that is prob my favorite song so far

the middle hasn't clicked at all yet but first three + last two are all time

the album feels like both an elegy and a paean to losing their youth

"where did the party go", "alone together", "miss missing you" and especially "rat a tat" and "save rock and roll" can stand up with the best stuff of IOH & FAD

some of the other tracks aren't as great but i mean this thing bangs front to back in what feels like 20 minutes

i'm not really a lyrics guy but the lyrics to both 'rat a tat' and 'save rock n roll' vibrate a chord w/n me so much

the album feels like both an elegy and a paean to losing their youth

― 乒乓, Friday, May 3, 2013 8:01 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think 'folie a deux' was the former... this album is just really energetic and ecstatic about moving forward imo

hmm, maybe i'm just too colored in by 'rat a tat', which seems to be about loving like you're 16 when you're actually 30

thats the new avril single, which also bangs

i definitely like how the album ends -- Elton by far the best stunt casting on an FOB album yet

yeah, am reaaaalllly feeling Save Rock N Roll now, that chorus hook hits like a hammer

imo The Phoenix thru Just One Yesterday is pretty perfect -big sean kills the momentum

anything you say can + will be held against u / so only say my name and i will be held against u

**a constellation of tears on your

lashes

― bantz a make her dance (c sharp major), Monday, February 4, 2013 1:25 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

BURN EVERYTHING YOU LOVE THEN BURN THE
ASHES

<3

I haven't heard any of this but need to

ok ok:

SOMETIMES BEFORE IT GETS BETTER
THE DARKNESS GETS BIGGER
THEPERSONTHATYOU'DTAKEABULLETFORISBEHINDTHETRIGGER

OH

great line

is FOB ever actually gonna do all 11 music videos??

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPa0TZwXH4pLZp4XPvqQENrE3aJC48x9S

i thought you were bumping the thread because a new one had come out. WAY TO GET MY HOPES UP >:(

;_;

jeez dayo

"young volcanoes" video really kind of gave the song a whole new tone for me, in a good way (though i liked it already). i just hope they do videos with Elton and Courtney in them.

"alone together" is the next single, which seems like a smart choice

YES

"rat a tat" is the best song ever, and then so is "save rock and roll"

it's a killer combo to end on

our songs know what we did in the dark is i think being used in every commercial & sports bumper music currently

young volcanoes is in a microsoft ad.

!!! new video for 'alone together' http://youtu.be/rkxJLLJ-C7Q !!!

and "alone together" is the new single

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

song is undeniable, hope it does something on pop radio

i believe they're filming the courtney song this coming week

These guys came into my office a few weeks back, all very nice bros.

patrick is a class act from like literally every interaction i've had with him/i've witnessed online or elsewhere

yeah totally

relistening to the album today

the more it percolates the better it gets, it's still SO FUCKING GREAT

I heard a little bit of "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark" being played at Mile High on Thursday night's Denver/Ravens NFL game

<3

Finally got a hold of this album in the last week or so and pretty much no matter what else I listen to, this is what gets stuck in my head.

This has been a very revelatory year for me, emo-wise, what with Paramore and Fall Out Boy. Should I start reading Alternative Press?

been hearing "The Phoenix" on the local alt station lately and it sounds better in that context than it had to me as a video/album track.

We have a local alt station?

oh shit, no one told me that hfs was back.

http://i.imgur.com/JHC1t7p.jpg

another new album (!?)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/fall-out-boy-punk-out-on-love-sex-death-premiere-20130929

oh wow wtf

this album makes me so emotional

SOMETIMES BEFORE IT GETS BETTER THE DARKNESS GETS BIGGER THE PERSON THAT YOU'D TAKE A BULLET FOR IS BEHIND THE TRIGGER
OH

hahahaha all right these are getting sillier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSfKSUd31MM

tw: pete wentz vomits a snake

PAX AM DAYS is a hoot, fun to hear them 'return' to a style they never made a record with to begin with, love how Stump is just not holding back or simplifying his singing at all and still just belts everything

^^ yeah, i wasn't feeling it at all because his singing is way too operatic for garage punk

see i like oversung punk. it's like the Misfits!

i expected at least a couple of songs of the Wentz grunts they briefly throw into previous albums but none of that

misfits are kinda singular imo. if this were even 1/10 as good as hybrid moments!

YOU ARE
WHAT YOU LUFF

what's the read on pax am days

haven't heard it, but i've read it's a bunch of hardcore style songs.

i guess it's like 18 mins long i should just listen to it

it's hilarious and fun, best song is "caffeine cold"

I listened to it once and forgot about it

even shorter, 13 minutes! Brad otm, it's a kick

you know some dude danzig isn't a bad reference point for this at all!

haha i'm sayin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skZHO0YIHbU

http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/fall_out_boys_young_blood_chronicles_to_conclude_on_palladia_feature_elton

The last two videos debut this Wednesday.

damn they're still doing that

gotta admire the dedication, lot of 'there will be a video for every song on the album' plans fall apart along the way. kinda bummed that "Young Volcanoes" is finally a single but there's no momentum to get it on the radio.

Also, this is from a year ago, but I just discovered it. Figure it would be of interest to at least some cross-section of ilxors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTuE6VcTkBg

Apparently a VH1 exclusive thing for the time being.

http://www.vh1.com/music/tuner/2014-05-21/fall-out-boy-the-young-blood-chronicles-finale-premiere/

Always think they're gonna say "marijuanica" in Young Volcanos.

Like a weed harmonica.

new single coming in september already!!!

http://fuelyourspeakers.com/2014/08/fall-out-boy-to-release-new-single-centuries/

oh that's hell of good news.

fuck

Could someone translate the morse code in this, I'm too lazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeOYu-zp0R4

http://i.imgur.com/v3t2dlQ.png

It would probably be quicker to decode it myself but I keep on refreshing the comments, hoping that someone down there has figured it out

YoungAdultSarah ‏@SairyEnno 1m
@falloutboy Its CENTURIES in morse code.

Oh jeez, I was hoping for a release date.

I tried and got "jentufils". glad I wasn't a radioman in WWII or whatever.

this is very exciting!

some things in this world are right and just

8TH SEPTEMBER

(afternoon EST)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLP6QluMlrg

BUT YOU WILL REMEMBER MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

what - is this thing out now?

not till 3

just played twice on zane lowe

sounds absolutely massive

I AM THE OPPOSITE OF AMNESIA

this doesn't sound as bad as i was expecting post "light em up", still not very good by their standards though

i don't really care though as long as it gets the album out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCbS-TLEoRA

suppose it was a matter of time before we got their specific transfiguration of imagine dragons

that said i dig it

I'm liking it less with subsequent listens.

itunes is showing that I've purchased it, but says that I've got nothing available for download. I listened to a youtube of it a little bit ago. I wasn't won over immediately. Seems to rely too much on the chorus, which isn't that strong. My first impression is of a not-particularly cool b-side. But I'll be sure to give it a more serious listen.

That said, is it really more Imagine Dragons-influenced than Save Rock and Roll?

i'm still waiting for "young volcanoes" to become a ubiquitous anthem tho

This is a shit song :(

definitely seems like "My Songs" has stoked their hunger to soundtrack more sporting event telecasts. the last album really grew on me and turned out to be a pretty nice varied collection of song, though, so i'm anticipating the LP.

i wish the chorus didn't flatten into the chant the way it does - it's a weird opposite-resolution sort of thing. also what will be the third item to round out the '90s interpolations by wentz-affiliated bands' trend?

i do love how this song has been playing on espn since late august though

what's the other 90s interpolation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXI9uqh-hNA

"Centuries" was written by Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman, Andy Hurley, Justin Tranter, Michael Fonseca and Raja Kumari in mid-2014 and was produced by J.R. Rotem and Omega.

Lotta chefs, seemingly.

rotem???????????????

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE BELUGA HEIGHTS HEADQUARTERS

Didn't realize they were featured on the new Aoki record either.

heard Centuries on the radio the other day so I guess some folk like it

really one of the worst songs on the air rn, just crushingly overbearing. it's like i'm being berated, but what for? the OG hook could get famously annoying but never lost an irreducible nimbleness, this just steamrollers it into something grim. the whole enterprise feels cynical.

https://vine.co/falloutboy

Something happening tomorrow. Perhaps more nonsense?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dObIUPXz-5o

Ah, it's in the background of this. Can't hear it too well through my work headphones. Sounds more "Centuries" than "Save Rock and Roll" though.

it sounds way funkier than "centuries"

but again can barely hear it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckAGKzTKsvw#t=99

Better audio about halfway through in this one. It doesn't sound particularly thrilling. Glad they're getting some movie money though.

guessing it's called "immortals"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9PxOanFjxQ

*shrugs*

http://www.nba.com/bulls/entertainment/only-bulls-fall-out-boy-feat.-lupe-fiasco-0

Fall Out Boy
1 hr ·

NOV 2014 ‪#‎comingsoon‬

Don't know what the hell that portends.

One of my kids made me download "Immortals" after seeing Big Hero 6. I have now heard it 57 times. It's not much of a song, but it's better than the Imagine Dragons song he made me download from the Transformers soundtrack.

Did I just hear Pete Wentz namedrop Sebastian Tellier in reference to their new single (which I want to hear in a HQ version before I make any real verdict abt it)

Album January 20. Titled American Beauty/American Psycho.

Have you heard the single at all? xp

xxp nm he was talking about sebastiAn of Ed Banger fame, that's a name I haven't heard in awhile

Yeah, I'm listening to it for a second time on Zane Lowe's show

oh my god ahaha i love it

http://kennyharrris.tumblr.com/post/103480618515/theres-3-talking-at-the-end

this song is insane

and yet beautiful

funny how that works

lol

Always sit up when maura and Brad both come out in support for something

The production is full-blown Andrew WK wall of rawk

that is very sweet although this case involves a fairly stacked deck

I THINK I FELL IN LOVE AGAIN
MAYBE I JUST TOOK TOO MUCH COUGH MEDICINE

what on earth is this? lol.

(November 24, 2014) – Multi-platinum selling band Fall Out Boy announced today that their highly-anticipated sixth studio album will be titled American Beauty/American Pyscho and released on January 20, 2015 on Island Records & DCD2 Records. The title track will be available digitally worldwide on December 8th. Fans will also be able to pre-order the album – and receive an instant download of the title track and UK single “American Beauty/American Psycho” as well as the album’s hit single “Centuries” and an additional track to be named – beginning December 15 on iTunes. Further tracks from the album will also be made available for download ahead of the full album release.

Album January 20. Titled American Beauty/American Psycho.

― put your money where the maracas are (how's life), Monday, November 24, 2014 2:38 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

yaaaaaaaaaaaas

Wait, "Centuries" is a hit?

it snot unless you only count its usage in MLB postseason ads

actually intrigued by this tho, save rock & roll was far from perfect but def some good stuff on it

I'm intrigued by sebastiAn's involvement, in the way that I would be with any foreign entity being dropped into FOB's formula (I can't name you a single sebastiAn track)

I know, FOB doesn't really have a formula

centuries is going to be all over the college football playoff telecasts next month

SebastiAn was probably the best of the Ed Banger crew IIRC, seems like a canny match-up.

Umm, you forgot about Uffie.

Oh man, when you guys were saying Ed Banger, I mixed him up with Ed Rush and I was all like "well, bringing back techstep makes about as much sense as anything else these guys do".

Xpost Lol no

"Pop the Glock" is still so viscerally awful.

oh fuck yes I love this

Wow, this is great. Andrew WK comparisons apt.

this is waaaaaaaaaay better than centuries hopefully this is more indicative of the overall sound

"centuries" always struck me as the "light em up" type "toss one to the sharks" single

FUCK THIS IS GORGEOUS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7U7_cKJw4

oh

my

god

what is this night

nice

AND IN THE END
I'D DO IT ALL AGAIN
I THINK YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND

one good song out of the first two songs is better than how save rock and roll started

"Centuries" has really grown on me hugely in the last few weeks. it sounds great on the radio.

um "american beauty/american psycho" rules and so does this

"immortals" is whatev though

1) Irresistible
2) American Beauty/American Psycho
3) Centuries
4) The Kids Aren't Alright
5) Uma Thurman
6) Jet Pack Blues
7) Novocaine
8) Fourth the July
9) Favorite Record
10) Immortals
11) Twin Skeleton's (Hotel in NYC)

um "american beauty/american psycho" rules and so does this

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, December 15, 2014 1:23 AM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"immortals" is whatev though

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, December 15, 2014 1:23 AM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol wait i didn't even know about these songs

iiii cannot wait until tim hears this song

cannoot

2/4 so far

also I hope that's not an official typo on that closer

*listens to this song over and over and over*

:)

otm

wow wow wow wow wow wow wow

i must say tho that this and the title track from the album being so good underscore how meh immortals and centuries are, but i'm still excited

hey guys

stay up
stay woke

so is this good or

trying to figure that out. first track ("irresistible") is a big stomper like "centuries"

but i remember sort of disliking my first listen of save rock and roll so i'm just kinda making tentative judgments rn

"uma thurman" is referring to a v specific song and i don't know the title of it

bond guitar! horns!

"jet pack blues" !!!!!!!!

As long as there's nothing else as flavorless as "Centuries" or "Immortals" I will approve

so far nope, everything is a very distinct flavor

thrilling to the chorus of "novocaine"

just thrilling

it does a lot of things in a very small space

closer better live up to its title

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

man, nonstop massive choruses on this record so far

so far this is sort of like a continuation of save rock and roll but the songs are just exploding out of themselves

"favorite record" is the false crj jam of this one

"immortals" just started and bummed me out

For such a blatant pop act they really are terribly represented by their singles (esp. lately)

i like a lot of things it's doing but i really think it's the ugly "imorrrrhorrrr-immortahls" in the second half of the chorus that sinks it for me

lotta stuff happening in that final track

pretty much all of it great

great record

i like the first track now

it's irresistiBLE!

ok officially stoked for this now thx

yeah this is awesome

I love "Uma Thurman" so much, off-brand "Misirlou" guitar line and coke-snorting sound and all

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