so I know nothing about FOB, but I did d/l this album because ILM, and I had Winamp on shuffle and this bombass awesome rock ballad type song comes on and I'm like what the fuck is this, and it was "What a Catch, Donnie". so different than what I had expected.
― shoot skag listen to sotl (rip van wanko), Friday, 7 November 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
it's a jam! that's my favorite song on the album
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 November 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
Wrong album, but since this is the top FOB thead at the moment - I just heard "Snitches and Talkers..." for he first time today. Good song - new fave, actually - but I was struck by the use of the phrase "why put a new address on the same old loneliness" - doesn't that come from a Songs: Ohia track? I thought at first there was some older common origin they both knicked it from, but some quick googling turned up a thread on a MEC forum where Molina had this to say. Made me a bit sad:
These lyrics were stolen from me. I heard it first on the stereo at the Brown Elephant Charity shop in Chicago. I almost dropped the Elton John records I was buying. It really has hurt my feelings that this band has stolen these lyrics. I am owed.
― Simon H., Saturday, 8 November 2014 06:08 (nine years ago) link
Err, wrong track, it's at the end of "Get Busy Living..."
― Simon H., Saturday, 8 November 2014 06:13 (nine years ago) link
pete also borrowed a bunch of lyrics from the cold cave dude on infinity on high
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 8 November 2014 06:21 (nine years ago) link
really tender detail about the elton john records there. dang
head like a steel trapwish i didn'ti didn'ti didn'ti didn'ti didn'ti didn'ti didn'ti don't
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 December 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
...just want to be a footNOTE in someone else's happinesssss
def the best FOB song
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 December 2015 22:35 (eight years ago) link
the only thing suicidal here is the door
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 December 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
turns out this record is pretty great. think “headfirst slide” is my pick.
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 September 2018 04:40 (five years ago) link
Correct choice. I feel like that is perhaps the song on their discography that both captures everything that is archetypally good about this band while also capturing that one of those things is how they're always reaching towards some other archetype (I recognise this is a somewhat paradoxical statement).
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 04:50 (five years ago) link
the build up of "headfirst slide" is one of the best moments on the album
was listening to this again for a few days last week. would still vote "the (shipped) gold standard" & i still love "what a catch, donnie" ... i just really like the big broad sentimental lyrics on this album ("you can only blame your problems on the world for so long / before it all becomes the same old song" and "i've got troubled thoughts and a self-esteem to match"). also other emo vocalists singing back their hooks is oddly affecting to me now.
the one i was loving recently that i never considered a favorite was "she's my winona" ... "the only thing suicidal here is the door" is an all time great wentz lyric & the guitars are really cool throughout
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 September 2018 06:05 (five years ago) link
think mine is "winona" too... the band's annotation for the sharp line "we didn't come to compete / this is a demonstration":
"the idea that you are no longer competing. that you believe in yourself so much that its just a demonstration of your will. like a little zen michael jordan."
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
have an esp soft spot for "america's suitehearts" for the way he says "why why why" like it's some sort of scat and elongates "cla-a-a-a-a-assic cars", and "27" the arc of the chorus
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
("too" as in also recent appreciation)
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
We def aren’t hurt about it and weren’t booed off stage ever for it- I wanna set that straight. I think there are ebbs and flows of every creative career... fad is one of my favorite albums of ours. I have the original painting of it I walk by every day ❤️— pw (@petewentz) November 17, 2018
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 November 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
“(coffee’s for closers)” and “disloyal order” are always the peaks for me but this is an album of peaks. “tiffany blews” is an incredible song for instance
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 November 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
aw
what is good FOB if you're one of the 10 people on earth who thinks 'young and menace' is p much the best thing he's heard from them
― imago, Saturday, 24 November 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
i'm nota crybabyi'mTHEcrybaby
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Saturday, February 1, 2014 12:31 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
legendary
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 November 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
lj you may like this album? the instrumentation is very traditionally rock but the songs are all weird and extremely catchy
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 November 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
will listen tomorrow ty
― imago, Saturday, 24 November 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
it’s such a good album in the classic sense ie you can listen all the way through & the songs all flow together well etc
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
yeah i remember first time i heard it the level of compression made it hard to get into, but the flow p quickly justified that sound for me as an overarching humid atmosphere
― lowercase (eric), Saturday, 24 November 2018 02:51 (five years ago) link
was listening to this recently... still really holds up
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 24 November 2018 04:58 (five years ago) link
still crazy to me "she's my winona" got 0 votes
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 24 November 2018 04:59 (five years ago) link
the high hopes song that is on the radio 24/7 now sounds like it could be on this album imo
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 24 November 2018 05:23 (five years ago) link
you could have knockedme outwith afeather
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:02 (four years ago) link
come togethercome apartonly get lonely when you read the charts
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:12 (four years ago) link
never the same person when i go to sleepas when i wake upas when i wake up
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Friday, February 3, 2012 8:21 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
follow this disorganized religion of my headand we'll never get through customs, let's just take off again instead
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
hi y'all this is the best album ever made
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 4 May 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
AGREE
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 May 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
as soon as we hit the hospital i know we’re gonna leave this town (we’re never gonna leave this town)and get new passports and getgetgetget out, getgetgetget out nowwwwww
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 5 March 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
YES OTM
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 March 2021 00:52 (three years ago) link
damn gonna need to put this on soon
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 March 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
weird coincidence, I put FOB on shuffle for the first time in many months at almost the exact time of this revive
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 6 March 2021 01:34 (three years ago) link
but DON'T let the DOCtordon't let the DOCtor iiiiiin
― uberweiss, Sunday, 20 March 2022 02:28 (two years ago) link
butterfly BANdage but don’t WORRRRYYYYY
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 March 2022 03:13 (two years ago) link
when he walks into the roomthe walls lean in to listen
surfedout brainwaves flick back and forthlike old headlightssniffing model glue again
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 20 March 2022 13:12 (two years ago) link
i'm a loose bolt (loose bolt)of a complete machiiiiiinewhat a match: i'm half-doomed and you're semi-swee-eee-eee-eeeeeeeeet
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 20 March 2022 20:26 (two years ago) link
DETOXJUST TO RETOX DETOXJUST TO RETOX
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 March 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
say my name and his in the same breathi dare you to say they taste the samelet the leaves fall off in the summerand let december glow in flames
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 13 January 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
there should be way more songs in the world that sound like "headfirst slide"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 13 January 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
alas, only one
it’s still incredible every time i listen to it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 January 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
so boyyyyyycotttt loooooove
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Friday, 13 January 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
if home is where the heart is then we’re all just fucked
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 13 January 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
soon as we hit the HOSpiTAL i know we’re gonna leave this town
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 January 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
Tell that boy I'll leave you alone, nowLike a stove I'll turn my love downSupra and the prophet are both in the business of souls^^love this part
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 January 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
YOUR PUPILS! (big)BIG! (roll)THEY'RE ROLLING LIKE DICE!
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 26 February 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link