The Return of Fall Out Boy

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.

:|

:(

i'm going to buy a physical copy of it today #grandma

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.

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.

Favorite Record annoys the shit out of me though. No compunctions about saying that.

oof "Uma Thurman" smh

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 :(

thanks haters

i trust u brad

i like the album, but "Uma" is bad idea skinny jeans

idk i think it's weird and exciting, love the way patrick sings the verses

I don't like "Uma" or "Favourite Record" but I remain pro- this album in general

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

https://vine.co/v/OhL1DgbY3va

Me

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 this
maybe not as much as SRNR but still it's p dope

cosigning dayo

"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

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

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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.

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.

imagine how awesome that would be

or she's like the wind! omg

Hungry Eyes FTW IMO

oh shit

I just watched them do Centuries on Fallon...how can such a nothing song have such a monstrous chorus? FOB are confusingly magical.

THE BEST

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

lol

suzanne vega, "tom's diner"

No, that's not quite it. I think it's the I Dream of Jeannie theme.

Thanks Tim

after how's life's post I assumed I had missed some kind of joke

I admit, I never know which way 龜's going with a post.

Haha I honestly don't know who Susanne Vega is

Not even "Marlena On The Wall"? "Luka"?

I will check those out

Actually dan it is entirely possible that both you and FOB were thinking of this:

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

it's the version of it i first encountered

watching the fallon performance, seems they figured out the way to make the dropped key not sound awkward is just to play it really fast

http://youtu.be/Ucxl4K2LlTY

whoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucxl4K2LlTY

hey look it's suzanne vega

haha nice

Would have preferred Blood Makes Noise anyway.

I wish I could get into this band because so many of the critics I respect and agree with more than any other are into them, but my aversion is so visceral and immediate.

This album does sound less like having locker room jocks ask "why do you keep hitting yourself?" than the last one, though, so I guess that's something?

Really? I'd say it's precisely the opposite.

Their opening act on the upcoming tour is frat-rapper Hoodie Allen.

I think this one scales back the mock-Bon Jovi, beer can crushing production a little bit

the video for AB/AP is repulsive

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