The Return of Fall Out Boy

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

― 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.

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

?

DON'T YOU REMEMBER HOW WE USED TO SPLIT A DRINK?
IT NEVER MATTERED WHAT IT WAS
I THINK

lol i love that line

our hands were just that close

if you knew
knew
what the bluebirds sing at you
you
would never sing along

^^^^^^^^

havent bought this yet not sure i will even, don't like centuries @ all but kids arent all right is a jam

ABAP hot takes:

"Irrestistible" – Great lead track, comes out swinging full power, clenched teeth, hooks for days. Something military about it, might be off-putting for some, but I'm enjoying the firepower.

"American Beauty, American Psycho" – Some fun bits, but blech, irritating as fuck. Can't imagine this succeeding as a single. To the extent that I can hear the drumming, it sounds great :D/D:

"Centuries" – The suffocating, grotesquely cloying downside of Tim's "they added too much bombast to ordinary songs until they exploded, and then they pieced together new songs out of the shards" formulation. Pushing real damn hard for an early call on the year's worst video, too. Fuck FOB.

"The Kids Aren't Alright" – Okay, this is more like it. Lovely vocal performance from Stump. Digestible bombast/content ratio.

"Uma Thurman" – The "Munsters Theme" has a deathless grip on my brain's pleasure centers, one of my all-time favorite musical anythings, so I'm stupid with happy at odd intervals during this otherwise merely brilliant song. Up there with "This Ain't a Scene" as a one-track band summary.

"Jet Pack Blues" – The mid-tempo tracks might be taking this. Just beautiful.

"Novocaine" – Is there any contemporary rock band more dependent on "weird noises" for their appeal? Not faulting the band, I like weird noises, just asking. Decent song, though I'm starting to experience boldness fatigue, a Slim Jim snapping in a human face, forever.

"Fourth of July" – Not that I was expecting a ballad…

"Favorite Record" – Like "Jet Pack Blues" a demonstration that pulled punches sometimes hit harder. Hugely welcome after two tracks of beatdown slog.

"Immortals" – Figured from the title that this would suck in the decisive manner of "Centuries", but it's goddam awesome. Music by which to make rash decisions. Hey, we should drive to Vegas, get married, and not tell anyone. Like right now.

"Twin Skeleton's (Hotel in NYC)" – Nice closer, though not an immediate favorite. Danny Elfman soundtrack vibes.

the video for AB/AP is repulsive

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:04 AM (3 days ago)

yeah, it's as gross as the "centuries" vid, tho in a different way.

lol so "centuries" becomes weirdly seductive on repeat listens, and it definitely should if you like "immortals" ffs

they announced a show in Concord, couple hrs from here

cmon boys, i love you but can i plz get a show closer to home?

might skip this tour unless they've suddenly flooded their setlist with folie songs, although "ab/ap" from videos seems awesome live

although this is the second time in two years fob is playing jones beach two days before my birthday, just with wiz khalifa subbed for paramore :\

they announced a show in l.a., couple thousand miles from here