The Return of Fall Out Boy

surprising no one, i like it, but not as much as "last of the real ones"

I haven't heard any of these songs yet, but can we all agree that "Hold Me Tight Or Don't" is a fantastic (and deeply FOB) song title?

def a very FOB song title yah

brad what's appealing about this to you?

i gotta listen to it again when i get home but the main attraction is the way stump sings it iirc

i agree with Brad... Patrick sounds so goooood

oh yeah also the drums on the bridge. idk there are many things that would annoy me about the song that are kinda destabilized by the melody

only song from this cycle i think sucks is "champion" which is just "centuries" stuck in a tar pit

having a few months distance from it "young & menace" fucking ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuules

"Y&M" is the only one I kinda like for just being insanely weird

actually “hold me tight or don’t” is a jam

sounds good live too

y'all absolutely need to hear "wilson (expensive mistakes)" when this comes out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-by1ydBTM

ok here it is

i'll stop wearing black when they make a darker colorrrrr

the “straight to hell”/“paper planes” bite in the chord progression is so good

this is a very me opinion, but this is the best of the post-hiatus records i think

I suspect this is going to be a very lonely experience for you cause that latest song does nothing for me either beyond "I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color"

... ok man

maybe you’ll be the one who’s lonely SIMON
*takes lunch & sits at Brad’s table*

<3

anyway i think this song is DOPE

the video is...weird
also is it just me or is Pete’s hairline receding?
(no shade)

the video is so bizarre. gonna buy me a patrick stump

champagne for my real friends, real pain for my shrimp friends

lol

i def would like a Patrick tho

also is it just me or is Pete’s hairline receding?

He's like 10°F from Neil Hamburger.

The video's awesome. The song is better than the last few, I guess? Guess we'll see tomorrow how this all shakes out.

Yeah this is very enjoyable record. Nothing quite as straightforwardly catchy as some of their other more recent stuff, but I think it'll hold up better.

heads up that the tracklist on spotify and apple music is in the wrong order (which is also, oddly, the order my promo was in). i much prefer the actual sequence

good to know

i cant wait to listen :D :D

That video clip is super distracting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3vbvF8bQfI

the real tracklist for anyone who's curious

1. Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea
2. The Last of the Real Ones
3. Hold Me Tight or Don't
4. Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)
5. Church
6. Heaven's Gate
7. Champion
8. Sunshine Riptide
9. Young and Menace
10. Bishops Knife Trick

wait what, the spotify one is wrong?

yep

wtf

the corrected tracklist makes sense to me "stay frosty" is kinda weird as track 3 but is a storming opener

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

for some reason they only uploaded the clean version of this song to youtube

anyway as usual with nu-FOB album tracks >>>>>> singles, thank god (speaking of which, lol at all the religious sounds/imagery)

"bishop's knife trick" is mayyyyyyybe their best closer

enhhhh the closer was the best thing on the last one so I'm not at all ready to say that

i'm right simon

Man this is reaaaaally good! Excitingly so

Like it’s not Folie ~amazing~ but there’s really no skippable tracks on this for me so far. American Psycho was v patchy & took me a while to warm up, so it’s good to be hooked in from the get go again. Maybe closer to Saves Rock N Roll?
anyway i’ve gone through this twice already today, no signs of stopping

Love Patrick’s singing on Heaven’s Gate

why is it rearranged on streaming services? i noticed a similar thing happened with 21 savage's album last year, but then it seemed like it was because of which songs were getting the most plays right off the bat to inflate full-album playthroughs. is this going to start becoming a thing?

hmm, never mind, i found this tweet from pete.

No no. It’s a long story why it’s going to be wrong in iTunes for a few weeks- it’s just how their system ingested the songs we already put out.

— pw (@petewentz) January 14, 2018

#petetweet

it is extremely frustrating trying to tell anyone that this band is good

(audience: "well brad then they should make better music")

i am totally obsessed with this record and i think it's def their best since folie, someone pls talk to me about it lol

I wish I liked it as much. I do think it's better than AB/AP but I kinda long for the (relatively) spacious sound of SRAR. and I still hate "Champion" and "Hold Me Tight Or Don't" a lot. and "Wilson" sounds a bit like "YOLO" to me lol

"Heaven's Gate" and "Church" make a v nice pairing and are definitely right up there with their best material

thinking Stump should do a devotional r&b followup to Soul Punk

yeah I would love him to an album of slow soul covers

Gave into this despite actively disliking all the pre-release songs. Skipped to the first track I hadn't heard, supposed album opener Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea (track listing still not updated on Spotify). "Are you smelling that shit? Are you smelling that shit?" I don't want to smell that shit, Patrick.