Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust (March 24,2023) Band • Page 72

ANYWAYS

It struck me this morning that I can 100% hear Taylor singing "Fake Out" (specifically that chorus) and I can't be the only one

 

Sure it happened before but these two have really just specific direction and I’m definitely not into it,especially the chorus of So good right Now.
That’s how I know it won’t change.

btw. I absolutely adore the rest of the album

 

I dunno... I wasn't a fan of FAD when it came out but finally came around to it about a decade after it came out.

 

Since it came out, Folie is my most listened to FOB album, easily.

 

It’s my least favorite FOB album (not counting EOWYG) and I still listen to it in discog run throughs. I still think the last 4 tracks are big bad. But some of the earlier tracks I was mid on have gotten a bit better to me.

 

Folie probably has more than Stardust at the moment, but it’s probably not that far off from overtaking it. I can confidently say I’ll listen to this more this year than I ever have Folie.

 

SMASH ALL THE GUITARS

 

Just picked up a physical copy at Newbury Comics at the mall. I haven’t been here in like two years.

teenagers everywhere walking while looking at their phones. Giving zero fucks for walking right through people.

I’m too old for this lol

 

I did get to drop by long in the tooth yesterday and grab a copy too

 

Floridian here, and there are old people who do this. People just suck in general.

 

Floridians are just awful when it comes to “traveling,” whether by feet or car.

 

Folie is my favorite, and I love this one so far. My vinyl just shipped so I've been listening to the CD, but wow. I love all of arrangements, and I've already got half the songs stuck in my head.

 

That’s just the mall lol - everyone simply just forgets how to be a person.

 

Also valid. Applies to really any shopping place, IMO. At least big ones. Looking at you people of Walmart.

 

I hate grocery shopping. I go to Costco and I legitimately fear being trampled to death.

 

Costco’s parking lot is my personal hell

 

I actively avoid Costco haha

 

very specific but there’s a Costco in Chicago that people pull left out of onto a very busy road and it makes me want to scream

 

Heaven, Iowa is EPIC. Would love to hear that one live this summer!!

 

"I don't want to go I just want to be invited" describes way too much of my personality

 

I don’t think anyone has mentioned this but some of the 80s influence on this album seems like it was brewing when they were writing MANIA. The songs on Llamania could have probably fit on here.

 

I’ve been kind of slowly playing through FOB albums on bass. Today was Folie. Despite my feelings of the back end of the album, it was fun to play through. Headfirst and What A Catch were probably the most fun to play.

 

Liner Notes (March 25th, 2023)

I didn’t write a newsletter last week because I was too busy being old. The march of time goes on. The past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this milestone, the whole “turning 40” thing. The idea of entering into mid-life and looking at who I am today versus who I was a decade ago. These round number birthdays tend to lend themselves to these reflections. And I find myself, like I often do, marking the passage of time with the music that best defined those years of my life. I remember turning 20. I was a sophomore in college building the website that would, in many ways, define the next two decades of my life. It was 2003. And while countless albums from those years left a mark on me, it’s often Fall Out Boy’s blue painted Take This To Your Grave I think about the most. An album full of (often) misguided and misdirected youthful angst and anger, but also one of catharsis and the soundtrack to those California dreams. They blow up. My website blows up. And so begins a two-decade ride of following this band’s career. And it’s over these years that I find myself intertwined with the songs. Each album holds a special place in my memory for where I was when I first heard it, who I was with, and the person I was, even if that wasn’t the person I wanted to be. Those early albums became the soundtrack to my stumbling twenties. And when I turned 30 in 2013 I wrote about the band’s rebirth in a way that looking back was not so subtly partially autobiographical. Exploring their reemergence as I entered a new stage of my life, all the while trying to put the pieces back together. So, it’s only fitting that I turn 40 a week before the band releases another album. In many ways, the perfect cosmic bow tie of coincidence. In others, the exact music I need to hear as I’m evaluating the person I am now, the life I lead, and the future ahead of me. Ever since I first listened to those early demos, there’s been something about how Patrick thinks about music that aligns almost identically with what my brain craves. The way he crafts melodies, uses syncopation, starts, stops, speeds up, and builds songs has been soul candy since the beginning. And that’s why I’m one of the people that don’t think this band has a bad album. They have albums I like more than others, but each one has been something I’ve played continually since its release. And it’s why I’m almost always on board, no matter what genre they play in. And it’s why from the moment I first hit play on their new one a few weeks ago I’ve had a massive smile on my face just thinking about the songs and what they created. It’s an album that wears obvious influence from each era of the band. There’s a little pop-punk—a lot of pop. A lot of only Pete Wentz would write that wordplay. A lot of only Patrick Stump could sing that vocals. And it culminates in arguably the band’s most cohesive and ambitious album since Folie. I’m obsessed with the verses in “Hold Me Like a Grudge,” the chorus of “Fake Out,” the building buzz of “Heaven, Iowa,” the absolute monster of “The Kintsugi Kid,” and the doom dance of “What a Time to Be Alive.” I’ll need more than just a few weeks to know where these songs end up living in the pantheon of the band’s catalog, but I already know it’s an album well-positioned to define yet another year of my life. I grew up listening to Fall Out Boy. If there’s a band that can define where I came from to where I am today it’s hard not to think of this one. And at the precipice of middle age, of no longer being able even half to pretend I’m not an adult, I find comfort in turning to this old friend once again. A boy on a couch with headphones, typing away about the music that moves him. I am, as I ever was, me. God damn, what a band. God damn, what an album.

 

Finally got to listen as I was driving today. A) I loved it and B) I can’t wait to play this with headphones

 

Lovely writing. Thanks for putting my feelings into words.

Unbelievable album.