Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust (March 24,2023) Band • Page 106

It’s unfortunate that this broke their #1 streak in the U.S. after 3 consecutive albums and this one is arguably better than all of them. Just way too much competition right now.

 

The way chart positions are calculated is just so different too. The Morgan Wallen album is 36 tracks so a single listen through of it on Spotify counts for three times as much as a listen of Stardust.

 

took a few listens to click into me but i am loving this now

zane lowe interview made me tear up honestly patrick + pete's relationship as creative partners is so beautiful to me

"the kintsugi kid" is the oneeeee

 

I have no idea how to feel about this album. It's so weird.

 

What makes it weird to you? Almost all of it reminds me of other FOB albums.

 

I'm admittedly not as familiar with FOB as everyone else. I really only fully know Under The Cork and Save Rock because those are the two I listened to a lot and this just seems so different to me.

I'll try to pinpoint things in certain songs. There's a lot of repetition in the choruses. Especially basically the whole song So Good Right Now haha. But that's not "weird" to me, just something I've noticed.

 

Gotcha.

 

Totally get what you mean about the repetitive chorus’. I’m sure if I paid attention the pre hiatus records would be the same, but something about the post hiatus records feels less lyrical and just repeated lines

That said, I fucking love this record

 

I don’t get it, to be honest. Minus the title track, they mostly have the same structure and none really repeat that much.

 

So many bands don't even bother writing bridges and pre choruses anymore that I don't begrudge their use of repetition

 

The repetitive chorus thing dissolved after 2-3 listens. Give it time.

 

this line is also in heat! so i just assume he’s quoting both

 

I may be guilty of liking the Morgan Wallen song “Last night” and play it a lot.

 

Finally getting the chance to listen to this on wax.

Still good!

 

you said the quiet part out loud

 

How’s the quality overall?

 

I haven't been able to stomach a FOB album since Folie so I am completely surprised at how much I love this one. Diving into every interview I can now, such a great return to what I wanted them to be

 

I like to sing “could’ve been a night like any other” when the beat kicks in on fake out, as a lark

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad everyone is enjoying the album, but it's so wild to me how many people are like "this is what I always wanted" when it really is not a huge departure from the last three albums at all. It's weird.

 

I’ve told everyone who says that they need to go listen to the last three albums again lol. To be fair, I think this is easily the best of the four modern era records, but if people love this there’s plenty to love on the last few records as well. I mean, Wilson and Church from MANIA could’ve been on this album tbh.

 

I love SRAR and like AB/AP & Mania so I’m not interested in poopooing them or their sound. There are SO many passages on this album that might have fit on those albums from a songwriting perspective, but where one or more of the guitar parts would have likely been synth parts and the drums would have likely been electronic. Like “the guitars are back” is a meme but it’s also true.

 

If I listed every song from the last three albums with audible guitar parts it would be an extremely long list

 

I mean where does that even come from? They’ve been playing live again for ten years now and I’ve seen them twice, they still play their guitars and the new songs sound the way they do on the albums even with them playing their guitars (with some backing tracks of course). Which can only really mean one thing: the albums have always had guitars

 

Every single song on the last three albums have audible guitar parts, but almost none of them are guitar driven like on the pre-hiatus albums or Stardust. The dual guitar interplay on this album isn’t the same as pre-hiatus, where typically Patrick was chunking out power chords and Joe was doing countermelodies on octave runs, but there is a LOT of dual guitar interplay that wasn’t really a factor on SRAR through Mania.
Like the post-chorus of Heartbreak Feels So Good, where the “nanana” vocal doubles the lead guitar part- its layered and they’re integrated together, but a very similar part on Last of the Real Ones is a synthesizer. Where a second guitar would fit in the intro of Church is the cut up choir sample. The intro to Kids Aren’t Alright has the whistle. Many of the songs on the three other post-hiatus albums feature electronic drums for parts of or the entire runtime. Synths and samples and electronic drums are all part of the sound of Stardust, but the balance is much closer to a traditional four piece “guitar-guitar-bassist-drummer” on here than on the other post-hiatus albums.

 

There doesn’t have to be a specific reason why this new album is hitting people harder than their last 3. It just is, and it’s almost unanimous that people are feeling that way, it seems like?