Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust (March 24,2023) Band • Page 111

if a song has strings on it, then you have to like it just as much as another song with strings, or else you're a hashtag fake fan.

 

mania is good

this album is good

they can exist separately!!

 

I guess from, like, a "Heaven, Iowa" standpoint, there's a little there in "Bishops Knife Trick."

But then again, I don't really hear that much IOH as everyone else. This is a more ambitious SRAR to me. And it's great.

I think all their albums are good to great.

 

I've probably been guilty of this, but it's okay to like a band's new album and not like the previous one(s). Hindsight won't always make previous entries into a band's catalog sit better.

 

Besides the interludes, "Heaven, Iowa" is probably my least favorite song on the new album.

 

Weirdo

 

*thanos moment*

 

Glow vinyl is notorious for sounding like crap. Give it a listen and let us know what you think.

 

this website has made this person feel guilty for simply having preferences lol

like what you like!!!

 

“Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea” is a banger. MANIA isn’t as successful as a whole imo as SRAR or this new one, but that opener into “The Last of the Real Ones” is such a hype opening to an album.

The only reason “Stay Frosty” isn’t necessarily one of their best openers is because they have a handful of “best openers,” lol; truly one of their consistent strong points.

 

(unless what you like isn’t what I like, in which case, honestly fuck you forever)

 

Top 2:
Kintsugi Kid
What A Time To Be Alive

Bottom 2:
Hold Me Like A Grudge
Heaven, Iowa

 

I think Hold Me Like a Grudge is my favorite, along with Fake Out. So Good Right Now is easily my least favorite.

 

ok forget what i said

 

I know people always have the "not enough guitars" argument about their last couple albums vs this new one, buuut I think the drums are where the focus for me is. Mania has barely any real drums. It's at least 90% programmed/electronic drums, while SMFS has mostly real drums. To me, that makes it feel more like a "return to form" than anything about the guitars. Real sounding drums gives the songs more of a rock vibe and less of a modern pop vibe, even with all the synths and pop ear candy stuff.

 

This has grown on me immensely over the last two weeks.

 

Wild

 

I'm thinking specifically about Heaven Iowa, I am My Own Muse, Flu Game, and So Much for Stardust. I think they have similar atmospheres (tense and brooding) and compositional elements (orchestral flourishes).

Not even remotely what I said.

Sure, but sometimes hearing aspects of a previous record you don't like in a style you prefer can help you to appreciate what other people enjoyed so much about it.

The "not enough guitars" thing has always been nonsense: there are prominent guitars in every song on every one of their post-hiatus albums. Fair point about the drums, especially for AB/AP, but you're vastly overstating the case re:Mania. Acoustic drums are used throughout the album to give momentum to songs – Bishops Knife Trick being a clear example of that.

 

yeah, i said 90% not 100%. the vast majority of Mania is electronic drums, while the vast majority of SMFS is acoustic drums.

 

hahaha "you're a hashtag fake fan".

Play nice kids.

 

Bingo. The drums are the much bigger sound change on ABAP and Mania.

 

I have a copy. A lot of surface noise as expected.

i’ve been asking for others’ opinions on how the other variants sound but I haven’t gotten a response yet. Most of FOB’s albums sound pretty bad on vinyl so I’m curious about this one.

 

I find this a bizarre take. AB/AP has far more drum programming than Mania.

If you don’t believe me, take it from Andy himself; at around 9 minutes in the below interview he talks about Mania containing the most live drumming of the post-hiatus records (pre-SMFS)

 

maybe, but regardless, i'm not a fan of either of those albums. the drums are only part of the problem i have, personally. but that's another topic. i just think the drums on their last few albums should be more of a talking point than the guitars.