Fall Out Boy - MANIA (Jan 19, 2018) Album • Page 74

Listening to it on wax, ending side A with Church and starting with the first notes of Heaven’s Gate for side B is sickkkkkkkk

 

this is excellent

 

Pete Wentz explains why Fall Out Boy delayed their next record

It’s in there.

 

Time to spend the rest of my night playing video games and listening to infinity

 

I put all of IOH on an SD card so I could use it as the music in Excite Truck for the Wii haha.

 

Infinity is the quintessential Friday night at home jamming in your room album. Nothing else quite like it. Such a classic

 

I think I can safely say this is my favourite post-hiatus record. I want to give this record a big hug

 

I think the album is great. I kinda half-heartedly listened to the singles as they came out but Wilson is the only one that really stuck and it got me excited about the album cause I was indifferent to it coming out before. But I liked all the songs, even the previously released tracks that didn't rly make a mark on me when they first came out

 

Have now heard this twice.

I think my intense dislike for AB/AP is pretty well-documented on this site by now, and I wasn't crazy about like half of the singles they released...


So I did not expect to fucking love this as much as I do. This is easily their best work since Folie, and also the most "FOB-feeling" since then too. The whole thing just makes me oddly nostalgic even though it's brand new. Even the singles grew on me in the context of the album (I always loved LOTRO and Wilson though). Only song I'm iffy on is Sunshine Riptide, but it's certainly not bad. I'm actually having a hard time getting into the closer too but I think I will with some time. I still wouldn't put this up there with their pre-hiatus stuff (although I could maybe see it passing TTTYG eventually) but this is exactly what this band should be in 2018.

It feels so good to like FOB again.

 

I can’t get into this, much like their last 3 or 4 albums. They’re just not my thing.

 

They're trying too hard on this one.

“There were some songs that weren’t going to reach a wide enough demographic to be singles and at the same time they weren’t meaningful enough to us — they were too middle of the road,” Wentz

Sometimes a middle of the road tracks are better than pandering to a wider demographic, I guess.

 

Pandering?

 

That’s interesting! For some reason I assumed it was an homage to “Pennyroyal Tea”. Thanks for the article.

 

Does anyone else think “Sunshine Riptide” could’ve found a home on Portugal. The Man’s Woodstock?

 

Does anyone agree that The Kids Aren't Alright is one of the best post-hiatus songs?

 

my probably-unpopular post-hiatus favorite is The Kids Aren't Alright


i remember sitting in a hostel hallway in edinburgh very very early in the morning listening to that song for the first time and feeling homesick and lost and free all at once. i think i’ll never feel that way again and that song is kind of indelibly tied

 

I'd go one step further and say it's one of their best songs period. Definitely top 5

 

kids aren’t alright is one of their best ever songs yeah

 

Yay! Wasn't sure what the consensus was on that one, but yeah... it's fucking great.

 

“The Kids Aren’t Alright” is the best Fall Out Boy song.

 

It's definitely a top 3 song on the second best FOB album.

 

I remember listening to that song for the first time walking home from school right near the end of the semester and man did it hit hard. Could not have dropped at a more perfect time in my life.

 

Yes definitely. The only song I think is top tier FOB on AB/AP

 

The kids aren't alright is a great song, but Novocaine is my fave from AB/AP

 

Kids Aren't Alright is a top shelf song, and yeah one of their best post hiatus