Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust (March 24,2023) Band • Page 8

This is giving me such nostalgia for the 2007-2008 era with IOH and FAD, this song sounds like a perfect mix of those albums and everything down to the music video really nails that feel too

I'm so fucking stoked on these guys right now for the first time since SR&R

 

Yeah, it’s that chord that hits at like 1:41. I’m really bad with theory so I can’t name it, but it’s for sure something they were doing heavily on Folie specifically. It and the little riff leading up to it have that R&B-ish quality they were experimenting with around that time

 

the strings parts are so good

Mania had some really good stuff but didn't do much for me as a whole. thought I was out but they pulled me back in, the bastards.

 

The opening reminds me of Thnks Fr the Mmrs and I can't work out how intentional that is

 

I should know what it is but I don't know. It's just a sick ass harmony that they voice lead into perfectly.

 

So weird to see them rocking the Nirvana lineup on Kimmel. They sound great regardless. Wishing Joe the best!

 

Did they have a second guitarist backstage?

 

This popped up on my Twitter.

 

I'm going to be honest this feels like a reach. The guy in the replies saying he did a video and his concepts were used without consent/compensation, that I can get behind, but a band doesn't own the concept of a dog with an open mouth on the album cover. The fonts aren't even THAT similar.

 

If the album cover was a baby underwater or something then yeah sure, but yeah that tweet feels like a bit of a stretch

 

Stretch for sure. Fetch the Bolt Cutters looks more like this cover than A Giant Dog

 

Yeah that makes sense. There’s always gonna be ideas that are similar especially in the day and age where it feels like so many things have been done before. Still love LJG but it probably more has to do with her not being a fan of the band and posting about that

 

Is there previous LJG/FOB beef I don't know about? lol

 

That I don’t know. I know she had beef with Alkaline Trio, but that’s cuz her ex-wife created the Alk3 heart skull and while they were on tour with them in the 2000s, Laura said she just did not get along with Skiba.

But maybe that beef was squashed. No idea at this point about beef with FOB lol

 

Yeah, that I knew about. I was just curious. The artwork seems like a little bit of a reach imo (she also uses the phrase "bites [Giant Dog's] aesthetic" which I feel is a bit different that stealing someone's idea outright), but the reply in the tweets about someone having their video concept stolen by their team is not good.

 

FTBC was the vibe I got instantly when I saw the cover

 

A Giant Dog is great btw, def check out that album

 

Exactly, if it comes to the aesthetic, definitely closer to Fiona (and 100 others too), nothing like that Giant Dog one! ;d I'd be more curious aboout the video ideas. Would need some closer info, was the pitch already themed - then some ideas could get pretty universal around a given theme anyways. Shitty if it would get more specific, but I'm sure they wouldn't lack the money to give to somebody if the idea is original.

 

I think SRAR is my favorite of theirs, followed by FAD? The SRAR follow up, American Whatever, was mostly a big ol’ miss for me, and then Mania bounced back pretty good… but I wasn’t gravitating toward that sound enough to spend much time with it. (Revisiting it right now, and it’s fun!)

This new track rules. Takes me back to the way that SRAR rollout felt in the best way.

 

AB/AP is pretty easily my least favorite of theirs but, it still has some hits.

 

The Kids Aren’t Alright is the song off of AB/AP that I wish was a hit. That song is so fucking catchy and one of the tracks of the post-hiatus era I come back to most.

 

Been a while since I listened to the first one but I'll give it a go:

Infinity on High
From Under the Cork Tree
Folie a Deux

Take This To Your Grave

Mania
American Beauty/American Psycho
Save Rock and Roll

 

Folie a Deux
From Under the Cork Tree
Take This to Your Grave
Infinity on High
Save Rock and Roll
American Beauty / American Psycho
Mania

 

I've been relistening to Cork Tree on, and my rankings right now are

Infinity
Save Rock
Folie
Mania
Cork Tree
ABAP

I still have to relisten to ABAP cause I remember literally nothing about it.