Fall Out Boy Band • Page 103

Always loved Alone Together

 

Pretty sure this is my favorite song from SRAR

 

I just put SRAR on and fuck, it still slaps. full on office dance party happening.

 

The Phoenix and Miss Missing You are the two that really do it for me on there.

 

Alone Together should have been massive honestly

 

Yeah i've always really liked Alone Together

 

"Rat a Tat"'s my jam on SRR

 

hey, SRAR was a great record. do love that one. i don’t dislike mania because it’s different, i just think it’s a hot mess personally

fwiw i don’t want another tttyg from an early to mid 40’s fob, but if they cranked out another folie, that would be the first album i’ve pre ordered in probably ten years right there

 

the first six tracks of mania is a great run of songs

 

Looking good!

 

I still think Wentz is a total babe.

 

is that photo from a press release or something?

 

They posted it on their socials.

 

I don't know about the rest of you, but once the song drops I am DEFINITELY putting it on my V-cast phone when I'm working out. Gonna get me PUMPED!

 

Neal Avron, producer for Cork Tree, Infinity, and Folie is teasing on twitter that he’s involved with this new record. He also had very minor involvement with engineering on a few tracks of Mania.

GOATED album incoming confirmed

 

Avron coming back for a heavier role would be huge

 

holy shit lol lets GOOOO

 

Please please please

 

Could have flipped the more experimental pop/dance stuff into a side project for Pete and Pat. It’s an option. I get get the band name “sells”, but Pete and Pat both established a brand outside the band. What’s done is done though, and I do have hopes for a record of Folie and earlier sound with distinct band sounding instruments.

Have never went back to the last 3 records, but I still that Patrick’s voice voice and delivery are cool

 

"Pat"'s brand bombed.

 

Remember the solo Patrick album? That had some jams on it. Soul Punk was the name I think?

 

I do. I saw him in Scottsdale when he toured solo. It wasn't anything special.

 

lol

 

It's not guitars and it's not drumming that separates the two eras: it's the production and Patrick's vocals.

Pre-hiatus stuff was produced during the loudness wars, so everything is super compressed, noisy, and one dimensional.
Post-hiatus stuff was produced when EDM sounds were dominant, so it's much more dynamic and there is much more space in the mixes.

Pre-hiatus, Patrick wasn't confident and had bad diction.
Post-hiatus, he pronounces words much more clearly and sings with swagger.


If you keep those things in mind, the differences between the eras seem hugely overstated. Pan and decompress the guitars in I Don't Care, and it fits on any of the post-hiatus records (AP/AB is probably the best fit). Compress the mix and bully Patrick right before he does his vocal take, and Heaven's Gate fits on Infinity on High.

This is the natural evolution of a band over two decades of trends in music production, which makes it unsurprising that they're returning with a more direct and compressed sound now. No more, no less.