Mania was fun with a few good songs, but guitars, melodies and patrick singing straight without stadium rock stuff would just be swell. I'm looking forward to whatever comes out as long as it stays within the range of the band though.
From Under the Cork Tree Infinity on High Folie a Deux Take this to Your Grave Mania Save Rock and Roll American Beauty/American Psycho
My sister made this exact comment to me like a week ago. And I agree. I might just not be as big an FOB fan as some of y’all though bc in retrospect FUCT, IOH and FAD are the only ones I listen to front to back.
Will never get the AB/AP hate. Aside from the title track it just sounds like the other two post hiatus records but better.
Nobody said they hate the album lol ok maybe i said id be happy to never hear it again but thats just me but everyone has to have a least preferred album by every artist we will all be ok
I honestly think it sounds like a way shittier version of SR&R. Like most of it sounds like b-sides that weren't good enough for that album (and I love SR&R for the record, and think most of MANIA is fantastic) Even Pete at one point said that album was them basically scrambling to put an album together around Centuries iirc The songs I like are: The Kids Aren't Alright Jet Pack Blues Novocaine Twin Skeletons I actually think Fourth of July is one of the worst choruses Patrick has ever written, it just sounds like he's screeching
That's what bothers me the most about AB/AP. Patrick is reaching Brendon Urie levels of grating with his shoutey vocal performance. It just seems extremely loud front to back and I feel like my ears need a break after a couple songs. It's obnoxious in a way his vocals on the rest of their discography aren't, oddly.
Irresistable, Centuries and Uma Thurman are all ridiculously catchy, but the filler tracks are a notch down from Mania/Save Rock and Roll
Gotta defend AB/AP, which I like quite a bit! It’s also definitely not loud front to back, y’all are letting the title track (which bops) cloud your vision of the entire record.