Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High

It might be a California thing but I just realized the unfortunate connotations of Fall Out Boy's acronym.

Is there a single/video from this that I can watch? I thought FOB were horrible on Saturday Night Live last year.

I listened to this once, definitely has potential. The single's probably peaked, Dom, though I seriously hope I'm wrong.

xp

I'll be buying this on the strength of "This Ain't A Scene" and "Carpal Tunnel Of Love". The latter took some time to grow on me, the former I found instantly likeable.

Although "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?" is a fantastic song title.

im not sold on 'this aint a scene' yet

...

A couple of years ago, my band was playing a show in that little shitty room above the Trocadero in Philly, and there's this door from which you can see down into the mainspace, and FOB was playing. I didn't like the music so much at the time, but I do remember thinking that spin move that the guitarists do was ace.

No such thing.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2RwqnLArhbA

counterexample:
http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/60/c6/2977b220dca091a7ad3e3010.L.jpg

-- Zwan (anthonyisrigh...), January 26th, 2007.

i think the thing they'd first have to get over is the impulse to PM jessie's girl with opaque heartache until they collide in an ill-advised hook-up that precipitates a crushing wave of narcissistic self-doubt, right?

x-post see "mature"

My god, emo just justified itself entirely!

-- mike powell (revelator...), January 26th, 2007 3:55 PM. (later)

I'M MESSAGING JESSIE'S GIRL
I'M STUCK HERE TEXTING JESSIE'S GIRL

This a rewritten cover that is screaming to be made.

It's because they suck
-- Zwan (anthonyisrigh...), January 26th, 2007 4:07 PM. (later)

Oh, forgot to tow the party line there. My bad.

-- Tantrum The Cat (tantrumtheca...), January 26th, 2007

i think it's sad that there's so little room to be both disgusted and totally fascinated by a band without being accused of thinking that it's 'so bad it's good.'

The Lloyd Dobler Syndrome, I Was 5 When Nevermind Came Out
"My Mouth Is Indie, My Cock Is Metal, My Hair Can't Decide"
"Aiming For The Colour And The Shape (But Trying Too Hard)"
"Our Accountant Thinks We Need The Word 'Myspace' In This One"
"Candlebox Sold Twice As Much With Half The Words"
"When We Figure Out Power Ballads...Watch Out!!"
"The Video For This One Will Interpolate V For Vendetta"
"Naturall,y The Ugly Guy Wrote Everything"
"Significant Other Got Good Press Too"
"The Afghan Whigs Would Be Huge Today (If Greg Dulli Wasn't Huge Now)"
"One Of These Days I'm Just Gonna Use The Word Bitch In A Song And Be Done With It"
"I Really Don't See Us Saving The Music Industry"

-- mike powell (revelator...), January 26th, 2007 4:26 PM. (later)

In my experience: "I'm both disgusted and totally fascinated by (x)"= "I like (x) on its own merits but am deathly afraid to say so".

Zwan, I may not agree with you, but these are pretty goddamned funny.

Not really feeling the new track either. I hope the album's less of a disappointment than Black Parade but I don't have much hope. When these bands try to diversify, they seem to compromise their strengths.

I just don't know what to say to anyone who hears a better song in "Love Like Winter" than in "Sugar We're Going Down" or "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More 'Touch Me.'"

I knew I liked that guy.

trying too hard maybe, but at least trying! haha remember when joe henry hired ornette coleman to play on his richard pryor song? maybe it's better to talk about it than to do it?

dude is so short

he was in our bathroom at work the other day and i had this instinctual urge to give him noogies, thankfully resisted, as a mammoth bodyguard was stationed in front of the door.

he and some assistant/manager/whatever were talking about doing some web animation. stumpy wanted to do the voices.

oh yeah, whole band is tiny. every time they're on TRL or any show where they all stand together, they're always dwarfed by some female host.

Is the sleeve illustration by Jay Ryan?

oh yeah, whole band is tiny. every time they're on TRL or any show where they all stand together, they're always dwarfed by some female host.

― BIG BROOS aka the steenspringer (some dude), Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:17 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

if you're not fuckin with 'folie a deux' i have this for you

http://www.pet-comfort-products.com/images/angry-cat-01.jpg

word. never has a video worked harder to put me off a song I liked than "America's Suitehearts," though.

i like 'w.a.m.s.'

lol yeah al that vid sucks

"the (shipped) gold standard" is maybe my fav song by them ever

"w.a.m.s" is dope too

"The (Shipped) Gold Standard" is brilliant but I'm also deeply partial to "Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes" and "Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On a Bad Bet".

this is really one of those albums where it seems like every time i listen to it, a new song pops out at me. last time it was, mostly because of patrick's piano + vocals bridge, "what a catch, donnie" and this time it was "west coast smoker".

an unrelated thought: they build up to the last minute or thirty seconds of their songs so well

Yeah, totally: "America's Sweethearts" final thirty seconds makes everything before it (which had sounded exceedingly good) seem like a tease.

listened to this in the car the other day and yeah, it really is holding up well. "Gold Standard" is so great, particularly the 'horseshoe crab' verse.

"Gold Standard" is so great, particularly the 'horseshoe crab' verse.

― Hateful Guard at Maryland Training School for Boys (some dude), Monday, March 9, 2009 8:35 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

this song hits me hard

'you can only blame your problems on the world for so long
before it all becomes the same old song'

Sometimes i want to quit this all
and become an accountant now
but I'm no good at math
and besides the dollar is down

shipley, i figure if anyone on ilx cares about this tour it will be you

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1611339/20090513/blink_182.jhtml

i'm like, head over heels and i don't even care about weezer

yeah that's kinda dope -- i don't know if i'd go see any of those bands on their own but as a triple bill could be awesome. thought about seeing FOB when they were here last month, but them + 50 Cent and a bunch of Decaydance flunkies seemed like a drag.

"Coffee's For Closers" = prolly my most listened to song of the past couple months

so i guess this was a demo on their mixtape and is now gonna be on their greatest hits? much <3 in any event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51rVl0bulAQ

this album!

it's so great, right? feel like I don't listen to this album enough

I didn't give AFI enough credit on this thread.

i like Infinity On High but i've barely listened to it since Folie a Deux was released

listening to "Sugar, We're Goin Down" -- ostensibly 'hated' this shit when it was ubiquitous, but maannnn this is a jam

pre-chorus slays

i'm now going to listen to folie a deux tonight

honestly, out of every album i've ever repped for to my friends, this is the one where people were just like "nahh... you're bullshitting"

really? i've had a much easier time selling friends on FOB than most other corporate rock i listen to

idk i think there's an element for ppl my age of where FOB is sort of ghettoized as the 'emo' of our high school years & there is this distorted view of the music they make because of that, like they sound like panic at the disco or something

they're not really punk enough to still get burn like blink 182 or something

(know i'm mashing eras a little here)

(also i know this might be a bit too 'in my world of young people')

one of my pals from college who's into music was completely incredulous when i told him id been listening to taylor swift

the look he gave me was lol & reminded me everyone doesn't read ilx

nah but my friends are generally really open to pop & what not (altho t swift might give them pass)

like they sound like panic at the disco or something

Oh but the second Panic at the Disco record is completely excellent, for a lot of the same reasons that the singer's cameo on "20 Dollar Nose Bleed" works so well.

folie a deux is pretty good! you can hear that they're running out of ideas though. a lot of the hooks seem to have been reworked from infinity on high. (nb I am not familiar with their work previous IoH so maybe it's just something they do).

"preach electric to the microphone stand" is a pretty good lyric imo.

On the waiting list at my local library to get a copy of Save Rock and Roll, after seeing all the excitement and activity on that thread. I checked this one out instead for investigative purposes and I've been listening to it about once a week. I like parts of it, but don't quite have the hang of it. There's something about them that vaguely reminds me of Motley Crue, in a weird emo-pop way.

^last sentence one of the dumbest things I've said about music lately.

pffft you're not wrong

yeah for real

At the risk of stating something very obvious, the hamfistedness is a large part of the appeal, right?

i'm a crossover emo fan, i don't even recognize the hamfistedness anymore, but sure

i mean i feel like stump's compositions aren't hamfisted at all, even at this point when there are still traces of pop-punk they move around smartly, which pairs complexly with wentz's unconscious-yet-self-conscious lyrics

Ok, my knowledge of emo is very, very limited, but say with Saves The Day (first three albums is all I know), sometimes they'll hit a real clunker of a lyric, and I'm like "ok, that was bad, but they were really earnest about it. Dude's a mixed-up kid and he's trying to express his feelings." But with Fall Out Boy, I feel like they throw in the corny, hackneyed, awkward stuff knowingly and they're staring into my eyes while they're doing it. Or maybe they are really that corny. I don't know. It makes me like it more though.

I'll have to dig up some examples of what I'm talking about when I'm not at work.

Yeah Wentz lyrics are pretty defiantly on-the-nose and punny. Not exactly unique to emo, though, a lot of Elvis Costello lyrics (or insert respectable 'literate' songwriter here) function the same way.

costello comparison is actually otm

"I cast a spell over the west" bridge in doldrums is so fantastic. It's one of those things that has always stunned me when I heard it and then I go and forget about it and get thrown by it all over again the next time I make it around to that song. It's not letting me go today though.

best friend
ex friends til the end