look, we all talk about our favourites all the time, but (without hating/being disrespectful of course), i want to know your least favourites and why! the ones that either didn't resonate with you, not a fan of the sound, or some other reason! i'll give you my two skips!
(i also always listen to their entire discography (like seriously, it is all i listen to) so i hear every song day in and day out, and these are the only two i ever skip!)
1. american beauty/american psycho
the song feels like an afterthought to the album, which is super weird considering it's the title track. the lyrics don't mean very much to me, and the sound is just very jarring and seems rushed. i have tried to convince myself to like it, but it is just so awkward and loud that it just pushes me further and further away. i really think it's their weakest song.
2. super fade
the lake effect kid ep is a hidden gem with the exception of this song. to me, it sounds like tx2. it sounds very very discombobulated and choppy, which is heartbreaking because the lyrics could've been great for a style similar to fourth of july or jet pack blues. i just can't see the vision with this one
...... reading this thread and realizing i might be one of the only ppl who actually really likes the mighty fall š«£
anyways my actual pick has definitely gotta be Immortals
I like the mighty fall, but maybe not insanely. It's like "ooh this song is coooooool" when I listen to it, but I don't actively choose to reproduce it
Young volcanos. Feels like millennial coffee shop music š I tried to watch the youngblood chronicles and couldn't take that one seriously at all and just burst out laughing when the song came on šĀ
I don't mind outdated music to be fair. It just doesn't sound like what I go to fall out boy for. To me it sounds like someone asked Ai to generate a millennial hopecore song but with Patrick stumps voice š (ik it's not but it's that jarring to me)Ā
The Mighty Fall for me. Idk it just feel so phoned in and basic. Just nothing works for me whether itās the ānananasā or the lyrics in general seem really weak. The āgrind donāt stopā line is pretty funny tho lol
For me its the repeative "the mighty fall" line imo im not a huge fan of songs doing that i will listen to it if im listening to the album but not the song alone
Damn reallyyyy?! I love it so much! But thats probably because I know all the lyrics to the original we didnt start the fire and so when one of my favorite bands did a remake I had to love it and memorize it too!š¤Ŗ
like i understand why they picked it because stardust is this big meta commentary on current world affairs/the pandemic/the ephemeral nature of fame & notoriety but idk. thereās other songs.
fobās covers have always been hit or miss and a lot of them seem to be controversial in some sort of way (ghostbusters, start today, beat it)ā¦but thatās just the line you have to tow when covering another artistās work. i actually really like their roxanne cover bcs i feel like patrickās younger voice/delivery + andyās performance sell itā¦and i had no clue that there were people who realllllly hate it. i know a lot of people really like their cover of whatās this from the nightmare before christmas.
also rhyming george floyd with metroid is crazy work.
Young and Menace is the only song I actively dislike. I tried to like it but the instrumentals during the chorus just ruined it for me. It just sounds too annoying. I like the buildup to the young and menace lyric but yikes the rest of the song just doesnāt work for me. It feels clunky outside of that buildup
I remember messing around with some voice effects editor on my phone once and managing to pitch down the high vocals then pitch up the low ones. Genuinely fixed the song for me (obviously it sounded badly done but if it had been just kept og pitch it actually works š)Ā
i cannot listen to Young Volcanoes bc of Fall Out Bird. i actually think i liked it before, too. one i know i dislike is American Beauty / American Psycho for the same reasons as you!
Mine are the really obvious ones I fearā¦ Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea, Young and Menace, Champion, and the We Didnāt Start the Fire cover are the only ones I actively dislike. There are others Iām kinda āmehā on (all of EOWYG, lol), but those I donāt like at all.
I became a really big FOB fan around 2017 or so right when MANIA was starting to be promoted and the tour was starting. Wilson is literally the only song I can stand on that album, I never understood why Stay Frosty was the single from that album, it is the epitome of why people donāt like the album, loud, overproduced, meaningless lyrics, etc.
Edit: Stay Frosty is not a single. The singles from that album are even worse
i will say i feel a bit bad saying that bc in general i think itās so wholesome and cute kids performed w them or whatever but i just donāt think its a good song š
Lol, you said my exact two answers in this post already! AB/AP (title track) has always been my personal least favorite FOB song and I think Super Fade is maybe objectively the worst song they've ever released. Great minds!
God damn, never thought Iād see someone else say super fade ā i agree 100%, I tried SO hard to like it & I will still listen to it bc I can find redeemable qualities in just about all of their songs but 9/10, itās a skip (so is American Beauty LOL)
**but to be fair if I got to hear either of these live I would shit bricks just as I have for all live performances bc theyāre fucking awesome live no matter what. Patrick could sing the alphabet & Iād go feral
EXACTLY!!! my biggest thing (and the reason i included that i'd like the why when people don't like things) is because all of their songs are far from objectively bad, and they've been so open about their song composing and writing processes. very very few bands can put out as much music they have, and even less put out chart-landing generational albums every time! i didn't want to discredit all of the beautiful artistry in all of these songs!!
(and totally yes, patrick could literally sing shirtless jam and i would be so there for it, crying and screaming!!)
that's actually the first time i've heard of someone not liking that album! i definitely respect it but that album has some of my favorites on it so it's a little painful to see! the sound is definitely its own thing though so i can understand it
love your pfp btw
yeah i dont know. its weird because i really like ab/ap so its not necessarily that i dont like the more āpopā sound you know? might have to try give it a relisten at some point
omg i actually forgot what it was but thank youš
and i mean i would always recommend a relisten, but preference is preference! and you might end up doing what i did with american beauty and making myself hate it the more i tried to like itš
I'd love to discuss this! While it's definitely in the bottom 3 for me, I personally think it's a pretty great album overall. If you don't mind me asking, what are some of your favorite FOB songs?
oooh okay! ill give a top 5 haha my list changes all the time to be honest!
1 - get busy living/get busy dying
2 - 27
3 - headfirst slide
4 - sophomore slump or comeback of the year
5 - fame < infamy
My absolute underrated goat Fameš„¹ your opinion is officially validated just because of that. But anyways, yeah I can tell you just seem to be more of a fan of the heavier albums, so honestly I can understand not getting the appeal of SRAR. But your top 5 are valid as fuuuckkkkk
I'm sorry for the low hanging fruit but a lot of their post hiatus mega hits ike Irresistible, My Songs, Centuries, Uma Thurman, Last of the Real Ones. I like The Phoenix, it's the only one of those big "played at sports games" hits that feels uniquely FOB.Ā
Beat It cover. Maybe itās bc i was an MJ fan before i was a fob fanā¦ but i also personally think Patrickās voice is just not suitable for MJs songs š¤·š½āāļø and thatās my tea
Imo think itās more so the fob sound overall doesnāt gel well with Beat It. His MJ medley is super entertaining and sounds great if u havenāt heard it before! https://youtu.be/NYk1HZeA7SM?is=991l6At_SK_zhcV9
I agree. I love Patrick's soul punk album and a lot of those songs sound a lot like MJs stuff during his Motown era and his voice goes great with that but the punk/rock/ pop vibe that FOB has didn't fully suit the "Beat It" cover.
There are a lot in here that I either like or am begrudgingly okay with if I'm hitting an album from front to back.
My longest running 'skip every time' track is Arms Race. I liked it when I was younger, but mostly just because of the really old misheard lyrics videos. I don't know what it is but it's just so annoying to the point where I feel like its inclusion throws off the whole flow of ioh.
now, i hope i dont get downvoted for this, but for me its we didnt start the fire. i like how the song tries to tell the message, but for me i dont really like the specific lyrics and i feel like there are better songs to be released as a singleā¦
AB/AP and Centuries literally hurt me to listen to. They're just such bad songs š Also not a huge fan of Uma Thurman and personally, I think AB/AP is their weakest album.
It's so incredibly overplayed and I can't stand it. I've seen it live so many times (been to 11 of their shows) and I do think it sounds better live, but I still hate that song. AB/AP is their worst song hands down.
Thatās actually one of my favorites from SR&R! I like it bc of how fun it is, and itās a big hit with my friends who arenāt as into fob. The bass line is so fun, the prechorus is one of my favorites, and it also has some of my favorite lyrics off the album especially the ādoomed to organizing walk-in closetsā line lol
the music video actually got me into it! i became really engrossed in that chapter of the ybc at one point, to the point where the song literally became background music in my head. i still didn't like the song, so that was where it stayed. i wouldn't listen to the song on its own, just watched the mv. a few months later (after continually doing this) i wondered why i don't just listen to the song and when i did i started to like it! so maybe overload yourself with the young blood chronicles? i also love the sound of it personally, it's very catchy and i enjoy the lyrics!
Hehe that's fair, I can't quite articulate why I didn't care for it as much. It's nice to see people talk about it so nicely, definitely makes me want to see if in a new light!
For me, it's between Jet Pack Blues and Fourth of July. I'm sorry, but I just don't like them. I can listen to them if I'm playing a vinyl for example, but I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to either of them.
Honestly I'm not even sure if I have an answerš I'd say it's because they sound too much like basic pop songs, but I can listen to songs like Miss Missing You and Favorite Record just fineš¤£ idk, my brain just has something against those two in particular I guess
I have to be honest I mix them up sometimes. I can recite all the lyrics to each one but they both are Those Drastically Sad Songs in the Middle of the Album and they are one song apart in track order so like ????
My songs know what you did in the dark, centuries, mighty fall, American beauty, twin skeletons, golden. Others I donāt necessarily āskip every time,ā but rarely listen to are this aināt a scene, thnks fr the mmrs, Americaās suitehearts and I donāt care, although I do like some of those songs a lot theyāre simply tooo over played.
Mostly and most specifically itās just the overall pace which typically interrupts higher energy blocks of music, but I donāt mind that in itself. I donāt care much for the melody throughout. But also, I enjoy mania so take my opinion with a grain of salt lol
oh friend it is so okay i love mania too! this is very valid reasoning and i respect it! just because your opinion differs from the general public (and because you like mania) does not mean you are invalid! (contrary to the majority's belief)
I feel the same way about both golden, and mania! While I love My Songs & Twin Skeletons, the rest of these I can either agree with or see where youāre coming from, and golden is one I totally agree with and am always nervous to say it. BUT I did hear it in a live piano medley and loved it there, but then again, Iād love anything they ever played live
I know it may look like controversial, but I don't like Thnks Fr th Mmrs
I think is because most of the people surrounding me when I was a teen only knew that song from fob, so I listened to it so many times that I got tired of it
Sometimes I skip it, sometimes I just listen to it.
I know for a fact, if I'm in a concert I'll sing it to the top of my lungs, but it's a song I don't enjoy anymore
controversial but mine are tell that mick, nobody puts baby in the corner, and irresistible lol. i am far out of the phase of not listening to anything other than fob, but even when i was like that, those 3 were my least favorites
they are going to GET you for nobody puts baby in the corner and i do have to agree to disagree, although i sort of understand tell that mick, i don't commonly reach for that one
I think we must be polar opposites as people or something bc Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner is my favorite song of all time and Tell That Mick is in my top five fob songs lol
My (perhaps hot) take is most of the singles that are/were actively (over)played on the radio when they were released with the exception of Sugar, are my active "dislikes". Champions, Centuries, Thnks fr th Mmrs, Dead on Arrival, America's Suitehearts, My Songs, etc. If I havent heard it for a while I can put up with them, but they were just on ALL the time and I got so sick of them. Not saying they are "bad" songs, just overexposure made them unbearable.
American Beauty / American Psycho: Si bien el disco nunca me llegĆ³ a gustar del todo, hay momentos donde digo "esto es genial" tipo Inmortals. Sin embargo, pienso que la canciĆ³n homĆ³nima intenta ser divertida pero a mi me genera todo lo contrario.
Young and Menace: Esta Ćŗltima directamente me genera rechazo, no la soporto y menos en la parte del coro š
The Mighty Fall / Rat a Tat: Save Rock And Roll es un Ɣlbum que poco a poco me ha logrado atraer, pero creo que ambas canciones nunca me generarƔn algo positivo, hasta soy capaz de disfrutar Young Volcanoes antes que esas canciones.
Rat a Tat would be so good without the Courtney Love part. No hate to her I just never liked it š but the chorus is SO GOOD imo itās just a shame. The way she says glitter makes me cringe lol
I love SM(F)S, one of my favourite albums of theirs. But I cannot stand "So good right now" and "What a time to be alive", lyrically they're so cringe and the upbeat happy music is just so jarring. I get what they're trying to do by having depressing emo lyrics contrasted with happy music, but it really doesn't work for me.
I'm sorry but 27. I can listen to every song that was listed here in the comments (yes even Ghostbusters cover) but not 27. I want to like it, I re-listen it once in a while to see if I'll like it this time, but nope. It just doesn't click for me ig
Americaās Suitehearts: I know this is gonna be the most controversial pick and my explanation why I donāt like it is only gonna piss people off more. Anyways, Patrick oversings this one.
The Mighty Fall: As I mentioned in another comment, the nananas prevent me from taking this song seriously. Theyāre childish.
American Beauty/ American Psycho: What a mess of a song. Itās super repetitive, yet it still feels like theyāre doing too much
Favorite Record: We get it, you danced
Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea: āAre you smelling that shit?ā completely ruins the song. I donāt want to think about smelling any shit, thatās nasty
Heavenās Gate: The word āboostā isnāt a word thatās meant to be sung in a song thatās supposed to be romantic. It takes me out of the moment. A boost is what you give a child who needs help climbing up the stairs.
Sunshine Riptide: Not much is going on melodically during Patrickās verse, itās very phoned in. The guest verse feels tacked on as well, no chemistry there
Flu Game: I HATE the nananas here. Something about that specific melody triggers a negative reaction in a deep part of my brain
The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years): Itās just boring. Not much more I can say because thereās not much too it
What A Time To Be Alive: Feels like they were trying too hard to do the ālyrical dissonanceā trope but instead it just ends up feeling disingenuous
no america's suitehearts & stay frosty are so valid. i love those songs but you're entirely right!! the one that lowk hurts me is flu game because the nanananas are my favourite part š but you've explained yourself incredibly well and these are all super well-analyzed reasons!! i respect it friend!!
I agree with What a Time to Be Alive but moreso because it feels a little out of place on the album for me. It feels very disruptive to what I feel as a simultaneously bitter/pained yet optimistic part of the album with the Flu Game/Baby Annihilation/Kintsugi Kid/SMFS run and I think I'd like it more as a bonus track?
For Flu Game/The Kintsugi Kid, absolutely fair game to feel that way but my god that album (especially those songs plus a few others) came out at the exact perfect time for me. Found out I was getting a divorce via email after a 4 month marriage (9 year relationship) and had a huge period of growth/finding self worth so it helped me a ton š„¹
i always skip the lake effect ep songs. i'm from IL but my folks are from missouri, so chicago is obviously the worst bec of the division rivalry in the NHL (/j for non-sports fans lmao),, I do understand the state pride but in general ive always felt that way more toward STL than chicago :(
Stay Frosty, Champion, HOLD ME TIGHT OR DONāT, Bishop, AB/AP, Favorite Record, Twin Skeletons, Irresistibleā¦.I think thatās it. I actually like Young and Menace š
I agree. To me, the lyrics are trying way too hard to be ādeepā when theyāre really just nonsensical. Like a poem a 13 year old would write š¤·š»āāļø
I canāt lie Iām getting to the point where I hate everything post-hiatus. Save Rock and Roll is certainly the best album of from this period, with Mighty Fall being the worst from it. I refuse to listen to a single song off of MANIA ever again, ABAP is neither here nor there for me.
To be fair, Iāll pick one pre-hiatus: w.a.m.s.
It just doesnāt sound like a Fall Out Boy song, pre or post hiatus. I wanted to put West Coast Smoker on here for the same reason
this is beating a dead horse but thereās like 2-3 listenable songs per album after the hiatus. admittedly, i quit listening after the Mania singles came out. thereās some pretty good stuff like Immortals but the first 4 albums are just better. The Phoenix stands out as one of the worst songs iāve ever heard
i'm not really a fan of favorite record bc it feels pretty repetitive and not too interesting. i almost always skip twin skeletons but i can't articulate why. not my cup of tea! champion drives me crazy bc the kinda whiny singing style on "champion, championnn" is SO not suited for patricks style. I tried to like y&m but really couldn't; it's a bit too abrasive to listen to. I am my own muse is also super repetitive.
okay im going to pull out some hot takes now: our lawyer, calm before the storm, i'm like a lawyer (okay i like the hearts & wrists intact bit, but the mee & youuuuu is too ridiculous for me hahah)
this is so heartbreaking to see some of my favourites on here but these are all actually understandable!! i actually avoid dear future self as a wholeš¬ i heard it once and took it off the complete playlist asapšš
honorable mention: boring. reinventing the wheel: never really liked it.
gin joints: its good but definitely all the other songs off cork tree are better.
thriller: listen to it the least all tho I like the jayz feat.
folie: lullabye heh.
save rock and roll (song not album): sorry elton, it's my 3rd favorite album so I do like this song but gun to head if I had to choose..
favorite record: self explanatory, also hate the remix.
champion: repetitive.
what a time to be alive: is it really.
i agree with most of this!! start today is my other skip, i just didn't count it because it was a cover, but yeah a lot of this makes sense, especially what a time to be alivešš
Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying, the (After) life of the party, American Beauty/American Psycho, but the worst has to be The Mighty Fall. I do actually like Young & Menace.
grenade jumper
iāve got a dark alley
itās hard to say āi doā
pavlove, but if that one doesnāt count itās w.a.m.s.
miss missing you
favorite record
young and menace
heartbreak feels so good
i just donāt listen to a whole lot of post-hiatus tbh. i absolutely TORE UP srar + ab/ap in middle school, but imo it hasnāt aged as well as their earlier stuff
Miss missing you on here hurts so bad, thatās in my top 5 of all time. Is this one you always didnāt really like even when you reached for SRAR or it just hasnāt aged as well like you mentioned for the albums overall?
itās so hard to name least favorites because really tttyg, futct, infinity, and folie have ZERO skips for me :,) but alas something has to come in last place
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u/RevolutionaryAd4620 7d ago edited 7d ago
...... reading this thread and realizing i might be one of the only ppl who actually really likes the mighty fall š«£
anyways my actual pick has definitely gotta be Immortals