hello and thank you again for this ask. i love rambling about my favorite songs! so buckle up.
as i said last time my favorites do change very often-- despite listening for 9 years i can still hit shuffle on a playlist and over time garner a "new" song to focus on. i still love all of srar with all my heart but i already gave my favorites from there so she will not make an appearance. here is my updated list in to particular order:
-xo
- pavlove
- favorite record
- fame < infamy
- 7 minutes in heaven
-hot to the touch, cold on the inside
- you're crashing, but you're no wave
- honorable mention
thank you again for the ask! feel free to submit more about different artists or more about fall out boy in the future.
we, as a fobsociety, don't talk about caffeine cold nearly enough.
"dont breathe life into a monster, then/complain when he destroys it all again -> i'm not a monster, just really fucked up, i'm tired"
like what the fuck. this band is CRUEL. i don't have the time or mental capacity to talk about it but this song's lyrics fuck me up more than a lot of other songs do.
"Scuba diving in the wishing well trying to save myself" is such an wild fucking line to me. Why don't we talk about pax am days more I feel like we should talk about pax am days more
Honestly my favorite era of the sound of Patrick’s voice was after the hiatus where he finally found his actual voice and stopped being scared of it. I love hearing this especially in SRAR, PAX AM Days, and AB/AP. Some of my favorite instances, especially of the soulful, gritty, low notes, are in Death Valley, The Mighty Fall, Jet Pack Blues, American Beauty/ American psycho (the title track), Novocaine, Twin Skeletons, We Were Doomed From the Start, Love, Sex, Death, and American Made. Yes, I love the old sound too, and I LOVE Soul Punk, and I love MANIA and SMFS, but there was this era where, after his journey in his solo career, he implemented that power and confidence and HEAVENLY voice and experience into FOB’s more pop punk sound. SO GOOD. AB/AP is climbing the charts for one of my favorites- I’ll always be a Folie number one stan (I am listening to West Coast Smoker as we speak), but MAN the GRIT?? THE HINTS OF PRIMAL RAGE AND JUST SHEER CONFIDENCE??? HELLO???? Anyways live laugh love SRAR-AB/AP was the best era (I am biased lol) also, I need Patrick screaming back. All I’ve got is Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying and Jock Powerviolence by Weekend Nachos. …and kind of Death Valley- it has those raw qualities.