![]() PRT: I’m sure when you wrote those things down it was more like therapy and you were not thinking about whether or not people would see them as a happy song.Ĭhris: Yeah, right. But I like that there still is positivity that comes through. Everything else seems like a huge downer. There is one song at the end of ‘Everything’ we can say is positive. We do have a positive outlook on things, which makes its way into the songs, even if it’s not a positive song. People keep on telling us we’re a positive band and I always think of our songs as angry. Is there a lot of pain in that record?Ĭhris: I’m not sure how we do that. It really is a beautiful and touching album that feels positive, even if the lyrics aren’t always equally positive. PRT: When you listen to all your albums chronologically, it feels like ‘Everything is Fine’ came out very naturally as the logical next step, sounding like a more mature version of the band. I heard a lot of people have said that it’s their favorite record of ours, so I guess that’s a win, right? It feels really good. I honestly wasn’t sure ‘cause I would go back and listen to the old stuff and say I don’t even remember how I came up with half of these ideas. The whole process, at least for me personally, was a challenge just to see if we still had it in us to write another record-if we can write good songs. How do you feel about the reaction of the fans a year and a half later?Ĭhris: I’m very happy about it. PRT: First of all, I wanted to ask, the last time we spoke was in 2019 and it was around the time of the release of ‘Everything is Fine’. We sat down virtually with Chris McGrath, singer and guitarist of Much The Same, to talk about that album. ![]() But when something is just too good, there is no holding it back.Īfter releasing an excellent new record in the form of ‘Everything Is Fine’ and a bunch of tours, Much The Same is back at it with a completely remixed and remastered version of their debut album, ‘Quitters Never Win,’ out now on vinyl for the first time thanks to a couple of incredible indie labels. The band broke up without having any clue of what the future was holding. Unfortunately, the scene kind of fall apart around the time ‘Survive’ was released with emo taking over, leaving punk rock behind in its dust. Addison, $24.75-$90.Much The Same started in Chicago in 2001 under the name Don’t Look Down, went through a couple of line-up changes and then grew up quickly signing to A-F Records for their first full-length record and then to Nitro for ‘Survive’. v RFall Out Boy, Rise Against, Machine Gun Kelly But as uniquely offensive as Mania can get, it sounds like nothing else out there, and I can’t blame FoB for swinging for the fences. FoB could play it safe-and do with the brand-new EP Lake Effect Kid (Island/DCD2), a cheap emotional ploy for locals’ hearts. So we get the ambitious mess of Mania: “Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)” riffs on M.I.A.’s greatest hit, “Young and Menace” references Britney Spears, and “The Last of the Real Ones” rolls poppy neosoul into massive EDM breaks. There’s not much of a road map for what a popular pop-punk band can do at the stage in its career that FoB find themselves at now besides go classic rock (Green Day) or Vegas (Blink-182), but to be fair, the bulk of the band’s posthiatus music doesn’t register as pop-punk in the slightest anyway. Hell, the world didn’t need an album-length remix of American Beauty featuring Migos, Asap Ferg, Juicy J, and Azealia Banks, but in October 2015 it got one anyway in the form of Make America Psycho Again-the fact that the album exists at all is a totem of FoB’s power. Following a hiatus from 2010 until 2012, the band put out a trio of albums (2013’s Save Rock and Roll and 2015’s American Beauty/American Psycho precede Mania) that sometimes feel like a flex from one of the last bands of their era still standing-they’re certainly the only one in their scene currently big enough to headline Wrigley Field, which they’ll do tonight. For FoB, the track was the latest in a long history of reaching across cultural gaps to collaborate with artists that would otherwise never work with a once-scrappy pop-punk group weaned on shows at the Fireside Bowl. In December 2017, months before BTS became the first K-Pop band to hit number one on the Billboard 200, BTS member RM collaborated with Fall Out Boy on a remix of their single “Champion” for the seventh album by the suburban Chicago natives, January’s Mania (Island/DCD2). This holiday season, save a space for local journalism. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Click here to join the Reader Membership Community today! Close
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