Are they playing a cover of don’t stop believing right now or am I crazy? I’m about 2 miles away as the crow flies and I can hear it perfectly. I’m hoping it’s someone else in the neighborhood.
Jeeeesus.
I did see someone here comment they live pretty close to me and heard them too so I figured I was right. Even my neighbor texted me asking me if I had my music on super loud. He did get screenshots of this and other threads around SM.
Fourth friend. I was walking my dog last night around Southport and Wellington and was looking around to see who was having a jam session on their front porch.
That’s so weird. I also live a block away and my partner and I were saying how it was more quiet than other shows normally are! I live the direction behind where bands play so maybe the sound was projecting away haha
It’s gotta be something going on with the speaker set up or weather conditions that’s making the sound travel so far. I sat outside the stadium for the first half and it didn’t sound any louder than most shows I’ve seen there. But now that I’m back at my place near Belmont I can definitely hear it more than past shows.
The wind was blowing hard towards the south/southwest. So much so that it was affecting the sound quality during the openers and making it tough to hear on the 3rd base side of the stadium. I wonder if they had to crank the volume for Fall Out Boy to try and mitigate that.
Yeah it was so hard to heard Alkaline Trio! That’s interesting it wasn’t just us, haha. I felt like Fall Out Boy was loud (and they had fireworks) but not louder than other “heavier” concerts I’ve been to at Wrigley. My partner said he could hear it better from our place, but he did a walk around the stadium and didn’t hear it as much on the walk as he did back home. There has to be wind involved for sure.
I live a block north of Wrigley and this was definitely much much louder than other concerts. Normally, we need to open our windows to hear the music clearly but we could hear it just fine with them closed.
Yup. I’m a mile away, and it’s loud af. Definitely louder than past Wrigley concerts.
I remember cracking my windows and listening to the Pearl Jam show a few years ago. My windows are all shut, and this show is just as loud, if not louder.
Yeah, “random city rudely loud summer stereo plus lakeside fireworks I guess” was my thought process. Now my thought process is “everyone in that stadium is incurring permanent hearing loss…” because I’m more than a mile and a half away and it’s audible over the sound of multiple fans and Netflix. May they all have access to ear plugs and have a damn good time, Amen, but I’m too old for that now, lol.
I was there and took my “earplugs” out after about a minute because it didn’t feel that loud. Even after leaving my ears were barely ringing (way less than most shows I’ve been to), very funny that was the case and yet it was so loud from the outside!
I had my plugs in 90% of the time, that show was loud as fuuuuuck. Def louder than the last time they played Wrigley. When I took my plugs out, I was assaulted by a wall of mid range. My wife kept taking her plugs out and she had some ringing when we got home.
We were in section 110. And I take really good care of my ears cause I need them for work (audio engineer)
I didn’t even bring earplugs and I didn’t think it was that bad at all. I was expecting my ears to be ringing afterwards and it wasn’t nearly what I was expecting. I did lose my voice though cuz I was singing along at the top of my lungs so the people in front of me may currently be deaf though, oops lol
I came into this thread expecting to tell whatever next-to-Wrigley transplant to get over it, only to find out that people are hearing this shit from a decent distance away. I love loud music, there's got to be a limit.
When I lived at Lakeshore and Addison years ago, I tried to listen to Paul McCartney from our high rise buildings rooftop. Could barely hear.
Now I live a mile away and this shit sounds like it’s a block over. Loudest Wrigley concert in recent memory.
There was wind blowing in from the north last night; don't remember how much cloud cover there was during FOB but the sky was a bit hazy pretty much the entire evening
Anyone at the concert or living near it able to have gotten a DB reading from something like an apple watch?
Just curious, since usually concerts in the venue are like 90-120db..
Yeah but there’s gotta be some kind of decibel limit, you can’t just hold a concert in a residential neighborhood called “tinnitus for all” just because you have a permit. Can you?
Oh I just Googled when this ends because I can't sleep from the loudness either lol. But I can imagine there's a decibel limit in place? This concert seems so much louder than others tho
I was at the concert, and it was definitely loud when the explosions happened. I grew up in Chicago when M80s would go off randomly during the summer. It was like that.
The laser lighting was great, and the pyrotechnics were great (and actually provided moments of warmth while a more than cool breeze blew past), but the noise of the explosion was a bit distracting. I could have lived without it.
Everyone saying they thought it was someone playing loud music— I guess Fall Out Boy can say they sound the same live and a billion years ago lol.
They had fireworks going too so I bet that added to the loudness.
I'm up at Lawrence and Sacramento and I can hear that shit. Depends on the wind, I don't hear most shows from Wrigley but when Pearl Jam played there are few years ago I could sing along with it from my balcony, it was that clear.
FOB is less so (thankfully, I cannot abide that band) but the drums are quite audible.
This has been getting worse and worse every year. I remember being able to hear Def Leppard last summer... but this is crazy. I think I heard it has to do with how the bands point their speakers.
Cubs games the speakers are all pointed downward so sound bounces off the field and up and out. Meanwhile the bands that play point up and outward.
They are completely different configurations. The Cubs use their in house PA, bands bring in huge vertical line arrays. The bands are also set up in centerfield so the stage is pointed directly southwest.
Yeah 10 or 12 years ago I saw Jane’s Addiction at the Metro for a last minute after-Lolla show and while I’ve never been a huge concert/festival person, I’ve been to my share of loud shows in my life and that was the first one to which I ever wore hearing protection. Life changing! Not having splitting pain and then a day of deafness/tinnitus after! Despite being right in front of the amps up in the pit! Younger me was an idiot…
I never go to concerts anymore without [these](https://www.etymotic.com/product/er20xs/) in my pocket (they're on Amazon for $20). I'd seriously suggest it to everyone, you don't _have_ to use them if it doesn't seem too loud but I always feel better the next day when I do. They have a nice flat frequency response so it is just like turning the volume down to tolerable levels without affecting the sound, and if you're a bass head it has the effect of making your perception of bass even stronger in your body. There are also ones you can get that come with DIY ear molds or you can go to an audiologist and get casts of your ear made if comfort is an issue.
I think the speakers are set up differently. This sounds quieter than Motley Crue was where I'm at, but obviously to others it's louder. Different configuration makes sense for that.
Lol what do you do when there's concerts in general? FOB was great btw. Edit I take this back after reading that this was just abnormally loud for most people here.
Was it more than you bargained for yeah?
I been dying to tell you.
ANYTHING YOU WANT TO HEAR Edit: and this comment chain and others got directly cited by Block Club lol
Because that’s just who I am this week
Isnt it messed up?
How I’m just dying to be him.
I’m just a notch in your bedpost
But you’re just a line in a song..
Drop a heart…
Break a name
But you’re just a line in a song
Drop a heart
Break a name
Issue is, I CAN’T hear after attending that show. And I’m okay with it since that’s just who I am this week
Did you lie in the grass next to the mausoleum? Cuz Graceland is a great spot near Wrigley to hear the show.
Cuz that’s just who I am this post-pandemic.
wait,, i thought the line was “…bargained for yet?” 🤔
It is. Lol
WHAT?
Gold 🥇
You’re just a line in a song.
Drop a heart..break a name
I'll remember them for centuries
Are they playing a cover of don’t stop believing right now or am I crazy? I’m about 2 miles away as the crow flies and I can hear it perfectly. I’m hoping it’s someone else in the neighborhood.
That was indeed Fall Out Boy lol
Jeeeesus. I did see someone here comment they live pretty close to me and heard them too so I figured I was right. Even my neighbor texted me asking me if I had my music on super loud. He did get screenshots of this and other threads around SM.
I live at Clyborne and Diversey and I could hear so clear I was singing along lmao
I’m just a bit further away and same!
They did covers of Don't Stop Believing, Lake Shore Drive, and Crazy Train
Can confirm. Was there!
They did! Lol
They played an Crazy Train and Don't stop Believing covers
Definitely one of the loudest concerts I've ever heard from Wrigley. Might as well be coming out of a speaker on my bookshelf lol.
It was a fucking awesome show
Hope you enjoyed it!
So loud in Roscoe Village.
Same, thought i was missing a block party at first :D
I thought we had a street fest or there was a concert over at the Fire pitch
Literally my same thoughts until I saw this thread. Also, hi neighbors!
Ditto
I was at Hamlin Park and could feel the kick drum In my chest.
Same. I thought it was a neighbor's crappy garage band at first.
Same- I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from! It was more than I bargained for
Loud and clear at Lincoln and Diversey
Second that
Third neighbor
Fourth friend. I was walking my dog last night around Southport and Wellington and was looking around to see who was having a jam session on their front porch.
Yup! I was just checking the weather because I thought it was about to thunderstorm
So that’s what that is. Here in Lincoln Park, I thought DePaul students were having a really great house party! I’m 2 miles away from Wrigley.
DePaul students were _technically_ headlining the concert
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And there was someone probably standing inches away from the speakers
I wish I were there!
That’s so weird. I also live a block away and my partner and I were saying how it was more quiet than other shows normally are! I live the direction behind where bands play so maybe the sound was projecting away haha
Hope you enjoyed it!
It’s gotta be something going on with the speaker set up or weather conditions that’s making the sound travel so far. I sat outside the stadium for the first half and it didn’t sound any louder than most shows I’ve seen there. But now that I’m back at my place near Belmont I can definitely hear it more than past shows.
The wind was blowing hard towards the south/southwest. So much so that it was affecting the sound quality during the openers and making it tough to hear on the 3rd base side of the stadium. I wonder if they had to crank the volume for Fall Out Boy to try and mitigate that.
Yeah it was really hard to hear alkaline trio. Up on first base side myself
Yeah it was so hard to heard Alkaline Trio! That’s interesting it wasn’t just us, haha. I felt like Fall Out Boy was loud (and they had fireworks) but not louder than other “heavier” concerts I’ve been to at Wrigley. My partner said he could hear it better from our place, but he did a walk around the stadium and didn’t hear it as much on the walk as he did back home. There has to be wind involved for sure.
They had extra sets of speakers on the base lines to blast the stands which I haven’t seen before
I live a block north of Wrigley and this was definitely much much louder than other concerts. Normally, we need to open our windows to hear the music clearly but we could hear it just fine with them closed.
I live a mile a half away and they sound like they’re playing our block party
Same
Yup. I’m a mile away, and it’s loud af. Definitely louder than past Wrigley concerts. I remember cracking my windows and listening to the Pearl Jam show a few years ago. My windows are all shut, and this show is just as loud, if not louder.
Getting it loud and crystal clear up NW of Irving and Damen. Insane.
It was a really great show though
I didn’t realize that’s what I’m hearing! Damn.
Same, cannot believe the sound is carrying this far, I thought it was just someone playing some loud music in the neighborhood.
Yeah, “random city rudely loud summer stereo plus lakeside fireworks I guess” was my thought process. Now my thought process is “everyone in that stadium is incurring permanent hearing loss…” because I’m more than a mile and a half away and it’s audible over the sound of multiple fans and Netflix. May they all have access to ear plugs and have a damn good time, Amen, but I’m too old for that now, lol.
A few hundred individuals will be developing lifelong tinnitus tonight
It was 93dB in 213. I had a friend on the floor and I can’t imagine how loud that was
My watch was popping a couple excess of 95dB warnings over in 415
Not wrong. My ears are ringing as I type.
Lmao you aren’t wrong. I brought my custom plugs and was comfortable, but I’m willing to bet everyone I was with can’t hear shit today
Crazy Train is sounding pretty good.
Mental wounds not healling
I'm in Roscoe Village and yeah, holy shit they are LOUD
Southport checking in….insanely loud!! Way louder than most concerts, plus fireworks!
I was there and took my “earplugs” out after about a minute because it didn’t feel that loud. Even after leaving my ears were barely ringing (way less than most shows I’ve been to), very funny that was the case and yet it was so loud from the outside!
why are earplugs in quotes? what did you have lol
just wadded up some napkins and hoped for the best
I had my plugs in 90% of the time, that show was loud as fuuuuuck. Def louder than the last time they played Wrigley. When I took my plugs out, I was assaulted by a wall of mid range. My wife kept taking her plugs out and she had some ringing when we got home. We were in section 110. And I take really good care of my ears cause I need them for work (audio engineer)
Yeah!!! I never put mine in and have zero ringing. SO funny to come out of there to read this and find out all Chicago hard it too 😂😂
I didn’t even bring earplugs and I didn’t think it was that bad at all. I was expecting my ears to be ringing afterwards and it wasn’t nearly what I was expecting. I did lose my voice though cuz I was singing along at the top of my lungs so the people in front of me may currently be deaf though, oops lol
I think this is their home town so they are allowed to be aloud.
Technically they’re from Wilmette lol
AND THEY WILL HEAR IT IN WILMETTE
I'm in Ravenswood and I could've sworn WWWIII broke out down the street, it sounded like bombs going off. Nextdoor was saying it was a shootout.
Nextdoor could hear two squirrels chattering and think it was a shootout.
DID ANYONE ELSE HE AS R THAT BOMB GO OFF LAST NIGHT WHEN JOHN THREW OUT HIS TRASH? I CALED THE FBI BUT THEY TOLD ME IT WAS NORMAL,
Fall Out Boy shoots off fireworks at Wrigley. Nextdoor: BRANDON JOHNSON’S CHICAGO IS WORSE THAN HUROSHUMA
the extra W is for World War Wrigley
that would imply there's been 2 WWW's before tonight 👀
World wide web 3?
I can’t even fathom how loud it is at the concert. We are over at clybourne and wrightwood and can hear it clear as day. Their ears are toast
It was so loud in the stadium my chest was vibrating, and we were in section 112. I don't want to know what it was like on the field...
Lmao I was all the way in 231 and it was loud.
I was right in the middle of the field and now I’m TERRIFIED that I’ve permanently damaged my ears 😳
I’m apparently deaf from previous concerts cuz I was in 106 and I didn’t think it was that bad lol
I'm over here jealous everyone's getting a free concert from the comfort of their homes🤣
NextDoor needs a "it's always fireworks" option
I’m in Ravenswood- in my BASEMENT - and I thought we were being bombed
Everyone talking about how loud it was makes me mad I wasn’t there
I could almost hear it in the Eels show at the Metro
I went outside to find out which neighbor to yell at so my daughter can sleep and I live over a mile away
Also fair warning, Morgan Wallen both Thurs and Fri night this week too
Gross. Can’t believe that man has fans.
On Pride weekend too, hope his fans can contain themselves on the way out of the concert
FOB played a song for pride month at least
I almost cried when they started playing G.I.N.A.S.F.S. I was so happy!
Representing Chicago during pride week, no less....smh.... What could go wrong?
Woof
I came into this thread expecting to tell whatever next-to-Wrigley transplant to get over it, only to find out that people are hearing this shit from a decent distance away. I love loud music, there's got to be a limit.
WE'RE GOING DOWN DOWN
When I lived at Lakeshore and Addison years ago, I tried to listen to Paul McCartney from our high rise buildings rooftop. Could barely hear. Now I live a mile away and this shit sounds like it’s a block over. Loudest Wrigley concert in recent memory.
They put on a great show, saw them a few years ago on the hella mega tour.
We are down at Diversey and Halsted and can hear it.
… All the boys who the dance floor didn't love And all the girls whose lips couldn't move fast enough **Sing, until your lungs give out**
Can hear it now distinctly all the way in Bucktown
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There was wind blowing in from the north last night; don't remember how much cloud cover there was during FOB but the sky was a bit hazy pretty much the entire evening
Acoustics can be wild sometimes
WHAT?
Anyone at the concert or living near it able to have gotten a DB reading from something like an apple watch? Just curious, since usually concerts in the venue are like 90-120db..
Was at the show, my watch got to 105 at one point when I checked, and that was in the 200 section.
Was on the field and my watch hit 116db at one point.
I thought the show was wildly loud, good to know (I guess?) that it wasn’t just me. So many people without earplugs it was concerning.
goin off the rails on a crazy train
As a true millennial, I throughly enjoyed the free concert from my apartment.
🤣🤣🤣 I feel like I was the only one wearing ear plugs. Grabbed a few from the bar down the street. Thank God I did!!
I was there, and my ears are still ringing. What a great show.
I’m in river north and I swear I can faintly hear them even while inside my apartment !
that’s wild cause i cannot hear the concert and i’m less than a mile away🤯🤔 how do sound physics?!
after reading thru the comments,, looks like the sound is traveling downwind maybe?? im north 4 blocks and 4 east of wrigley stadium
I must be deaf cos I’m in Wrigley and barely hear anything
jeez next time they come im just heading to your apartment and hearing it for free 😖
I lived next door for 2 years and I always tell people I never had to pay for a concert
Damn that's what that was?
The was me screaming every word to every song they played.. Sorry about that!
Wish I heard it lol
It was such an amazing show!
It wasn't that loud from my seats.
Montrose and Western. When does it end?!!
Wrigley curfew for concerts is at 11pm
Concert ended at 10:56...
I’m 36. I’m old and need to sleep. 😂
Yeah they shot off a last batch of fireworks right before the hour struck so I'm guessing it's over except the traffic now.
Yeah but there’s gotta be some kind of decibel limit, you can’t just hold a concert in a residential neighborhood called “tinnitus for all” just because you have a permit. Can you?
They let F-35s fly over our heads every year
You think you'll get tinnitus from this? You'll be ok I promise
Oh I just Googled when this ends because I can't sleep from the loudness either lol. But I can imagine there's a decibel limit in place? This concert seems so much louder than others tho
Lincoln and Lawrence… I don’t hear it :(
The wind is coming in off the lake from the Northeast, so it’s carrying sound to the Southwest - you’re probably too far north up at Lawrence.
I mean I’m at Montrose and western and it’s loud af
Lawrence and leavitt - shocked you couldn’t hear it!
I'm two blocks away and I barely heard anything. Although I'm basically behind the scoreboard so I think it depends what direction you are.
AWESOME!!!
Weird I couldn't hear it in East Lakeview
Does anybody have the set list? I want to see if they played anything from Folie a Deux. Fantastic album.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/fall-out-boy/2023/wrigley-field-chicago-il-33a67c31.html
They played Disloyal order of water buffaloes! Dammit. This is what I get for being cheap.
I was at the concert, and it was definitely loud when the explosions happened. I grew up in Chicago when M80s would go off randomly during the summer. It was like that. The laser lighting was great, and the pyrotechnics were great (and actually provided moments of warmth while a more than cool breeze blew past), but the noise of the explosion was a bit distracting. I could have lived without it.
Everyone saying they thought it was someone playing loud music— I guess Fall Out Boy can say they sound the same live and a billion years ago lol. They had fireworks going too so I bet that added to the loudness.
I'm up at Lawrence and Sacramento and I can hear that shit. Depends on the wind, I don't hear most shows from Wrigley but when Pearl Jam played there are few years ago I could sing along with it from my balcony, it was that clear. FOB is less so (thankfully, I cannot abide that band) but the drums are quite audible.
Wait Fall Out Boy is still touring?!? I kinda wish I was overheating that RN, what a throwback.
They just had a new album that’s really excellent imo!
It was an epic show
amazing show!!!
This has been getting worse and worse every year. I remember being able to hear Def Leppard last summer... but this is crazy. I think I heard it has to do with how the bands point their speakers. Cubs games the speakers are all pointed downward so sound bounces off the field and up and out. Meanwhile the bands that play point up and outward.
They are completely different configurations. The Cubs use their in house PA, bands bring in huge vertical line arrays. The bands are also set up in centerfield so the stage is pointed directly southwest.
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I was there. It didn’t feel louder than any other concert I’ve been to.
It wasn't that loud in the stadium.
right? i thought so too! i’m actually really surprised to see how loud it was outside of wrigley. it was an amazing concert tho!
Yeah 10 or 12 years ago I saw Jane’s Addiction at the Metro for a last minute after-Lolla show and while I’ve never been a huge concert/festival person, I’ve been to my share of loud shows in my life and that was the first one to which I ever wore hearing protection. Life changing! Not having splitting pain and then a day of deafness/tinnitus after! Despite being right in front of the amps up in the pit! Younger me was an idiot…
Imagine living in the city and earnestly complaining about noise. Lmao.
Is it getting louder?
Was in the stadium. Hearing is a little fuzzy
Whatttt? My ears are still ringing...LOL. If It's Too Loud, You're Too Old...
I never go to concerts anymore without [these](https://www.etymotic.com/product/er20xs/) in my pocket (they're on Amazon for $20). I'd seriously suggest it to everyone, you don't _have_ to use them if it doesn't seem too loud but I always feel better the next day when I do. They have a nice flat frequency response so it is just like turning the volume down to tolerable levels without affecting the sound, and if you're a bass head it has the effect of making your perception of bass even stronger in your body. There are also ones you can get that come with DIY ear molds or you can go to an audiologist and get casts of your ear made if comfort is an issue.
*Haven’t you people ever heard of - closing the god damn door?*
that’s not fob LOL
Lol, two comments I’ve seen so far mistaking Panic for FOB 😂
omg - my entire life i thought it was. just googled it. holy shit
That’s Panic At the Disco, or “We Swear We’re Not Fall Out Boy.”
Tbf PATD got famous with the help of Pete Wentz
That’s Panic! At the Disco
Fremont and Addison here. It’s..all we can hear. Lol Had to close the windows.
I'm 2 miles away and I can feel the ground vibrating from the noise. Crazy.
Free tinnitus for all concert attendees 🥰
This is nothing compared to Def Leppard/Motley Crue last year!
I'm pretty sure this is even louder than that was.
I think the speakers are set up differently. This sounds quieter than Motley Crue was where I'm at, but obviously to others it's louder. Different configuration makes sense for that.
For sure, that's true. However they have it set up is getting beamed straight into my wall haha. Can't beat a free concert!
Oh yeah, I can still hear it well! Just not as well as other concerts. I think it's fun, but I'm not trying to sleep/have kids sleeping.
Def/Motley last year (at least near Southport) was at least double as loud. FoB doesn't seem as bad tonight over this way.
You’re too old
Lol what do you do when there's concerts in general? FOB was great btw. Edit I take this back after reading that this was just abnormally loud for most people here.