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Can't wait to hear the song about vietnamese soldiers going through hell on the last train home, but then I hear it gets up beat on the second verse when Mark lets us know that they meet some high schoolers when they get here and go out to the desert to drink some whiskey late at night with them and for some reason they were singing along to the descendents.11 points
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Why redo a song because it sounded like the police?? That's a good thing. So they've redone the song to sound like a shit version of neck deep?8 points
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Didn't you have a shrine of him and Mark? Then you tore it down in a fit of rage after Tom specifically wouldn't randomly meet you after you stood outside his tour bus in the rain for hours? That sounds just as crazy.7 points
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Watching 'blink 182's rock party' on music channel Kerrang and Mark introduced an All Time Low song by calling them 'Diet Blink 182'. Oh the irony.6 points
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When you get stoked that your bassist and guitarist actually might have wrote a song instead of the producer.5 points
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Their point is that a lot of people "believe" because they've never questioned it. When you are brought up in a culture that heavily believes in something and its a part of your every day life, you aren't likely to question it. its the entire reason organised religion has been around so long - the structure and tradition of belief amongst groups of people is so strong, that it just continues, generation to generation. religious extremists are nutso to a certain degree, yes - but how they got there is understandable, and a cultural phenomenon. how Tom got so balls deep into conspiracy theory aliens stuff might be because he was brought up with alien nutters but that doesn't seem true. He sought this out, and he believes he's a fundamental part of it. It's one thing to adhere to a belief system that was essentially forced upon you, it's another to seek it out and decide that you alone have some importance to said structure. It's a weird mix of paranoia and a superiority complex and being a little bit crazy town banana pants.5 points
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I actually thought it was really funny when Tom would purposely butcher First Date live. I know that absolutely destroyed the song for a lot of people on here, but it always made me chuckle. Mark is so disappointed in Tom in this one. Haha5 points
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Baseless Theory Alert!! "If you're working hard trying to make a song happen, it's usually an indication that there's something fundamentally wrong with it in the beginning." Damn. Like Chrisx37 said, it seems like Feldmann (or getting older) has completely changed the way Mark thinks about Blink 182. Seeing quotes like that makes me think that he has kinda blissfully let go of the side of Blink that made meaningful music. It's almost like the Untitled Era + years and years of stressing out thinking so hard and battling writers block at times are too associated with Tom, and now suddenly he feels freed from that burden. All because someone came along and told him it was ok to just bypass all of that bullshit and crank out song after song without the expectation that it will mean something. "First thought is the best thought, write a song about this book I'm reading, write a song about parking lots, write a song about making a wildfire, here you can even use any of these melodies and progressions I came up with, doesn't have to have specific meaning behind it, kids don't care about that anymore just go go go!" Honestly knowing how shitty he must have felt at times over the last decade dealing with Tom bullshit I can see the appeal of going this route. There's a surface level satisfaction of having quantity over quality, especially when you just spent years battling Tom to put out music, and the new stuff is a commercial success. But I can't imagine this era's music will end up as close to his heart as things he worked hard to make in the past.4 points
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Really disappointed with the track-by-track. It sounds like every single thought, whether it's Mark's or Feldmann's, gets turned into a song in a matter of hours and then they just move onto the next. I wish they'd at least dedicate more time to them. Also, what's happened to Mark? Mark knows this isn't true from experience (there's a difference between beating a song to death and trying hard to make it work). I doubt he had this mindset when he produced the MCS album. It seems to me like either he's not being truthful with the fans, or Feldmann has completely changed the way he thinks about music.4 points
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And he posted the autopsy picture from XFiles. He'll literally believe anything he sees that fits his narrative.4 points
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This interview honstely made me laugh: "John had a melody idea and we worked around that" "That came together quickly in the better part of an afternoon" (I'm sure at John's studio) "We sat at John's kitchen table and put that song together" (oh hey, also the kitchen!) "Last train home is a culmination of a story that John told us" "I remember writing the chorus - it came together really quickly during an afternoon at John's studio" "I credit that to John and the environment that he fosters" "John and I were joking around one day ... ... we spent all of two minutes writing it, and it shows" Thank you, father John!4 points
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@_Kyle_ No you are wrong. As a said, at face value nothing wrong with studying Aliens and going on camping trips. Same at reenactment events. In that regard, they are similar. But when you literally start to believe in a vast Alien conspiracy and that people are out to get you, and you have uncovered some huge Alien Government plot, you have entered crazy land. It would be like if I truly believed I lived in the 18th century and was REALLY a private in George Washington's army. See the difference? Again, this concept is not difficult.3 points
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Nope. The opening drums are ripped from Feeling This while Adam's Song plays in the background. Cynical is nowhere close to Carousel.3 points
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I kind of wonder that myself.... Maybe Ghent should take a breather from the boards? He seems to lash out at anything minorly positive about Tom, won't hear of anything bad about John Feldmann, and defends just about everything blink does. Maybe come back a few months after the deluxe drops? I think he might blow a gasket if he's around when that actually drops. Not looking good.3 points
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Are you guys really bashing Tom for going to his kid's baseball game??? Seriously? And no shit Tom blocked Ghent. I would too if I posted a family picture and people started instantly harassing me about blink days after being kicked out and/or quitting.3 points
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Wildfire a song Matt and Mark wrote together, lyrics don't have a lot of special meaning. Pretty much sums up Mark and Matt's writing abilities at this point.3 points
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The latest piece of garbage from my brain, made with minimal effort! I always knew these songs sounded extremely similar.3 points
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"with jerry finn, he'd work at a methodical pace. with john, he's the exact opposite of the same coin. he gets really great results as well; he's a lot more exuberant about the whole process" disgusting3 points
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Can't believe they would write an album at their producer's studio. Terrible. Just terrible.3 points
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Except nothing he's done in Blink makes me want to check out his other projects. If anything, the opposite. That would be cool and was originally how I would have saw it pan out. Realistically, you'll get a bunch of fall out boy, 5sos, simple plan fans who think Matt rocks and go venture to Alk3 and be unfazed. I mean that stuff has lyrics and creativity and all that junk.3 points
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"We wanted to do an old school blink throwback." "This song totally legitimizes the deluxe album." "This song is darker than anything since Untitled and arrived fully formed. We recorded it with John in 2 takes." "This song is just as good as anything on California."3 points
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I think this one is probably the best just bc of his dance movements and facial expressions Which honestly isn't that much different from this. Seriously it's pretty close3 points
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The idea that a batshit insane belief gets less batshit insane because more people believe in it is scary.3 points
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and don't forget "good fuckin bye" from the acoustic split with kevin seconds.2 points
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I went through all of Skiba's discography when he joined Blink and made a playlist of my favs. A lot of it wasn't memorable, and I didn't particularly like Goddammit, but here are songs I loved, check these out: Alk3: Madam Me Private Eye Stupid Kid I Lied My Face Off My Friend Peter Southern Rock Donner Party Burn (this is probably my favorite Alk3 song of all time) I Was A Prayer Help Me Fine The Torture Doctor Kiss You To Death Side Stuff: Heavens - Patent Pending (entire album is awesome, "Watching You" is my favorite song) Skiba & The Sekrets: Lonely and Kold Krazy2 points
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To be fair though it is kind of a code of respect to dribble the clock out. It's just been that way for as long as the NBA has been around.2 points
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Just because your dad jerked off in the basement to crates of playboys while you grew up doesn't make Tom a "man of culture" who has found true happiness because he went to his kids baseball like a decent human being.2 points
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You know if you don't like that it's not a studio acoustic version of bored to death you could always oh i dunno just not listen to it. Crazy idea i know.2 points
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I think the only actual song I know by name by alk3 is Armageddon and I wasn't a fan. Still, I was curious enough with the blink lineup switch to check them out at riotfest. Again not impressed. But I don't hate the band the way I do with, let's say, Simple Plan and Good Charlotte. They just don't stand out to me. All their songs blend together based on what I've heard. Still. I gave Skiba another chance with blink. And again I was not exactly impressed. But I blame that on Mark and Feldmann. Regardless Skiba isn't batting good enough for me to currently seek out any of his side projects.2 points
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'this song is really cool because it shows how California is this really nice place, great weather, but then there's this dark undertone beneath it all'2 points
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Oh yeah it's been brought up tons of times before. I just wanted to actually hear the two songs combined so I made this out of boredom. Haha. The reason I even thought about it was because we started talking about it on here the other day in Scott's "Cynical vs. Ghost on the Dance Floor" thread. Very old news but I wanted to do it for fun!2 points
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The belief in Aliens and other life is not really crazy at all. Wanting to do scholarly scientific research on the topic is not strange either. Where it diverts into the weird is when you start throwing in the government conspiracy stuff; which honestly might even be legit in limited forms, but when you start thinking you alone have uncovered some major government conspiracy that all the top politicians are in on; and they have discovered your research and are tapping you phone, and nothing is as it seems, and Hillary knows the true, and you start harassing politicians, and booking White House view hotel rooms, and posting fake pictures about fake meetings, and devoting an entire career to writing bullshit books and making movies about bullshit..... You've crossed the line into tin foil hat loony. Never figured you for a tombot Kyle. This should be pretty basic.2 points
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I died lol. Apparently the guy who makes all these is a huge Tom Delonge fan too.1 point