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After a few listens, I enjoy the Deluxe tracks more than the California release because there's more variety. Seems like Matt had more of an influence here. I am not a fan of most of the lyrical work slapped together *"Sitting on the curb at a Target parking lot" or whatever???? Just too much pandering. I recently read an article with Matt too, and though its been discussed here to death, he basically admits that they had an audience in mind to write to for what "blink should sound like", meaning that they think they need to have some certain sound or represent a genre or something which is a bit disappointing. In any case, the one thing I still enjoy about the California album is that I got to live one more time with a blink song being popular on the radio in my mid 20s. It was awesome having a summer where "Bored to Death" was being blasted by random cars - or having people really enjoy having that song played somewhere. I've got that album to thank for that - and it will likely be the last time that happens, so I have that album to thank for that memory of blink. The Bored to Death acoustic was a very nice touch and done very well IMO.4 points
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Article almost makes him seen somewhat normal. But then he says this "I'm making major motion pictures and working with people in government, so it's a big deal." and at first read it comes off as a joke, but then reality hits and you quickly realize, nope, he's not joking.3 points
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Ok so I'm a little late to the game as I waited til the official release date and I'll say something positive and negative about the cali era: on the upside blink were able to able to survive losing their most influential member and release 2 albums, and I'm glad for that. I would rather have this blink than no blink at all. The down side for me is that out of 25 songs only 3 or 4 songs are standout tracks, the rest is generic shit which is to be expected since they lost tom. So in closing, I guess I'll take the bad with the good and be thankful for the few songs that I really like ??3 points
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Reach for the stars, land on the moon by accident? But seriously not many bands can fill almost every seat like U2, as much as I hate to admit it because I hate their music and hate that Tom tried to be Bono. Like maybe Sir Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones and a few others can truly have an ass in every seat. At my last blink show almost the entire upper bowl was empty. Maybe it's the difference between a Michigan show vs Chicago shows, I dunno, but it seemed much emptier than the shows right after the reunion. I'll never understand why Tom never could figure out his best chance at ever sniffing that stratosphere of success bands like U2 have was with a functional, dedicated blink. I truly think they could've been bigger than any of their contemporaries had things gone a little differently. I still think they carved out a nice spot in music history but it could've been so much better if the past 10 years weren't complete shit on the blink front.2 points
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Long Lost Feeling, Last Train Home, and Good Old Days2 points
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I'll never forget hearing Boxing Day for the first time. I had such high hopes for the band after hearing it.2 points
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I think this is what holds them back as much as anything, production, rushing, etc... Is that all the songs, even the best ones will have bad sections that you have to ignore, while the bad ones will have short good sections you wish were the entire song. For example don't mean anything, has this terrific bridge sounding like vintage Mark, then it ends and we have this gang vocals cheesy chorus build up that you'd get in a random pop song. They can't seem to just transition all their ideas into a good song start to finish and there's always so much going on you can hardly differentiate parking lot with brohemian with wildfire. They started to improve on this on Deluxe, you can tell Last Train Home from the rest, Bottom of the ocean from the rest.. But it all blends together too much. Maybe we've gotten spoiled, other bands do this, but you look at even neighborhoods and none of the songs can be mistaken for another, they're all unique and recognizable as their own. Self Titled obviously the best example.2 points
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and we know your opinion is worthless as you have a destiny sig1 point
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Also, Last Train Home is a top-10 blink song for me. The whole thing is new and growing, but I love the vocal harmonies1 point
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Long Lost Feeling, Bottom of the Ocean, and Last Train Home. However I think I heard Misery so much that I don't have the proper love for it that I should and I might actually favor it over Last Train Home if it was as new to me as Last Train Home is. (Same definitely goes for Hey I'm Sorry which I've been loving for a year now)1 point
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big diff between ohhh lalallalal ohhiiia ohhia and 'Cause I feel so mad, I feel so angry, I feel so callous So lost, confused, with a agressive sound (mesa vs vox)1 point
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You watch his Q&A on Twitter? ...i did like the fact that Feldmann was watching and sending messages loads, he really has attached himself to them so hard. He's like a fucking parasite.1 point
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"It's enough time to play all the hits and all the deep cuts"1 point
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anyone catch marks instagram q and a this morning? it was funny, wavves commented and said "how was it opening for us" and feldmann commented. he got the question "who's your fav panic at the disco member" and said dallon, after which dallon commented and said "YES!!!". lol it was amusing what was not amusing was the classic "75-90 min is the perfect show length!"1 point
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I've listened to the Deluxe a couple of times now, and for most songs I can find something that I like. For example the pre-chorus in Wildfire, verses in 6/8 etc. But I don't like the entire songs. There's just too much lacking imo.1 point
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I'm seeing the Descendents in a couple of weeks. The last (and only) time that I saw them they played 35 songs in 58 minutes. It was awesome. Milo had a great hypercaffeinated energy, but I don't think they have ever been lighter than blink.1 point
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Funny how some fight for not eating animals and are disgusted by meat, then eat meat replicas.1 point
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Over the years, after the reunion, it became cool to listen to blink for a little bit, now we're back to the awkward glances when I say I'm going to see blink this summer and I still like them. But it's always been like that since the day I got into them, so who cares. To me they're no different from bands like NOFX, Face to Face, Lagwagon, Bad Religion, Millencolin, Descendents & co. I know, they're the lighter band but I grew up listening to all these bands together.1 point
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This album is written by and for teenagers. Grow up, Mark. Really disappointed.1 point
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I've faced judgmental opinions for listening to blink since I was 13 or so. Nothing to do with Feldmann. It's way "cooler" to like blink now than it was ~20021 point
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I put on Misery as I was leaving work in my car, windows down. Probably had around 4-5 different people laugh or give judgmental looks. First time that has happened, thanks Feldmann1 point
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here's mine, beginning in order of exposure, from 1993 to 1995: green day, the offspring, bad religion, pennywise, NOFX, rancid, then all the rest of epitaph / fat, the descendents, screeching weasel, then blink.1 point
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Yes MIA means missing in action. Back before social media, you often lost friendships forever into a dark abyss when someone moved or changed their number.1 point
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I bought new controllers for the Classic Mini and now I can sit comfortably on my couch and play. Life is good.1 point
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I am still not a fan of Feldman and likely will never be, but it's good to see that they can actually step away from the formulaic stuff. So if they continue to grow, I will accept his contributions. But as a person, Feldman seems like an arrogant controlling ass, and if we wanted that, we could have just kept Tom.1 point
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Yeah it's great. It's also a bit haunting at the end: "Let's forget this alllllll, move onnnn" If only they would listen to their own lyrics! I always wonder if Mark would be pissed if someone asked him to sign a BCR album. I've never seen one signed by Mark, and he's technically on the album... but obviously it's kind of a sore subject and a bit awkward.1 point