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  1. Alright! Gonna try to not bore you, guys and gals! This is my input on how and why I picked up this album: I discovered Luisa almost by accident, on the worst moment of my life. Yeah, same period in which I had anxiety problems and a panic attack. It was back in 2010-2011. By that time I had to drive lots of miles to get to my job every single day. In my mind state, I didn't found any record I could listen to while driving. It was weird. Nothing I knew was able to relax me or make me not think about shit, except for The Beach Boys, but I didn't want to burn their music, neither to attach bad memories and feelings to their records. Weird me. So I started to listen a lot to the radio in the car. Surfing the waves (HAH!) to find anything to entertain me and not think, just to find distraction. One day, on a Spanish radio station (Radio 3) I found a show called "Cuando los elefantes sueñan con la música" (translated would be something like 'when elephants dream about music'), which is a music dedicated radio show, but not on the mainstream side. They go for the 'music of the world' kind of thing, you know. So one day, accidentally, I stopped the dial there, on that show, and something caught my ear. By then I didn't knew the title or who was singing, but it just kept my attetion 100% into it. It was "Not There Yet", a song from this album. When the song finished, I was sold, and the presenter started to talk about Luisa, and this album, and how she being portuguese did a blend between his country music, and other genres and music of other countries (like bossanova, jazz, french music...). And then, he played a few songs more. I fell in love instantly with her voice and her songs. The impressive amount of influences contained on this record... they just blew my mind, because they were brought to a really easy to listen terrain in a perfect blend. The record sounded like a total beauty to me, in a period in which I was not that into this type of music, and was a total discovery. Moreover, those songs felt like a balm for my mind and my anxiety. So, well... I hope you enjoy it!
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  2. I've always considered Millencolin as a ska-punk band too. Especially with those songs
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  3. I got into music videos at a fairly early age and remember actually caring who won VMAs in the mid 90s. it's such a nostalgic thing for me. I have a tape somewhere of Bush hosting the Top 100 Alternative Music Videos of all time in 1996. In the commercials, MTV has ads for Oasis' new video premiering in a week or something. That's how big music videos were, they had ads for the ads.
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  4. I know ? I was just fucking around pal. I googled that shit
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  5. Didn’t say scare anyone. It’s about showing the desire to win every game, to not let off the gas and to keep momentum going. So easy to relax and get complacent now. Fuck that. Go out and try smash em. Let the rest know that we’re going for it.
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  6. The accent makes Millencolin very unique imo.
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  7. Not totally my thing because of the vocals and melodies, but I can certainly understand its appeal. I wouldn’t mind it if it were playing in the background—like if I was driving to the beach with the windows down on a summer day, I think this album fits right in. It’s got a happy mood and a fun aesthetic that I think a lot of bands of this type usually don’t pursue in their music. That’s probably the biggest draw of listening to it for me. The album also improves as the track listing goes along, which is kinda rare for albums. I find that in most albums where song quality varies, the first few songs are good but then they dip in quality. So the songs from about halfway onward gave me a reason to listen a little more closely. Edit: almost forgot! Favorite Track: Dozy Least Favorite Track: S’Why Overall Rating: Light 6
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  8. For those saying he's a bad drummer, lets see you try to nail the double bass with a single pedal on Josie. No seriously. I'd like to see that because no one, including Travis, can do it. Most people who says he's a bad drummer, aren't drummers. The typical garbage.
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  9. Notice how he's always pictured with other men in all his photos? In this one in particular he's standing much closer to the guy with his clothes off than Tom with his clothes on. This isn't uncommon for ethansexual men. You are just unaware.
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  10. I'm honestly surprised no one started a thread for this band. I've seen them three times, it'll be a fourth time at Warped Tour this year, and they're in my top bands of all time. These are some of my favorites by them (even still I like all of their albums. Yes, that includes In With The Out Crowd):
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  11. Da Strike is awesome. Entrance At Rudebrook is one of my favorites. Killercrush is in my playlist for practicing drums so there's enough said about that.
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  12. They used to be, UK has seriously surpassed us in creativity in all forms of entertainment now. I think a lot of Americans just get too comfortable/dumb or are controlled by ppl just in it for the money.
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  13. A lot of ska punk bands haven't aged well, but that's not their case. Da Strike and The Monkey Boogie are still amazing. I will always have a soft spot for Life On A Plate and For Monkeys. Killercrush, Friends till the End and Jellygoose are three super underrated songs from Life on a Plate.
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  14. I think the same kind of. Blink nearly always had good music videos up to the smiley face album. The only shit video for that album was Down IMO, but before that it was always good videos. Other bands definitely gave blink a run for their money when it came to music videos. Problem was I felt those bands only had one or two good videos. I love this video to death. I'd even argue it's better than any blink music video. But I don't like any other music video from that band.
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  15. this is probably one of my favorite songs ever. @boxelder thoughts?
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  16. 1938! i meant best WC since we've all been alive mate! i don't know shit about the World Cups before Italia 90'
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  17. found picture of this show including a comment from Josh Freese on Blink : 1/31/1998: The band performs at TBA in Oahu, Hawaii. Josh Freese : Blink was on the tour with their original drummer Scott. They were just graduating from ‘the kids from San Diego that would open up for us’ to big timers.
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  18. This has been the best World Cup ever and we're not even out of the group stages!
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  19. I pre-ordered A Fire Within. Chasing Shadows was a fun read and I'm definitely looking forward to the next installment. I'm excited to see where this stuff goes. Even if it all ends up being bullshit, what the fuck ever, it's entertaining.
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  20. oh, sure they were. they were drawing both local and national numbers in the alkaline trio range with dude ranch. the last show which scott played, they had sold out the hollywood palladium. they could have been a large band on an indie label / smaller band on a major, easy. an alk3, a BR, a NOFX. easy. this wouldn't have meant "more dude ranches" anymore than bad religion's career is due to "more suffers." it simply means maintaining a certain audience size over a number of years (or decades). my impression from the conversations i had with scott is that he would have been happy with the general admission large hall / theater-type career. not seated amphitheaters. which, i mean makes more sense, for the punk genre.
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  21. how is signing to a major label immoral? more importantly, why am i even responding to this? blink had terrible distribution problems with cargo music and cheshire cat. MCA handled Dude Ranch really well and it's arguably more "punk" than all of their other records despite it being a major label debut. they had an awesome producer and good enough distribution that the record went gold. why was scott bummed about this?
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  22. right, and my impression was scott felt the former. he didn't want to be small and broke; he was interested in a bad religion or alkaline trio level of success. just not TRL stardom.
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  23. yeah LTJ is super solid, i really love em. idk what most fans think of anthem but this song is catchy as hell
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  24. i don't think music videos are dead per se, just videos on tv. the budgets have gotten smaller, sure, but if anything, i think there's more exposure to videos than ever... there might've been millions of people watching MTV in 1988, but there's over a billion watching on youtube in 2018. blink's i miss you vid was at less than 100 million like a year ago, now it's up to 200 million almost
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  25. The wife was at a digital marketing conference last week and they said that millennials on average have about a 7 second attention span.
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  26. People have an attention span of about 20 seconds now
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  27. Dip is definitely my favourite from this album.
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  28. So you think everyone would do immoral things for money? That doesn't really make sense.
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  29. I expected this to be a hardcore record to be honest. The first song is really nice and slow and 90s-esque. I love the horns. It reminds me a bit of Ash. I think it gets a bit monotonous at times, but I enjoy it. "Rats in the Walls" isn't as good as the title track. What might bring the album down in monotony it makes up for with diversity. "Dip" is so catchy and uplifting. There's something about the drums that I love in every song. They sorta remind me of Cloud Nothings in studio (the drums were terrible when I saw them live). Some of the songs get a bit boring after a while. My favorite songs are "Bay Dream", "Dip" and "Dave's Not Here".
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  30. The only way I knew who they were during the Transatlanticism era is that MTV had a magazine that featured Blink on it during their Untitled album launch. I don't think it had come out yet and they were talking about the current "indie" bands, and death cab was featured too. No clue what it was even called. It's at my parents house, I'll try to track it down when I can. Wonder if that interview is up anywhere.
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  31. Yeah but at that point, so was Mark and Tom's abilities. neither have been particularly good musically, Scott fitted them skill set wise a lot more than Travis does.
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  32. as someone who knew scott at the time, he is not an alcoholic, in the clinical definition. he was depressed and unhappy in the band, and as a result was drinking too much. it's important to note that "drinking too much" at a certain time in your life is not the same as being an alcoholic. mr. raynor has talked about this at length, most notably in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Blink-182-Band-Breakdown-Return-ebook/dp/B01BB7R9EU/ scott was unhappy about signing to a major label (he had hoped for epitaph) and wanted the band to stay smaller and more punk. he did not want to be an MTV star, and that lead to tension with tom and mark (who totally wanted it). that's why he was depressed, and that's why he was drinking too much. i last hung out with him on the tour bus at the san diego sno-core date. he was super down for sure. i was at the josie video shoot a number of weeks later but we didn't talk.
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  34. Whatsername is absolutely gorgeous, though.
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  35. Happy two year anniversary to this dumbass video I edited going viral. That made for such a weird / hilarious couple of days for me. I don't know how or why this thing got so much media attention.
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  36. Definitely! I run a private space expedition program. PM me for details.
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  37. Nope. Just think you're not good people. I hate it when people joke about mental illness even if it is temporary. I think you people are more obsessed with him than he is ill
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  38. I'm not watching that but I will assume its terrible and still want to bang her anyway.
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  39. I was supposed to see them tonight with NOFX at the punk in drublic date in Milan but I'm stuck at work! What a sad birthday.
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