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  1. WOW. just finally got a chance to watch the brazil performance, and it's by the best pro-shot concert footage we've ever received. incredible direction and drone footage, great shots of the audience, perfect sound mix... everything about it is top-tier! an incredible document of one of the most anticipated shows in band history. "come to brazil" finally comes through. as for the show, it's a tour de force, a perfect snapshot of this band at this juncture. the set's really great, too -- the current band canon is so perfectly suited and stadium-ready that if the band keeps playing well enough, they could do this forever. as said elsewhere, tom is always hit or miss, but inimitable in his confusing distinctive snarl. he's so great on guitar lately, adding little tiny variations on songs like rock show, the discordant riffage on the violence drum solo. clearly having more fun on his instrument and more proficient than ever before. mark sounds so great, his voice stronger than in years before. travis remains the heart and soul -- impossible to do without him. love this band! some other observations: it bears repeating that getting wendy clear as the fourth song of the set is a true gift (hilarious there's no visuals on the screens for the song, but the crowd responds rapturously all the same). i'm over violence, for sure, but people love it, and it's so much fun for the band to play, why not? same with UAN, they sort of fit well together. i really hate UAN, but i recall it being well-received at my show last summer. the sign language interpreter just banging his head through a few songs lmao the reckless abandon and aliens exist audience singalong, wow! DWM is truly the perfect blink song. it needs to be the standard at every show honestly. i really love it. the ole ole ole meltdown has subsided. it's a classic entry into the canon. fans love it, the audience digs it. a soccer anthem tom really holds that note at the end of STFTK, a really welcome add back into the set and one he truly gives his all on. he sounds great on anthem pt 3 too i feel like we haven't talked enough how cool it is that tom has championed skiba-era songs like bored to death (and cynical on the last tour). not many bands like this have members embrace the material that was written without them. he's truly been complimentary, strutting across the stage embracing the whoah-ohs, and it's just crazy to see. always is one of my favorite blink songs and its reaction from the crowd just upon hearing the synth intro should be a wake-up call to the band, who've frequently discarded it as a lesser hit. it needs a permanent spot in the set, and it works great with the lasers! one of the things so frequently misunderstood about this band is the puerile dialogue, which was truly moronic in its heyday but has taken on a newer amusing tone today. it's obvious they're aware of what they sound like. to that end the band feels like a parody of what you think they are -- are you offended by nonsensical diarrhea of the mouth? here's some more. we're aware we're 50 year old men saying dumb shit onstage. why not? "work sucks" becoming an exultant crowd cry in the age of burnout is a testament to the band's power i've really come to like OMT as a show-closer. it adds a layer of depth to the show and what comes before it.
  2. every hot mulligan song i’ve ever heard i’ve absolutely hated. that guy’s voice is insufferable. yes we get it, you can squawk
  3. it’s a 10GB file lol — someone needs to download it and decrease the file size!
  4. love the new TSSF but they absolutely butchered big blind. i’m in love with the original version they put out as a single. the new version massacres my boy. can’t tell if it’s a full re record or just a different mix but it really takes the energy out of the song.
  5. teacher’s pet behavior. just so cringe
  6. i will say i think it’s cool that smash did so well for an indie label like epitaph. it really put them on the map and established to the majors, along with sub pop, that there was truly a lane for artists that didn’t want to go the mainstream route. of course, offspring went anyway, but still. i will say that why don’t you get a job is one of the worst songs ever. just awful in every conceivable way.
  7. don’t get the offspring hate. i don’t really love them but nothing besides pretty fly for a white guy was that cringe to me. i love smash, and bits and pieces throughout the discography (want you bad, gone away, hammerhead, etc). i saw them live last summer and they were fine, nothing special but neither particularly cringe to me. i do find their origins in hardcore punk and the sheer age of the band intriguing (they’re from like the descendants era, but didn’t blow up till a decade into their career). also the fact that dexter holland can look like such a doofus but has contributed to important mRNA research is crazy to me too. not on my mount rushmore either, but nowhere near worth the hate.
  8. it always has frustrated when he butchers lyrics intentionally; it just oozes laziness and a fundamental disrespect for the body of work that was evident elsewhere too (interviews and such). the growling, the slurring, whatever it is, it needs to stop. the encouraging thing is that he seems way better off in the chile video than argentina. he seems to be having lots of fun on wendy clear. he's doing really small cool things on guitar across the set -- the outro to dumpweed, the discordant intro to UAN -- that really make it clear here is where he is supposed to be. the singalongs from the crowd, the attitudes onstage... outside of the argentina vocal performance, these are some of the best shows of the band's career.
  9. i really love this song. there's something vaguely creepy about the verses, but the song is big, dumb, goofy, in the way that so many blink songs were before it. i love the bridge breakdown, the pre-choruses, the outro with the soaring harmonies... it's clearly one of the best post-reunion songs. it really holds it own with classics like rock show or ATST.
  10. we're at an interesting place in the tom's voice saga. we're past the nadir, clearly (reading 2014, or so). and he was very obviously trying on the last few tours -- while backsliding in other areas (actually playing his instrument). but he can't shake the slurring or strange enunciations. but you can't do it without him at this point. matt showed how empty it could be while technically sounding better. tom's bizarre, unenjoyable, disappointing, while simultaneously a blast to behold. truly an inimitable figure
  11. tuned in for a moment now, and will watch the rip later. lots of fun! tom does seem drunk lol. reading 2014 vibes. sound mix sounds great.
  12. powerful stuff, i wonder what tom was going through. but that's the magic of this band: that mark was willing to address it and simply tell him he loves him and appreciates the effort he was giving. mark said in the discord the other day that it "feels like the old days" with the band and i wonder what he means. another thing too, after watching some of that show. i think OMT as a closer is working better now than i expected. i've never minded the song too much -- it's a little maudlin i guess, but speaks universally and therefore works. but in the context of the show, it being "one more time" they come out to play, a song about themselves, and then the pictures floating by on the screen... it really does hit. i love the way the audience has gotten into the habit of applauding before the song is over too.
  13. listening to WWWY now, and it's absolutely unreal something like the mixing on the bridge left the studio. a truly cacophonous mix, a muddled mess. childhood's chorus is no better, but the metallic noise is clearly part of the vocal effect.
  14. i feel like he definitely overplays in other side in ways that work in songs like bad news, but don't in other side. the intro alone is almost annoying with how overpowering the drums are.
  15. i think it's definitely an improvement for sure. still stinks that the drums themselves sound the way they do, devoid of tone/life, but it's a vast improvement on what's on streaming
  16. super weird and a big bummer for NZ fans. random comment on reddit says that "I heard from a friend of a friend who works at live nation that Travis didn’t want to get on a small plane. Feel like they could’ve found a way around this." but the evidence suggest that travis has been flying on small planes throughout oz to begin with. very very weird indeed
  17. wendy clear is so great, one of the all-time deep cuts! so exciting to see them play it on a whim. i'd love some more deep cuts please, or just keep wendy clear!
  18. i loooooved odi, i wish he'd come back and make more, and i hope he's doing alright! i was fond of a lot of his covers -- ocean avenue, waggy, another girl another planet, wasting time, feeling this, after midnight -- but i think my favorite is always ghost on the dance floor for some reason. he was putting it out concurrently with neighborhoods rolling out and it was neat to hear acoustic-flavored interpretations of some of the songs.
  19. yeah i could just do without the joke songs at this point in the band's career. i don't mind fuck face, but turn this off -- while amusing -- just feels sorta forced. i do find mark's verse funnier than tom's, which feels try-hard in the way that golden showers did too. on the feldy era stuff, i didn't like much beyond built this pool, which was mercifully brief and had a cool riff (though it sounds identical to bad astronaut's single). tbf, though, happy holidays is pretty lame too, so maybe i've just never been into the joke songs.
  20. agree on cut me off -- feels like a little rusty, but it's definitely more likable than see you. chorus is catchy as hell
  21. this is the most outrageous shit. this genuinely sounds like a lost TOYPAJ b-side
  22. i have no idea how see you is your tier 1. that's the most cut-and-paste song they've ever made, rivaling the worst of the feldy era. crazy to me! tier 1 -- great anthem pt 3, DWM, MTYK, YDKWYG, bad news, blink wave, turpentine, other side tier 2 -- mid fell in love, OMT, terrified, WWWY, childhood, cut me off, fuck face tier 3 -- bad edging, hurt, see you, joke songs
  23. yeah the rubin interview is surprisingly good; he sticks to some talking points but mostly it’s fairly illuminating. some interesting insight on why they play with a click/backing tracks too. i thought his observations about why tom came back — outright saying that the band was successful without him and it was a “wake up call” — were revealing. it’s in line with how we felt as fans. i feel like the fanbase is so attuned to the way the band is. we knew in 2020 the vibes were off right after NINE. we could tell something was going on. it’s interesting
  24. fell in love is fine but somewhat anodyne. the lyrics are pretty cringe in a way they aren’t usually, and it’s just a little too formulaic to leave any impact for me. i don’t mind the cure interpolation though, i find it neat.
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