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We spin OMT on our roadtrips. It helps knock off about 75 minutes of the drive and it really does feel like blink again.

Everyone Everywhere is my new jam for a bit.

So glad I was too busy to check out the leaks. First time going in blind since Neighborhoods (excluding the 2 pre-releases). My first impressions are it’s pretty great and I can’t pick a favorite quite yet.

Under 3 hours til it drops and I’m so anxious.

I saw the song recommended when I was opening Spotify waiting for a train for work. I was so excited and 2 seconds in I’m like… this sounds very different. That’s not Travis drumming. Is Tom kicked out of blink again? Wish this had been released on April Fools. oh well, I’ll be listening to WYHSB instead.

I listen to like 3-5 songs once a year, maybe.

Honestly I do think Carousel needs to be back on the setlist. But we know Tom’s opinion on that song.

Wait, so I’ve been on the toxic board full of fellow old people this entire time? ?

What the actual fuck? It’s 2024 and I enjoyed a Green Day album??? I think it was cohesive enough to do the job. It’s no Dookie, Nimrod or American Idiot but so far I’m pleasantly surprised. Each listen Saviors gets a little better, with at least half of the songs so far being jammers. I’m no musician, but my favorite song is Fancy Sauce. It’s my new jam.

I’m waiting for a vinyl to drop with the bonus tracks before I buy it. Unless it’s already out there…?

Cheshire Cat - Peggy Sue, Carousel, Toast and Bananas, Romeo and Rebecca, Touchdown Boy Dude Ranch - Apple Shampoo, Enthused, Emo, Waggy, Dammit Enema - Wendy Clear, Dumpweed, Dysentery Gary, Aliens Exist, Anthem TOYPAJ - Reckless Abandon, Anthem Pt 2, Please Take Me Home, Stay Together For the Kids, Every Time I Look For You Untitled - Feeling This, Always, Asthenia, I Miss You, Go Neighborhoods - Ghost On the Dance Floor, Up All Night, Kaleidoscope, Wishing Well, Even if She Falls Cali - Left Alone, Cynical, Built This Pool, Teenage Satellites (only 4 songs I kinda like) Nine - Black Rain, Pin the Grenade, Happy Days, First Time, Darkside One More Time - Blink Wave, Dance With Me, Turpentine, Other Side, Terrified i can’t pick my top 5 favorite songs but I’ll try: Feeling This, Apple Shampoo, Always, Blink Wave, Reckless Abandon.

At least there were no backing tracks.

Not to change subjects… I’m sure it’s been brought up already, but seeing as how we found out Fell in Love was about Travis and Kourtney and not Tom/Marie, on the flip side, does anyone think Bad News, though sung by Mark, was about Tom’s divorce? It totally sounds like a Mark song to me, but the lyrics are about a breakup. It could be like Dammit where it’s about a nonexistent relationship… only Hurt plays right after, so it makes me wonder. I’ve got no evidence to back this up other than the lyrics. Sorry if this was theorized earlier.

Still love a couple of their songs from the last two records, but I do feel this band is getting away from being a punk band with vague Springsteen vibes to a Springsteen band with vague punk roots, if that makes sense. Their last few records is missing that raw, desperate feeling of defeat and the nonchalant shrug that followed. Hope is a Dangerous Little Thing is still a banger, there’s some good songs, but I’m missing a bit of the attitude they had up through After the Party.

I’m still digging it. Listen 2-3 times a week. It’s been helping me out through some difficult times with a pet.