Trainwreck

Only Matt appearance was bored to death. Tom let go of his guitar to sing woas. Alkaline trio was good but should have played longer. 10/10 would do again

Fully expecting a regular show from both of these bands and have zero expectation that they'll do anything cool to acknowledge Skiba's time in Blink, but I'd be happy to be surprised.

I'd bump Terrified up a tier and swap Dance with Me and Blinkwave but otherwise totally agree with this assessment.

And it’s not even close

Their whole album More Scared of You Than You Are of Me is one of those perfect records from start to back. Just completely top tier.

Oh man, so many great bands from aus. If we're playing that game, I nominate the Smith Street Band

I haven’t been able to shake this song since I heard it earlier this week. FIDLAR covering Jackson Browne

sounds like a her problem

Is This Thing Cursed is quite possibly my favorite album by Alkaline Trio front to back. There's amazing hooks all over it and it was such a solid return to form after the dumpster bin that was everything they put out after Crimson. I feel like their songwriting bifurcated after From Here to Infirmary when they stopped writing so much about being raging alcoholics with Matt leaning into being "spooky" and Dan's songs being more thoughtful and heartfelt at the expense of being catchy (or fitting with the rest of the Alkaline Trio sound for that matter). For a while Matt was real quantity over quality, but man did they both bring their respective A-games to ITTC; there's maybe like 2 skips on that album for me. This new one has a few great songs on it (looking at you Teenage Heart) but nothing that grabs at me the way that most of ITTC did. Those are my thoughts anyway, but YMMV.

Former drummer still working the beat

Seriously. I saw their farewell tour back in like 2017 and I think they've done 3 or 4 since? They're getting to be like KISS. Still they put on a hell of a show and I would love a new record (which it sounds like they're working on in fits and starts).

Agree with everyone saying that everything post crimson has been hit or miss except for ITTC. Very happy to hear that the new album is another banger!

Let me rephrase, I think these songs don’t stand out among the rest of the songs on their respective records, but I don’t think Mark is solely responsible. In both cases their production lack dynamics; the songs just freight train from start to finish. I enjoy the lyrics in both but they’re the strongest parts of both songs. The hook in MH# doesn’t catch for me and the chord choices and melody in other side are too sing sing by the book for my taste. Feel free to have a different opinion though

You are. It’s so flat, same complaint about other side on the new record. when mark is on, he’s fire but when he’s phoning it in, it’s so by the books

Even Tom thinks the song is dumb. It had a fun video but that’s about all the good things I have to say about it.