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A pretty fun read, but the book is really quite short, like 250 pages if it didn't have pictures and all the empty space between chapters (of which there are a zillion). I also liked the bits in Ridgecrest the most as this was pretty unfamiliar territory. There's disappointingly little stuff about songwriting and recording:(

Well didn't NOFX accuse blink of having stolen the whole comedy act thing from them? The similarity here probably isn't accidental. Nothing wrong with a 30-second throwback joke song. These have always been hit-or-miss kind of a thing anyway. Hell, the joke songs on TOYPAJ sounded a lot more forced.

Yeah I hadn't even noticed the acoustic there. It begs the question of why put that stuff there in the first place if we can't even hear it... Or maybe it'd sound not as good somehow if it weren't there?

Hah! See, I've had that piano bit of Anthem Pt. 2 clear in my head since the first time I heard the song and I could remember it so vividly, BUT in the years since I started thinking I may have imagined it in the first place because I could never really hear it in the actual song. The best I can think of is that it must've been some sound setting on my old CD player (you know those gimmick buttons that amplify/dampen some frequencies) that made me hear it by accident the first time I heard the song.

Great cover, Miley's voice sounds awesome these days:

Really surprised if he really never used the daphne blue one.

If Tom isn't playing a daphne blue strat here during WMAA? (best view 15 seconds in), then what is it? And it's definitely not just a surf green strat with bad lighting or anything, as Tom switches to his surf green for ATST.

Not much really, and this despite the fact that I've been neglecting the strings on the old surf green one. My amp sucks though, but can't do much about that so long as I live in an apartment building.

Just had to buy a yellow one of the new series, as I'd come to regret it if I didn't (and it's not like the value of these is going to come down). The surf green is from 2005.

Lol at Mark & Scott's antics at 10 seconds in:

A bit surprisingly Mark has the strongest songs (Bad News & Other Side) on the album. He also should've sung the first verse of When We Were Young as well, as his tone fits the melody perfectly.

This would be a good song if it had some guitars in it, but now it's more akin to Sober, the poppiest song in blink's catalogue (along with BIOMY).

Fun song, serious lyrics but with a joke or two thrown in, and the guitar "solo" is one of the best in Tom's catalogue. Too bad the production/"remaster" quality is what it is.

Arguably their best song but the guitar tone on this particular version (and the entire "album" for that matter) is garbage. It actually sounds slightly better on the tape/demo version.

Ooh, I must've hit someone where it really hurts! Didn't know we still had such fanatical Tombots here.