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The Infamous Mark Hoppus b182 Interview 2006


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i love the +44 album! i can see how one might say it’s missing a standout track, but... i like it lol. some songs are more creative than mark had ever been (lillian, weatherman) and every single lyric is painfully honest. i really think it’s marks best work outside of his contributions to untitled and dude ranch. 

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4 hours ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

Reading this just reminds me how exciting it was to be a blink fan during the hiatus... ironically. As a fan of both +44 and AVA I loved it when both bands were active. What a fun time. I wanted blink back badly but I was enjoying the new bands, and the rivalry between them was kinda fun haha. Can't believe that was more fun than blink actually being reunited.

The +44 vs AVA arguments were way more fun than the pro/anti California arguments we have these days. 

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obviously, everyone changes drastically over time but it's just funny how polar opposite mark is now compared to that interview. he put so much effort in to the writing and production of the +44 album. everything about that project was 100% mark.

now, he's totally cool with phoning it in and plugging everything in to a kemper amp stacked with feldmann created guitar profiles. 

he criticized (rightfully) tom's writing on wdntw but now he pays some bleached asshole to write terrible music for him. 

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"The place I used to live, made me feel like a tourist

I couldn't co-exist with the cold and suspicious
When the last remaining light was starting to filter,
It seemed the perfect time to step into the future.

Your heart is a grave to be perfectly honest
Your mouth's a smoking gun
And you smile while you're twisting the knife in my stomach, 'Til everything is gone.

Take all you can from me,
I've got weak constitution"

 

To

 

"I can feel my head falling off my neck
I need something 
To keep going

So just take my hand 
Only seconds left
The clock's running 
Our time's coming

Aaah!

It's Friday night let's lose our minds in a downward spiral
Here we go
'Cause we got no control
(No control)

It's Friday nights always save my life from the worst of times we ever had
Thank God for punk rock bands

Till Monday morning strikes again
We are the kings of the weekend"

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18 minutes ago, Nshesaid said:

"The place I used to live, made me feel like a tourist

I couldn't co-exist with the cold and suspicious
When the last remaining light was starting to filter,
It seemed the perfect time to step into the future.

Your heart is a grave to be perfectly honest
Your mouth's a smoking gun
And you smile while you're twisting the knife in my stomach, 'Til everything is gone.

Take all you can from me,
I've got weak constitution"

 

To

 

"I can feel my head falling off my neck
I need something 
To keep going

So just take my hand 
Only seconds left
The clock's running 
Our time's coming

Aaah!

It's Friday night let's lose our minds in a downward spiral
Here we go
'Cause we got no control
(No control)

It's Friday nights always save my life from the worst of times we ever had
Thank God for punk rock bands

Till Monday morning strikes again
We are the kings of the weekend"

When you put it like that, wow. Just wow.

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I'd like to partly attribute the difference in lyricism to the fact that these are two very different musical projects. That being said, Mark has been absent as a songwriter since like 2006. I don't think he has anything to write about anymore. Also Feldman's approach to writing lyrics is the polar opposite of how Mark described his process.

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1 hour ago, Nshesaid said:

"The place I used to live, made me feel like a tourist

I couldn't co-exist with the cold and suspicious
When the last remaining light was starting to filter,
It seemed the perfect time to step into the future.

Your heart is a grave to be perfectly honest
Your mouth's a smoking gun
And you smile while you're twisting the knife in my stomach, 'Til everything is gone.

Take all you can from me,
I've got weak constitution"

 

To

 

"I can feel my head falling off my neck
I need something 
To keep going

So just take my hand 
Only seconds left
The clock's running 
Our time's coming

Aaah!

It's Friday night let's lose our minds in a downward spiral
Here we go
'Cause we got no control
(No control)

It's Friday nights always save my life from the worst of times we ever had
Thank God for punk rock bands

Till Monday morning strikes again
We are the kings of the weekend"

I've always thought "So long forgotten friends, no you don't know the difference between love and submission, and I'm not that obedient" to be one of Mark's best, and also most depressing now - because submitting is essentially what he's done. 

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I’ve always loved 

“And my dear I need you to move a little faster
This second counts as the rest of your life
Your final word and an itchy finger
And then it's taken away

And we'll be beaten down without mercy or meaning
I turn my face to a careless skyline
I'm searching hard for a sign from heaven
But they've forgotten me here”

 

 

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"And we'll wake up in vacant rooms
Pull you close to my aching skin
Broken glass on the porcelain
Is this what you imagine?

My best-laid plans
Will build and break your heart
Her guilty hands
Tear my whole world apart
My mind keeps racing
She's softly dreaming
I'm scraped and sober
But there's no one listening

And we both take our revenge
But we still don't feel any better

I'm scraped and sober, but there's no one listening to me at all"

 

That bolded part is my favorite line on that album.

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6 hours ago, Kay said:

I've always thought "So long forgotten friends, no you don't know the difference between love and submission, and I'm not that obedient" to be one of Mark's best, and also most depressing now - because submitting is essentially what he's done. 

omfg yesss that lyric kills me! here's my favorites off WYHSB:

"Take all you can from me
I've got weak constitution
I'm led so easily
So easily"

"Let me slip away, I'm barely holding on
Every now and then I feel the end of us"

"Lay rotting where I fall
I'm dead from bad intentions
Suffocated and embalmed
And now all our dreams are cashed in
You swore you wouldn't lose then lost your brain
You make a sound that feels like pain"

 

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But what about:

Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh)
Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh)
Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh)
Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh) 

Hey here's to you California
Beautiful haze of suburbia
Living in the perfect weather
Spending time inside together
Hey here's to you California

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6 minutes ago, Nshesaid said:

But what about:

Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh)
Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh)
Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh)
Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh) 

Hey here's to you California
Beautiful haze of suburbia
Living in the perfect weather
Spending time inside together
Hey here's to you California

This is Mark on an empty tank, speeding down the highway, running only on fumes. John Feldy refusing a refill, but Mark is cool with it.

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5 hours ago, Nshesaid said:

But what about:

Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh)
Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh)
Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh)
Na, na na, na na, na na, na na (woah ohh) 

Hey here's to you California
Beautiful haze of suburbia
Living in the perfect weather
Spending time inside together

Hey here's to you California

To be fair, I'm the only one it seems but I actually like that lyric a lot. it's on the nose but it works. 

there are much worse examples from California haha

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