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Finished up another blink wood carving. Next time I’ll probably experiment with some color. Kept it simple for my first try with the smiley

I'm tempted to abuse my power and ban a few people for their terrible opinions.

Hey all — link below for the MP3s! The quality is UNREAL. I’m excited to hear everyone’s thoughts. The New Hope demo… I have no words. @daveyjones is going to pop in with some more details! HUGE thank you to Davey for this. Not only for doing the legwork and sharing his knowledge (as always), but also for being a lovely human with endless love and positivity for this band. I’m super excited to have this little tape, but it would be pretty useless without your help, Davey, and without communities like this. Anyway, enjoy!! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WoMCY09

for years we thought it was a fake, a rumor, a unicorn! but no. it's real. ok here are all the details for my fellow nerds... first off, with this tape we now have heard all the demo material prior to the dude ranch demo sessions (the ones mark played me in 1996, the ones @veeRob managed to get back to him last year) known to exist. also, @Ry-Bread forget about buddha (~1,000 copies) or even short bus (500 copies). from what i gather these were dubbed for only a small number of industry folks, record store people etc. maybe @blinkstillrules can ask joe vandal if he remembers. bu

There is no universe, where Nine is a better album than Untitled, in whatever sense you would like to compare them. One is born out of the desire to push the boundaries of your music, to put yourself out there, doing something new, exciting, fresh and breaking barriers. The other was written by 20 people and was made because they had to release an album. As a standalone release Nine is ok but please get it together and never compare the two.

Dude, Mark isn't going to read these boards, it's okay.

So, this still isn't final, but to give another update, if we do a bracket of 16, the bands would be: The Sum 41 (9 votes) The New Found Glory (6 votes) The Offspring (6 votes) The Ramones (4 votes) The My Chemical Romance (4 votes) The Descendents (4 votes) The Screeching Weasel (4 votes) The Fall Out Boy (3 votes) The All Time Low (3 votes) The NOFX (3 votes) And then 6 of the following (all currently have 2 votes)... The Neck Deep The Paramore The Story So Far The Alkaline Trio The Yellowcard The Rancid The Simple Plan The Saves the Day The S

Shoutout to Skatepunkers on Facebook for this amazing shot from the side of the stage with skater Steve Caballero playing bass with Blink! also that's Mark with the blue bucket hat and Lagwagon shirt 😃 1/31/1998 The band performs at TBA in Oahu, Hawaii, ending their stint on Warped Tour 1998.

What do you mean? He as much stage presence as (at least) Freddie Mercury here? His voice sounds good though, but yeah, him without a guitar leaves him looking like those things out of car dealerships. Everything's magiiiiiiiic

Update regarding the google docs document✌️ I have tried to make the document as up-to-date as it is as of today! Obviously some stuff have expired regarding some links but I have saved a ton of stuff in my archives and have added them! I have added more rare pictures from shows, of fans meeting the band members, added some new dates as well as some new footage to the dates of the timeline!

to the stars is getting desperate https://www.avaroofing.com

I just learned who the mods actually are thanks to catching up on this thread. sorry for not recognizing your prestige until now, mods. I'll watch my language in threads you're posting in.

Tom should have kicked Travis out of this band when he had the chance.

If you didn't know who Chris Cote was, that means you mustn't have watched Riding in Vans with Boys dozens of times and that means you're a fake fan. I don't make the rules.

When You Fucked Grandpa just popped up on shuffle. First time listening to it in a long time. When Mark starts shouting over himself "this is fucking stupid, man!" and goes on I cracked up. All the stuff he yells at the end of that song makes the whole thing way funnier. I rarely ever listen to the joke songs anymore, but that part made me laugh out loud.

Remember the guy who joined and said he was personal friends with Tom and his family, and guaranteed that Tom and Jen weren’t splitting up? It was pretty soon after that that it was officially confirmed that they were. I wonder how that guy’s doing lol

Exactly. Personally, I added my wins to my résumé and my Tinder profile, but I'm not tacky enough to bring it up on the boards. Yuck.

I’m an up and coming SoundCloud rapper. Eventually I’d Iike to make a pop punk tribute album.

this is truly unbelievable. i remember when i was first compiling the timeline there were so many mysteries. other question marks -- the true release date of CC, the first gig, etc -- came and fell. the suspected "buddha promo" was the last true mystery. it never made sense to me: there were these ear-splitting low-res MP3 floating around for decades, of what seemed to be a combo of released (wasting time) and unreleased (princess leia) blink tunes. for some time i thought it might even be a fan prank, though the unreleased tracks clearly indicated otherwise. perhaps i was a dunce on this

9 months 29 days 13 hours!

Octaves aren't pop punk? fucking hell, this thread is an absolute cesspit of terrible opinions haha.

the thing he actually can do, and the thing that actually makes him money.

Eminem is lame. Like the Nickelback of rap.

Speedo was a mod?!

Ha! 60% in blink-talk is 12% in normal band talk.

The smiley face album deserves all the hype it gets! My favourite ever album.

“California is a 10/10 album, John feldmann is a god.” that’s what I heard anyways.

I'm not really sure why that matters, he's always dating some bimbo.

All I ask for is common decency, you shouldn’t have to have “thick skin” to post here nor met at the door with jabs. I’m here to talk about blink, and new people who stumble across the site will be too.

I would fucking LOVE...I mean love a history from Mark. He can write...he’s pretty much Blink’s own historian. By now, enough water under the bridge had passed where passages about Tom will be positive and more appreciative than anything. Why hasn’t he done this ? He’s the exact kind of dork that would write a book. One thing I liked about Travis’s is where other people in his life commented on the same scenario he was talking about, to get another persons perspective. That’s where the insightful shit was, passages from Mark, Tom and his ex wife.

Travis IS boring/dull as fuck but it never was an issue because Tom and Mark were so eccentric that it was actually funny to have around. Musically he is far from boring though.

My thread, my beautiful thread!

Hello, new here. I joined because I was told by another Blink fan about the forum. Neat seeing what other items are out there from like-minded people! I own a letter Mark wrote to one of their first ever overseas fans.

Fucking hell. This has gotta be one of the saddest comebacks I’ve ever witnessed on these boards.

Man i caught COVID and this is the first time ive been able to really slow down and catch up on this forum, and hearing this has really brought back memories of downloading the old blink demos years ago. needed it this week. thanks to everyone who made it happen

Hey I’m a long time blink fan and brand hew to the forum. I’ve always thought the Buddha promo was unicorn but it’s amazing that years later we’re still discovering gems like this. Thanks @daveyjonesfor everything

WOW just saw this, every blink member signed drumhead. This is the first I have seen and it's absolutely incredible: That honestly might be the best piece I've ever seen.

and yes, she was shaved

Sometimes I get sad that all the big conversations happen while I’m busy working/time zone issues and I miss out. Then there is other times I catch up on 3-5 pages and it’s just people whinging about mod status and I think maybe it isn’t so bad. It’s especially boring when it’s plainly obvious Coight would be the next mod anyway. Reasons being: 1) super cute 2) absolute sick cunt 3) already sent @Ghent nudes It’s days away I can feel It.

I'm not putting AI ahead of any blink albums. I'll give Dookie the edge vs. Buddha and it stops there.

American Idiot is easily one of the most overrated pieces of shit. Seriously, people bumming that album is so eye roll inducing. I've never had Untitled as my 'favourite' blink album, I always hold Dude Ranch and TOYPAJ above it, but Untitled is an important album and a fucking good album and Nine and California don't come remotely close to it. or any other blink album. They just fucking don't.

Riding in vans with boys is such an awesome movie, i have to watch that again. That kut u up record is great as well

to be fair, you got everyone's hopes up by saying this

Dude, stop with the kid stuff, it's fucking gross. If someone says something bad, report it.

You and Jar Jar have insulted my weight and how I look before (on more than one occasion) - or do you regard me mocking your taste in music as worse than this? Don't play out this whiter than white attitude, you can be a right 'ass hole' as well when you fancy it.

It’s spam and completely unnecessary, and to be completely honest a big reason why I don’t hang here much anymore and am embarrassed to even point people this way.

I actually have a lot of time for Avril. She could've easily turned herself into a full on pop star, and she never did. Think about the likes of Gaga or Taylor Swift who changed their core music to become superstars - Avril was always basically a simple singer songwriter who liked punk and the culture and even when the music didn't remotely suit it, she still did. Yes, her music is mostly just pop, but she wasn't and she didn't change who she was to fit that image and strive for that level of success, and I respect that. The only time she changed it up was purely for her Japanese a