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  1. My impressions after watching a several of these pro-shot videos: All things considered, this is the most professional they've ever looked/sounded/acted on stage. You can just feel the happiness and comfort and authenticity oozing (ejaculating?) out of all of them. They're fully taking it seriously and having the time of their lives doing it. It seems like they're embracing and enjoying every aspect of the Blink experience for the first time since like, the Enema days!? For that reason, I understand using backing tracks 100%. It's not just to "make it sound like the album," it genuinely makes the experience more magical for the audience to have such a full lush sound. With these guys (especially Tom) you're always going to get plenty of variation and ad-libs and spontaneity to make it feel live. Like Travis said in that Rick Rubin podcast, they just love being a 3 piece and this allows them to remain a 3 piece while still giving the crowds the type of experience they deserve. HAVING SAID THAT, the backing tracks do go too far at times... I get having synths, strings, keys, some guitar layers, some extra background vox, but it becomes distracting and weird when Mark is roaming around the stage during the chorus of Anthem 3 while his co-lead vocals are playing, or Tom is stepping back from the mic to let everyone yell "OLE OLE OLE" but then you can still hear a vocal track go "YEAH" It's very obvious that they are legitimately singing and playing live throughout the show (sorry Diddy), but I feel like those parts of the backing tracks are unnecessary and kinda cheap. Anyway, that shit doesn't diminish the experience at all for me, just wanted to throw my 2 cents in. I just feel so happy that this is the thing to over analyze right now instead of a sullen Tom drunkenly yodeling with a short-billed hat pulled over his eyes, or any of the other depressing versions of Blink we've endured over the years. We're lucky! Soak it in, people!
    11 points
  2. They’re not technically wrong, so fuck you.
    9 points
  3. Wonder if we will see a return of ry bread now that mark dumped him.
    9 points
  4. Haha that's funny. I think the board probably would've deserved that reputation during the Non-Tom Era but not at all anymore. I do think that most of us are longtime fans though, which means we've already had most of the fluffy conversations that you see on Reddit sometimes. People here scoff at things like "what's your favorite Blink riff???" not because it's stupid or we hate the band, but because we had those types of convos in like 2003. And yeah for me, like @Paparazzi Magnet just said, Blink has been such a huge part of my life for so long that it is like rooting for a sports team. When I criticize it's out of love and a desire for them to be the best they can be hahah
    7 points
  5. How can CAROUSEL be mid? It's still one of their best songs. It has everything. Best bass line of all time, no rhymes and yet it still works flawlessly, the angst, the nostalgia, that very unique Cheshire Cat vocal delivery from Tom, still relatable at 34 as it was at 14. Bring it back please.
    7 points
  6. Dissing Carousel… jesus H, fuck off Jan
    7 points
  7. Carousel is iconic and there’s no way they’re too old to play it. If that was true then they’re too old to play half their set.
    7 points
  8. One of life's biggest curiosities for me is how Limp Bizkit went from being totally fucking lame as a kid/teen/young adult to now me thinking they're actually pretty sweet lol The Offspring, on the other hand, just keep getting worse. They're worse than Nickelback NQAT
    7 points
  9. Scott “Skiba is a boring cunt on stage he just stands around like a cardboard cutout” also Scott “why is Tom moving around and enjoying himself so much? He should just be standing around.”
    7 points
  10. Yeah I criticize blink the way a coach criticizes his own son on the team. Comes from a place of love and having higher standards.
    6 points
  11. Carousel might be a top 10 blink song. Entire discography. Thinking it’s mid is just wrong.
    6 points
  12. Have you watched the pro shots from South America? I’m not saying they don’t use backtracks. I’m saying Tom’s guitar is clearly in front of the mix. or do you think they purposely record sloppy backing tracks with tons of wrong notes?!
    6 points
  13. I apologize to the board for attempting to discuss the fucking backing tracks in a nuanced way. God dammit.
    6 points
  14. How can you think carousel is mid and call yourself a blink fan? Just doesn’t work.
    6 points
  15. Here's Tom crying at the end of it.
    6 points
  16. Someone on the blink Reddit asked if there was any other online blink group or forums. Someone replied and said we are a bunch of old heads who hate the band and hate each other lmao
    6 points
  17. I can’t believe Tom Delonge fans are dismissing a band because of rough vocals.
    6 points
  18. We’re where the real fans go… to creep mark out.
    6 points
  19. some of those discord users will struggle to exist without it.
    6 points
  20. seeing mark and tom together offstage still feels so fresh and warms my heart. so glad they got over the bullshit
    6 points
  21. The Offspring are like a mysterious blind spot for me. Up until very recently I had no idea that anybody thought of them as one of the seminal "Mt. Rushmore" pop punk bands. I even liked them for a little bit growing up, and yet I still had no idea they were actually respected in that way by so many people. My friends and I all grew up obsessing over pop punk/alternative/pop rock/whatever in the late 90s and early 00s, but I never knew anybody who latched onto the Offspring at all haha. I always considered them to be in the same lane as like, Sublime, Sugar Ray, Good Charlotte, Barenaked Ladies? - bands who had some huge hits (including songs I liked) and sold a ton of albums but never really had the oomph of a classic band. If I was making my own Mt. Rushmore of pop punk, I would have like 25+ bands in line ahead of The Offspring haha. I don't even say that as a diss to them, just strange that I grew up with a completely different perception!
    6 points
  22. The crowd didn't let me down, they sang all the guitar riffs ❤ and I thought they were very loud even on songs casual fans wouldn't know, at the end of Dumpweed you can hear the crowd sing "turn your back and run now, you haven't got a chance now"
    6 points
  23. the last time tom was so into the shows was probably the late 90s, it's a very great thing to witness as fans because you can tell it's genuine (when it wasn't genuine it was so easy to spot)
    6 points
  24. Tom probably has no idea about the sexual misconduct stuff. He didn’t even know who Post Malone was when Travis was doing shows with him.
    6 points
  25. this is some kind of beatlemania except that blink is a 30 year old band, it's so crazy, I love it https://www.instagram.com/p/C4W6qDUrQJT/
    6 points
  26. Just wanted to say that this song is still the shit. Probably my favorite on the album, and easily ranks among my favorite blink songs ever. Tom coming back would be worth it for this one song alone. K, I'm gonna go listen to if yet again.
    6 points
  27. Exactly. You can hear Tom’s sloppy live guitar playing everywhere on those shows haha
    5 points
  28. It's like a cornerstone song for the band. One of the first songs you hear after "getting into" the band that seals the deal
    5 points
  29. these SA shows have just reinforced how much I love More Than You Know. So fucking good.
    5 points
  30. I really think we need to circle back to Jan not liking Carousel. I just read through 10 pages and I can't stop thinking about that. Like if you don't like that song, why do you like this band. Unbelievable.
    5 points
  31. 5 points
  32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7eX9t2bItc Last night's show (some songs missing). So fucking tight that we suddenly have all these pro shot shows! They sound so good! Tom was really feelin hyper haha. Diddy and other purists might dig this one because Tom's actual guitar is front and center in the mix. Can't really hear the backing tracks very much. EDIT: holy fucking shit Anthem Pt 3
    5 points
  33. That is an all-time bad take Jan. Gotta find a way to walk it back or this will become your entire identity here
    5 points
  34. Up All Night got a HUGE reaction at my show and I really didn't expect it, but it probably won't leave the setlist because it's the only Neighbourhoods song they play now. Down and Violence should go. Down in particular. I know they keep Violence because of the drum solo and Violence has been one on my favorite songs for years, but it's been on the setlist nonstop since 2003 and I got tired of it. It should be retired for a bit and in the meantime Travis can do a drum solo on a different song. Asthenia and Easy Target sounded incredible live in 2014, they should take the place of Violence and Down. Or just bring back Carousel and add a Dude Ranch song.
    5 points
  35. Don't get The Offspring hate. Up until American Idiot they were almost as big as Green Day, direct competitors for Pop Punk Kingdom. They just went downhill while GD and blink matured enough to put AI and Untitled album. Offspring just lived and still live thanks to their wonderfull run Smash to Americana. They belong in another family though, they're Rancid, NoFX, GD brothers while blink's are Sum 41, Mxpx and Alkaline Trío. Next family would be Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Yellowcard, NFG.
    5 points
  36. If the state of being annoyed could be summed up in a sound, it would be The Offspring for me
    5 points
  37. im sure the diehards were mixed in there. But its a festival so I’m sure quite a few were there for the others too.
    5 points
  38. Dude just watched the Chile show, totally fucking sick. There are some legit Tom criticisms, but it’s just not like it used to be. His fuck ups are passionate now and not based in laziness. Huge difference in optics and general vibe of the show because of that. Banter was top notch and felt like old school blink. Can’t wait to see them this summer My edgelord take is that the crowd should have been better lol. All this CuM to BraZiL talk for the last 15 years (I know Chile isn’t Brazil) but they just seemed like an average huge festival crowd to me. Maybe it was different in person?
    5 points
  39. I've never understood the whole "I'm gunna stalk them at their hotel" thing. It's super weird and really creepy.
    5 points
  40. it always has frustrated when he butchers lyrics intentionally; it just oozes laziness and a fundamental disrespect for the body of work that was evident elsewhere too (interviews and such). the growling, the slurring, whatever it is, it needs to stop. the encouraging thing is that he seems way better off in the chile video than argentina. he seems to be having lots of fun on wendy clear. he's doing really small cool things on guitar across the set -- the outro to dumpweed, the discordant intro to UAN -- that really make it clear here is where he is supposed to be. the singalongs from the crowd, the attitudes onstage... outside of the argentina vocal performance, these are some of the best shows of the band's career.
    5 points
  41. Wendy Clear is so tight live, probably the highlight of the show. I also really like the different arpeggio that Tom does on the bridge of The Rock Show. The new songs were amazing too.
    5 points
  42. I'm in a coffee shop in Florence and they're just playing Fell In Love on the radio 💞
    5 points
  43. Dance with me is seriously up there with the best of the best. Can’t see how anyone couldn’t like it.
    5 points
  44. noooo this is such sad news, he will always be a hero to me. Growing up, I’ll never forget the excitement I felt watching Dragon Ball after school every day. This show shaped some of my most formative and best years… rest in power Akira Toriyama.
    5 points
  45. Dude's profiting off blinks actual music, they're not even covers. Hope they get busted.
    5 points
  46. Anybody else not put much stock into the BCR thing? It’s a cool backstory and all, but BCR had been defunct for like 17 years by the time Tom and Travis were starting to mess around with the song. I get why they were considering it a BCR idea at that time since Tom wasn’t in Blink, but once he rejoined I feel like it consequently became a Blink song… haha. Do you guys consider it some separate thing on the album?
    5 points
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