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  1. When I read what people post here sometimes I feel like I'm talking to some crazy cult person who wants me to join their faith. To me it's still Blink's weakest record ever and a huge disappointment, simply forgettable. Cool for them that they have some commercial success, but I personally hope that doens't mean we'll get California pt 2, 3, 4 ... for the next 20 years or so. Honestly, I'd rather have no new Blink record than something as bad as this again. I'm pretty sure that means that I'm a Tombot, not a true fan, just a stupid negative person. Whatever.
    8 points
  2. oh, stop talking so much, here's hot mark hoppus, after seeing him and find that out, you can continue, go on.
    4 points
  3. So how do you guys feel about John Feldmann?
    3 points
  4. why the fuck did everyone like it when it came out, and now all of a sudden its a bad record. I still think of it the same way i did back in July. I love California
    3 points
  5. Funny thing: If you are constantly sucking blink's dicks and Feldmann's dick (no matter what they do), you're spot on because.... because... the number one on the charts, man!!! The selling numbers!!!! The Grammys!!! But... If you are responding to that with an opinion (and some known facts) that, being the opposite, is perceived as negative, you'e a Tombot. If you say constantly that this album is golden and all, you're spot on because... the numbes, mate!. If you respond to that with an opposite opinion, you're always repeating yourself with negative crap (and also, you're a Tombot). If you show any bit of criticism, and don't want to swallow it all as it comes on the plate, then you are a Tombot too. Hahahahaha. I love this boards. *Bonus track: For all the love shown about California on that small biased (with not enough options) poll, it was valid. You know, the majority of the fans loved it. For the critical reception of the album, 10 cats on a forum don't matter. Who the fuck are you, guys?. This is Blink 182 Online. No place for grey scale. You have to be black or white.
    3 points
  6. They will be like "we came in, just putting finishing touches on the songs that didnt make it on the record. But Feldmann has a crazy energy and so we wrote like 10 more songs so now we have like 15! Coffee coffee donut donut hahaha" Enter california pt2 summer 2017.
    2 points
  7. He's the pop punk version of George Clooney.
    2 points
  8. I listened to it from start to finish last night. Enjoyed it more than i thought i would. Its just a fun record, nothing more. Its probably gonna be long time until i listen to again though
    2 points
  9. Blink is under the BMG Label. Their top-priority demographic is most likely teens and young adults. SOOHM has that main riff that sounds very similar to WMAA. They're banking on the "pop-iness" of the song to appeal to young people, or at the very least the label is trying to replicate the success that WMAA once had. From a business standpoint it makes logical sense, but as a fan, it kind of makes me go "this is pretty wack." Personally I liked the direction blink was going during the untitled era. They were making music that sounded unique and was actually good. Then it all got fucked up by the break-up and now it just hasn't been the same. I think I've moved on at this point.
    2 points
  10. Fender would be my go to ... go for a fat strat and rip out the pickups, swap 'em for your preference. Lower the action and you've got a great guitar.
    2 points
  11. did you guys realize that times change? just think about it: the same songs would get dfferent reactions in 2001 or in 2016. the band can be the same, the style can be the same, even your taste can be the same, but the feeling, the connection between you and those songs will have a totally different basis. the main factors are: - your age, - the technical development. obviously you will connect differently to a joke song when you are 16, or when you are 31. but you can get over it, because you are a smart person, and can handle it by calling it nostalgic, or maybe you do want to relive those teenage years once in a while... well, obviously if you never want to look back at those years, you'll probably won't find that style entertaining anymore... (but it was just an example of a teenage-y joke song. every type of song works in a different manner.) the point is: it is your own "fault" if you cannot connect to the same type of thing in the same way anymore. but there's a more complicated factor, let's call it web 2.0... we are living in a world where everyone can get information on everything at the moment when it happens, and everyone can spread their own opinion publicly instantly. the internet wasn't this influential 10-15 years ago... isn't it strange, that the last album you really like was made in 2003 or so? it was made in an age where the communication on the internet was basically one-way. you just got info bits days or weeks after something happened, you didn't spend 12 hours a day online, your social life happened offline, and all those information from the internet wasn't that important. you weren't part of the music creation, the band didn't talk to you directly (they talked to a camera knowing that the film won't be released earlier than a week). there was this mysterious wall between you and your idols... that wall was teared down when your favorite band started the direct communication with you on the net. previously they talked to 10 fans at a show, or their label made surveys with a base of 200 people. now they can access the opinion of millions with a single click. there's no mystery no more, everyone knows that bands are racing to satisfy the biggest chunk of their fanbase. and you (we) are probably not in the biggest chunk... and even if you like the end result, you know the process, and you hate the process. it turns everything to a sadder reality... so that's it, the internet ruined everything. the opinions of the masses are leading us to the cheap style of the masses. it always be a dissonance for the "elite". the best you can do is to lower your expectations, and look for those points of the "elected" product that can satisfy you. if you look at the whole thing or only the dissatisfying parts, you will hate this new era.
    2 points
  12. I can't stand the whoas in the chorus after each line, so out of place and forced, old Blink would have been a guitar riff, or a Travis fill to accent.
    2 points
  13. Hey! Don't you be talking to non-board members! Son of bitch!
    2 points
  14. This is exactly like my group of friends. All of us are pretty big blink fans and a few casual fans and all of them don't really like the album or even listen to it anymore. Like you said, it all comes down to who you speak to outside of these boards.
    2 points
  15. How on earth does somebody pull for Reigns over Balor?
    2 points
  16. Guys, you're both as bad as each other. make out and get over it.
    2 points
  17. Mark said they're planning mid February but it could change. Since they're seemingly still recording, we assume its probably changed but nothing's been said. That's how love pt 2 happened. It was originally going to be an EP of the love b sides (Surrender and Strange Celebration) with the love score to come out alongside the movie in August, but Tom just kept turning stuff from the score into full songs and it became a full album released in November. Doomsday California pt 2 is basically love pt 2.
    1 point
  18. Well if that's the case most people shouldn't like enema, take off, or untitled then. Jerry Finn was the 4th member of blink, and helped out with the writing process.
    1 point
  19. mmm...can't say that I love Clooney so much, but yes, you a little bit right, haha
    1 point
  20. "She's Out Of Her Mind" hit #1 today. Sadly, Green Day will most likely block them from that spot on BDS/Billboard (which is the "official" chart).
    1 point
  21. Exactly. Normally, I don't care that much about environmental shit when it comes to albums, unless one of this two situations happens: - The album is amazing, like mindblowing and special. - The album comes from a band I like, that made really good records in the past, and it just feels 'weird' to have a lower point on their career, sounding not 'real' or whatever you want to call that feel. In both cases, I just want to know the hows, whens and whys. Just for fun, nothing obsessive. And that does not change the opinion. Just make it more understandable.
    1 point
  22. that's what i was talking about: your opinion on the music doesn't come from the music. it comes from unnecessary meta info. if the data flow rate would still be on the level of 2001, you wouldn't know shit about feldmann. you wouldn't even think the producer was with them constantly and instructed them. you wouldn't call him co-writer. you would just listen to an album by your favorite band... would you think it has flaws? obviously. (or maybe not. maybe you wouldn't have learnt all those shit over the years that made you this critical.) but i doubt you would enlarge the flaws - you just do that today because the unnecessary news from the internet made you frustrated. anyway, when you talk about other bands ("Ton of bands maintain success as they grow") you forget one thing: you don't follow those other bands as close as blink, you don't know all the "unnecessary news", you are just a regular listener... and if you think about it, as a regular listener you believe these other bands are ok, they are honest, they are loyal to their fans and their legacy... blink is an exception for you and for 1000-10000 other hardcore fans. but for the rest, millions of listeners, they are ok, they are still doing what they did, the legacy is still in good shape. that's the way bands exist nowadays. i seriously don't think you can find a popular artist who doesn't have a group of hardcore fans who hate the new direction. (even deviant bands like radiohead serves the bigger chunk, not the hardcore base.) there was a time when these hardcore fans dictated the direction. now the regular listeners have a bigger impact on it... as i wrote, your favorite bands don't care about your voice anymore. they don't look for the opinion of the most loyal fans, they have a new source to find out what people think about them. previously they got feedback from the most fanatic fans (when they met them face to face, or when they sent them a mail). then the world changed, the bands stopped this, because it became easier to get chart data from the masses on the internet... do you remember when blink used "pickrset" for a while? the idea was to create their setlist based on the crowd's wish. every one of us hoped the hardcore fans will vote in 10 deep cuts, then we had to face the fact that 20 hits and 0 deep cuts made the set. it is the sad reality. if you want to be upset about it, then go for it, learn all the unnecessary news, and repeat them to make more people upset... i don't think it makes sense... or you can be the other type who knows these news too, but who knows that's always been the case, you just didn't really knew and talk about them. you can lock these irritating ideas out, you can forget the "meta info", and you can try to enjoy the product itself. i'm not saying it will be perfect, but at least your opinion will be more clear, not a mixture of system criticism and music criticism. (here's mine: i think the way bands work nowadays are absolutely unacceptable, they shit on the biggest fans, and it applies to blink-182. but it's a general problem. now let's see the new album without mixing in this faulty system: california is a great album. i like all those songs. the biggest problem that you can feel that the songs are rushed, almost every song has the same formula, and they don't have enough lyrics. these don't make an album unlistenable... neighborhoods was similar anyway. the meta info, the news on tom's behavior ruined it for some, but the album itself isn't that bad. it's not rushed, it's the opposite, it feels like they had too much time between songs.)
    1 point
  23. I don't think anybody has said that (not me). To the people who are being critics with the album since a few weeks, I think that what's happening is that California just gets on its own slot on the band's discography after the initial effervescence and hype. That's what I experienced. Once you get enough plays and put it in context, you get a different perspective. I mean, at least to me, it happens really often. My case hasn't been so radical, though. I sitll like the album, but well, it's not going to be my first choice when I reccomend a blink record, or is not the first one that comes to my mind when thinking or remembering blink. Any song on that ecord would be my first choice in any blink related situation. Also, this has been spiced with some other facts and crossed debates, which end up showing a blurry and cofusing view. But mainly, that's what has happened, in my opinion. And, in the end, the drama is much less than what it seems to be. When we go through this kind of (almost) eternal discussions, I always think that if we all would much better understood if we were talking in person. It would be much less harsh. That, or we all would be ending stabbing each others, hahaha.
    1 point
  24. To be fair, there's not much else to go off of or bring to the front anyways because THERE'S NO GUITAR
    1 point
  25. Of course people are going to react differently to a song in 2001 than they did in 2016, but a real band, one that is honest, shouldn't be writing the same music in 2016 that they wrote in 2001, and you might say "well Oliver that is what they do" Yeah, bullshit. Ton of bands maintain success as they grow, it is what fucking Blink use to do as well, if you remember the jump from TOYPAJ to Untitled. As far as writing what makes fucking money and not what is honest. Of course that is what they are doing, they brought in the biggest writer for hire sch long in the industry. Now you might say "But Oliver labels want to write what sells". Yeah, bullshit again, many bands have tons of creative control over what they write, if they are fucking good enough. Look at the Foo Fighters! So this idea that one should just accept some nostalgia act written by some saw'd off half witted writer for hire is BULLSHIT. If you REALLY respected Blink, you'd demand MORE. Not just look at fucking charts and awards shows and exclaim "things are going great!"
    1 point
  26. You can see me listening to it live on YouTube only for 175 bucks!!! What a deal!!!
    1 point
  27. Total Tom move. Announcing an announcement!
    1 point
  28. I'd go for a Les Paul without a doubt. And, about the tone and the pickups just worry not that much. Well, of course you have to know what ones you want to be on your guitar and what sound do they make, but don't forget that a lot of the tone thing is something that has to do with the amp/cabinet you get, pedals and stuff. If you can, go to a store, play some Fenders and Gibsons, and ask the guys all the things you want to know. I'm not sure if Jaguars and Jazzmasters are the ones to go when talking about punkock (sure Skiba uses the Jaguar, and Cobain used it too), but you have t pay attention on the whole rig. Have a look on their setups and ask about their configurations on a store.
    1 point
  29. Have you and Ghent ever sucked each others dicks? serious question right here.
    1 point
  30. He is, it's really unfortunate he wants to start so bad. Like maybe if it wasn't working you can say something.. But it's worked wonders this year.
    1 point
  31. Z-bo is so much better of the bench for you guys!
    1 point
  32. Reigns as always been boring since the Shield split. He was better when he never spoke.
    1 point
  33. Hey, you take that back. I hate Reddit and I thought The Force Awakens was good! (Rogue One was better)
    1 point
  34. I think Bored to Death was the perfect first single. It's dark but not too dark, anthem-like, has a good bridge, etc.
    1 point
  35. ^^^this X1000. I think this is the majority of Blink fans that exist in the real world. Anyone I know that is a casual fan in my personal life actually listens to the band again because of this album and was always confused by the recent Tom shenanigans. The hyper-critical fans just tend to huddle together on messageboards and reddit and bitch and moan about the glory days, and are probably the same people who hate The Force Awakens.
    1 point
  36. Haha I think it all depends on who you talk to outside of the board. It might seem like just some weirdo obsessive people here if your real life friends all love the album, but it's the opposite for me to be honest. Me and my friends have been big Blink fans since we got into music and I can't think of one who was stoked about California. Weirdly enough, I'm probably the most positive about it out of anyone I've talked to!
    1 point
  37. Blink are in a great place right now...for themselves. They are making a tonne of money and getting a lot of press but a large portion of their hardcore fan base aren't pleased with their latest album and the direction they seem to be heading. That is why people are complaining. Are fans just meant to be happy because they are releasing music even if they think its crap? I honestly think it's cool they are back in the spotlight but it's bittersweet because I don't really enjoy their latest single or the album that much.
    1 point
  38. No, you will stop at nothing to say things are perfect. Like Dylan said, San Diego would have been a great single, oh look, I said something positive Ghent! OMG!
    1 point
  39. i don't think we see Balor untill night after Mania personally.
    1 point
  40. At this point Matt should probably run.
    1 point
  41. Agreed. Can pull off some pretty mean nanas and dadas though.
    1 point
  42. Let's reminisce. Best video on YouTube?
    1 point
  43. He kept postponing the interview but we finally made it. It went well and he was also very kind, I didn't expect that, even though he didn't talk much and his answers were kinda short/monosyllabic. I'm used to musicians that talks all the time and they spent like 5 minutes on a single question but I've been listening to AFI since I was 15 so it was great to talk to him. What a nice guy! He didn't want to talk about how the band has changed through the years so I didn't ask anything about it but his answer to the question about the writing process between him and Jade was interesting. As for Jerry Finn, he said that the relationship with him was wonderful. As soon as they met him, they immediately clicked because he had that typical and friendly southern California attitude. He also said that Jerry Finn was the perfect producer because he was like a silent presence in the room, he let them do all they felt they needed to do and that all the songs had to be already there before he could make any suggestions in order to capture the best feeling about them. (And that made me think about all the things we say about Feldmann's wrong approach to California haha)
    1 point
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