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  1. Speedo's long-winded diatribes on why he thinks he can justify using offensive language without hurting people's feelings always make me laugh.
    5 points
  2. I guess it shows that blink is the perfect middle point. Like it’s diluted down punk rock that still shares the same DNA as screeching weasel - but then sets the pedestal for poppy ballads/sensibilities that lead to MCS. I guess with this comp - it’s like do you want to take the left step ( back into SW, Descendents, Lagwagon etc) or the right step into that more modern pop realm (FOB, MCS). To me, I prefer the DNA of the 90s precursors - rather than what it evolved into. That’s the beauty of music tho. To each their hideous own
    4 points
  3. ah yes, but this was very, very different. this was a video of a person with downs syndrome playing a cover of a blink song on youtube. and someone said, "this is a person i think is stupid playing blink." mocking the real-live human being in that video is way, way worse than saying "that's retarded" when you hear something stupid.
    4 points
  4. Yeah idk posting a video of someone with down syndrome as a joke shouldn't be a thing, there's cringe and then there's next level like that where it's just toxic, I'd ban or remove it, we aren't 12
    4 points
  5. Very well said. I can’t stand the music that it evolved into either. All the pop punk/emo bands that came after blink are absolutely cringeworthy and lame. Fuck Fall Out Boy!
    3 points
  6. Seriously, I didn't feel like arguing about but it's not that hard to just drop a word instead of writing a book on justifying why you just must say it still. I'm like the last person to be pushing a moral compass, but some things really aren't that hard.
    3 points
  7. Not that there was much chance of me voting against Alkaline Trio, but I just tried to give MCS an honest chance and I don't know what it is but I can't stand this band. I tried to get into them 15ish years ago because my friends liked them and I couldn't get into them back then either. I know they're a band that people who like the same music that I like generally love, but for some reason I just really don't like them. Anyway, Alkaline for the win.
    3 points
  8. The final is set. It will be New Found Glory against Motion City Soundtrack. I'm going to start the poll tomorrow morning.
    2 points
  9. Cheers bro. Our boys blink were the sweet spot indeed. Most of what they spawned can get in the bin !
    1 point
  10. This is like what the far alt right groups do to convince themselves to keep saying any racist comments just because it's free speech. It's really not worth all the extra explanation why it's okay to just drop a word from your vocab, it's like explaining to a toddler at this point though, some of us don't want to evolve. It's like the guy at the grocery store who won't wear a mask because of all these overly complicated thoughts on it, like you're doing with the word retard. I think part of it being so outdated now is because it's not just slinged at between some friends, it's plastered on the internet for someone with a kid with down syndrome to see.
    1 point
  11. Halfway through Alien Isolation - soo good with the PS5 controller. If you like scary games i highly recommend this!
    1 point
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  13. @daveyjones I definitely appreciate what you're saying. Personally, I found the post deplorable, but the boards have had a fairly hands-off moderation approach forever and, since it's not my decision, I try to go by that. I agree that the Mard's post was next-level awful because he can't even claim some convoluted Michael Scott (or Speedo) logic about context or intent. Anyhow, I think this particular situation is up to @Ghent since it borders on something many posters say regularly.
    1 point
  14. I’n sorry to hear about your friend.I’m 100% behind a push for people not dropping hard R’s. My gf is a physio for a NGO that solely looks after people with disabilities so I’m well aware of the damage using that word can cause. It’s horrible. My comment was never in regards to me defending the use of that word or anything like that. You have obviously made sense of what I meant by my comment and I won’t push it any further.
    1 point
  15. They're brilliant. Easily some of the best lyrics, catchy as hell, sonically change each album, just hands down a great band. I can totally get people not liking them, that's chill. But they're very talented. Theres loads of bands that others like who like stuff I like that I can't get into. Fucking loads frankly. It's all subjective.
    1 point
  16. I know and I understand. I'm just one of those people that believes words only hold the power the listeners allow them to have. I think all agree that the context was deplorable but it should be ignored, not condemned.
    1 point
  17. Relax, idiots are going to be idiots. It was towards me and I'm not upset.
    1 point
  18. @Nasa @Elisa thoughts? Beat is fucking fire
    1 point
  19. Not surprising in the least, that dudes always-sucked.tk
    1 point
  20. The Happy Days lyrics may be cheesy, but I relate to them more than I do most blink songs. That song hit me hard the first time I heard it.
    1 point
  21. If @Ghent is on board, I think a buttplug should be the trophy for BotBM moving forward.
    1 point
  22. Watching the Camden show from 2004 and the whole concert shows the type of trajectory the band would have gone on, but for the breakup/hiatus in 2004/2005. I really enjoyed the experimental riffs during songs like the Rock Show and Stay Together for the Kids. You can clearly hear the beginning of the AvA era in Tom's style, but with Travis involved, it would have been so much better. You can hear the Good Day intro riff around 51 mins. Sucks to suck
    1 point
  23. I agree with this too. For me it's not so much about the music when a band has a legacy. AC/DC are still huge despite releasing trash for 3 decades. People will always think of AC/DC as the band they were in the 70's. Blink will always be the band they were from 1992-2005 but the bitter break up, side projects, post reunion and Skiba era of blink just adds to all of that. Blink have an amazing story when you think about it. If they were as huge as Queen, then they'd have a movie that's even more dramatic and intense than the Bohemian Rhapsody movie. I've always wondered how they'd deal with the plane crash if there was a movie on that level.
    1 point
  24. I think you guys are talking about different things when it comes to "legacy." In my opinion a legacy is a changing overarching thing that can be updated at any point. It doesn't necessarily have to do with how much you like or dislike any specific albums. In my opinion, Blink's legacy in 2005 was an amazing band of best friends who were the hilarious and meaningful soundtrack to my preteen/teenage life, who then took a huge artistic leap before tragically falling apart. The only negative feelings were imagining what could have been. Then they had a rocky but joyful (as a fan) reunion after a few years of being either insane or resentful, and released Neighborhoods and DED. I loved a lot of those songs and I'm forever grateful that I got to see them live two times, but they clearly weren't functioning quite right and their "legacy" at that point had to include the breakup, the personal awkwardness, and the sometimes-half-baked songs and artistic direction. That doesn't mean Enema was any less great, but it did take a little shine off of the band as a whole. They weren't this perfect entity or even a tragic "what could have been" story anymore. Once Tom was replaced by Skiba, the Blink legacy was in an interesting spot because there was very good reason to think that bringing in the singer/songwriter of Alkaline Trio meant that Blink was going to refocus on punk rock. That would've made the breakups/reunion era look like a bump in the road that caused them to go back to their roots. Instead, they took a different kind of left turn further into modern pop, which was made even more bizarre by the presence of Skiba. In my opinion, this just made their full "legacy" start looking like a funhouse mirror, you could see different things depending on the angle you were looking at it. Some people love the Skiba/modern pop influenced era, some people think it's a disgrace, some people think it's an entirely different band. That is the definition of a tainted legacy. There is no easy throughline or narrative to the band anymore, it's gotten so complicated and has had so many disappointments involving so many bandmembers that you can't just simply say "Blink is an amazing band of best friends who were the hilarious and meaningful soundtrack to my preteen/teenage life." That doesn't mean the love for the classic era music goes away, or that they are a bad band who needs to be shit on, it just makes the big picture (AKA legacy) more complex than it would have been without all the missteps.
    1 point
  25. fuck legacy. if blink released the literal worst album ever made in human history it wouldn't change their other great albums. people worry too much about legacy for no reason, it's pointless. this is the main argument I hear against Tom making a new Box Car record. "It would tarnish the legacy!" Who cares, it wouldn't ruin the first album. Not making anything new because it might hurt the legacy of something is dumb and I'd rather get new content even if it's not as good as what came before. That's why I'm happy we're still getting blink music without Tom DeLonge.
    1 point
  26. I'm not sure a post has ever flopped harder, good job!
    1 point
  27. Personally, I'm proud of the board members who voted based on what they actually enjoy listening to. We can now move past the idea that very many people genuinely like Screeching Weasel, Descendents, NOFX, etc. beyond a song or two.
    0 points
  28. yea i overreacted in the heat of the moment. i also, as @Russel Coightpoints out, i did not notice that it was an old post. bottom line is hard R is a big thing for me. my best friend's sister had downs. COVID killed her in seven days. she was 29. i was with him when he got the call and burst into tears, shaking uncontrollably. so yea i go into a complete hulk rage when i see that kind of shit.
    0 points
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