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  1. I actually think Tom purposely ruining First Date live is one of the funniest things the band has done post-reunion. Made me laugh every time.
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  2. I really don’t blame Tom at all (shock - Tombot ) . At his age playing that song, I’d feel the same. The video is great but the song sucks. Especially as they wrote it just to appease the label. Playing that during an Untitled show kills the vibe - squeal like a pig throughout it Thomas, do as you feel
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  3. I want to say something like that also happened at their BlizzCon show when they randomly played First Date in the middle of their untitled album set. I’d have to find it again but I remember thinking it was funny.
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  5. Why is everyone making pop punk songs haha
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  6. I bring this up a lot but one of my favorite riotfest moments with blink was Tom realizing First Date was next and then Mark saying something mockingly like, "Uh-oh, someone didn't read their email before the show..."
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  7. Posting this here so I remember to watch it tomorrow, it's an hour long:
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  8. I wish. I really hope blink tours with MGK
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  9. Blows my mind that a state would even allow that. I'm going to Disney World in a few weeks and even though it's in Florida, there is still a strict mask policy, limited capacity, temp check, social distancing, etc. Pretty sad when giant businesses have more responsibility than official state health policy.
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  10. I was 3 when it originally came out, so... but when I got into it as I was initially exploring blink’s discography, I always felt like Mark and Tom were at their creative peak at the time. EOTS is my favorite blink album by far (and I think as a project it’s superior to TOYPAJ), but there’s something about the songwriting and performances on tracks like Online Songs, Roller Coaster, and Reckless Abandon that sound like lightning in a bottle. Just pure pop punk magic. TOYPAJ is blink’s most commercially immature album in terms of subject matter and tone for sure - but in terms of their growth as artists, it feels like their most mature /pop/ punk effort, if that makes sense.
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  11. I wouldn't be worried for a gig in August, there were many outdoor and social distanced gigs going on last summer (I didn't go to any, but I'd love to go to a small one this summer)and you guys are far ahead with the vaccinations. But I would never go to a sold out arena show with not a mask in sight. It's still too soon.
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  12. i was definitely too young at the time to experience and enjoy this period of the band, but i remember hearing first date in the movie clockstoppers in 02. i was already a fan of ATST from radio so whenever file-sharing services really took off the next year, i downloaded a few blink songs. it still took about five more years to fully immerse myself in the band, but for whatever reason, TOYPAJ was always at the bottom for me. my initial love for the band was colored by tom’s 05 exit, so i couldn’t help but view TOYPAJ through the lens of what came after. i also was very into untitled and felt TOYPAJ was an unnecessary retread of EOTS... fun but dumb, too radio-friendly, etc. with time i was able to re-approach it, which has only happened in the last few years. it’s an energetic, classic pop punk album, with tons of classic blink moments... the perfection of their sound. the production is unreal too... it sounds better than any other blink album, which is full credit to jerry finn and his engineers. mark has some of his best ever songwriting, while tom in retrospect seems to be struggling with success/being a major label musician/his role. it’s obvious he was feeling stifled and chose to only write songs from an adolescent perspective, because he felt that was what was expected of him, by the public, label, managers, etc. it’s the root of the bands downfall. but even those songs are fun, full of great riffs and classic moments. the only thing i still don’t like is STFTK, which feels like an unnecessary attempt recapturing the tone of Adam’s song. truly envious of those here who got to enjoy it in real time haha. it was definitely the peak of pop punk’s mainstream exposure ... it still feels like a watershed moment, the first “punk”-adjacent LP to go no. 1 in the states IIRC.
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  13. lol wow it would be Florida. I think doing anything like that right now is stupid. We're so close to it being okay. There is an end in sight and we're getting there with vaccinations in the US. I think in two months I'd feel comfortable with something like this, but not yet. It's so dumb to take this risk when we're getting so close to most people (at least the ones who care) being vaccinated. Everyone 16+ is eligible for the vaccines now. Just wait a few more weeks.
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  14. MGK did a full-capacity concert in Florida last night. Maybe things in the US are safer because people are actually getting the vaccine, but how do you feel about it? I still think it's too soon and irresponsible. https://www.instagram.com/p/COCOlUZDHZ8/?igshid=d332xu9bxuj9 I know I sound like a cop, but I've been thinking about shows a lot lately and even though I miss them, I'm not sure I can go back to attending crowded venues anytime soon. I'm ready for some small gatherings, but that's about my only plan right now.
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  15. Maybe the songs would have been the same as enema, but the sound wouldn’t have been as long as Scott was in the band. The sound they were going for with enema can’t be done with a drummer like Scott.
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  16. spring 2001 was my final semester of college. i heard about jacket when someone told me that blink had a new video on MTV where they gave out a bunch of money and smashed stuff. i thought, yea, that sounds like them. i had really liked "man overboard" so i thought this sounded promising. i bought the album the day it came out, but didn't listen to it very much. it was the kind of CD i just left in my car. today i prefer it to enema. i remember going on audiogalaxy (a post-napster p2p service) that summer to get the bonus tracks from the import versions. i liked "what went wrong" very much. for some context, at the time, the biggest albums of the year for me were... - alkaline trio from here to infirmary - weezer green - dashboard confessional the places you have come to fear the most - saves the day stay what you are - jimmy eat world bleed american i was most eager for jimmy's album as the demos had leaked at the start of the year (weezer, alk3 and dashboard all leaked well in advance too, those were the days). probably, if i were honest, the year belongs to bleed american.
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  17. I was 12 in 2001 and that summer I really got into blink. To me TOYPAJ is forever tied to a very specific careless and happy summer, which I mostly associate with days spent in the swimming pool at my friend's house, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and MTV/TRL. Hearing the opening notes to “Anthem pt 2” or the nananas in Online Songs instantly takes me back into a time of my life where everything seemed to be perfect and even though this isn't my favourite blink album, when I listen to it, it always brings me back to that optimistic feeling of basking in the sun and feeling a sense of self-assuredness. The first guitar solo I learned to play on my guitar was the guitar solo in Give Me One Good Reason. I didn't go to any shows because I was still too young, but I will always associate the album and those songs to a total sense of happiness.
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  18. The Dr. Seuss company retiring their own books was probably the best business decision they ever made. The people who were angry about them “getting cancelled” bought so many Dr Seuss books in protest that they were sold out everywhere.
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  19. I think you’re all trying to spin it negatively. David didn’t seem upset about any of it. He’s just kind of awkward with his words and always has been. That’s how he was on Modlife, that’s how he was when I met him. That’s how he was on the Start the Machine documentary and on the commentary. He said at the start this is only the second podcast he’s ever done. He’s not comfortable doing interviews and stuff because I think he struggles to get the right words out. Even before the band talk started he was still being awkward like that just talking about his life. That’s just how he is. On paper those bullet points look bad but actually listening to him he seemed pretty happy about all of it and he’s excited for the potential fall tour.
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  20. all of these interviews are so old. i wonder if he now realizes that signing with MCA was obviously the better decision. it had no affect whatsoever on the sound of dude ranch and i think enema was a natural progression rather than a forced one.
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  21. i had the enema singles first leading up to this. my parents wouldn't let me get the full album because of the artwork. when toypaj dropped, it was my first blink CD. all of my friends had it as well. we would play it in our garages while attempting to rollerblade on a mini ramp because we thought that's what we were supposed to do. i saw blink on pop disaster the summer after and it was my first show. it was the best thing ever at the time but as an adult, it seems like too much of an enema rehash. mark has some of his best songs on it but tom has all of his worst. i guess we now know he probably kept his good material for box car racer.
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  22. This album and it's joke songs were the inspiration to a joke song I wrote about fucking my mom. My parents found my lyric notebook and didn't get the joke at all.
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  23. I’ll always correlate the most fun, care free days of my life with this record. I was 14 and had been obsessed with blink from Enema of the State and The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show. TOYPAJ solidified my obsession and fandom for blink. I had just started smoking weed (laughing hysterically each time), and Jackass was just starting to pop off as well. The perfect influence for a young teen and his rebellious friends lol. So much fun was had this summer with this album coming along wherever we went. I also saw my first set of live tits at the TOYPAJ tour so that just made them that much cooler. I’m with Ghent, this shit is classic blink, Self titled and neighborhoods can get in the bin!
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  24. The lead up to TOYPAJ is when I first started getting into blink. I'd heard the Enema singles on the radio and liked, but the band wasn't really on my radar. Then I had a friend who updated his MSN messenger with a daily countdown to TOYPAJ as his screen name. This piqued my curiosity and the first song I illegally downloaded was Dammit. I also started listening to some non singles on Enema. Then TOYPAJ came out and it was an explosion of blink interest from that point. Went to a record store and bought Cheshire-Enema used CDs all at once. To me the TOYPAJ sound is the "classic" blink sound. Bright, summery, catchy pop punk. Probably has a lot to do with why I like California so much. If I had heard Untitled or Neighborhoods first I'm sure I would be a miserable cunt like the rest of you.
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  25. Discovered at the start of the month a rare picture and now we have the full show 😮😮😮😮 7/29/1996: The band performs at the Underworld in Montreal, Quebec Few comments from the uploader : Newly uncovered footage, that was recently digitized. This is a rare gem. I did not film this show, but I received it directly from the venue owner. The copy I received is probably one of the only ones around, so it's fortunate I was able to find and digitize. This show was right before Blink 182 became huge. This venue was at the back of the Underworld record store, which had a capacity of approx 250. A little over a year later, on October 3, 1997, they came back to Montreal and played at the Metropolis, which had a capacity of 2500. I have that October 1997 also up on YouTube. Lineup for this July 29, 1996 show: Blink 182, Unwritten Law, My Big Wheel (a local Montreal punk rock band).
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