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Here is a vid I got of Roller Coaster last night. The show was a blast, band was shockingly tight and on point from start to finish. It was actually like a professional experience for the first time ever at a blink show with Tom lol. The setlist was perfect, I loved the stage (especially being in the pit), you actually forgot you were at an 18000+ person event. Was crazy. Great to meet you Chewy and good seeing you again Watcher. Wish I could have heard you better and had a chance to talk more but our ears were all shot down there. I think that was my 9th or 10th blink show and it was definitely the best they’ve ever sounded with Tom by a mile. His demeanor on stage was so much better. Dude was at ease and having fun. Skiba also seemed a lot more comfortable playing with Alkaline Trio of course. You could just tell how much pressure was off of him

I love flicking through TikTok and seeing young blink fans. Warms the heart. They have cool parents clearly. My boy is starting to get into blink, he fucking loves Feeling This. I can’t wait for him to explore more.

While I was making dinner I looked at the boards and saw that we were discussing blink-182’s legacy (how many more albums or tours they’ve left in them) then I came back, saw 7 new pages of comments and my heart sank when allsystemsgo said “it’s over when one of them dies” and I wasn’t ready for that kind of talk 😥 It was big a relief to see that after 2 or 3 comments we’re all back to talking about MGK. Blink is still kicking 🚂 and I’m good with that. I don’t know about the legacy, but I’m sure they will run with the 2022 hype for a few more years and release a new album soon I think. After that they can do whatever they want as long as they keep touring every once in a while because I want to have a blink tour to look forward to in my life and because at some point they will have to acknowledge DUDE RANCH with a tour (impossible) or at least a tour where they play a few songs from that album ‼️

https://linktr.ee/kayleighmorganmusic Would love if ya’ll gave it a go, worked hard on it and I think it’s my best stuff yet

haven't checked the forum in couple years and just wanted to say that i'm happy to see familiar profile pics and that it is still going

this is exciting. interscope is releasing EOTS on all-analog (AAA) vinyl for the first time ever, this feburary. i'm a vinyl collector and somewhat of an audiophile, so this is intriguing for a lot of reasons. all-analog reissues of loudness war/CD-era albums are VERY rare this is blink's first true AAA reissue ever, and first all-analog vinyl pressing since at least 2001 IIRC chris bellman -- widely considered a top vinyl mastering engineer -- is helming the project the blurb claims it is from the "original" master tapes -- not a safety copy, or high-res digital file, indicating the EOTS tapes were unharmed from the 2008 universal fire, which is news on vinyl, EOTS has had a very spotty history -- early vinyl reissues had poor QC and were sourced from inferior digital masters. the well-received 2016 remasters through SRC, done by kevin gray, were very likely digitally sourced as well (not a problem really, just not analog!) EOTS has always been a very loud, compressed-sounding album, intentionally so. that won't change, but it's likely that this could be a serious audio upgrade for it -- there's the potential for it to reveal new depth and details in the sound. jerry finn was meticulous about making these albums, which is why it has always sounded great, even as loud as it is. he was also a tape and hi-fi enthusiast. if they are willing to go back to the tapes for this reissue, it hopefully indicates interest in more -- maybe deluxe versions of the discography, which i know fans have always dreamed of.

I loved big day out too at 14 lol. The banter has changed… It’s slightly more clever, less outwardly offensive and more intentionally dumb for the sake of it. I will say I find it genuinely subversive that they are still so ridiculous on stage. They’re still taking the piss out of the live experience which is hilarious, especially considering the shows now have the musicianship and production to back it up. Anyone who find it cringe, even the fact that they’re older and still doing it, needs to lighten up and stop taking things so seriously.

Cracked me up reading this again Dude pissed away 20 years, some of which in his prime, all to release like 3-4 good songs, none of which were better than blink or BCR at all

i never skipped their Euro tours since 2004, it was a battle but in the end i got my tickets to see blink for the 7th time next year!! 2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2023, 2027 ♥️

I swear I was thinking exactly the same thing while listening to Mother’s Day, When You Fucked Grandpa and Fuck a Dog. I think it’s because these are songs that unfortunately we’ve barely listened to in the last ten years or so (since we all switched to streaming services) and this kinda pushed them into the shadows because they’re joke songs, but they still hit perfectly 🥹 and they are just as good as the other two!

wow. so cool when these official youtube channels for these old late night shows upload clips like these, straight from the original source tape. especially when we've been watching muddy VHS rips of this for 28 years. looks like it was shot yesterday.

I'm not feeling this.

Man. It’s really just insane how awesome blink is right now. Vibes are immaculate. We’ve been dreaming of this for 2 decades and here we are.

I think Roller Coaster is right up there with Going Away To College when it comes to "songs that would've been just as huge as all the other hits if they were singles"

The stage itself looks awesome imo. they’ve had the screens with the animations for what feels like forever. now if only they could cut Down from the set….

It's kinda sad knowing that no matter what comes next with the band, new album, tours etc nothing will ever come close to the hype period of the OMT release and tour period. Some of the best time son these boards were during that. Everybody all here as we waited up for OMT song to be released, watching the video for the first time together, the surprise when we got MTYK at the same time. Also everybody here watching that first Coachella performance live and commenting on it in the thread. That was something special. There will be hype periods again but it will probably never reach that level again.

Bless you for trying to get this back on track

I aint listenin to that.

If only Oliver were here to see this Revolutionary War re-enactment!

it’s so good to finally hear the bonus tracks 😭♥️

I listened to toypaj this morning on my Sonos speakers in the house. It sounds so fucking good. I think it sounds better than Enema. Jerry Finn is the biggest loss to blink. Album is fucking perfect.

Frequently I found TOYPAJ to be a bland, safe emotionally stunted retread. But increasingly I’ve really appreciated the musicality and small subtleties. For a long time I felt like the weird focus on high school was to its detriment. I still feel like Tom was forcing himself to write about that time period for a lot of reasons — retreating psychologically from fame to a simpler time, trying to connect back to when he fell in love with punk as he was falling out of it, feeling commercially expected to. but overall, I’ve oddly come to respect it. There’s something cute about story of a lonely guy, something pure hearted. Even if does feel a little incel adjacent lmao

He actually looks really good there, dudes in his 50s

so good

No more of the kill yourself stuff please.

Good lord what an annoying conversation! Anyone who ever watched the Cheetah Videos and Album Launch can clearly see they were not in some bottomless pit of depression while writing that album. It's right there on tape. They were being hilarious weirdos and living out their wildest creative dreams in a way they hadn't even attempted before. They were still in a strange part of life in their late 20s/early 30s that I'm sure many of us can actually relate to, when family stuff can get weird, friendships fray, mental illness has a tendency to rear its head, they had babies at home which is incredibly beautiful but also incredibly stressful and anxiety inducing especially combined with the guilt of being away so much, the country was newly at war, the pressure and monotony of "being Blink" was getting to them, etc etc etc. It's ridiculous to think they were "miserable" and down in some dark hole at the time, but it's also ridiculous to think they were happy go lucky millionaires chasing a trend. I happen to think it was a very honest and earnest account of all of those feelings. It's strange to me that diehard Blink fans could think it was all one way or the other after 20 years haha.

you know what song is SO fucking good? adam's song. it's a miracle of a song. it has every ingredient that i love about this band. the lyrics, how they flip the meaning at the end, but leave room for misconception. the vocals and vocalizations behind the chorus. the grungy triple-guitar on the chorus that just blasts you in the face. travis illustrating why he was the right fit for the band, with an algebraic drum pattern that works. the roger manning piano part that arrives like a light in the darkness. the video, with the pictures, and memories, and the cuts between. it might be the band's single best song.

Guy took time from his loving family and fulfilling life to humble brag on a blink 182 fan site. Clearly he wasn't bothered at all.

Yes. I will be bringing this to the Cincy show. DM me your address and $5 for shipping and I’ll mail you a tape recording.

I would pay to watch rehearsals now. There seems to be a list like this every time and none of the deeper cuts ever make the live set 😂

i got the mark's mom's lasagna recipe variant.

Everyone say goodbye to Fap. He's taking a forced break.

Scrolling FB and this blink coverage nearly gave me an aneurysm The original picture and many others from that era exist, why AI it? My God Tom what did they do to you?!

What Went Wrong was always a favourite of mine growing up. I haven’t listened to it nearly as often over the past many years so it really does feel like a treat to have it on streaming. I love all the bonus songs, they’re just fun.

blink just dropped my t-shirt of the summer but it doesn't ship until Sept 25th?? Such a shame. This t-shirt is so 2001, I need to buy it.

I spun this over the weekend for the first time. This is an original pressing in blue, not one of the million reprints. I’ve had it for over 20 years but never actually listened to it. Too bad all the reprints ruined the collectibility/interest

I was one of them 2499 comments nqat.

kevin gray's SRC remasters are amazing. one can only assume that he used multitrack digital masters (as it's pretty standard, easier, cheaper, accessible, etc), but he tweaked with EQ/levels/etc to give the discography a better soundstage for the format. they are really phenomenal all things considered. even the ones that never got the deluxe "hi-fi" treatment (cheshire cat, TOYPAJ, neighborhoods) were remixed by gray. this reissue is a true analog reissue, straight from the original tapes, which presumably haven't been touched since they completed the album. the tapes are the literal original format the instruments were recorded on, and there's frequencies/timbres on that magnetic tape that some listeners claim can be lost when porting it to digital. it's like xeroxing a piece of paper. what they've done with this reissue is transfer those original tapes to a lacquer master and stamper that is used to press only these 3000 copies. at the end of the day, it's really up to listener whether or not it sounds BETTER, and there's a lot of snobby, deluded audiophiles that swear by AAA pressings. at the very least, it will be a very different listening experience for EOTS, likely clearer and less compressed than it has ever sounded.

Obviously rattled ya

My parents had to borrow someone else's camcorder when I was a kid because they were too cheap to buy one. So the only home videos I have from my childhood are from when we had that for a week or so every now and then. It was a big deal when that baby was around lol

feldy loves his powdered donuts

Couldn’t do that for a dog though could ya?

Nah, instead you will get your choice of insane wacky rabbit, shirt with middle finger, or neon pink smiley

oh shit they're gonna play josie!

sometimes, if you squint your eyes, it's almost like Oliver is still here with us.

I’d call 2 records optimistic