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  1. 13 minutes ago, Elisa said:

    Yeah, it's impossible this year because the competition is too good and we can't even count on the fact that OMT went #1 on the Billboard chart on the first week (while The Stones, Green Day and PJ didn't go #1) because I just read that Dolly Parton's rock album broke all the records when it came out in the winter "debuting at #1 on six different Billboard charts and marking her biggest album debut to date" 😔 so if the Grammy doesn't go to The Stones, it will go to her.

    But maybe we still have a small chance, blink is bigger than ever and they deserve some recognition. 

    I never even heard that Dolly Parton released a rock album lol. Complete news to me

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  2. That Rolling Stones song with the Sydney Sweeney video was awesome, but I didn't hear anything else off of it. Green Day album is great. No clue on Pearl Jam album but it's Pearl Jam. And a token Dolly Parton?

    That's a terrible draw for a realistic blink chance. They should have won it with California.

  3. So I ordered the blink tradings cards a few months ago. Was way overpriced and kind of a joke, but I did it anyway because I’m a big sports card collector.

    Waited all this time and they finally showed up yesterday. At least I thought they did. I received an envelope with nothing in it besides a thin piece of cardboard. No receipt, nothing. Just an empty envelope. 🤦‍♂️

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  4. I actually enjoyed Travis’ book quite a bit, but he went out of his way to galvanize the image he wants people to have of him (understandable, but I just happen to find that image cringe in a lot of ways). His personal general audience is different than the average blink fan.

    I think this has a chance to be a much deeper and relatable story and should have a lot of stories and random tidbits we haven’t heard. 

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  5. One Night Stand has no business being kind of a good song, but it is. I like it. It’s Tom with a filter. It’s an AVA song with input. Said it earlier, but it proves what a waste of time and talent the whole AVA experiment was. There was some good stuff here and there, but it was missing the checks and balances an actual band provides.

    I’m 100% confident if Tom released that song as a solo/AVA song it would be awful.

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  6. 12 minutes ago, Jans Stand said:

    EVERYONE EVERYWHERE OMG!!!!!

    noooo they didn’t! (Actually just chill and have a fucking sweet ass guitar bridge for a second and let the song organically build instead of forcing a vocal bridge again and again)

    WHAT!! It got better than the snippets!

     

    Fuck. This might just top Neighborhoods for me afterall.  It’s close.

    It's pretty awesome. Feels slightly unfinished for some reason? But it kicks ass regardless

    9/10

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Jans Stand said:

    That’s okay.  Basically saying California Deluxe was basically a bunch of random songs that were half finished ideas, with high highs (Wildfire, Last Train Home imo - Can’t Go Back, One Night Stand, etc) and low lows (Parking Lot, Misery - Take Me In, All In My Head, etc) 

    where as California was more consistent throughout like an album with a theme, like OMT, but overly long, like OMT.

    So they are very parallel.  OMT obviously I like better but in terms of structure/parallels they are doing like the same thing. Eleven next?

    Agree with all of this except Parking Lot is an awesome song. Just because you lived a powder puff childhood and don't get the reference to Parking Lots doesn't mean the song is bad.

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  8. Ok One Night Stand works way better as a full song. This is a perfect example of how/why Tom wasted his time with AVA. This is a HUGE AVA 💩turd💩 if it didn't have Mark and Travis involved. Song is salvaged and actually pretty good.

    8/10

     

    If You Never Left- Oh shit, do we have an emerging banger here?

    9/10 with room to grow for sure

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  9. 17 minutes ago, Jans Stand said:

    Take Me In is worse than most of California.  Happy @JarJarBlinks @Ghent?

    There's no character to it at all outside the little intro (I guess?).   I hate, hate these type of songs and they need to stop cluttering up the discog. 

    Yeah, that's why I said it sounded like a Cali Deluxe song. It's not bad, there's just not much there besides a catchy chorus

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