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  1. Come on, they are just 'joke' songs. I don't think they've been written with any purpose, other than being an abomination per se.
  2. Blast from the past. What a band and what a song.
  3. They shouldn't do that. Always is amazing. They should just add more songs and that's it. Their set is not that long. Also, haven't they got rid of live pitch correction? Sounds like that!
  4. Aaaand, I would love to death if this entire show was released in video. Last part od Continental and Emma (that transition). Good old screaming Matt.
  5. A little bit of blasts fro mthe past: Raspy Matt. I dedicate this to you, mate @Alk Vibes, Because the vibes, ya know.
  6. Happy for you, Elisa! My God, Dan is the bass GOAT. How underrated is he?
  7. I agree. That song is a masterpiece. I fucking love it. About the new record, I'm liking it more now. It's a grower for me, no doubts. Their best since AI.
  8. Well, it's obvious but TOYPAJ is one of the ones that hit me the most. That record, to me, is summer 2001 and the next immediate years. Memories!!!
  9. A few ones, like Coming Home by NFG and Even If It Kills Me by MCS. I will post later when I remember some.
  10. Gonna pray for it. They're coming to a festival, but I'm hoping for, at least, a couple of medium venues.
  11. I was searching this thread on the track-by-track section. Ok, now, in Spotify, with drums being quieter, I enjoy it much more. Less machinegun effect. Still there, but more acceptable to my ears.
  12. WHAT WAS THAT?? Ok, I have to find them.
  13. I was relistening today Remains, the sort f b-sides compilation they released in 2007. It's unbeliveable how good are some of the songd on there. Can't believe how they were not included in regular records but in compilations and splits. I think they are from that period in time between From Here To Infirmary and Good Mourning. A very special period with lots of amazing songs.
  14. Not sure if it's been posted, but actually pretty good performance of this absolute banger:
  15. I pointed this out back when California was released and I remember Feldiers didn't like it at all. To be honest, nowadays (and unfortunately) this is a common thing done in production. Is not exactly a wall of sound but a brickwalled production approach. Which sucks. I don't want to sound picky, but they are NOT the same thing. The main difference is that the wall of sound, which was basically 'invented' by Phil Spector, is that it was conceived to bring a full sound experience, so to speak. It came out when stereo was not a thing yet (the glorious 60s). You hear it on the Ronettes albums, for example, and basically in everything Spector did back in that decade. Then, Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys (who was a big big big Spector fan) tried to create his own wall of sound while producing The Beach Boys and other artists, but he sort of did his own reinterpretation of that. You can hear it, specially on albums like Today and Pet Sounds, but he was doing it before and after those. The Beach Boys' version of Do you Wanna Dance is a huge example for me about his own wall of sound vision. But you listen to Wouldn't It Be Nice or Sloop John B and you get the thing since minute 0, for example. So the difference between that and a brickwalled production is that the second one does not breath at all, it sounds compressed as fuck (otherwise, the producer wouldn't be able to peak all volumes as they do) and, also and unfortunately, distorted. So, putting it short: - Wall of sound: it's a production and artistic goal itself which wants to achieve sound enrichment, creating a dynamic instrumental background, full of details (as long as technology was able to provide back in the day), offering a richer sonic experience. Is a goal, as I said. It cares about internal dynamics on a song. - Brickwalled productions are not a goal but a consequence of the volume war (you have to sound louder than the rest of music just to be able to catch attention, yeah... stupid as fuck, the same thing that shorter songs and all). Is not an artistic choice. It doesn'c care about dynamics at all (or at least, it's something you can't care that much because the idiosincrasy of this super loud approach)
  16. I think Tom still sounds great (but we have to take in count his inconsistency). What an amazing surprise to hear Turpentine live. Really well done. Good performance!!!!!!!!!!
  17. I think it has to do a lot with their abilities not only being songwriters, but writers, so to speak (I think Matt will end up writing a book at some point. He's just there) Both Matt and Dan, being as different as they are, are so talented as lyricists that it blows my mind .When you hear songs as, I don't know, Blue In The Face... man, the way Matt sort of describes a break up, all that kind of metaphoric way to do it, but not sounding corny or whatever is so smart. It's just clever. Dan is also an amazing musician and lyricist. I could bring tons of examples but, hey, better go and listen. Also Derek had TONS to do with it all. As I said, he wrote not only drum parts, but guitar ones, vocal melodies and had his input in lyrics. He was a very important piece on that engine.
  18. About Alkaline Trio, I don't know if I ever said something. But I agree with you @Elisa. They mean a lot to me. I only have two tattoos. One is the heart&skull logo I got back in 2007, and the other is a 'band' tattoo I had when I played with my band back in 2011 as openers of Sum 41, Zebrahead and No Use For A Name. So that, for me, means a lot. Stupid details, maybe, yea. Whatever. But means a lot. I loved them since forever. Discovered them with Radio, off of Maybe I'll Catch Fire, but it was 2003 so I think Good Mourning was already released. I had a total blast listening all their albums, b-sides, Bloodpact stuff and whatnot. Then they released Crimson and I fell in love with it right out of the box. They've been part of my life in every single moment. Even more than blink. Alkaline Trio is a non-stopper for me. I'm always playing some album on a weekly basis, or some song here and there, or playing along some song with Guitar Rig. I absolutely love this band and its members for all the reasons, and @Alk Vibes, you lovely bastard, as you said a few days ago, it's not only what you can listen, is also what you can't. It is the imaginery, the atmosphere, the lyrics. I can't explain what the fuck it is really. But is there. And even if they've been a little bit flat on albums like My Shame Is True or This Addiction, still have absolute bangers off of those records. And mate, @Alk Vibes, it doesn't matter if you're a 'new' fan or not. I feel genuine envy because you have now all their discography and videography to discover. And that's a trip, mate. They feel no shame being as they are.
  19. Album is amazing. It blew me away since minute 0. Now that I'm 100% full into the songs is even better. Same feeling than I have with OMT but in a different flavour.
  20. I still have to listen to the TBS album. I don't see Green Day in that position, though. We still have Sum 41 to release their new record, but knowing that is a double album, I hardly see it being able to cope.
  21. Difficult slot there.
  22. To me looks like a streaming requirement from all these platforms, and probably through the label itself.
  23. "Remains" is brutal, yesssss.
  24. This part: Just leave me out to dry I just need some time to think Please, I don't need new reasons why I was put on this planet to blink Just love it. It was one of the first ones which hit me hard on first listen.
  25. Sort of, yeah, hahaha. Skiba, in fact, is a huge cinema fan.
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