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  1. 56 minutes ago, Drunk said:

    I believe that Josie, Carousel, Wishing Well, Untitled, Pathetic, Asthenia, Mutt and M&Ms are all songs that they should play live once in a while. I'd be curious to hear Every Time I Look For You too now that they use backing tracks. 

    I feel like they should be comfortable playing anything on Mark Tom and Travis Show, that was like its own "Greatest Hits" when it came out. Even when my goofy high school band would cover Peggy Sue, a surprising amount of people would recognize it because so many people heard MTTS haha.

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  2. 2 hours ago, M!ke said:

    Just wanted to say, that South America, you've spoiled all blink fans with your consistency with pro-live recordings of blink concerts.  We don't typically get full live shows in a pro recorded quality from blink, and if we do, it will be 1, maybe 2 per full tour at the most.  I suppose inevitably this is going to increase over time, especially when it comes to the festivals.  

    They played 6 shows in South America, 5 of which were pro recorded (only Peru seems to not have been), and 1 of them had recording issues for a sizable portion of it, but still that leaves us with 4 full concerts that sound fantastic, including Brazil which genuinely does have some of the best energy I've seen all around at blink show, both by the band and the fans.  So, seriously, thank whoever the powers that be in South America for having such huge awesome festivals for blink to come to all at the same time and leave all us fans with some wonderful recordings that we can revisit for years and years to come (I've already watched the Brazil show twice lol).

    For real!! They are all filmed and edited and mixed great too!! Legitimately super fun to watch.

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  3. Just now, Fap said:

    Sure bud. We have one decent mix here that champ showed, meanwhile most of the shows you can’t fucking tell what he’s playing and isn’t playing. Tons of phantom pick slides and guitar coming through the speaker when he’s clapping his hands and dancing, yet it doesn’t get any louder when he puts his hands back on guitar. You’re just a Tom simp and that’s ok. Plenty of other people on the internet have picked up on this recently, and I’ve been saying it for a while now 

    All of the South America pro shots I've seen so far have a great mix with the real guitar wayyyy out in the front of any backing tracks. I feel your pain because I obviously enjoy hearing his actual instrument too haha, but the issue is not quite as extreme as it is in your yead.

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  4. 31 minutes ago, JarJarBlinks said:

    I've said this before but OMT would be perfect if it was the first song of the encore, followed by Dammit to close it out.

    This is such a clearly great idea I don't know why they haven't done it haha. Get everybody in their feelings and then BOOM the place would go fucking nuts.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Champ182 said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7eX9t2bItc

    Last night's show (some songs missing). So fucking tight that we suddenly have all these pro shot shows! They sound so good! Tom was really feelin hyper haha.

    Diddy and other purists might dig this one because Tom's actual guitar is front and center in the mix. Can't really hear the backing tracks very much.

    EDIT: holy fucking shit Anthem Pt 3

    Ok finally finished watching, ugh Tom is brutal on One More Time haha 😕 If there was ever a song to really really try to sing well, it's that song. He sounded great the rest of the show, but he really seems uncomfortable with singing in a low/soft tone I guess. I'm just not a fan of OMT live, let alone as the closer. I'm sure in person it's a better experience though.

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  6. 4 minutes ago, One Tree Hill Jan said:

    I hope one day you guys will all accept that Tom’s actual guitar that he’s playing is buried beneath the mix. What you’re hearing isn’t really his live playing , it’s whatever he or whoever pre-recorded 

    Just watch the one I posted, I even gave you a special shoutout in the post.

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  7. 27 minutes ago, boxelder said:

    WOW. just finally got a chance to watch the brazil performance, and it's by the best pro-shot concert footage we've ever received. incredible direction and drone footage, great shots of the audience, perfect sound mix... everything about it is top-tier! an incredible document of one of the most anticipated shows in band history. "come to brazil" finally comes through.

    as for the show, it's a tour de force, a perfect snapshot of this band at this juncture. the set's really great, too -- the current band canon is so perfectly suited and stadium-ready that if the band keeps playing well enough, they could do this forever. as said elsewhere, tom is always hit or miss, but inimitable in his confusing distinctive snarl. he's so great on guitar lately, adding little tiny variations on songs like rock show, the discordant riffage on the violence drum solo. clearly having more fun on his instrument and more proficient than ever before. mark sounds so great, his voice stronger than in years before. travis remains the heart and soul -- impossible to do without him. love this band!

    some other observations:

    • it bears repeating that getting wendy clear as the fourth song of the set is a true gift (hilarious there's no visuals on the screens for the song, but the crowd responds rapturously all the same).
    • i'm over violence, for sure, but people love it, and it's so much fun for the band to play, why not? same with UAN, they sort of fit well together. i really hate UAN, but i recall it being well-received at my show last summer.
    • the sign language interpreter just banging his head through a few songs lmao
    • the reckless abandon and aliens exist audience singalong, wow!
    • DWM is truly the perfect blink song. it needs to be the standard at every show honestly. i really love it. the ole ole ole meltdown has subsided. it's a classic entry into the canon. fans love it, the audience digs it. a soccer anthem
    • tom really holds that note at the end of STFTK, a really welcome add back into the set and one he truly gives his all on. he sounds great on anthem pt 3 too
    • i feel like we haven't talked enough how cool it is that tom has championed skiba-era songs like bored to death (and cynical on the last tour). not many bands like this have members embrace the material that was written without them. he's truly been complimentary, strutting across the stage embracing the whoah-ohs, and it's just crazy to see.
    • always is one of my favorite blink songs and its reaction from the crowd just upon hearing the synth intro should be a wake-up call to the band, who've frequently discarded it as a lesser hit. it needs a permanent spot in the set, and it works great with the lasers!
    • one of the things so frequently misunderstood about this band is the puerile dialogue, which was truly moronic in its heyday but has taken on a newer amusing tone today. it's obvious they're aware of what they sound like. to that end the band feels like a parody of what you think they are -- are you offended by nonsensical diarrhea of the mouth? here's some more. we're aware we're 50 year old men saying dumb shit onstage. why not?
    • "work sucks" becoming an exultant crowd cry in the age of burnout is a testament to the band's power
    • i've really come to like OMT as a show-closer. it adds a layer of depth to the show and what comes before it.

    Great write-up!!

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  8. The Offspring are like a mysterious blind spot for me. Up until very recently I had no idea that anybody thought of them as one of the seminal "Mt. Rushmore" pop punk bands. I even liked them for a little bit growing up, and yet I still had no idea they were actually respected in that way by so many people. My friends and I all grew up obsessing over pop punk/alternative/pop rock/whatever in the late 90s and early 00s, but I never knew anybody who latched onto the Offspring at all haha.

    I always considered them to be in the same lane as like, Sublime, Sugar Ray, Good Charlotte, Barenaked Ladies? - bands who had some huge hits (including songs I liked) and sold a ton of albums but never really had the oomph of a classic band. If I was making my own Mt. Rushmore of pop punk, I would have like 25+ bands in line ahead of The Offspring haha.

    I don't even say that as a diss to them, just strange that I grew up with a completely different perception!

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  9. 16 hours ago, Elisa said:

    Can't blame them, I think they thought they were probably past the stage of their career where fans wait outside the hotels -  which is something that you would expect from the fans of Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles etc, not blink in 2024 -  but I also think that Southern America is just different, they've never seen blink live and they're acting like it's still 1999.

    I saw from IG that the band is escorted by the police from the hotels to the venue, people are overexcited and things are so just crazy, but I guess it's the price to pay when you are a celebrity as big as they are. 

    Yeah in another thread I literally just posted that I bet they're having fun experiencing the fans singing outside the hotels and stuff for the first time in 20 years haha but I didn't realize some of the fans were being freaks too. Bummer!

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  10. Haha I have to imagine that's super fun and gratifying for the dudes. I can't imagine they've had those types of experiences in 20 years right? US fans don't really do that type of stuff for rock bands anymore. 

    Huge props to the South American crowds at the shows too for proving why they deserve great shows and showing us how it's done!

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  11. I loved Arcade Fire very much, haven't really listened to them since that controversy and didn't dig their last few albums. Kinda seemed like fame went to their heads after they blew up a bit.

    The singer's situation like a classic case of fame + insecurity curdled together and turned him into a gross asshole. That sucks because so many of their older songs are legitimately beautiful and inspiring. Unless I missed some stuff, it sounds like he didn't do anything illegal or fully unforgivable, so I hope he learned a huge lesson and got his head back on straight at some point.

    I guarantee Tom has no idea any of that even happened haha.

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  12. Anybody else not put much stock into the BCR thing? It’s a cool backstory and all, but BCR had been defunct for like 17 years by the time Tom and Travis were starting to mess around with the song. I get why they were considering it a BCR idea at that time since Tom wasn’t in Blink, but once he rejoined I feel like it consequently became a Blink song… haha. Do you guys consider it some separate thing on the album?

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  13. 311 and Blink were my co-most-influential-bands when I was growing up. 311 faded away for me when their music fell off and they kinda embraced being a corny corporate entity, but I still get a lot of enjoyment out of revisiting their 90s/early 00s albums. 

    I never would've guessed at that time that Blink would be the ones who would end up garnering this mystique and going through these dramatic storylines throughout the years haha. 

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