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  1. I always got the vibe that Scott might've enjoyed being in like an Alkaline Trio-level band (kinda like Blink was during the Scott years), but he would rather be a completely anonymous citizen than be famous the way Blink was and is. I doubt there are many hard feelings at all at this point. I feel like if Scott was resentful or envious in any way he would've AT LEAST tried to pop up in the punk music world at some point in the last 25 years. Scott was wishy-washy, Mark and Tom were incredibly driven, Scott dragged his feet and started fucking up and cracking under the pressure, Mark and Tom knew Scott was risking the band's chance at greatness, then Travis fell into their lap at a time when Scott was dragging them down, so they made the change and ran with it. And then everybody probably felt relieved, Scott got out of the game, and they all washed their hands of the situation. It's that simple to me. I don't really have much curiosity about it.
  2. My band in high school covered this song all the time and did the extended breakdown bit too haha. So much fun.
  3. I don’t have a definitive answer about this, other than the fact that the WMAA video was the director’s concept, not Blink’s. They’ve mentioned that a few times over the years when they’ve talked about getting sick of being seen as “the naked guys” during the Enema era. Decent chance the director saw that video though! He was pretty active in the punk/rock world I think.
  4. Yeah I like when they get really Cure-y like on This Is Home. The lyrics are kinda silly garbage but oh well it’s a pleasant song haha. Ghost On The Dancefloor is my favorite from that album though, by far. Probably the only one that stands up to the classics in my mind. Enjoyable to me: Natives, UAN, After Midnight, Wishing Well, Kaleidoscope, This Is Home, EISF Meh: Snake, HAG Never think about: MH, FTG, LID
  5. "Tombots" aside, I do think there has been a strange phenomenon in the past few years of suddenly thinking Neighborhoods was like, an artistic achievement that gave voice to the band's friction at the time or something. That just isn't what happened haha. I don't begrudge anybody for liking the album, I do too! I have lots of good memories from that time. But the band barely worked on it together, they were still stepping on eggshells, they were still resentful, they weren't being honest with each other, the band's friction didn't help the album, it definitively hurt the album. Neighborhoods was closer to being a collection of cool demos than it was to being some kind of virtuous work of art, in my opinion.
  6. Sometimes on this board all you can say is:
  7. Dammit I lost track of who is who again 😠
  8. I have never listened to any Atmos releases, what even is it? Is it worth looking into?
  9. Well... it was! It was a gigantic radio success and helped the world learn about the reunion and helped sell out concerts across the country. Whether the song itself is "good" or not, that's a hell of a good job for a single haha.
  10. Yeah I can't understand a lot of the professional terminology these people are using (pumping, ducking the bed, 2bus, sidechaining) but even to commoners like me it seems to be a very common complaint about the album. It's really a bummer because the songs are there! The songs rule! It's miraculous! They deserve to be heard without a distracting, amateurish, ear-piercing mix. There is absolutely no reason my smalltime band should be able to hire someone to do a better mix/master job on our album than Blink got on theirs. I don't even know who shoulders the blame really, obviously the guys who mixed and mastered it, but also you would think Travis would have a lot of say as the producer, you would think the rest of the band would have a lot of say, the label, management, etc. I guess the bigger mystery is how it ever got approved by enough people to get released this way? Again, I love the songs! I feel 99% joy when I listen to the album, but the sound quality will for sure affect the album's longevity and relistenability (is that a word?).
  11. SOOHM is the perfect example of the Cali phenomenon where the song has all these individual ingredients that were intentionally pulled from classic Blink, but doesn't actually sound like classic Blink... it's musical uncanny valley.
  12. Yeah that type of stuff is the only thing I felt was missing really. I would’ve loved to see them go out and kick ass on some of those shows in their new and improved form. But yeah I think they’ve very purposely shrunk the “blink machine” down to writing/recording/touring and that’s kinda beautiful in its own way. And actually the Coachella performance actually made up for the lack of promo appearances. I knew SO many people who tuned in to that, it ended up having way more of an influence on the world than any late night performance would have haha.
  13. Yeah that one seems like it could’ve/should’ve been gigantic, just like Edging was, but even bigger because it’s a way way way better song. Anybody remember Edging getting played on like football broadcasts and commercials last fall? Seems like Dance With Me is even more appropriate for that type of stuff, it should’ve been all over the place this year! Again I have no idea how that part of the biz works anymore, was it ever even attempted for radio/public consumption/whatever you wanna call it? Haha. It seemed like it was on that second tier of non-radio single even though it had a video.
  14. I think it kinda just flipped around. In the past, a single would come out before the album and then 2-3 more would get released for months afterwards to keep boosting the CD sales. Now those 2-3 singles over several months are all before the album release because there are no CDs to sell anymore. And of course the general idea of a “single” being officially released as something for radio stations to play seems to be totally phased out at this point anyway. I can’t say for sure but it seems like most big bands I still follow just have one song that’s “released” for radio play (OMT for Blink, Black Summer for RHCP a couple years ago… ok that’s pretty much the only bands I follow who deal with radio at all) and then the rest are just for fans to stream and keep momentum going up to the release. The game done changed that’s for sure.
  15. I believe Aaron Rubin said the “ole oles” were the original thought, then they tried using the outro for all of the choruses, then went back to the oles… I might be remembering it wrong though. To me, it all works just right. The oles are hilariously simple and dumb and yet they somehow work, and that lulls you into a sense of comfort for most of the song… then the outro uses that comfort to smack you in the face and blast off. It’s a perfect climax that takes what happened before and twists it just right, and leaves you with an adrenaline burst at the perfect time. Love it.
  16. Hmm I'm actually kind of surprised that some people feel so negatively! I always do a goofy end-of-year "Album Of The Year" post on insta/FB for no real reason, but I actually chose One More Time this year. Here's what I wrote, it doesn't get into specifics because most of my friends aren't Blink fans, but it sums up my feelings overall:
  17. Well said! It really is a matter of preference between two classic albums. Dude Ranch had more influence on me, but Dookie obviously had more influence on like, American culture haha. And it deserved it! The album is fucking awesome. There's some old quote about the Velvet Underground that I'm gonna bastardize for this comparison: Anybody who heard Dookie became a fan of the band Green Day. Anybody who heard Dude Ranch wanted to start their own band. That's kinda how I view it anyway. The songs on Dookie are stellar, the melodies are great, the rhythms are air tight, it's a bunch of perfectly crafted power chord pop punk songs. Dude Ranch on the other hand has an energy and a scrappiness and a bit of variety to it, it has a ton of heart and it makes you want to root for these goofy dudes and try to do what they do. (Spoiler alert: "You can't do what we do!" - Tom, 2023) Anyway, two awesome albums. I think I'll listen to Dookie today because it's been forever!
  18. I probably wasn't internet savvy enough to have taken advantage of all it had to offer but I absolutely remember finding a bunch of amazing gems there in my early days of Blink obsession. Great work!!
  19. I mean, Travis wrote the lyrics, the bass rhythm is borrowed from The Cure, there's a weird iPhone Commercial-esque keyboard intro, Tom utters the phrase "having sex all night" in an unironic way, just such a strange song haha.
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