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Champ182

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  1. WTF. This is too far. It's definitely turned down quite a bit. If anything just fix the fucking snare sound and leave the rest of the album alone!
  2. I feel like this song has been over-dissected a little bit. It's absolutely monumental and powerful to have a song directly address Mark's experience with cancer, and the epiphany that it struck with the entire band. The repetition of the chorus bugs some people, but in my perception it's by design - a simple mantra to repeat over and over (and over and overrrr). This is a historic Blink song, and I love it.
  3. here's a new pop-punk-ish song from my band:
  4. Could've been left off... probably should've actually haha. Doesn't really add anything and it's not particularly funny.
  5. Good lord hahaha. I feel very grateful that the only place I ever even hear about MGK is this board.
  6. “People care so much about what everyone else thinks. I think it doesn’t really matter,” he replies resolutely. “No one's going to remember what stupid outfit you wore today or what stupid thing you said yesterday a year from now. As long as I’m making good decisions and focusing on what I love and what I want and I’m not hurting anybody in the process, I’m happy.” With 20,000 people to perform for a few hours later, I’m eager not to take up too much more of his time, but he leaves me with a note on notoriety. “I was doing an interview yesterday for this fashion brand that I have, and they asked me how it feels to have a celebrity-owned fashion brand... I'm not a celebrity!” he exclaims. “I'm a drummer, a husband, a father, a creative and a producer, but I don't consider myself a celebrity. I’m unapologetically me. I'm just like anybody else.” He shakes my hand, smiles courteously at me with his pale blue eyes and wanders off towards the hotel lobby, leaving the still wordless security detail in his wake. As I gather my thoughts and head out into the rainy Wednesday afternoon, I can’t help but disagree with his final words to me. I don’t think there’s anyone like Travis Barker. Doesn't seem that cringe to me!
  7. Thanks to the people who relayed what was said in the interviews! No thanks to the people who rehashed boring ass arguments. Seriously just take that stuff to DMs if you can't help yourselves.
  8. "wear a rubber"?? Hahaha I don't hear that at all, I thought Travis or Aaron Rubin or somebody said it was "when I look back"
  9. Damn I haven't listened to this in so long... really cool song and now it's evident when you listen to this song that they were destined for bigger things than standard punk rock.
  10. Man, I love this song on the album, but it just doesn't work live in my opinion... It sounds so empty. Maybe it's different in person, but any video I've watched I've had to turn it off from awkwardness haha. I still think the coolest way to pull this off live would be to just have all 3 of them up at the front of the stage and do it fully acoustic with the vibe of an audience singalong, the way they did their encores for a little bit in the 2010s.
  11. It's hard to even argue with you because you're so committed to your view, but I mean... literally every live video I've watched you can see/hear that Tom is playing guitar. I just randomly clicked through several points in this video and it's just plain to see. I don't really get why you're so dug in about this. It's one thing to be against all backing tracks, that's fair enough, but anyone can see that Tom is in fact playing guitar haha.
  12. I know they were fans/friends of Ten Foot Pole, I'm sure they were a big influence, but I think the pronunciation is mostly just an exaggerated California thing that Tom and Scott Radinsky both have.
  13. I mean he doesn't sound EXACTLY like he did 20 years ago, but it finally sounds like the same human's voice 20 years later... if that makes sense? From the late 2000s/2010s his live voice was an abomination, and his voice on albums sounded like he was desperately trying to sound as different as he could from the classic "Blink" tone, without actually knowing how to sing well. His voice on One More Time (and on their tours) has been a gigantic return to form.
  14. Haha I know! Honestly when I clicked on the article I was expecting it to be about how Tom got his voice BACK after losing it for so long. The fact that the article is actually about how he just lost his signature voice on this album is just... really bizarre haha. At least one commenter agrees with us too: "That's weird, my impression is that he sounds more like the old vocal style then he did on Neighborhoods. When I saw them in Vegas it was a consensus among people I talked to that it was the first time they'd sounded like their commercial peak in a long time. Weird to read a whole article saying the opposite so authoritatively. Like even the song you brought up edging. "Whit a knoif thiss shaaarp nowhay." You really don't hear a twang on that? Weird."
  15. I was excited to see this on Vulture this morning but the writer seems to have it all completely backwards...? Haha https://www.vulture.com/article/blink-182-tom-delonge-twang.html Here's an excerpt: Did this writer accidentally put on Neighborhoods instead of One More Time?
  16. There's a 0.0% chance of this ever happening, but since Jeff Rosenstock is one of my favorite punk rock artists and I LOVE how his albums sound, in my dream world I'd love to hear Blink produced by Jeff's go-to producer Jack Shirley. He has a way of making the songs fucking blast while also keeping them dynamic and raw and fun.
  17. I can't believe people retroactively think Neighborhoods was "organic"... Neighborhoods was many things, some of them good some of them bad, but I would never in a million years describe it as organic haha.
  18. Haha that was one of my thoughts too, but yeah like the others said Travis talked in a podcast about how he wrote the lyrics for this one.
  19. Man I don't even remember anything about that song other than it being fast and short
  20. Yeah it's much more of a career retrospective type of interview. Learning that Travis wrote the lyrics to Fell In Love definitely makes the "having sex all night" line make a lot more sense... haha.
  21. Haha I don't think I've ever been accused of simping for anyone. You're just reading into things and taking things personally with this album for some reason. If you want to believe that a song that Travis wrote with Tim Armstrong, which originally wasn't even for Blink, which has seven total words of lyrics, is about shitting on Blink fans, go right ahead. Doesn't mean I'm going to buy into that haha.
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