Champ182

motherfuckers when I saw all these new pages I thought the Deluxe leaked

Tired, sick, high(?), greasy hair, stringy stubble, not the healthiest look for anybody haha.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lylrZJ-cV/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C-L6XNtpTyj/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C-LMSjIp0Ie/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C98dieVJnQ0/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C956ztUpxIW/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C9x6cEjJQ4v/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C9utUjPJStN/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C9s-aIDJbfJ/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C9Yu5TTJjHE/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C9VuS0WJrKH/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C9VK-QHJZeh/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C9RAMFhJ6td/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C9QxJBbvuU7/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C9LyrOCpkR9/ A collection of the past month or so haha

Eh when someone posts as many selfies as Tom does (which are almost always identical) I think it's fine to poke some fun haha

I think it's the fact that he's attempting to have the bangs + hat at the same time and it looks like a weird emo/white trash mashup. And yeah looks like being sick probably kicked his ass a little bit.

If they're ever going to, this would be the time...... could we really be so lucky??

Oooh great detective work!

Best clip I've heard for sure!

Do you guys think we'll ever see Tom without a hat or Mark without glasses again?

Have fun man!

My first several big concerts were 311 so weed smell = big concert in my mind. Haha

KANSAS KREW ASSEMBLE

God dammit ☹️

My take on it is that OMT is such a special album BECAUSE they were so clearly and deeply inspired, and the music and lyrics reflect that. They had important things they wanted to express and it was beautiful and cathartic. That was an outlier compared to most of their output over the past 20 years, and I get the feeling that we probably shouldn't expect a full creative renaissance going forward. In their early days they were fueled by adrenaline and ambition and talent and fun, then for awhile they added some darkness and real artistry to the mix, and then for a long long time they went through the motions and/or dealt with writer's block and hurt feelings and/or tried to figure out how to maintain success without a true creative spark. The good news is that they showed us they could still harness that magic when they reconciled and worked together, but now that they got all of that off their chests I feel like they're mostly going to be fueled by the desire to just have fun together from now on. Which is fine and well deserved! Maybe that will result in some cool music, maybe it will result in more outside songwriters doing the work for them and some fluff being released, who knows? But as musicians they don't seem particularly interested in breaking new ground, and as artists and writers they don't seem to have a lot of internal emotions/angst/thoughts/friction bursting at the seams to get out very often anymore, which is why OMT was so special. Again, that's ok! It's not as fun for ME as a fan of the band, but my heart is so fucking warm from what they've managed to do over the last few years, I literally just want them to keep having fun and live their lives in peace haha. And I think that's their entire goal and motivation now. I just won't expect much more than that from their new music as we go into this next era.

Yeah that was my impression too, unfortunately... "fuck me and fuck you too" "whatever happened to the sense of 90s when punk was independent, and then it wasn't, when everyone became a part of that scene" "change the ending scene, watch some porn and sing(?)" I dunno, I'll give it all a fair shot when it comes out but this all seems pretty uninspired lyrically and sounds pretty ghost-written musically at first listen. I loved One More Time sooo much, but this sounds like it will be quite a step down, back to the 2016-2020 vibe but with Tom this time.

No doubt. We're all Blink connoisseurs here, that melody came from somewhere else for sure. It might as well be AI-created for modern pop streaming playlists.

...especially when they already basically did the deluxe edition when they released it with the 2 b-sides

Well I can't say any of those made me very excited but hey I'm still stoked to hear the entire thing!

NEW MUSIC CLIPS FOR THE NEXT 182 MINUTES

I love it, it's got to be one of the most meaningful songs they've ever written. I didn't know anyone disliked it. My only gripe is the drum sound but that goes for the whole album.

I love Blink Wave! Cut Me Off is ok, it's better than the other B-side but I had to look it up to remember what it sounded like. It's one of those modern Blink songs that sounds more like a cover than an actual Blink song. The chorus is catchy. Just feels pretty generic overall and doesn't quite have that melodic magic that instantly feels like Blink to me. Speaking of B-sides, do we know if the Deluxe version is even more B-sides, or new material? Am I remembering right that Mark said they just finished writing Can't Go Back before playing it live?

1. You can clearly hear Tom's actual guitar throughout every song on that Lolla live stream AND 2. Some of the new songs use backing tracks that are way over the top Both can be true! Ok there, I think I finally solved this crisis once and for all.

A few thoughts: - WTF happened with Mark's bass on the last several songs? Starting with WMAA it's like a half-beat behind coming through the speakers and makes them sound sloppy as hell haha. Technical bummer. Hopefully it didn't sound like that in person! - I've said my piece about One More Time as a closer, but if they're going to keep playing it live at all Tom needs to fucking sing it. I don't understand his approach at all during that song. He's never ever sounded worse. Makes a letdown of a closer even more of a letdown. Anyway other than that they sounded pretty great and put on a super fun show! I can't wait to see them this weekend!