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MassKirbycide

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  1. ANTHEM PART 3 - 8/10 Great energy to kick things off; love Mark’s portion and the outro DANCE WITH ME - 9/10 Can’t wait to sing along to this one live. Classic blink song. FELL IN LOVE - 7/10 I don’t get the hate for this one. It’s got good energy and makes me want to dance. TERRIFIED - 10/10 Tied for best on the album. Fuck I missed that Box Car sound. ONE MORE TIME - 7/10 Love the meaning behind the track, but I think the outro was a bit drawn out and I don’t particularly like that final “I miss you”. A bit of tweaking could have made this a masterpiece, but it’s still a good song as is. MORE THAN YOU KNOW - 9/10 Most Untitled-sounding song to me, and dear lord does it hit. Love the octave riff, the prechorus shouts and the bridge. TURN THIS OFF! - 6/10 Solid joke song. Not as good as Built This Pool, but miles better than the other Cali-era joke songs. WHEN WE WERE YOUNG - 6/10 Love the sound of the song, but the lyrics are pretty eh, and drag it down a bit. EDGING - 6/10 Probably the weakest song on the album. Still an enjoyable song, but majorly overshadowed by other tracks. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’VE GOT - 8/10 Love Mark’s lyrics in this song. Chorus is a bit repetitive (though it’s growing on me), but the verses and bridge carry it. BLINK WAVE - 7/10 Didn’t really vibe with this song at first, but it’s growing on me. Might rise further as I continue listening. BAD NEWS - 6/10 It’s a good take on a standard pop punk track, but it sounds a lot like standard pop punk songs that countless imitator bands have made. I like the lyrics and Mark’s vocal delivery, but but the song as a whole feels like it’s missing the X factor that elevated blink’s songs above other pop punk acts. HURT (INTERLUDE) - 6/10 It’s an interesting track; sound-wise it feels a little out of place, but if it is about Jen, I could see how it lyrically could feed into the chaotic mental breakdown in Turpentine, so I can appreciate it for that. TURPENTINE - 10/10 Might be the best song blink has put out since 2003. The mix of serious/heartfelt lyrics with lines like “stick your dick in ovaltine” is classic blink. Standout bridge as well. FUCK FACE - 6/10 Love the classic punk vibes. Honestly could have been longer with some additional lyrics; it feels weird to have Turpentine sandwiched between an interlude and another sub-1 minute song. OTHER SIDE - 8/10 Love the heartfelt, upbeat tribute. This sounds more like how I expect a pop punk-ish Mark song to sound. CHILDHOOD - 9/10 I will always love experimental blink, and they pull it off here. There are moments in the song that genuinely evoke memories of The Beatles with some of the guitar tones and soundscapes they use. Great closer. OVERALL - 8/10 It’s not as top-to-bottom consistent as Enema or Untitled, but it has tracks to compete with both of them. It still blows my mind that they’re capable of something this good at this stage in their career.
  2. Hey that’s fair; I know Love is Dangerous in particular isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. I just think that slow come down after the final chorus works really well as the last gasps of the record. Between that and the specific feeling the intro gives me (which I wish I could put into words to convey it, but alas), it just feels like a last song to me, and is the reason why I have a playlist to listen to deluxe out of order.
  3. We always talk about how great blink’s openers are, but their last few closers have wrapped up their respective albums so well: I’m Lost Without You Love Is Dangerous (I know this isn’t the closer for the deluxe album, but I think the track ordering on deluxe was phoned in, so fuck it) Childhood All three have an air of finality to them, yet circle back to the openers perfectly, and make it hard to not just loop the album all over again. Really impressed with what they have managed to pull off in making their albums feel ‘complete’.
  4. Well I’ll be damned, the Allmusic review actually DOESN’T mention their maturity as though it’s a new thing. I’ve been proven wrong. https://www.allmusic.com/album/one-more-time-mw0004102068
  5. I’m looking forward to the Allmusic review, where they will inevitably make some comment about how blink has finally grown up/shown signs of maturity. It’s been a constant in their reviews since Untitled, as though they hadn’t already matured in their songwriting 20 years ago.
  6. “Kind of annoying how he keeps changing the pronunciation of turpentine to fit two different rhyming schemes; that’s certainly a choice.” ”… oh. 😂” Sums up the song for me. Genius lyrical/songwriting joke.
  7. Tough choice, but I think Turpentine has the early lead. The serious subject matter coated with jokey lyrics is the purest essence of blink dating back to the Cheshire days, and it’s executed incredibly well here.
  8. Considering how much you were looking forward to this one, I’m glad it lived up to your hype!
  9. Track is out now on Apple Music (no video, full quality)
  10. It’s only the lyric video. Go to the artist page and scroll down to videos.
  11. Chorus is a bit repetitive, but I like it otherwise! Can’t wait to hear it in full quality (no idea why the videos on Apple Music sound so flat compared to the actual tracks)
  12. Lyric video is up early on Apple Music! Listening now
  13. Oh shit, the song comes out first?? Hell yeah!
  14. Worth noting that the Apple Music 1 radio station apparently doesn’t require any subscription; if you have an Apple ID, then you can listen for free, either via the Music app on iOS/Android or via music.apple.com. With that said, if you don’t have a subscription, it seems like you can only listen live, so you would need to subscribe or get a free trial to watch the interview after the fact (if it doesn’t show up on YouTube).
  15. It’s definitely 1pm eastern. I’m in Central time, and this is the current schedule in my time zone:
  16. So what you’re saying is, @Bucko is single-handedly driving new user registrations every couple of weeks. He’s the hero we need
  17. Looks like When We Were Young festival is capitalizing on the blink song (new snippet): https://reddit.com/r/Blink182/s/1FcBbg2sRd
  18. I wish it was, but no. There was speculation that this one would be because it features both Peter and Miles, but that remains a pipe dream for now.
  19. Agreed, Miles Morales was awesome. Loved the Christmas/holiday theming, and Miles was more fun to play as (combination of stronger starting abilities + the venom powers being pretty fun). Glad to see Peter get the symbiote powers to balance the scales a bit for this go around.
  20. Yeah, the PS4/PS5 games built on that open world Spider-Man 2 game on PS2 and turned it up to 11. Web swinging is way more satisfying, combat is a lot more fun, and the games obviously benefit from improvements in presentation and storytelling that gaming has had since then. As someone who loved the PS2 game as well, Spider-Man PS4 was pure bliss.
  21. Woke up today still vibing with the song. Yeah, the lyrics are cheesy, but Tom has written way worse. Song’s energetic and catchy as fuck, and I definitely prefer it over similarly-corny Tom songs like Rebel Girl.
  22. Obviously dated verse lyrics aside (I doubt Tom is still writing songs about all the people he thinks are gay 😂), it’s a fun song, and I like the little riff in the bridge. With that said, I feel like a broken record in saying “I like the Cheshire version better” every week.
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