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Just saw this on instagram. Very good theme song from mark love it

Oh my fucking god, the clip mark just posted has the demo from the neighborhoods era I always wanted him to use. Make it a full song dammit.

Do we think that’s the album name tom was referring to on the podcast?

More like I was in an unhealthy relationship with a family and stressful work life juggling two bands at once. Then I had rejuvenation refinding oneself after a horrible divorce, left the highly successful band on an whim under the stress, and the founding members of my passion project left me trying to juggle the successful band. And new life breathed from an exciting new relationship along with kids reaching independence. It’s crazy how a total change in life direction can change and motivate you physically

I like the core of the composition and melody a lot. I just hate the bubblegum pop production direction of nine era that it ruins the songs. This could be a great song with a real chorus instead of the ohs and one more time production (still not the best they’ve been but at least sounds like blink)

Someone mentioned Run Away today and I not only forgot that song existed, I couldn’t even remember what it sounded like. I went and looked at Nine and I forgot a third of the songs names and what they sounded like. And man listening to that album with where we are now, it’s bad. I think when it came out there was a lot of cope / blinders just to be happy to be getting blink music still. That’s really only thing in the entire blink universe discography I actually dislike. Even California I appreciate for what it is.

Final ranking, all reviews are final. 1. If You Never Left 2. One Night Stand 3. Take Me In (would be #1 by a mile with good bridge) 4. No Fun (would be #2 with better chorus) 5. Every Other Weekend 6. All In My Head 7. Can’t Go Back 8. Everyone Everywhere

Always? That’s literally happened one time

It’s disappointing to me because I love the rest of the song so much, but the bridge is so bad I’d be embarrassed to be a dj and put that song on in front of my friends.

Take me in is one of the best songs off one more time if not for the bridge. Everything else is goated if you ask me

Take me in is great minus the bridge. A lot of these deluxe songs definitely didn’t get the level of polish as the actual album or reworking things to better fit the song. There’s no way anyone listened to the final product of take me in and said yea this bridge works for the song. To me these deluxe tracks are demos that got final tracking and mixing quality but in terms of writing they still feel demoey. Also can’t go back still does nothing for me I have no idea why people love it. I don’t think it’s bad just totally inoffensive and nothing about it stands out to me.

It’ll be available in like 18 hours

Every other weekend was the song that had the cure writing credit right? Because it “samples” Friday I’m in love, samples being it uses the same lyrical concept

The clip sounds exactly the same with the addition of part of the bridge at the end which is just Tom singing. I think take me in is more AVA but even that I think just sounds like neighborhoods.

I’m a tomboy what can I say, feed me

I’m thoroughly pleased with the deluxe. The only song I dislike is everything everywhere. For a deluxe this is great and I like several of the song clips more than a lot of the original album. also I’m moving if you never left into my top 3 now along with take me in and one night stand it clicked and like the guitars now it was just weird hearing at first because the guitars are lofi but the rest of the instrumentation and vocals aren’t so it sounded a little odd. But the lyrics are highly applicable to my life right now, I think a lot of the lyrics so far on the deluxe are actually really good and I’m someone that’s stopped caring about lyrics and connecting to music in that way as I’ve gotten older

The songs are two minutes long. We’ve heard at least a verse and chorus of each one, safe to say there’s not much more to them.

No doubt one night stand has the best bridge. Classic tom, if only neighborhoods had this

If you never left is above can’t go back for me actually. It would be towards the top of the chorus guitars were better but it ruins the chorus for me. The lyrics from mark are great though imo, very relatable for me

Agree with this I love how it’s starting to take off and then it just ends. It just leaves a lot to desire for me where it’s just fine two minutes and then like the brief instrument outro and then it’s over. Would have loved a no it isn’t style explosion after the current outro

Take Me In will probably be my favorite blink song from this era, heard enough. Ranking deluxe I can already tell by what we’ve heard 1. Take Me In 2. One Night Stand 3. Every Other Weekend 4. No Fun 5. Can’t Go Back 6. If You Never Left 7. All in my head 8. Everyone Everywhere everyone everywhere I appreciate the experiment but sounds terrible and randomly goes from weird verse to chorus with no transition. If you never left sounds like a demo I have no idea what’s going on with the lofi guitars, song is decent at least. Love the cure bass riff in every other weekend, Left Alone part 2! Can’t go back I like but I don’t think there’s anything special about it that others seem to see that’s my thoughts so far

Just listened. All in my head can go straight to the bin. No fun rules though. Just wish it got the full song treatment and didn’t feel unfinished. That intro is awesome don’t care what anyone says. If it was just synth noises I get it but it’s a full verse from Tom that sounds really cool. I just imagine Travis saying though okay you can have your artsy intro but that means you don’t get a bridge and final chorus because we have to keep the song under 3 minutes.

I think this is misguided solely for the fact that you’re attributing the “problem” here to Travis. I don’t think this is a him only problem if you don’t like it, I think it’s all of them at this point with probably Tom the least. But yea I don’t think just removing one person is going to result in some heralding back to remaking untitleds production style and approach to songwriting / lyrics and what blink should be.

Can someone post the song lengths, they’re not showing for me

And just to add on to this, I don’t want them using scraps from the one more time sessions for a new album with a few new songs written. Much prefer a deluxe with a couple new songs written during / between tours if the majority are from the original sessions. Which we know at least several of these deluxe songs were at least written during that time period. The only one we know for sure is brand new written post album release is can’t go back