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Zoltan

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  1. it's funny that people who tend to say things like two songs are "identical" if they have the same chord progression now are in awe that they discovered 2 notes that change everything. maybe there are other overlooked songs that have something in the background you haven't noticed yet. of course jerry finn was a much better producer than feldmann. we don't even need to compare them. but it's just lazy to say that songs of the california era are all crap. i bet if we would start to overanalyze those songs one by one we'd find some interesting moments in every one of them. (i can agree that as a whole the california albums can be repetitive, they overused some patterns and tried the same thing in 2 or 3 songs. but if we check them out separately one by one, well, none of them is that bad.) the biggest problem with california is the sugar-coated mixing. i don't think it should have been done by a 22 years old mixer who only worked with bands like 5 seconds of summer.
  2. my favorite moment in always is the variation at the end of the second pre-chorus where they change the rhythm of "here i am" and mark adds an extra higher note for "ready-y". and the way they recorded the second verse is so great, especially at "your laugh". they wanted to make it echo-ish, but instead of a simple filter, they double tracked it with an earlier demo to have a slight difference, and an awesome harmony just born. (but i always hated mark's "u-u" vocals in the chorus. it should have been done with lower volume and/or synth.)
  3. But this discussion has no relevancy when nothing happens. It's like saying "I don't want Russia to colonize Mars", and bitching about it every other day... It's not even a plan (for blink to make shitty music; or for Russia to colonize Mars). So why is it so important to turn everything into this discussion? And even if it would be somehow interesting (and not just the replay of the past months), why does it always come from the negative point of view? I bet Matt and Mark are capable to write great songs. Should I say "they need to hire Tom, because the current blink has lost it" just to emphasize my hopes that a new album will be good? Or should I talk about forgotten pieces of year-old interviews as if they happened today? All this talking is simple hostility. Today's kids are all about it, they haven't learned to be constructive, they're just criticizing everything to have their voice. A while ago most people on these boards looked more mature than this, now it's strange to me that this stupid trend rules everything here too.
  4. "Hey guys, I find it odd that Matt is still shy when he's asked about blink. Does it mean he's not an official member?" No, it doesn't mean it. He's an official member of blink. Also, he's shy because he became the new co-frontman of a band with 20+ years of history, which isn't an easy situation, and he gets a lot of complain from idiots who think "Tom is better". Tom, who hasn't worked together with Mark and Travis in the past 14 years. Or did we forget it? (They hated each other on the 2004 tour, they broke up for 4-5 years, they toured for years, but they only spent time with each other when they were on stage, they recorded Neighborhoods separately, Tom recorded Dogs Eating Dogs on his own, etc.) The "Tom is better" and the "Tom is still a member" arguments are pointless. For him blink was just a side business since 2005.
  5. We all know you just want to complain about Matt, and want Tom back. In one hand it is boring, and on the other hand it's far from reality. I don't know what you expect from them at this point. Do you want them to send you an official statement about their status every time you fantasize of blink being broken up? Or when they're still not reuniting with Tom? They announced it a few times that Matt is an official member. At the moment they are not actively working on an album, they are not on tour, they are old lazy bastards, so there are no news. Bands work like this these days. Why would it mean there's a change in the lineup?
  6. Mark hasn't mentioned Travis in 2 interviews in a row. Is Travis still officially in the band? Please someone confirm it. Someone said that Tom said at the book signing that Travis and him are best friends, so I'm sure Travis is with Tom now. Also Matt's new guitar is green, and it's more of an Alkaline Trio color, so I think he's writing for Trio now. Feldmann just posted an Insta story featuring a Scott Raynor-era blink poster. Does it mean Scott's back? I'm not saying it's true, but nothing else can be true. I mean, look at the band, they hardly confirm at times they exist.
  7. yeah, matt's memory is shit. jerry was sick for months before he died. but agony and irony released earlier.
  8. ok, show me that 7 thousand valid points where you said anything else. 90% of the bitching is always about "i didn't like it at first, and i listened to it only 1-2 times ever since, and i have to tell you, these songs are not memorable, no staying power". i don't think the songs are the problem. you guys changed as listeners. when you were teenagers and got a new blink album, you listened to it all the time, even if you hated it at first. for most fans the untitled album was "unlistenable" at first, no staying power. for the same people that album is a masterpiece now... but now blink can release anything, if you don't think it's perfect at first, you don't even want to listen to it anymore. i tried to be the same as i was in 2003. i put california (then the cali deluxe) on my phone, and every time i commuted, i listened to it. i think i heard these albums a hundred times, and i think my opinion changed a lot throughout these listening sessions. now i know which songs are boring to me, and which songs are the ones i like the most. surprisingly my "ripe" top list contains songs i wanted to skip in the early days. and the interesting new songs became boring old songs... my opinion on some songs change all the time: one day i don't like "the last train home" at all, the other day i repeat it 2-3 times, because it fits with my mood. but if you never try, you'll never enjoy the skipped songs... if you start to skip songs in the early phase, you will never like them. i did it with "this is home", and i know i just don't want to listen to it ever. while a lot of you guys think that's a real good song. it sure is, but i just refuse it. and i know it's not a valid opinion when i say "this is home is the worst song blink has ever made", because i heard it like 10-20 times, while i heard all other blink songs hundreds of times. i bet i'd liked it if i listened to it more. opinions are subjective so they don't matter much by default. but when your opinion is made with pure rejection, that isn't even a noteworthy opinion. it's not about the song/album, it should go to the "about me" section... most people probably don't like to call themselves negative, so they're projecting, acting like the negativity comes from a song, movie, other people, anything. there are objectively shitty products, but when something is proved as good/likable (e.g. gets a gold certificate or a grammy nomination or a group of fans think it's great), and you can only talk shit about it (especially when you don't know it), i guess we can agree that the problem is in you. in this case it's better to stay quiet, isn't it?
  9. the post was not a direct reply to her, but to the previous 100+ pages. you can hardly find valid negative critique here, because every negative people repeats the same thing. "i don't even remember the songs". why? "i listened to it once, and it sucked." then why do you wonder you don't remember? you don't even want to remember. i can confirm that all these songs are rememberable. marking something as "not rememberable" is not an opinion, that's just ignorance. you know what's forgettable? things you don't want to remember. this place in a nutshell: A: i like these songs on the new album: *lists songs* B: i don't even know these songs, the album sucks. A: you should give them a few listens, you will like them if you are in the right mood. B: i don't want to listen to the songs, i just want to tell at every opportunity that i think the album sucks. A: and what is it good for? B: i try to convince everyone else to think the same: the album sucks. A: why? B: because the album sucks. A: but you don't even listen to it. B: i don't, because it sucks. do you think it's an opinion based conversation when "B" just use the reply function to state his/her ignorance? the only upsetting thing is that these kind of "opinions" are not opinions. see above.
  10. i can't see the point of comments like "i don't even remember how those songs sound like". well, if you listen to an album only a few times, you won't remember it months later. it doesn't mean anything, it's not a meaningful critique to say "i don't listen to it". are star wars movies bad because i've never watched them? does cucumbers inedible because the last time i tasted cucumbers was 25 years ago? and the sad thing is that majority of the "critics" here do this. you don't even have opinions, you just announce every once in a while that you still don't listen to something. do you really think it grades that something? irrelevant shitposting is only used to deepen the shitty mood of these topics.
  11. i still listen to california regularly, and i still like at least 23 out of the 28 songs. the best/outstanding songs: Cynical - 9/10 Bored To Death - 9/10 Long Lost Feeling - 9/10 the better songs: Left Alone - 8/10 Don't Mean Anything - 8/10 Hey I'm Sorry - 8/10 Good Old Days - 8/10 California - 8/10 Rabbit Hole - 8/10 No Future - 8/10 Misery - 8/10 She's Out Of Her Mind - 8/10 Sober - 8/10 Teenage Satellites - 8/10 Parking Lot - 7/10 Wildfire - 7/10 Bored To Death (Acoustic) - 7/10 the good/average songs: 6/8 - 6/10 The Only Thing That Matters - 6/10 Brohemian Rhapsody - 6/10 Can't Get You More Pregnant - 6/10 Built This Pool - 6/10 Home Is Such A Lonely Place - 6/10 Last Train Home - 5/10 Kings Of The Weekend - 5/10 San Diego - 5/10 the bad/meh songs: Los Angeles - 4/10 Bottom Of The Ocean - 3/10
  12. T H E R E S N O U S E T R Y I N G W E L O S T T H E W A R N O W T H E D E A D A N D D Y I N G A R E B A C K T O E V E N T H E S C O R E
  13. if +44 is indie rock, than motion city soundtrack is definitely indie rock. around 2002 mark started to follow the less pop-punk, more indie rock path. but it's not just a mark thing, the whole pop punk genre started to move that way.
  14. new world is a shitty song. it has everything i hate about tom's new style, and there's nothing likable in it.
  15. i'm glad tom's so-called demos are not associated with blink at all. those songs are extremely awful.
  16. i found these 117 videos: i'm not sure it is the complete collection. and the various file formats make me think some of them are not the original versions. as far as i remember they had real media videos (*.rm) and streamable windows media videos (*.asf). both types were downloadable in different sizes... some of these videos have 160×120 px resolution, i doubt that was the highest available. (320×240 were the most common video size back in the day.) so if someone has the best quality originals, that's great. edit: web.archive.org has the original titles and upload dates. https://web.archive.org/web/20031107225921/http://www.blink182.com:80/downloads/Video.asp?assetid=4891&count=5&artistid=4&title=Darian+Lake+Footage
  17. the 2003 videos are here (in one): (well, it doesn't contain all the vids from 2003)
  18. matt always says he has two bands, he has to find time for both bands, he doesn't want to abandon alkaline trio, so when his bigger and more succesful band (blink) is between tours and studio sessions, he will work with alkaline trio and work on anything else (solo stuff, art, etc). it's not a surprise that he's playing shows with alkaline trio or writes songs for that band. so you can stop repeating this "he basically said goodbye to blink" thing. everyone else understands the situation, i'm sure even you know your speculation is stupid. you just can't say you were wrong, or you just like to control the discussion by making up stupid problems.
  19. yeah, it was when they were 28-year-olds and when there was no social media. also, the members had only one active band. now they are 40+, and you can look into their lifes through daily instagram/twitter updates. in the past 10-15 years almost every famous musician started side bands, because that's how the industry works. travis said blink is his priority, but he's working on a solo record, he's the drummer of transplants, he works with feldmann on unknown bands' records, they will tour the antemasque record, etc. matt came from a succesful band, therefore he obviously needs a couple of months per year to keep alkaline trio semi-active. mark is the only member who doesn't want to do anything else, but it seems he enjoys the breaks (or even if he's bored, he must accept that his bandmates have other projects). i don't see what's wrong with this... yes, they could be way more active, they could be on tv shows every week, they could tease fans with songwriting updates all the time, but unfortunately no one does these things anymore. it's probably not just the bands' decision. more likely what we got in the past was not that natural, there were money-based connections between labels and other media outlets... now tv channels find cheaper guests to entertain the crowds, bands lost ground...
  20. “We’re doing this run in the US, then later on we’re touring Europe and the UK. Then we come back and do some more dates in the US,” Hoppus says. “Then we’ll take a little bit of time off, and then at the end of this year, we’ll go back into the studio and start writing the next album.” - https://www.altpress.com/news/entry/mark_hoppus_says_blink_182_will_start_writing_their_new_album_by_the_end_of end of this year + the usual delay = beginning of next year.
  21. that's just oliver trying to overbid all negative speculations. blink finished tour and said they'll take some rest. matt will do shows with alkaline trio (and now it seems like they'll record an ep), then blink will start working again in the new year (i guess in february or march).
  22. every time nothing happens, a countdown begins.
  23. let's start to speculate! i don't think it's anything about blink's future with tom, i have a feeling it will be something about the past and present. probably a blink documentary is in the works, and now they try to reinterpret their relationship. i mean a blink documentary without tom would be weird. a documentary with an undisclosed relationship would be stupid. so they act like tom and the band's always been in good terms, because that's what the fans want to see... if they just leave out tom, it would be more strange than uc1 with no mention of scott.
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