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  1. i, for one, am a massive fan of always.
  2. he mentioned that he quit the painkillers circa 06/07. this interview's from 2011: tom was shit-faced throughout most of the 09/10 tours, but has seemed to clean up since that time. who knows. he looks healthier these days.
  3. i always say dude ranch is my favorite, EOTS is their most popular/accessible (and probably the one that'll eventually be regarded as their best), TOYPAJ is a strong follow-up, and untitled's their masterpiece. if i were to pick best solely in terms of quality, it'd definitely be untitled. there's no topping it.
  4. lol i saw tom's instagram post gloating about hitting the top positions on the alt charts, so of course i wanted to see what it actually peaked at on the chart that matters. 17,000 copies is a real respectable sales number for having no label.
  5. i think they could have remained popular, evolving their sound. untitled was much less successful than the records before it, if that was any sign of their dwindling popularity. pop punk as a whole only had a few years left of steam in it (by 2008 it was like RIP) but i think blink was beginning to transcend that label circa 03-04.
  6. im liking this album more and more. pretty good IMO. second to WDNTW for me still. i really love the wolfpack, even though it's a blink remake.
  7. my friends and i talked about that the other day, how that whole video was hyping the "return" of blink-182. how disappointing. at least then it felt like there was a chance. this purported new album has been in the works for more time than it took to create neighborhoods, which seemed like an eternity.
  8. partner seems to imply they're still independent, but distributing it via a label - much like macklemore's the heist
  9. it's 15 minutes long. there's hardly a story whatsoever, and if there was, then i was pretty confused throughout the entirety of it.
  10. then why is blink even together if it's in the past? irritating comments like this just make me roll my eyes these days.
  11. i listened to this again twice today and it wasnt nearly as bad as the first time. it's definitely tom's strongest since WDNTW, for sure. of course, like i said earlier, many songs just go nowhere and run too long, but that's AVA's staple. i particularly liked bullets in the wind this time around, and tunnels didn't strike me as boring this time either.
  12. https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/poet-anderson-dream-walker/id948458227
  13. i was gonna wait for someone to just upload it, but when i was saw it was 3 bucks i just downloaded it. here are my thoughts on poet anderson. i’m not a huge AVA fan, but i particularly appreciate this piece of his ‘art project,’ because i’m an animator of sorts and an animation fan. that being said, the whole FROM THE IMAGINATION OF TOM DELONGE thing at the beginning is bullshit, since the people who did all the hard work (i.e., everything - including what looks like a rewrite of tom's script) don’t get credit until the end. first off, the animation in this whole thing is ridiculously gorgeous. an amazing mix of 2D and 3D that should get these two dudes some industry jobs and acclaim, well-deserved. i adore the super-stylized, gorillaz-esque designs. voice acting is superb, and it’s cute to see tom gave his little sister a role. everything about this is done extremely well, from the animation to the sound design, but it lacks where so many films tend to lack, but where it matters most: the story. the story, faint as it may be, is served extremely well by these guys (sergio and edgar martins)’ sense of staging. let’s talk about the story though. it’s confusing, undercooked, and just plain bad. we barely get an idea of who “poet anderson†is before we’re forced to root for him in his final battle toward the end. i expect this out of tom, who is a first-time screenwriter, but it seems as though the film focuses WAY too heavily on action-heavy shots where your only reaction is to go “wow! how cool is poet anderson! wow!†it’s just a groaner all the way through. it isn’t horrible though, and the animation saves it in many areas for me. it’s worth a purchase, and lighting artists is misspelled as “lightning†artists in the credits.
  14. not a bad album, not particularly great - but somewhere in between. as someone who has always been a huge AVA critic (i hated them for years before falling in love with WDNTW and, to an extent, some of i-empire) i feel like this is their best record in almost a decade. maybe on par with i-empire. it's no doubt ilan rubin had a hand in that (see bullets in the wind), which seems to amount to rescuing a creatively-stalled middle-aged dude rehashing U2 riffs. tom still rehashes them in a lot of places on the album (for such a fun chorus, tunnels is a real boring-ass song). paralyzed STILL sounds unfinished and out-of-place, while the wolfpack still is the contender for the album's best song: a complimentary mash between electro and rock that works well, with an earworm of a chorus to boot. the album tends to fall off after that, but there's still bright spots. i really enjoyed tremors a lot, and anamoly is a really welcome change of pace to end the record on. but for every anamoly (named appropriately, i think) there's a kiss with a spell - a song that sounded so exciting at first, but just devolved back into redundant, go-nowhere AVA territory. tom sounds strained and tired as ever in some songs, but sings really well on others. it's a real mixed bag for the most part, which is a compliment considering i haven't personally found anything to like since heaven closed out i-empire. which leads me to believe it's their best, strongest effort since 2007. as a blink fan, i'm very excited for him to get back to work with mark and travis... there's a real chemistry they have (even in rougher times) as opposed to tom's self-indulgent AVA fantasy. but if this album's any indication of where AVA is going to go, it's a good sign. i'm looking forward to the next AVA record, which will hopefully be as out-there as bullets in the wind and not the 200th parody of the joshua tree. on a side note, i'm reaaaaaally excited for the animated film. can't wait for that.
  15. ah, damn, you're right! i wonder when that gorilla pit show was then. maybe oct. 92? because if it was so early that both tom and kerry recall it variously as "the first," maybe it was oct 92 rather than 93. it would make sense within the timeline of their early years. i also read their first show was at a school assembly once, so who knows. still, these tidbits fascinate me.
  16. rolling stone australia http://rollingstoneaus.com/reviews/post/angels-and-airwaves-the-dream-walker/943 4 out of 5, too. i have a hunch the US rolling stone won't be similar, considering they trashed love http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/love-part-two-20111122
  17. i figured this wouldn't leak. i don't mean to appear cynical, but i don't think there's that big an interest in AVA to even have a leak. looking forward to this in all honesty. i like what i've heard so far and i can't wait for the short. should be my favorite after WDNTW
  18. tom says in the video their first show was at the gorilla pit, and that photo's from kerry key, a close friend of the band from that time, who also says it was their first in its description. i know TFBYM says that, but who really knows. i've often wondered if those SOMA shows were from 1994. they're undated, and it would make sense. plus, some of the songs on that setlist weren't released until buddha, which wasn't recorded until january 1994.
  19. here's a photo of blink at the show tom talks about in that video. gorilla pit, oct. 1993. apparently that was their first gig. pretty cool.
  20. this. i realize they probably still have different managers and whatever, but the way mark made it sound is as if they haven't spoken since they stepped off the stage at reading.
  21. right?? that +44 press is the worst thing i own. so disappointing. i imagine the cargo releases of cheshire and dude ranch used the original masters, since they were readily available at the time. neighborhoods, too. all the blink releases that have been reissued years later seem as though they've found a random 10th generation CD master to use. or, in the case of +44, employed some 128kbps files. horrible.
  22. blink pays the bills, but it isn't where he wants to be. yawn.
  23. i love how billboard put "comeback" in quotations. talk is talk, as oliver said, and let's not forget this, from november '13, over a year ago:
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