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i think that's a noteworthy discovery, freestyleskater182. in gratitude: >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPBIwQyPWE

I'm Lost Without You is sooooo good. one of my favorite blink songs. i understand those who deem it repetitive. but honestly, sit with some good headphones and let that song just wash over you. it's an awesome closer.

they must have accidentally included tom's guide vocal (first off, how embarrassing is that) in the house mix, rather than in just his monitor. but they did it like every show. it was horrendous. nevertheless, i think those untitled shows were the best we got out of reunion blink (+tom). fan-oriented and exciting.

i always assumed mark wanted greatest hits setlists, because he was the one who controlled them. he's been very clear in the past about making sure to please an audience by playing the hits. and i remember tom being pretty excited to play apple shampoo back in 2013. i don't think tom was forcing singles setlists. which makes mark's statements all the more odd. so i'm guessing baby come on. if they play no it isn't, i'll shit. EDIT: cheerios and i just posted the same thing haha

mark jumped on a plane the second tom called his name (dogs eating dogs). he'll do anything to keep this band alive. if not just for his love for it but also the fear of going back to a pete wentz-befriending has-been.

i haven't followed this thread as closely as the other ones, but does anyone here think tom's rushing out some blink-ish demos in an attempt to prove mark+travis wrong? while i'm sure he probably had blink ideas, tom seems like he's trying to say "fuck you, seeeee, i was working, you guys are assholes!" i'm sure giving himself march 1 is so he has at least a month to create from scratch some rehashed first date-esque songs he "intended" for blink.

but literally, how can you at all see this tom's way? after all we know about tom and his grandiose, manipulative statements as opposed to mark and travis, who are flat-out honest and always have been, which would you logically choose? tom, who says he's "booking shows", or travis, who knows that isn't the way it works in a professional band. tom, who once claimed his music the extension of christ, or mark, who never claimed his music was going to usher in a "revolution." tom, who has a history of manipulating fans, or travis, who goes on radio and tells it like it is - that no progress was made and how it sucks to lie. no matter how you view it, the logical choice to make, based on the information we've been given, plus years of (proven correct) speculation as long-time fans of this band, is to root for travis and mark.

tom's... been fucking around for years. his dad's death had nothing to do with it.

i think people have said tom developed some of them into the war and it hurts from the first AVA album. which are the most blink-sounding songs on that record

http://web.archive.org/web/20060901221936/http://www.b182.com/askmark1.php

you know, we talk a lot about tom "lost his mind" sometime in '04, and there's no question that had some sort of nervous breakdown. but have we ever considered that he might have been wacko before that? i'm not saying believing in aliens is an out-there thing (it's not), but the extent tom takes it to is odd. plus, he's big into conspiracy theories, scheduling camping trips to scour area 51 and find bigfoot. and the thing is, he was into all of that in like 1997. it brings me back to this bit in mark's 06 tell-all: so maybe tom's been insane all along, but just wasn't as batshit pre-fame.

QUESTION: does anyone have the official tour programs for any of blink's tours? specifically TOYPAJ 2001 or pop disaster. and if you do, could you scan/upload?

you know how tom mentioned the band summit in utah? i just found his original tweet about it that i remembered: https://twitter.com/tomdelonge/status/232937553735602176

i'm really into blink moving forward, and they looked backward a lot on neighborhoods (mh 4.18.2011, wishing well). some of those efforts i thought were great, like after midnight. but wishing well in particular seemed too by-the-numbers, and predictable. even the "la-da-da"s felt a little grating to me. but it's alright now. i still find delight that one of my friends at the time misheard a lyric as "i got caught like a little cat stevens"

i didnt like wishing well when it came out either, and i'm not too partial to it now. it just seemed like a boring needless throwback.

oh, also, travis's book has been delayed for like the fifth time again, this time from march to june: http://www.amazon.com/Can-Say-Living-Large-Cheating/dp/0062319426

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq2s-6C1GJg never heard this version.

if he's 13, he's too old to shower with.

gosh, i couldn't tell you. but i'll give you my favorite songs from bands i really like (or have really liked before). blink-182 - always motion city soundtrack - even if it kills me kanye west - roses simon & garfunkel - america (OR keep the customer satisfied) the shins - sleeping lessons (OR kissing the lipless) givers - meantime FOB - (coffee's for closers) alabama - dixieland delight paul simon - something so right the allman brothers band - melissa the beatles - getting better cat stevens - if you wanna sing out, sing out donald fagen - the nightfly frank ocean - strawberry swing led zeppelin - the rain song MCR - dead! washed out - all i know weezer - tired of sex yellowcard - ocean avenue

you know, i know this is old hat, but... that guy is fucking weird

travis is such a real dude. excellent interview.

does anyone think blink-182 with matt skiba could pull off a few successful singles? i'm talking top 10 rock charts (pop charts are waaaaaay outta the question for them at this point). i'd like to see it. i want to see blink in the limelight again.

[playing corporate radio seminar] I'M NOT JUSTIN BIEBER MOTHERFUCKERS! i love green day, but that whole thing was just painful.

well that's vice. the dudes at noisey/vice are a bunch of elitist assholes that have infuriating opinions on everything. the grantland piece actually takes a realistic look at the future of blink and their impending legacy