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You hurled in a limo that one time

For sure - and I think it hits in that first instance if so. By the time the first chorus came around I had tears in my eyes. I think if you’ve ever felt like a piece of shit, ever felt broken by something, or have used those failings to laugh at yourself and the world - then it hits.

ur a GOAT

Idk. Mark and Tom went through the most emotional turmoil in their lives over the last few years, both probably felt broken in different ways. They said themselves the resonant songs only come when they write what’s in their lives/heart at that moment. I think this whole album is that deep, for the most part anyway - I kinda feel like that’s the point, like the title song

It what’s blink has always done - try and conquer their pain through humour. Whether it was Tom’s divorce or anything else that’s gone down in recent years, the pain in this track felt the most relatable/acute.

ANTHEM PART 3 - 8.75/10 - Fucking massive. Bink always destroy openers. The best of all the Anthem trilogy. Mark and Tom harmonies. Mark's explosive bridge takes it to where it needs to go. Only criticism would maybe Tom trying to sound 'too Tom'? Least he's fucking trying tho. DANCE WITH ME - 9/10 - Unreal riff. Unreal concept. Ole's work perfectly. Final crescendo is peak bleak. Can't fault it. FELL IN LOVE - 8/10 - At first I recoiled, then I gave it more of a chance. It's a bop. Lyrics are a bit trashy, but that's 2023 pop. Blink can write a killer pop song that blows all these newer artists out the water, still. Tom's voice really suits this kind of pop 'It's fucking with ma heaud' TERRIFIED - 6.5/10 - Waiting for this to hit me still. Love BCR, love the chords etc - just feel something lacking from the chorus. ONE MORE TIME - 8/10 - Victim of feeling overplayed now. The sentimentality and the brotherhood cement it. It's moving live. I love the chords and piano intrusions on this. Travis singing, will always be a major song in the pantheon now. MORE THAN YOU KNOW - 8/10 - See this as a successor to Heart's All Gone. Motoring fat momentum on it. TURN THIS OFF! - 7/10 - NOFX vibes. I don't consider any blink joke song a real song, maybe bar Ben Wah Balls (10/10). Dece tho. WHEN WE WERE YOUNG - 7/10 - More Tom vulnerability. I rate it, would like more meat on the bones. Need to return to more. EDGING - 7/10 - Still think this was a weird ass choice to announce coming back. Grower for sure. Get the rope. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’VE GOT - 8.2/10 - Top tier Mark lyrics. Insight into what it's like to be that sick. Bridge is amazing. I'm liking the chorus more and more now. Need to switch up that BTD riff tho. BLINK WAVE - 8/10 - This sounds way more like The Cure to me than Fell in Love. Sick. Again, shows the boys can turn their hands to anything they want. Experiment here, not in any side project. BAD NEWS - 7/10 - Catchy, a million Knucklepucks and shit would dream of writing it. Kind of paint by numbers pop-punk tune. Might grow on me HURT (INTERLUDE) - ?/10 - Not really listened to form an op on this TURPENTINE - 10/10 - Every superlative I can muster. The essential blink song. I was fucking blown away, tears in my eyes. FUCK FACE - 6/10 - Short, sweet, won't be returning much. OTHER SIDE - 6 /10 - Not a big fan of the melody. Love the tribute and will always back Mark writing personal songs. CHILDHOOD - 8/10 - Love them getting weird. Their version of BIOMY. Huge chorus still, relatable, wistful. Strong finisher. OVERALL 8 /10

26. Been listening to blink since I was 15. Just missed on knowing who they were when DED was released. This was the first album I ever got as Mark, Tom and Travis. I got spoiled.

Hahaha, looks like I do it wrong anyway. I say it ironically - but this is an all time song. Noca-

Forreal that 'No one gave a fuck that you DIED' - first time I heard that part, I audibly went 'wow' whilst walking to my train on a dreary UK morning. I will never, ever, forget that commute.

You said it best, sister. Whilst he takes up less of the album, his input in moments like Anthem Part III, Turpentine and DWM are what takes it to ascension. These two were always better as one. His delivery on DWM is smooth like butter. In another life, he would've joined A Tribe Called Quest

I can’t actually believe this song exists. It’s like if I had a shaky dream of a blink song or melody, lost it in my mind but then it actualised years later. The same way that Yesterday from The Beatles seemed to…arrive rather than be created? Idk. I don’t give a fuck. I’m comparing this to The Beatles. Bye

Yeah ‘ slide your mum on top of me’ I was thinking, okay, we got another joke song on our hands. Then Tom hit me with his most vulnerable song in years, what the fuck

Yeah - I get what you mean but idk, just repeated ‘YDKWYG’ in the chorus felt…a bit like a failed nut or something.

I didn’t really listen to Untitled for years until my recent breakup, then it was fucking perfect. I still knew it was brilliant, I just maybe kicked the arse out of it

I do think some of the choruses miss a trick. YDKWYG and Terrified…I’m left thinking, is that it? Like Terrified could be an absolute banger if there was more to that…some descending/ascending Mark/Tom harmonies? Idk

Just love what you can infer from using Turpentine. Like you deserve to fucking burn because you’re such a piece of shit, you can only cleanse yourself with that. I feel a tattoo coming on

A broken man, a Frankenstein

Honestly this is becoming my favourite ever blink song, period. Idk. I haven’t felt this linked to a song since listening to Dude Ranch at 15. So fucking special

What?!!!! I thought it was their most relatable song in years, maybe ever.

N also I’m more of a Travis stan since the interview, but lemme have this

Mark’s ‘No one gave a fuck that you died’ elevates this shit to new heights. Delonge and Hoppus, to halves of the same fucking man. Fucking YES

Turpentine feels like the best song they’ve written in…I don’t know, twenty years

You said it best, brother. This song hit me like a train. It’s so sad and broken. Yet, ‘ stick your dick in ovaltine. Jack off to a magazine.’ Tom at the end. Their humour always triumphs their pain. Fuck yeah