Elisa

No? I’ve enjoyed all these singles, though their albums are usually a few amazing songs and a bunch of songs I immediately forget about once they're over. This one was nice overall on the first listen 😅

The new Basement album is so good @Scott.

she’s in a coma in Portugal now😔

I was talking about the Italian TRL, that’s why I would like to see it 😂

It was really interesting to watch this video, but also a bit sad because it shows what Mark talked about in his book, that back in 1999 in Europe, they were poorly marketed as a band that just imitated boybands. Even the Italian host doesn’t say anything about their music and he just describes them as the band that makes fun of boybands 💔 I’m sure their appearance on TRL the day before went so much better. I saw the TRL episode they did in 2001 (Tom was there because he was on his honeymoon) but it was pretty short overall. I hope I get to see the 1999 one someday (maybe you’ll find it in the future @Thibaut182!) because I know they actually spent the whole episode in the studio, so it would be fun to see it.

Yes, it was a lip-sync performance, but sometimes that show was hilarious because the artists would troll the producers and the audience by swapping instruments while still ‘performing’ the song 😂 Too bad blink didn’t do anything like that, but I’d love to see the clip (song + interview) because it was one of the very few times they went on Italian TV, but our friend here with the recording is never gonna share it. 😶

oh god, i'm so sorry, i was thinking in italian, where we use an english word "playback" to mean lip syncing and I accidentally mixed it up, this is so embarrassing haha 🙈

One of These Nights & Lyin’ Eyes are two great songs.

No way, please, I absolutely need to see it. Send me a link. There are only two old blink TV appearances I really want to watch, and one of them is this. The other is their 1999 TRL Italy episode, they stayed in the studio for almost the whole show and I’ve been dying to see it since I became a fan. MTV used to rerun that episode in the early 2000s, but I never managed to catch it.

A quick google search just told me that this footage has never leaked or released online. And their performance of ATTS plus the interview is only accessible through the official state TV archives. And you can’t request it unless you are a journalist or you work at the archive. Is this person (who has the tape) going to share the video?

I’ve of Assuck, but I never listened to them. It’s 4 pm now so I’ll save them for tomorrow morning at work. Yeah I’ve always preferred more melodic music, I think it was Ceremony that got me into all these bands, when Violence Violence came out it blew me away and changed the way I was listening to music. This is another album I really enjoyed:

lol @JarJarBlinks this is the heaviest thing I've ever listened to. I used to listen to a bit of powerviolence back in the day (weekend nachos, dropdead) because it felt closer to hardcore and easier to approach. But I really enjoyed the full immersion with Infest the other day and this album today ☝️

Thanks JarJar! I’ve got a couple of hours of paperwork to sort out at work this morning so I’ll put this on as my blistering soundtrack lol I did the same on Monday with Infest and it kept me very focused 😂

Today I discovered that the three Goo Goo Dolls albums everyone says are great are actually very good (I had never listened to them before) - Jed, A Boy Named Goo and Superstar Car Wash. Then I also listened to Infest for the first time ever, mamma mia!

it's been a while since i listened to this album all the way through

I love the Andrew Sisters, but I didn’t know they sang with Les Paul! I think this is your album but it’s not on spotify, so i’m gonna make a playlist for this evening with these songs: https://www.discogs.com/release/15956292-Les-Paul-The-Essential-Collection?srsltid=AfmBOoo4xo_bCLRSbuMLsxFw5rgXlooqMbb0g4FJSYyobFV31rilIhK-

What's the name of the albums? I want to listen to these songs

Another solid album dropped but it’s from an old band: I Am The Avalanche. I listened to it twice this morning and I really enjoyed it.

I didn’t know this song but I really like it! I noticed that a ton of bands from the last few years are clearly channeling this early '90s shoegaze/indie rock sound with the fuzzy guitars, and it never feels like a cheap copy.

Maybe all this time when they said darker they just meant darker for Blink, not dark for the era. Although to be honest I had never really understood it that way before based on how they have always talked about it, because it always sounded like they meant something more than that lol But I still believe it feels a bit overstated when they talk about it now. Especially in hindsight, it doesn’t really come across as a genuinely dark era for the band.

I’m not too sure about that. Mark and Tom keep saying that it was a dark/heavier album, but I just don’t see it that way if you compare it to what was considered dark at the time (NIN, Deftones etc). To me they only went darker in 2003.

I think a big part of that shift comes from the rise of nu-metal around that time. Bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit and especially Linkin Park brought a much heavier, more aggressive sound into the mainstream. For a younger or more casual audience like I was back then that kind of heaviness wasn’t something we were really used to hearing on the radio or MTV. And because of that, I feel like even adjacent genres like pop punk started absorbing some of that sound. I agree that Sum 41 or New Found Glory mixed boyband kind of melodies with heavier guitars and that contrast can definitely feel a bit strange if you’re expecting something more straightforward like EOTS, which had a more natural pop sound imo. But at the same time though I don’t necessarily see it as a negative thing. To me it’s more like a moment in time where different scenes were bleeding into each other. Rock was trying to stay commercially relevant while heavier music was breaking into the mainstream, so we got this hybrid style that doesn’t always feel cohesive and hasn’t aged very well but is actually pretty interesting in hindsight. I still don’t see TOYPAJ pandering to that trend though.

don't forget the drums, toypaj is one of the best sounding albums ever though. everything sounds so crisp and crystal clear.

i've been sleeping on steely dan, this album rules, it's a debut album and it's hit after hit:

This song meant so much to me from the first time I heard it all the way into my early 20s. Then I kinda grew out of it for a while. But around 2021, I went back to all the music I thought I had outgrown. I started revisiting everything I used to dismiss as “too pop” or “not punk enough” anymore and now I’ve taken it all back, so there’s really no reason for me to hate on a song that talks about adolescence.