Drama-Free Jan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze_(Lagwagon_album)

In honor of Kay having such better sensibilities than @Russel Coightwhen it comes to blink this just came on at our family dinner and we jammed out

I don’t get the problem with falling in love with Blaze to an absurd degree. It was a mesmerizing experience. Also Kay is one of the biggest Alkaline Trio fans on the board pretty sure and wanted Skiba out of blink so that should say something about how bad the experiment was.

Nothing edgier than preferring Matt Skiba, Cheshire Cat and California Deluxe being your two favorite albums.

You were probably thinking of Carousel lol.

Wtf? Now just making shit up? DR is my #1-2 lock.

What are you talking about, honestly? Why are you so angsty? Summer heat in Aus that bad? We were speculating the songwriting credits on the post you quoted, it would be weird if that was for OMT (the song) that had like 5 lyrics. They do credit ppl like mad now because that’s how they get paid on streaming, both can be true. #notgivingintodrama

This seems like yet another reach. We were all speculating at the time what was going on. I don’t know why it’s so hard for you to understand/cope with how longtime blink fans feel about the Cali era albums, OMT, and songwriters deal. It’s been pretty straightforward. Call it a pivot I guess because you guys can’t hang with the real fans who don’t blow smoke on Cali era. OMT songs were better, had Tom, better vibes, some real songs mixed in, makes a huge difference. Yuge

Kay knows my musical taste too well to not fall for this. It’s my one thing she can get behind. Aka you’re fake news.

OMT + pt 2 =California + Deluxe but with Tom & Travis’ shitty production and generic filler instead of Feldmann’s shitty production and generic filler. +3-5 songs they actually cared to write about themselves + Terrified from Boxcar racer days. And some really good live moments (Coachella). is that what you want to hear? Pretty sure that’s been the basis from everyone on here. So as you can imagine, the latter is a lot better. But still far removed from their prime. Just getting 3-5 good quality songs is enough to at least take a breath of fresh air but still not what anyone is truly craving. We want all Anthem pt 3s or Turpentine type songs. Or Otherside and Bad News without Travis ruining it. Still leagues better than the horribly bland feeling California - Nine blink-lite featuring Skiba instead of Tom. How is this so hard to grasp? I don’t get it. Going the Maga route is unsurprising though.

It actually blows my mind these 2/3 can't accept some-many people just didn't like California-Nine. And has nothing to do with resisting change because of Tom. Many of us, if not all, went into it wanting the Skiba experience to give us new life. And it really just did not click. I don't get why that causes such a ruckus, replacing a lead singer is hard to make work. Especially in a tight knit trio like Blink. Resorting to everyone being worshipping Tombots in our 30s now is ridiculous..

I feel like this parallel is borderline _tarded. You're comparing the lead singer, main writer, guitarist of the band, with a POTUS candidate that happens to be a cult movement. Tom Delonge is not a cult movement, outside of Lehoe Dehoe. The United States Government is not equivalent to your favorite music band. If anything, Skiba/Feldy replacing Tom would represent the Republican party, because they never would make any changes, and were super corporate and conservative about their processes. Tom, return of, might not make the most exciting changes this time around, but it'd be like bringing back Obama no? Wouldn't be as exciting but at least the change/risk, more punk rock factor is there than what we got during California-Nine.

This. But I feel like Otherside would be a classic & deep Mark song, but the production kills it for me. MTYK and Edging come close but some of those lyrics drift into 'who wrote this?' generic stuff, and Edging just being kinda a weaker song in general. Terrified verses get me too, even if was Boxcar. 3 'real' songs is enough for me to defeat the entirety of California-Nine era. Real Blink is that good. That's why we get so ornery and cranky here, we just want that, and we wait 10+ years for ~3 real tracks lol.

I’m early 30s. And yes, makes sense that’s all you can grasp onto there because you and the KK lost this one, again.

Sure, Coight.