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  1. Also there’s a remake of Dark Forces coming out at the end of the month that seems to be flying under the radar
  2. It’s $35 for the switch, $31.50 on presale
  3. I haven’t been able to shake this song since I heard it earlier this week. FIDLAR covering Jackson Browne
  4. Is This Thing Cursed is quite possibly my favorite album by Alkaline Trio front to back. There's amazing hooks all over it and it was such a solid return to form after the dumpster bin that was everything they put out after Crimson. I feel like their songwriting bifurcated after From Here to Infirmary when they stopped writing so much about being raging alcoholics with Matt leaning into being "spooky" and Dan's songs being more thoughtful and heartfelt at the expense of being catchy (or fitting with the rest of the Alkaline Trio sound for that matter). For a while Matt was real quantity over quality, but man did they both bring their respective A-games to ITTC; there's maybe like 2 skips on that album for me. This new one has a few great songs on it (looking at you Teenage Heart) but nothing that grabs at me the way that most of ITTC did. Those are my thoughts anyway, but YMMV.
  5. Grew up in the bay but not a football fan in the slightest, the niners will never be as good as they were when I was 5, so I don't really see the point. I just stumbled in here by accident when I was flipping through threads I hadn't read and the Journey thing was the post I landed on. I think people just shit on Detroit because it's Detroit. It's the New Jersey effect. I'm sure there's good and bad parts of it like any other major metropolitan area, SF included. However it goes, hope it's an entertaining game today. Enjoy!
  6. Priced out of the city like everyone else.
  7. Because the band is from San Francisco? And the next line "he took the midnight train going anywhere" sure makes it sound like anywhere is better than being in Detroit.
  8. Former drummer still working the beat
  9. Yeah I was quite pleased when I saw it in theaters back in the day. The Carpenter version is untouchable but I thought they did a nice job dovetailing the new one in with it. The original though? With the carrot people? That one's rough...
  10. Seriously. I saw their farewell tour back in like 2017 and I think they've done 3 or 4 since? They're getting to be like KISS. Still they put on a hell of a show and I would love a new record (which it sounds like they're working on in fits and starts).
  11. Agree with everyone saying that everything post crimson has been hit or miss except for ITTC. Very happy to hear that the new album is another banger!
  12. Let me rephrase, I think these songs don’t stand out among the rest of the songs on their respective records, but I don’t think Mark is solely responsible. In both cases their production lack dynamics; the songs just freight train from start to finish. I enjoy the lyrics in both but they’re the strongest parts of both songs. The hook in MH# doesn’t catch for me and the chord choices and melody in other side are too sing sing by the book for my taste. Feel free to have a different opinion though
  13. You are. It’s so flat, same complaint about other side on the new record. when mark is on, he’s fire but when he’s phoning it in, it’s so by the books
  14. Even Tom thinks the song is dumb. It had a fun video but that’s about all the good things I have to say about it.
  15. Up there with first date for worst single
  16. Those 2 and autumn are the highlights for me
  17. Double bass kicks are back on Apple Music as of this morning. What a weird saga this is…
  18. Like most of you Blink has been my favorite band for like 25 years, but for a long time there, I didn’t really listen to them. Putting on their old albums remind me of being 16. I’m a few years short of 40 now. Listening to those records feels like looking back in time; while good for a nostalgia hit once in a while, there’s nothing new there for me. One More Time meets me where I am today. It’s not a perfect album (spoiler: none of them were) but even so, it’s the perfect album for me right now and for that I’m incredibly grateful.
  19. They are also allowed to be disappointed.
  20. Their bass player Paul used to be a neighbor and we’d party at his place. Somewhere I have a CD of unreleased smash mouth demos 🤣
  21. Mine are on display at the Goodwill
  22. I just picked this up the other day! Book club!!
  23. Turpentine terrified blinkwave Bad news Anthem part 3
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