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radioactive tomdog

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  1. the 90 min set rule plus the "we have to play every radio single" rule makes it impossible for them to make it different.
  2. that's almost as annoying as the regulars having circle jerks reciting the discord channel rules in hopes of getting mark's attention
  3. some of those discord users will struggle to exist without it.
  4. eh give me more time with heaven. it could grow on me. the hell side is awful though.
  5. just listened. the heaven side was nothing memorable. it sounded like 10 songs deryck ghost wrote for other pop punk bands that were rejected. the hell side sounds like the previous two albums. poor man's trailer park metal. then there's a rolling stones cover song as well? i'd say it's the worst sum 41 album by long shot.
  6. this band sucks so much now. i have no hope for that double album with the worst artwork i've ever seen. this is coming from someone who was a die hard fan from all killer to chuck and ive seen them live like 10 times. i was contemplating seeing them one more time but the set list is a joke (singles + multiple cover songs/medleys) and tickets are pushing $100. looks like deryck just announced a memoir which is cringe.
  7. i was at the chicago show this weekend. i'd imagine that had to be one of their biggest headlining shows ever? aragon ballroom is pretty huge and it was clearly oversold. i've seen trio maybe 7 times but this was the best performance and set list. atom has made this band a super group and really elevates those from here to infirmary songs live.
  8. pretty sure aaron rubin said on napkin's podcast that it was something mark fully wrote and sent to tom. then, tom was concerned about how fast it was because it would be hard for him to play. so, that sounds like fan fiction.
  9. i will say that otherside is far superior to bad news because it's basically a +44 song and way more genuine. surely the lyrics to bad news are pure fiction and not about mark's bombshell wife he's happily married to?
  10. i guess i'd go tier 1 (great) anthem pt3, dance with me, terrified, more than you know, blink wave, bad news, hurt, turpentine, otherside, see you tier 2 (mid) turn this off, when we were young, you don't know what you've got, fuck face tier 3 (awful) fell in love, one more time, edging, childhood, cut me off
  11. i'm really hoping they change up the set list a bit for this new tour. they're not as bad a blink when it comes to this but it's been roughly the same the last 3 times i've seen them. they did play fatally yours and this poison at the show i attended last summer, which was a surprise.
  12. the SLO100 is my favorite sounding amp and i think it's actually what trombino used on that gob album i mentioned earlier. that might be why i like the tone on this album. you're correct though, it's very far from what finn would have used.
  13. cringe is the only way to describe it. the lyrics are something i'd expect a teenager to write but i believe travis said he wrote it. i can't fully hate on the guy but i wasn't surprised by that revelation. and i know, blink is literally known for immaturity but we're not talking about dick jokes here. i wasn't blown away by the cure thing either. they're one of my all time favorite bands but close to me isn't that great and directly sampling stuff isn't something i expect or want from this genre of music.
  14. i'm sure i missed pages worth of discussion on dance with me when it came out, but it's a 10/10 song for me. for reasons i can't explain very well, it's very dude ranch sounding to me. obviously it's a lot more polished but tom's voice is shockingly close to that era in the verses. i know the olés are a big turnoff for most people but that also reminds me of something tom would have sang on a dude ranch song because it's intentionally absurd. not to mention the lyrics are thematically similar something like voyeur, a desperate guy fantasizing about something he could never get. ...and this is all why i hate fell in love. it's the polar opposite. it's a bad MGK song about a cocky guy who wants everyone to know he FUCKS
  15. looks like trombino produced a lot of iconic drive thru albums as well. i personally wasn't on that bandwagon but i know people loved the shit out of those early midtown, finch, and the starting line albums. meanwhile, people here are acting like he's only produced dude ranch and static prevails (which sound good to me regardless).
  16. they haven't been released but skiba mentioned them on either the ted striker pod or the toby morse pod. he said one of them was about the titanic
  17. yeah i went there a few times and saw him behind the counter. it's just a small vegan place and it kinda sucks. tastes like fried air and coconut ash. with that said, there's no chance in hell he'd say no to producing again if a band of blink's size reached out to him along with a huge paycheck from the label.
  18. lots of thought here - i'm happy to see all the hype this record is getting. i was very satisfied with ITTC. especially after their career low-point, MSIT. i really didn't think they'd top the last album and i actually found the skiba-fronted singles they chose to be a bit underwhelming. thankfully, the rest of the album rules and those two songs grew on me because of it. skiba somehow majorly stepped up his guitar playing and i think they managed to really reinvent their sound on this one. cameron webb's production is solid as usual. i love that trio values using real equipment in an era dominated by digital plugins on a computer. my favorite songs are meet me and scars. i heard there are three b-sides. i hope we get them because im sure two of them are dan songs. that's how it always goes. i do wish atom willard played on the album. no disrespect to derek, who i know has always played a big role in songwriting, but i prefer atom's style. i saw them play their first show back with atom last summer and it worked so well. i'm seeing them again on this next tour and i hope they stack the set list with songs from this new record and maybe i'll catch fire. those albums compliment each other well and i've heard them play most of the others a thousand times by now.
  19. i don't like either tbh. the second version was better but a generic band photo doesn't beat something more original like their first six albums. mark trombino producing doesn't automatically mean "raw" or even dude ranch sounding by any means. listen to pretty much anything he worked on in the 2000s and none of it sounds like that. gob's foot in mouth disease rivaled the sound of jerry finn's work during the height of his career. same with jimmy eat world's bleed american. he also mixed the majority of motion city soundtrack's commit this to memory. i'm not sure how any of that is below the standards of a band that has mostly sounded like shit since 2009. i'd accept a more mainstream producer like gil norton or butch vig as well. but trombino is someone who worked with blink during the era i love the most. obviously none of this will ever happen anyway because this band wouldn't be caught dead mic'ing up a physical amp ever again or doing anything analogue.
  20. i'm a bit late. here are my unsolicited thoughts- the album art is ridiculously lazy. it's obviously better than the feldmann records but i don't know where it stands next to neighborhoods. maybe the same or slightly worse. i like 10 out of the 19 songs released and i revisit those somewhat regularly. that would be a good number if they didn't put out so many. terrified is my favorite. fell in love isn't. the two vocalists per song thing is beyond stale at this point. mark should have just let tom ride it out most of the time rather than forcing verses and bridges that barely go with the rest of the song. i like the way everything sounds except for travis's drums. i guess that's been his preference from 2016 onward but its irritating to me. overall, i'm fine with it and think it could have been so much worse. i hope next time they just pick the 10 very best songs and work with a producer outside of their creative bubbles. travis just drums. aaron just engineers. get them back together with mark trombino or something.
  21. mark's response to it was weak. tom was probably told to take his down. travis didn't say shit.
  22. apparently AFI is doing one arena show in LA for an album anniversary and the dynamic pricing bullshit has pit tickets at $1000. this is a band that's not even at a blink/paramore/tswift level with "casual" fans.
  23. i think even if the album dropped in the spring the vinyl won't ship until the end of next year anyway. people need to stop judging anything based on that. they are not doing a world tour without the new album hype behind it.
  24. what are charts even based on these days? it is based on radio play or is it spotify streams? nobody is buying singles and radio play is pretty much paid for.
  25. i haven't listened to the song since the week it came out. kind of a bummer
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