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  1. 4 hours ago, Dylan_ said:

    Mark did mention on his discord that the set list for the next US tour will be very different. But who knows what that means when it comes to this band. Same songs just switched around? lol 

    the 90 min set rule plus the "we have to play every radio single" rule makes it impossible for them to make it different. 

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  2. 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. 

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  3. 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. 

     

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  4. 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.

     

     

  5. 56 minutes ago, Alk Vibes said:

    I think the rumor was floating around it was about Tom and his ex?  I like it regardless though.  Drums are way too loud though.

    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. 

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  6. 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. 

  7. 19 hours ago, Jared Goff said:

    Eh, I dunno. Guitars and bass on OMT doesn’t sound any better than California or Nine to me. All they’re doing is using the same digital shit that Feldmann did, just with different presets. Based on what Rubin said, they mixed a plexi preset with a SLO preset. So that’s not even mimicking what they did with Jerry Finn. Even if they used digital copies of what they recorded with Jerry, it still wouldn’t sound as good 

    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. 

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  8. 42 minutes ago, boxelder said:

    fell in love is fine but somewhat anodyne. the lyrics are pretty cringe in a way they aren’t usually, and it’s just a little too formulaic to leave any impact for me. i don’t mind the cure interpolation though, i find it neat.

    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. 

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  9. 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

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  10. 7 hours ago, Ghost said:

    WHAT WAS THAT??

    Ok, I have to find them.

     

    39 minutes ago, Rocky Braveheart said:

    Yo dawg, where'd you read about there being b-sides??

     

    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 

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  11. 13 minutes ago, Elisa said:

    I'm afraid Trombino is no longer a producer. He opened a donut chain in LA about ten years ago and he's selling donuts named after the bands he worked with - a quick google search says "punny names like Jimmy Eat Swirl and Bacon 182" lol 
     

    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. 

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  12. 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. 

     

     

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  13. 2 hours ago, Alk Vibes said:

    Are you talking about the smiley redux or the picture of the 3 of their mugshots?  Because I somewhat agree with the former but absolutely love the latter to death.  It's got a nice touch to it seeing them 3 older and just their mugs again.  Agree on rest. 

    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. 

     

    2 hours ago, Jared Goff said:

    I mean as awesome as Dude Ranch is, I wouldn’t say Mark Trombino is the producing standard for blink, lol. There is a point in time I’d love some raw blink, but it wouldn’t work with them this day and age. They need a really solid rock producer like Rick Rubin. Or shit, you know who id love to see produce them? Fat Mike. The records he has produced for NOFX and other bands are how I think a rock or punk rock band should sound. 

    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. 

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  14. 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. 

     

     

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