AVA General Discussion

[twentytwenty 918]

4 hours ago, Nosferatu said:

I find it a bit too generic AVA for my liking. To me it's a bit boring and too similar to the LOVE songs. Had the same opinion on Paralyzed, although I love the riff on that song.

This song would be soooo much better if it had the LOVE sound.. 

LOVE pt1&2 is some of Tom's best work imho

[Nosferatu 1691]

2 minutes ago, Since88 said:

This song would be soooo much better if it had the LOVE sound.. 

LOVE pt1&2 is some of Tom's best work imho

I love the ideas of the album, just I'm not a fan of the finished product. Songs like One Last Thing could've been way way better without all the electronic stuff I think. Dry Your Eyes has a great build up but then the riff after that build up is just very generic AVA for me. I like the Revelator but I feel like something is missing in that song. Saturday Love & Some Origins of Fire are the ones I like though. All That We Are has a great outro but I dunno what the hell the song was doing before it builds up into the outro. I just feel like the songs are either generic AVA, lead to nowhere or just full of too much space stuff or are too long. All the songs have something I like about them though.

I'm more into the TDW sound as it's more of a raw rock sounding album to me. Prefer WDNTW and I-Empire too, although some of those songs are way too long and repetitive for my liking.

[Jan's Plan 6420]

4 hours ago, ...Dan... said:

It's average, has some good parts but also some that are not so good.

I think that's the whole beauty of it, it's simple and not as try hard as many AvA songs tend to be. It's simply Tom and effective.

4 hours ago, ...Dan... said:

I think your mind is playing tricks on you, making you like it more because of how bad Skiba is in Blink. 

I mean I would not write this out, it's possible, Skiba makes my shits sound good, but I listen to a lot of AvA right now to compare and it holds up with all of them it's definitely tighter than a lot and not so indulgent. Plus his voice sounds great imo.

It's not vintage Tom but it's more reminiscent than some of his Ava blunders

 

[jordidanen95 613]

Was listening to Rebel Girl some more and the bridge really stands out tho. Those vocal harmonies right before the last chorus is pretty nice, gives the song a fresh touch

[Jan's Plan 6420]

6 minutes ago, jordidanen95 said:

Was listening to Rebel Girl some more and the bridge really stands out tho. Those vocal harmonies right before the last chorus is pretty nice, gives the song a fresh touch

I love how quickly the bridge moves between parts.. Doesn't keep repeating itself or slow down much.

Fantastic song

[Cheerios4u98 10322]

I've caught myself listening to Rebel Girl on purpose lately. I'll admit, I like it now.

But wow, I don't think I've ever disliked an AVA song more the first time I heard it. Glad it grew on me.

[Jan's Plan 6420]

I used to dislike Surrender and Adventure, really enjoy them now.

Especially the remixed versions.  Once you accept Tom's weird transition, there's a lot of good content there.  A little too lovey dovey still at times for me.

[Kay 10459]

5 hours ago, RebelGirlsUnite said:

I used to dislike Surrender and Adventure, really enjoy them now.

Especially the remixed versions.  Once you accept Tom's weird transition, there's a lot of good content there.  A little too lovey dovey still at times for me.

The remix for Surrender is way more enjoyable than the original and I don't even hate the video although it is bloody weird and silly -

 

[Kay 10459]

also, I don't really think it sounds like Dude Ranch all the way through but parts of this are actually pretty damn close - 

 

[Cheerios4u98 10322]

15 hours ago, Kay said:

The remix for Surrender is way more enjoyable than the original and I don't even hate the video although it is bloody weird and silly -

 

Agreed, this remix made me like the song.

[jordidanen95 613]

https://www.nme.com/news/music/tom-delonge-says-angels-and-airwaves-new-album-vision-where-wanted-blink-182-go-future-2507286

Tom DeLonge says Angels And Airwaves’ new album is “vision for where I wanted Blink-182 to go in the future”
 

[Speedo 11269]

30 minutes ago, jordidanen95 said:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/tom-delonge-says-angels-and-airwaves-new-album-vision-where-wanted-blink-182-go-future-2507286

Tom DeLonge says Angels And Airwaves’ new album is “vision for where I wanted Blink-182 to go in the future”
 

Tom says a lot of things, most of it is hype.

[jordidanen95 613]

But i'm still very stoked. It seems like ava is back into a polished sound, but at the same time still raw elements from previous work. Rebel Girl was a nice single

Im just hoping for really good deep cuts

[Jan's Plan 6420]

On 6/19/2019 at 2:56 AM, Kay said:

The remix for Surrender is way more enjoyable than the original and I don't even hate the video although it is bloody weird and silly -

 

I can't listen to the original because this one is so much better.  All these versions are good if not better.

[alex_dept. 339]

Guys, do you know what happened to The AVA Movement? I think it used to be pretty active 3 or 4 years ago, but now the most active ava discussions are either here or on reddit. I remember that guy plopbellie from 182online forum, I think he is the admin or was.

[Speedo 11269]

11 minutes ago, alex_dept. said:

Guys, do you know what happened to The AVA Movement? I think it used to be pretty active 3 or 4 years ago, but now the most active ava discussions are either here or on reddit. I remember that guy plopbellie from 182online forum, I think he is the admin or was.

Got tired of Tom's shit.

[Ry-Bread 5491]

3 hours ago, alex_dept. said:

Guys, do you know what happened to The AVA Movement? I think it used to be pretty active 3 or 4 years ago, but now the most active ava discussions are either here or on reddit. I remember that guy plopbellie from 182online forum, I think he is the admin or was.

There's a new one that plop worked on, it's just pretty inactive:

https://www.avamovement.com/forum/

[Kay 10459]

5 hours ago, alex_dept. said:

Guys, do you know what happened to The AVA Movement? I think it used to be pretty active 3 or 4 years ago, but now the most active ava discussions are either here or on reddit. I remember that guy plopbellie from 182online forum, I think he is the admin or was.

Plop is admin of the new Ava movement but not the old one, or 182online. Plops a great dude, I kind of wish he'd post here but i think he'd hate it. 

[Speedo 11269]

1 minute ago, Kay said:

Plop is admin of the new Ava movement but not the old one, or 182online. Plops a great dude, I kind of wish he'd post here but i think he'd hate it. 

I don't remember him?

Hey, what was the name of that guy who had that terrible Challenges band?

[Kay 10459]

Just now, Margie Whipple Homicides said:

I don't remember him?

Hey, what was the name of that guy who had that terrible Challenges band?

Brian. 

Plop was after your time.