Monkey Chips Posted September 13 Report Share Posted September 13 In a 11 days it's gonna be the two year anniversary for Lifeforms... That was a pretty cool album, I still go back to it every once in awhile with it having some great tunes on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted September 15 Report Share Posted September 15 Same here. The ones that didn't stood the time for me were the LOVE records. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Chips Posted September 15 Report Share Posted September 15 Yeah, L)VE was a mess... I think it was hurt by a few things. 1) Tom was spreading himself between blink-182 and AvA (blink getting one album and AvA getting TWO ALBUMS) and also making a score for the L)VE film so obviously some sacrifices had to be made. 2) Compared to the other albums (except for that one EP you were supposed to read alongside a book), the L)VE albums were tied in someway to a film of the same name so Tom was restricting himself creatively as well. 3) Tom was at a point where AvA was running out of steam in their current formation. Not even sure how the band would have turned out if Ilan and his brother didn't get involved and breath life into Tom's music for the future after the L)VE albums. Shame we had to lose some band members post L)VE (like Atom Willard and Matt Wachter), but we also gained some cool tunes afterwards. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Chips Posted September 24 Report Share Posted September 24 It's the two year! Here's my favorite track from Lifeforms that I go back to: It was really cool seeing Tom have fun with making music videos again and the tune is really cool too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Chips Posted October 5 Report Share Posted October 5 (edited) Not sure if anyone is interested, but someone did a cover song that mashed up "The Adventure" and "Love Like Rockets" Very interesting job they did there. Also cool that the person that plays guitar in this video is left handed. Also wanted to add a cool blink-182 remix Edited October 9 by Monkey Chips Added a blink-182 remix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyswatter96 Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 Am I the only one that thinks the Reimagined version of Young London is criminally underrated/better than the original? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NerdWallet Posted October 17 Report Share Posted October 17 AVA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paparazzi Magnet Posted October 19 Report Share Posted October 19 On 10/17/2023 at 6:54 PM, Flyswatter96 said: Am I the only one that thinks the Reimagined version of Young London is criminally underrated/better than the original? Where can I find this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Chips Posted October 19 Report Share Posted October 19 4 hours ago, Paparazzi Magnet said: Where can I find this? I could be wrong, but I think they might be talking about this: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyswatter96 Posted October 19 Report Share Posted October 19 11 hours ago, Monkey Chips said: I could be wrong, but I think they might be talking about this: Yep that’s it! It’s so out of left field, I love it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted October 24 Report Share Posted October 24 On 9/15/2023 at 9:30 AM, Monkey Chips said: Yeah, L)VE was a mess... I think it was hurt by a few things. 1) Tom was spreading himself between blink-182 and AvA (blink getting one album and AvA getting TWO ALBUMS) and also making a score for the L)VE film so obviously some sacrifices had to be made. 2) Compared to the other albums (except for that one EP you were supposed to read alongside a book), the L)VE albums were tied in someway to a film of the same name so Tom was restricting himself creatively as well. 3) Tom was at a point where AvA was running out of steam in their current formation. Not even sure how the band would have turned out if Ilan and his brother didn't get involved and breath life into Tom's music for the future after the L)VE albums. Shame we had to lose some band members post L)VE (like Atom Willard and Matt Wachter), but we also gained some cool tunes afterwards. Yeah, I don't know. I though Tom was on the track of something interesting and big between WDNTW and I-Empire. The second one has fantastic songs. Call To Arms, Love Like Rockets, Star of Bethlehem, Heaven... absolute top tier AvA. You can pick the best WDNTW and I-Empire songs and you have a hell of an album there. Then he got more grandiloquent and started the whole Love 1&2 project along with the movie. I think he lost it there. Too big and kind of fell flat. Then he sort of recovered in The Dream Walker and Lifeforms, both interesting and diverse records. You can feel Rubin's input. Also, the instrumental EPs were really surprising. I like them a lot. One thing I can see clearly: once Tom gets really focused withouth pretending, he just nails the hell out of it. When he starts to think too much wide and big by himself, he just dilutes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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