Trainwreck Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 2 hours ago, Champ182 said: ...the songs felt unfinished in some ways. They seem to have had some trouble with structures, the bridges go absolutely nowhere. Disaster especially, which was a bummer because that song had some real promise. But the way it just drops down to the drum beat for 5 measures (?!) then has like a copy/pasted drum roll going back into the chorus, stuff like that is mind boggling to me. I still can't believe they just said "eh, fuck it, good enough, let's just leave it that way." I've always wondered what's going on when the guitar part in the bridge in When I Was Young drops out randomly halfway through the beat. It's either the stupidest creative choice or someone fucked up. Did anyone listen to this thing before they put it out? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedo Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 1 minute ago, Trainwreck said: I've always wondered what's going on when the guitar part in the bridge in When I Was Young drops out randomly halfway through the beat. It's either the stupidest creative choice or someone fucked up. Did anyone listen to this thing before they put it out? I think they had something else planned but didn't see it through or have time to finish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thongrider Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 I do love that a part is added to each chorus of Disaster. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucko Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 I just wish it was called dogs eating food, life scares me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champ182 Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 16 hours ago, Trainwreck said: I've always wondered what's going on when the guitar part in the bridge in When I Was Young drops out randomly halfway through the beat. It's either the stupidest creative choice or someone fucked up. Did anyone listen to this thing before they put it out? Hahaha yess that's the other one I couldn't think of off the top of my head. Unreal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicknem92 Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 2 hours ago, Champ182 said: Hahaha yess that's the other one I couldn't think of off the top of my head. Unreal. This is clearly on purpose and sounds cool Imo. Agree with everything else you said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 19 hours ago, Trainwreck said: I've always wondered what's going on when the guitar part in the bridge in When I Was Young drops out randomly halfway through the beat. It's either the stupidest creative choice or someone fucked up. Did anyone listen to this thing before they put it out? love that part. The way the chorus Comes in after the bridge in disaster though is super wierd. I don't mind it but it just shows that it was a rushed Thing. i think tom was very inspired, started to put some Songs together, got excited, got the other guys in the studio but he/they didn't have the Energy to push them to the next Level, so they just left so many lose ends and probably were happy they got to go home 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feeling_This_1 Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 You could easily swap out 5 songs from Neighborhoods and put these instead 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosferatu Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 56 minutes ago, Neal said: love that part. The way the chorus Comes in after the bridge in disaster though is super wierd. I don't mind it but it just shows that it was a rushed Thing. i think tom was very inspired, started to put some Songs together, got excited, got the other guys in the studio but he/they didn't have the Energy to push them to the next Level, so they just left so many lose ends and probably were happy they got to go home Yeah, I have the same feeling regarding DED. The commitment to them was perfect. Blink looked like they were finally becoming a full time band again. Mark travelled all the way from UK for it. Travis is always committed. Tom actually was hyped for blink. But it was rushed. No producer. Didn't it take just a month? I remember Mark going back and forth from UK to USA during the recording of that EP. So that probably meant Mark was there 2-3 days a week for a whole month. If you be literal about it, they probably spent about 15-20 days working on it. Not enough time at all iMO. It also seemed to me Tom had most of the songs written before they started recording too. But it was improvement I think. I didn't find the bridges boring like Neighborhoods ones. WIYY was just different to all the bridges from Neighborhoods. DED had a weird but cool bridge. Had no clue why they did that bridge for Disaster. Boxing Day, you can tell that was a full band effort and the bridge totally works for it. PLG had some forced rap. They were improving from Neighborhoods. But something was still missing. They needed more time and a producer. And I think they needed to write all these songs together more. Tom's lyrics also improved shit loads for this EP compared to Neighborhoods too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 Tom needed to leave blink. I'm very happy he did. I just wish mark and travis would've done the same Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosferatu Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 21 minutes ago, Neal said: Tom needed to leave blink. I'm very happy he did. I just wish mark and travis would've done the same I think they would've been fine if they were all 100% committed to blink. Well, if Tom was then he'd have no problem with Mark & Travis really. But I'm starting to think +44 should've returned instead of hiring Skiba to replace Tom. Or some side project with Skiba, then maybe we'd get that +44/Alkaline Trio sound most of us were hoping for. We'll see after this new album anyway. Hopefully they can surprise us all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 4 minutes ago, Nosferatu said: But I'm starting to think +44 should've returned instead of hiring Skiba to replace Tom. Or some side project with Skiba, then maybe we'd get that +44/Alkaline Trio sound most of us were hoping for. absolutely. i like to hear knew music from the guys. but i don't Need blink to be still around if it isn't mark tom and travis. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Backing Track Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 31 minutes ago, Neal said: Tom needed to leave blink. I'm very happy he did. I just wish mark and travis would've done the same Yeah but it was a bit premature. Boxcar, WDNTW I mean half those songs are rooted in Tom's blink side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosferatu Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 Man, I'd still love to hear what blink would've sounded like if Tom never left in 2005. Those AVA songs from that album with input from Mark & Travis, as well as some Mark songs with input from Tom. I think that album would've been better than the smiley face album. 2002-2006 was the prime of blink from a creativity stand point. They all still have it in them to write kick ass tracks though, even on California. Just there's way less and less of them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasa Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 "When I Was Young" is my favorite song on DED, and it would've been super interesting to hear what the band would be like now if they had continued in that direction. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkarrow Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 I love the EP. Has anyone bought the pseudo physical copy that’s on amazon? It’s not official but I’ve always wondered what the disk looks like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioactive tomdog Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 i wish they would release the version of PLG without the rap. it sounds like someone who is really good with protools could just cut it out and dissolve it, right? travis literally just drum rolls through that whole part 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patient #48273 Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 Didn't someone post a decent quality rap-less edit a while ago? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosferatu Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 I've heard that before but they cut out that entire bridge and replace it with the intro after the first chorus. Made it even worse IMO. I'd like the bridge to still be there, just without the rap. So at that point, just an instrumental. All i've ever heard are cut copy and paste stuff. It just makes it sound lazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManchesterAdam Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 On 1/31/2019 at 2:39 AM, darkarrow said: I love the EP. Has anyone bought the pseudo physical copy that’s on amazon? It’s not official but I’ve always wondered what the disk looks like. Yeah I have it but not looked at it in years. Will dig it out and post the picture on here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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