Ghent Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 Good point about them unnecessarily squeezing all of their influences into one song thongrider. They should all be able to contribute to a song even if it is not "their" song or their style. For example, Tom should be able to play normal guitar riffs in a mark song without forcing in delay and effects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halfster Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 any one else have a love hate with this ep? i dunno it sounds really good but i think im forcing myself to like it since its blink? can't really explain it, i hardly listen to it but when i do its nice. Just think they over use the synths Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majestic McMoose Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 I felt like i was forcing myself to like neighborhoods but DED i have yet to feel like im forcing my enjoyment of essentially every track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juice182 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 i think the intros were probably longer and mark and travis forced tom to shorten them, which makes them seem akward shoehorned into the song. i feel like songs should have awesome crazy thought out intros or no crazy intros at all. no in between stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thongrider Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Neighborhoods was pretty good! forcing yourself to like music is kind of weird, but I see what you mean, I really want to like the DED ep too and it's pretty good, but it's not as good as Neighborhoods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancing_with_myself Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Neighborhoods was pretty good! forcing yourself to like music is kind of weird, but I see what you mean, I really want to like the DED ep too and it's pretty good, but it's not as good as Neighborhoods.I went back to listen to Neighborhoods today after a long break, and I forgot how awesome some of those tracks were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blink182acti0n Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 We just need more mark songs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeamthu1 Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Neighborhoods was, and still is, awesome. Never really got any of the 'hate' for it from some people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 I actually think Neighborhoods is better than DED. Mostly because DED is only an EP though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 i'll always view neighborhoods a little differently because of the mess of a recording process that was. it hurts the songs imo knowing they were together maybe 2 weeks out of the 2 years it took to record. thats what makes DED so genuine to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted January 13, 2013 Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 If they wouldn't have revealed that information, no one would be able to tell the difference between the two. It's cool that that they recorded it together, but I'm more interested in the finalproduct than the process. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojangles Posted January 13, 2013 Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 Neighborhoods i liked after a month or so and then i started feeling like i just forcing myself to like certains bits and songs when all the hype went down. Now i don't listen to it at all and if i even put it on i kind of just feel weird listening to it. Doesn't feel right. DED on the other hand i'm more accepting of it although i haven't listened to it a minute. I was listening to it almost every for the 2 weeks it came out and then i just stopped listening to it but when i go back and listen to the songs i generally just like them better. I look at it as the step in the right direction all the songs are good but Pretty Little Girl is the right direction for them to go into. By the way i shit tired right now so my little 2 cents probably makes no sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knapppers Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 <blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="Ghent" data-cid="1039222" data-time="1358101322"><p>If they wouldn't have revealed that information, no one would be able to tell the difference between the two. It's cool that that they recorded it together, but I'm more interested in the final<br />product than the process.</p></blockquote>No shit. I hate how people say that bugs them. Like you wouldnt have even known Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkarrow Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 If they wouldn't have revealed that information, no one would be able to tell the difference between the two. It's cool that that they recorded it together, but I'm more interested in the finalproduct than the process. We would be able to tell a difference, after listening to this band as much as we have, we can tell even if they didn't tell us that information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Ah...Lex' Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 havent listened since it came out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Value Man Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 In all honestly I think PLG and DED are great, the rest are just kind of blah. So I guess Blink isn't promoting this album. Maybe show up and play some songs live somewhere? Do a single? A video? Is any of that going to happen? One con of not having a label is that although you get more cash up front from the albums sale, you also have to finance your own promotion. I think Tom learned the hard way on that when he dropped $500K of his own cash on a shitty AVA album that went nowhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Still listen to it everyday, still enjoy it.Can completely understand why some people don't. I dig the tunes though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thongrider Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 In all honestly I think PLG and DED are great, the rest are just kind of blah. So I guess Blink isn't promoting this album. Maybe show up and play some songs live somewhere? Do a single? A video? Is any of that going to happen? One con of not having a label is that although you get more cash up front from the albums sale, you also have to finance your own promotion. I think Tom learned the hard way on that when he dropped $500K of his own cash on a shitty AVA album that went nowhere. learned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thongrider Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Still listen to it everyday, still enjoy it.Can completely understand why some people don't. I dig the tunes though.I listen to PLG almost every day, the other songs not so much though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mau5 Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Do you think there will be a serious 'wtf' moment if you showed blink's progression to someone who had no idea who they were? Not in a sense that 'woah they have a different sound', but more in the fact that it would be like "What the hell happened!?" It's hard to judge with an objective viewpoint, but I always wonder how blink sounds now to an unbiased mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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