Tom DeLonge - "New World"

[boxelder]

probably needs a thread. thoughts/reviews?

[Capsov]

Im worried no one on here actually bought it.

[Zoltan]

http://pastebin.com/Satq7nT5

[Cheerios4u98]

Dammit I actually really enjoyed that. Sounds like a blend of blink and AVA, but more like blink. I actually like it quite a bit.

[boxelder]

embarrassed to say that i'm into it. agree with that it's the most "rock" song tom's made since 2005.

[One Eight Two]

As I stated before, this makes me hate him even more now. GUITARS; what we've all wanted.

[Cheerios4u98]

Someone now needs to find a way to screw Tom out of his own solo project to see if it makes him release more music faster out of revenge. This is good.

[Zoltan]

ok, i've listened it twice and it was enough. this song is a piece of shit. boring, monotone. the riff+bassline is annoying.

[Capsov]

Not blown away. Its ok. His singing is atrocious.  Congrats Tom you found your guitar.

[JarJarBlinks]

Song is okay, musically passable.  Can definitely tell it would have gotten cleaned up and rearranged in the studio. 

 

Is it just me, or are the lyrics a blatant cry of him playing the victim  card AGAIN?! Maybe I'm a little biased, but him talking about "his brand new world", him being "crucified" and "set free" and all of the other terms seem to me to tell a tale of how Blink was somehow oppressing him.  

 

Douche. 

[radioactive tomdog]

he clearly wrote/recorded this within the past two months or whatever. the lyrics suck. its just a bad attempt to win blink fans over. bring on skiba.

[Knapppers]

I like it, which kills me.  His singing is pretty terrible though

[JarJarBlinks]

Also, have all members of Blink given up entirely on bridges with vocals in them? Jesus Christ how lazy can you be? 

[M!ke]

It's not bad, but it's nothing great either. Admittedly it's better than the majority of his AAA songs, but overall I'm not feeling it. Doesn't feel very blink to me, but it's also not really AAA either. I dunno, I need some more time to digest it, but my initial reaction is meh.

[Cheerios4u98]

I like this but a huge part of me thinks Tom purposefully released the song that sounds most like blink-182 first and the rest will still be AVA songs.

[boxelder]

concur on the vocals, just awful. i wonder who's doing drums.

[JarJarBlinks]

concur on the vocals, just awful. i wonder who's doing drums.

Having experience being in a band where our entire album was sampled and programmed drums, that's what it sounds like to me.  

[Cheerios4u98]

Also, have all members of Blink given up entirely on bridges with vocals in them? Jesus Christ how lazy can you be? 

Seriously!! I remember an interview (I'll never be able to find it, so I can't prove it) a long time ago where the interviewer asked Mark about the bridges in Neighborhoods because almost none of the bridges have lyrics and Mark said something about how bridges are his least favorite parts of songs and he hates writing them.

[One Eight Two]

Those are fake drums.

[MyFriendLuke182]

i try to focus only on the music without everything that happened. And i have to say this is a really good song. Better than everything on the dream walker, hell maybe even better than everything AVA has put out in the past years. A fast song with a catchy chorus and loud guitar riffs. That was all i ever wanted for blink...

I haven't taken a look on the lyrics just yet so i can't judge them.

The only thing i don't really like is the bass part in the intro and in the middle of the song. It just seems out of place and takes the pace out of the song.

But everything that has happened leaves a bitter taste to the song.