The Tom Delonge Thread

[Nasa]

15 minutes ago, Gaslit Jan said:

That can't be healthy to be listening to Jesus of Suburbia once a week.

 

I mean I very much like the song, but you could easily just combine 3 of blinks songs, say Down, Always, Asthenia, or literally like they did with Easy Target/All Of This and throw a transition in there to make a Jesus of Untitled and it'd be the same thing. 

i'm not too sure about that, the 5 parts to Jesus of Suburbia were written to succeed with each other in mind and GD developed them by rehearsing from 30-second ideas they had or something like that. all the parts sound like they could be individual songs if taken further, but as it stands they need each other to form a whole. 

if you parsed down elements of Always and Asthenia from their current states, they could be turned into something similar (i wouldn't include Down personally bc i find that song a real drag, haha).

[Sun God]

4 minutes ago, Nasa said:

i'm not too sure about that, the 5 parts to Jesus of Suburbia were written to succeed with each other in mind and GD developed them by rehearsing from 30-second ideas they had or something like that. all the parts sound like they could be individual songs if taken further, but as it stands they need each other to form a whole. 

if you parsed down elements of Always and Asthenia from their current states, they could be turned into something similar (i wouldn't include Down personally bc i find that song a real drag, haha).

Jan was reaching hard with that one lol

[Coddled Jan]

20 minutes ago, Diddy Faplord said:

Me too.

but to keep things fresh...to all the Scott elitists...Travis made it better  

 

Omg, Tom was so spot-on too back then (guitar and vocals).  
"I needed you most, when I needed a friend

You let me down now like I let you down then"

 

Top 20 Blink song

 

[Coddled Jan]

16 minutes ago, Nasa said:

i'm not too sure about that, the 5 parts to Jesus of Suburbia were written to succeed with each other in mind and GD developed them by rehearsing from 30-second ideas they had or something like that. all the parts sound like they could be individual songs if taken further, but as it stands they need each other to form a whole. 

if you parsed down elements of Always and Asthenia from their current states, they could be turned into something similar (i wouldn't include Down personally bc i find that song a real drag, haha).

See, that's what they want you to think.

Pretentious Day

[Sun God]

12 minutes ago, Gaslit Jan said:

See, that's what they want you to think.

Pretentious Day

I think Tom is more pretentious than anyone in Green Day 

[Coddled Jan]

3 minutes ago, Mohammad Wall-E said:

I think Tom is more pretentious than anyone in Green Day 

Again, I'm not really arguing that, I'm saying the Jesus of Suburbia hype was generally always about its length of a pop punk song.

I'm very sure Mark, Tom, Travis, Tre Cool are all more pretentious than Billie Joel and Mike Dirnt.

[Speedo]

3 minutes ago, Mohammad Wall-E said:

I think Tom is more pretentious than anyone in Green Day 

No way ... maybe more than Dirnt but not Billie Joe and certainly not Tre.

[Sun God]

1 minute ago, Gaslit Jan said:

Again, I'm not really arguing that, I'm saying the Jesus of Suburbia hype was generally always about its length of a pop punk song.

I'm very sure Mark, Tom, Travis, Tre Cool are all more pretentious than Billie Joel and Mike Dirnt.

I wouldn’t really call those pop punk songs though. More so just rock n roll...something blink could never pull off

[Speedo]

Billie Joe is like a less annoying Fat Mike ... he's in love with himself but at least he sings about other shit.

[Sun God]

2 minutes ago, Spee-doh said:

No way ... maybe more than Dirnt but not Billie Joe and certainly not Tre.

You’re probably right. Billie Joe is just low key pretentious, but let’s be honest he has earned the right to be. Tom is pretentious but knows enough to understand he isn’t ahead of Billie Joe in the rock world, despite what some of his fans may post on this website.  

[Coddled Jan]

4 minutes ago, Spee-doh said:

No way ... maybe more than Dirnt but not Billie Joe and certainly not Tre.

Tom is just misunderstood.  His "pretentiousness" is just him fucking around or whatever his beef is with going back to blink.  Anyone who takes his "bigger than Jesus" lines seriously doesn't understand his humor or spirit behind it.

Billie Joe is the Bob Dylan songbird of our generation though so chill out.

[Coddled Jan]

5 minutes ago, Mohammad Wall-E said:

I wouldn’t really call those pop punk songs though. More so just rock n roll...something blink could never pull off

Take your semantics and log outta here with that, you keep creating new arguments I'm not even really arguing everytime lol

LOG OFF DIDDY, LOG OFF

[Coddled Jan]

5 minutes ago, Mohammad Wall-E said:

You’re probably right. Billie Joe is just low key pretentious, but let’s be honest he has earned the right to be. Tom is pretentious but knows enough to understand he isn’t ahead of Billie Joe in the rock world, despite what some of his fans may post on this website.  

This is almost worse than speculating on Tom's mental illnesses lol, let's dial it back.

[Sun God]

1 minute ago, Gaslit Jan said:

This is almost worse than speculating on Tom's mental illnesses lol, let's dial it back.

I mean I’m not wrong 

[JarJarBlinks]

10 minutes ago, Mohammad Wall-E said:

I wouldn’t really call those pop punk songs though. More so just rock n roll...something blink could never pull off

The absolutely last thing I would ever want is for blink to write something as cringe as a rock opera....so.....I guess I'm glad they couldn't pull it off?

[Ghent]

8 minutes ago, Gaslit Jan said:

Billie Joe is the Bob Dylan songbird of our generation though so chill out.

Those two don't belong in the same sentence. I'm upset from reading it

[Sun God]

2 minutes ago, JarJarBlinks said:

The absolutely last thing I would ever want is for blink to write something as cringe as a rock opera....so.....I guess I'm glad they couldn't pull it off?

I mean where is the “opera” part really at? I’m just saying blink could never do a real rock n roll album. They rely too heavily on auto tune and layers of guitars and other instruments they don’t play to fill everything out. Call me old school, but that’s my gripe with them. 

[Sun God]

1 minute ago, Ghent said:

Those two don't belong in the same sentence. I'm upset from reading it

You’re right. Billie Joe is more like the John Lennon of our generation. 

[Coddled Jan]

9 minutes ago, Mohammad Wall-E said:

I mean where is the “opera” part really at? I’m just saying blink could never do a real rock n roll album. They rely too heavily on auto tune and layers of guitars and other instruments they don’t play to fill everything out. Call me old school, but that’s my gripe with them. 

Who the fuck wants that though??

Are you actually a blink fan even??

Killing us Diddy.

[Sun God]

2 minutes ago, Gaslit Jan said:

Who the fuck wants that though??

Are you actually a blink fan even??

Killing us Diddy.

I mean, I’d love an album that they could actually play Iive without a bunch of lame backing tracks lol