The Tom Delonge Thread

[prankerd14]

The live version sounded so promising, it sounds so shit the mix after the intro on this and doesnt really pick up..

[prankerd14]

If blink released an album like this they would be destroyed lol 

[M!ke]

New song is weak.  Not as bad as Rebel Girl, but it's definitely a forgettable one.  Parts of the tune are really reminiscent of Rollercoaster by Bleachers too, but that song is so much better, that I'm gonna go listen to that one as a cleanse from this meh of a song lol.

[Nosferatu]

Those verses just kill the song. They should've just let the guitars hit hard after the intro like they do for the verses of Valkyrie Missile, Adventure and Mercenaries 

[JarJarBlinks]

33 minutes ago, prankerd14 said:

If blink released an album like this they would be destroyed lol 

THANK YOU

[Speedo]

37 minutes ago, prankerd14 said:

If blink released an album like this they would be destroyed lol 

Instead they released California and got destroyed!

Bring on the crabs, you sons of bitches!

[kibbles]

Edit: eh nvm I’ll wait till I can give it a proper listen

[radioactive tomdog]

i like this song but am really worried about no more guns and the fire one 

[NotNow]

Tom explains critters death here. Flew out to record all that we are solo while tom was on tour and then died after.

His timeline isn’t right though love part 2 came out november 1, 2011 and he died in January 2012. Album must have been finished recording at least a month prior. Still crazy though.

https://www.kerrang.com/features/tom-delonge-my-life-in-10-songs/

[Knapppers]

Echoing what most are saying with the disappointment with time bomb. Was looking so forward to it and it's just meh. Something about his voice in the recording kills it and like others have said, there's like no guitar. 

[Russel Coight]

Yeah songs not bad. It’s not really that good either. Tom sounds weird on it.

[Kay]

Hey this is promising, if you all hate it I might like it lol

[Champ182]

27 minutes ago, Kay said:

Hey this is promising, if you all hate it I might like it lol

Haha this matches your enjoyment of a lot of the post-Rubin AVA stuff so that makes sense.

I just don't really "hear" Tom in a lot of the post-Rubin era stuff. I could be completely wrong but the melodies/progressions/structures seem unnatural for him based on the rest of his career, which makes me think Ilan has a bigger hand in AVA than anybody else ever has.

(Which is totally fine by the way, he's the other fulltime bandmember and Tom isn't very interested in music so it makes sense. I also have never been drawn to AVA in the first place. But Ilan's vibes just don't hit the sweet spot for me.)

[Kay]

10 minutes ago, Champ182 said:

Haha this matches your enjoyment of a lot of the post-Rubin AVA stuff so that makes sense.

I just don't really "hear" Tom in a lot of the post-Rubin era stuff. I could be completely wrong but the melodies/progressions/structures seem unnatural for him based on the rest of his career, which makes me think Ilan has a bigger hand in AVA than anybody else ever has.

(Which is totally fine by the way, he's the other fulltime bandmember and Tom isn't very interested in music so it makes sense. I also have never been drawn to AVA in the first place. But Ilan's vibes just don't hit the sweet spot for me.)

The vocal melodies seem like Tom to me, as do the stupid lyrics, but musically most of it doesn't "feel" like him, but because it's Toms weird space rock project and not blink I care a lot less. AVA isn't exactly an epic quality I'm expecting him to hit, if you have zero expectations it ends up being alright like. 

[Cheerios4u98]

Yeah not listening to this either. I want an experience that at least somewhat resembles listening to a new album for the first time when the full thing comes out.

[scoobs]

Such a boring song, least favorite of the bunch 

[daveyjones]

On 9/20/2021 at 5:43 PM, NotNow said:

It has not. Albums don’t leak anymore. It would be more shocking if it did leak before Thursday.

it's been in the wild for two weeks on private trackers.

[NotNow]

11 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

it's been in the wild for two weeks on private trackers.

What are private trackers?

[daveyjones]

3 minutes ago, NotNow said:

What are private trackers?

private, member-only bittorrent trackers.

[Russel Coight]

3 minutes ago, NotNow said:

What are private trackers?

Torrent sites that are invite only and then they have all these strict rules etc. Full of tossers but they do usually get stuff early although most of it ends up elsewhere pretty quick.