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4 minutes ago, NJansaid said:

That's why Down was so awesome, it was really new at the time and showed us this mature blink side.

Yeah, I'm surprised at the dislike I'm seeing here. Freaking love this song, regardless of its efficacy as a single.

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3 hours ago, Whales said:

Yeah, I'm surprised at the dislike I'm seeing here. Freaking love this song, regardless of its efficacy as a single.

Just to be clear, love the song! I was just speaking on it as a single specifically and why I think it didn't keep the huge Feeling This/I Miss You momentum going at the time

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Lyrically Down be might be dull but I think songwriting was mostly a craft to blink. They have always been the kind of band that just wanted to put all their efforts in how a song sounded. And their songs sounded immense and were different from everything else, although they weren't anything new.
Maybe Down is overplayed but you can still listen to it and appreciate what they were trying to capture with it. Stockholm Syndrome is more immediate, I prefer it too, but it's a simpler song and I think that, as a band, they were more into Down than Stockholm Syndrome at the time.

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16 hours ago, Champ182 said:

Interesting, when I think of Down and Stockholm Syndrome I think of Down as a wayyy "simpler" song!

Aaand I think you're right because the song structure of Stockholm Sydrome is way more complex but it's just something I don't tend to notice when I listen to it because Stockholm Sydrome is a fast and strong song (that's why I said it was immediate, at least to me). On the contrary, I like all the subtle things you can catch in Down because it feels like they add more layers to a regular song, like the piano effects in the verses, the whispers, the guitar tones. The drums too.

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