The blink 182 general discussion topic

[Resident Zoomer]

Maybe Matt was on this collab after all with that Adam’s Song riff /s

[Speedo]

It all just sounds the same to me now. It's not for me.

[Speedo]

It's not even that it's formulaic, Blink has always been formulaic but they had a unique sound and style that no other band could pull off and I feel like that bit of charm and charisma is missing now. It's not even that these songs are bad, they're technically good, catchy songs but they don't have any real character, at least not the character the band used to have and that's not an "I miss Tom" statement. Mark, Matt and Travis are very capable and talented musicians and songwriters. So why is everything coming off so disingenuous. I don't believe it's working with other writers and artists, as much as others would like to believe it is. I feel like they never built their chemistry the way a normal band would and it just isn't meshing together well. I would love to see them take a year off, hang out together, write music together and build that chemistry, come out with 12 to 15 songs for demos and hit the studio after that. I just don't think Skiba has really had the chance to grow into the band the way he should havr or as any other replacement member would.

I get the hesitation to do so, this band has quite the legacy behind it and maybe it means they produce something subpar but at least it will be their own voice for once and not something stale. I'd rather sacrifice an album to build that character and chemistry than string along collaboration after collaboration of the same mediocrity and generic plastic rock. It's becoming an imitation and, to quote the great Laura Jane Grace, "an imitation of an original defeats the fucking purpose".

[daveyjones]

10 minutes ago, Mr. Earl said:

Blink has always been formulaic...I feel like that bit of charm and charisma is missing now.

speedo gets it. #facts

[Speedo]

Just now, daveyjones said:

speedo gets it. #facts

I'm an anomaly (that's a thing without a name)!

*50 internet points for you, Davey, if you get that reference!

[Loudernow]

Full song is out here in Europe already. I think it‘s a great one. Catchy and fun. Out of the last features my favorite for sure! 

[iguessthisisgrowingup]

Mark will sound perfect on Let Me Down. much better fit than that other remix he featured on

[CatDude]

What a bunch of crybabies! The band is willingly working with these artists, they aren't being forced to do anything and they sure aren't being bossed around by a bunch of nerdy writers. Blink 182 with Matt is basically a separate entity than with Tom so it's not really the same legacy. 

I'm not sure we even get a single album with Tom if he was still around. He didn't go on a tour til 2019 and has slowed down with Ava. 

[Bucko]

 

I'm actually disappointed this never saw the light of day, the guitar at the end of the chorus sounded completely different to anything else on Nine / Cali. Sounded like a Tom line. 

[Low Value Boy]

18 hours ago, Ry-Bread said:

Musicians wanting to create music, play live music, and have fun collaborating with other musicians who ask them, what a revelation.

It's called quality control. 

[zzzz]

That remix is dope! Mark's "You take me back to such better days, but those better days weren't good enough." line is super catchy, wish he would've saved that for a blink song. That bridge is dope too "I couldn't change if I wanted to, on my phone here we go..." (love the Green Day nod). Now I'm gonna have to check out more from this Oliver Tree dude...?

[Elisa]

This one sounds actually like a real collaboration and it's not just Travis on the drums and Mark showing up for a line or two. I don't like the plastic guitars, but it's more interesting than the other collabs. 

[Coddled Jan]

One thing I've learned throughout this whole entire era

Is that Mark wrote Adam's Song.

[iguessthisisgrowingup]

oof that riff. everything else is cool though. rad song

22 minutes ago, Jan's Plan said:

One thing I've learned throughout this whole entire era

Is that Mark wrote Adam's Song.

Dammit too. Mark wrote like every iconic riff

[Champ182]

13 hours ago, Russel Coight said:

Do you think it could be that those bands just don’t reach out for the collabs? I feel pop music has always been more open to collabs than the punk/indie scene which has always felt a bit more DIY if you get me? I’m not very up there with many modern bands and I actually don’t know any of those you listed haha so not sure whether that old punk DIY attitude applies to them or not.

Like I have absolutely no idea how these collabs start. I always figured it started with the labels talking to each other but that could be very very wrong. 

Oh yeah absolutely agree with all of this! To be honest a lot of times I'm just kind of unfairly judging Blink against my own wishlist of what would be cool in a perfect world haha. I know it's not always fair. But also here are some songs by the bands I listed, I highly recommend them all!

PUP - See You At Your Funeral - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIgu46uI9XU

Soccer Mommy - Cool - https://youtu.be/7Phsup-LrII

The Sidekicks - Other People's Pets - https://youtu.be/qCdx18AfBNg

Charly Bliss - Hard To Believe - https://youtu.be/eQZdBVgkYCg

 

[boxelder]

3 minutes ago, Champ182 said:

Culture Abuse - Bay Dream - https://youtu.be/5VlJ4fWxCVs

did you hear about culture abuse?

[Champ182]

6 minutes ago, boxelder said:

did you hear about culture abuse?

Oh god dammit, not until you posted this and I googled. NEVERMIND.

[boxelder]

4 minutes ago, Champ182 said:

Oh god dammit, not until you posted this and I googled. NEVERMIND.

very weird — the whole burger records thing is sketch as fuck. i sorta always got weird vibes from that scene though (not necessarily culture abuse)

[Elisa]

I read about it last night, what a bummer. I loved Culture Abuse and I am feeling really betrayed because they were all about inclusiveness and community building and now it all feels like a load of shit. 

[Resident Zoomer]

Regarding the Oliver Tree remix, I know it’s more than likely that Mark played guitar on this track, but he somehow managed to perfectly replicate Matt’s shitty clean tone live.