The blink 182 general discussion topic

[Speedo]

1 minute ago, Russel Coight said:

Yeah I’m shocked. The song is so Mark it’s not funny. I’m sure Tom had fuck all to do with it.

The strumming of the guitar doesn’t sound like Tom. Sounds like Mark did in plus 44.

[Kay]

1 minute ago, Speedo said:

The strumming of the guitar doesn’t sound like Tom. Sounds like Mark did in plus 44.

Same goes for kaleidoscope tbh, just doesn’t sound like his style at all

[AmonRaStMAGA]

Chris Holmes interview with Propertyofzack

 

So for example one way we worked was, if Mark had an idea and we had a tempo and key we liked, rather than send a quick demo we could get the keeper bass or guitar sounds and really nail down the part we wanted before sending it to Tom. From there Tom would listen, if he heard something he wanted to change or play differently he would record it, send it back to us, ask us what we thought … from there Travis would play drums, and then the song would make the rounds again. This wasn’t always the exact sequence of events with who did what first, but that’s typically how it would flow. “Snake Charmer” and “MH 4.18.2011” were two that came from this way of working.

Along with that, we worked on 4 or 5 ideas that started with everybody in the same room together. Those days were really fast paced, and the energy was crazy. We’d get a song structure, tempo, and key pretty much set, and then do a good demo version. At the end of the day we’d make notes on what to tweak, and then everybody would re-record their parts with the keeper sounds they wanted the next week at their own studio. To me this was more of what a normal pre-production would have been like. “After Midnight” and “Natives” came from this way of working. 

[Worst poster here]

Agreed. The tracks that Tom clearly wrote/played guitar on in NH are GOTDF, Natives, UAN, After Midnight, Snake Charmer, Wishing Well, This Is Home, Love is Dangerous, and Even if She Falls. I think the rest is Mark but I have no way to substantiate it.

[_Bagel]

Yeah - I know nothing about music theory, but when you get familiar with someone's style - you can just, tell.

Still can't be the power of them in a room, Natives.

I also love that Travis called Tom up after hearing Ghost on The Dancefloor, it reminded him of DJ AM. Tom and Trav's friendship have little quirks and dimensions like that, I rate it

[Cheerios4u98]

I remember when it was announced that Matt was joining the band that a lot of us (myself included) feared that it would no longer be blink and it would feel more like +44 with Matt Skiba.

I don’t know why I was afraid of that because that actually sounds like a perfect band to me lol. I wish that’s what we actually got. No Heart To Speak Of and a couple NINE tracks kind of get close to feeling like that for me.

[Worst poster here]

1 minute ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

I remember when it was announced that Matt was joining the band that a lot of us (myself included) feared that it would no longer be blink and it would feel more like +44 with Matt Skiba.

I don’t know why I was afraid of that because that actually sounds like a perfect band to me lol. I wish that’s what we actually got. No Heart To Speak Of and a couple NINE tracks kind of get close to feeling like that for me.

If I were to make an album that best exemplifies that, it would be like:

-Cynical

-BTD

-Los Angeles

-No Future

-San Diego

-Hey I’m Sorry

-Last Train Home

-Long Lost Feeling

-Heaven

-Darkside

-Black Rain

-No Heart to Speak Of

-On Some Emo Shit

Those are the closest to +44 featuring Skiba IMO.

 

 

 

 

 

[M!ke]

4 hours ago, Ghent said:

MH 85203958203 is a great tune. That was done in the crop of good songs they finished writing together at the end of the process

MH and This is Home are the weakest songs on that album by a large margin for me.  Interestingly, when the album first launched, I also lumped in Wishing Well and Kaleidoscope with those 2 others songs as just a huge weak point in the album of songs that I had thought were trash as they all occur next to each other in the same part of the album.  But Wishing Well slowly grew on me, to the point where I enjoy that song a lot.  While Kaleidoscope I thought was nothing special at first, and then one day it clicked hard and I fell in love with it.  It went seemingly overnight from being a very weak song to one of my all time favorite blink songs, can't really explain that one.  I thought maybe the same would happen for MH and This Is Home as well, but it never really has.  It's not like I hate them, but for me they're the low points of the album.

[M!ke]

45 minutes ago, Get divorced for the kids said:

If I were to make an album that best exemplifies that, it would be like:

-Cynical

-BTD

-Los Angeles

-No Future

-San Diego

-Hey I’m Sorry

-Last Train Home

-Long Lost Feeling

-Heaven

-Darkside

-Black Rain

-No Heart to Speak Of

-On Some Emo Shit

Those are the closest to +44 featuring Skiba IMO.

I agree strongly with your list, I think I would include Bottom of the Ocean as well (side note, that's a very underrated song, probably my favorite off of the second disc of the Deluxe edition of California).  I gotta listen to that second disc again, I remember liking it a lot, yet feel like I barely listened to it.

[scoobs]

Does anyone like This Is Home?  Like actually like it?  Surprised to hear anyone liked MH4193472838

[NotNow]

11 minutes ago, scoobs said:

Does anyone like This Is Home?  Like actually like it?  Surprised to hear anyone liked MH4193472838

Yea great song. @Ghent is ride or die with me on that.

[daveyjones]

12 minutes ago, scoobs said:

Does anyone like This Is Home?

i like tom's noodling hammer-on riffage but it's pretty AVA. the chorus is cringe.

[Kay]

I despise This Is Home, easily the worst song on Neighborhoods even when you include the HAG interlude 

[Chalk Outlines]

12 hours ago, Ghent said:

MH 85203958203 is a great tune. That was done in the crop of good songs they finished writing together at the end of the process

Toms only real involvement with this was suggesting to keep the protools title. He said it sounded like the name of a virus.  

[Nosferatu]

This is Home has bad lyrics but it is catchy. I do find it a standard and lazy blink song with AVA elements though. Could've been way better, but the potential was there for it to be an amazing track.

The finished product just feels like it was there just to make up numbers on the album. Basically a filler.

I still don't get the hype for Even If She Falls on these boards. Ever since the release of that album everyone here has raved about that song. Love the riff but outside of that, the song reeks of a boring AVA song.

[Patient #48273]

2 hours ago, Chalk Outlines said:

Toms only real involvement with this was suggesting to keep the protools title. He said it sounded like the name of a virus.  

Maybe they'll name a new covid variant after the song!

[Coightstradamus]

Never heard these before. Pretty cool.

[JarJarBlinks]

8 hours ago, scoobs said:

Does anyone like This Is Home?  Like actually like it?  Surprised to hear anyone liked MH4193472838

one of my favorite songs.

[Ghent]

8 hours ago, NotNow said:

Yea great song. @Ghent is ride or die with me on that.

Hell yeah man. This Is Home is an all time blink song for me. I defended it for years on here against onslaughts lol.

[Cheerios4u98]

This Is Home is catchy as fuck. I don't know why but I just love the stuttering in the chorus for some reason lol