The blink 182 general discussion topic

[You Dont Know Ball]

4 minutes ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

Also Give Me One Good Reason has dumb lyrics but great music. I love everything about it instrumentally. I don’t know how they made a bridge that’s just simple guitar octaves sound so huge. Love that bridge.

Yea I’m just finally learning to play this song all the way through on guitar, it’s super fun 

[Elite Takes - this is jan]

24 minutes ago, Johnny Fappleseed said:

Lol. It is a good bridge. My hot take is that the bridge in Misery is better than the Bored to Death bridge 

I hate that song with a passion so I never get around to it but yeah I forgot that bridge is amazing, top moment of Deluxe 

[Cheerios4u98]

I’ll need to do a listen through of California Deluxe again because that’s the blink album I liked the least and have listened to the least.

I know I liked Wildfire though which a lot of people hated. That one was the most classic blink sounding song on the album to me.

[You Dont Know Ball]

6 minutes ago, Funko Pop Salesman_182 said:

I hate that song with a passion so I never get around to it but yeah I forgot that bridge is amazing, top moment of Deluxe 

Yea rest of song is pretty cringe lol

[Elite Takes - this is jan]

20 minutes ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

I’ll need to do a listen through of California Deluxe again because that’s the blink album I liked the least and have listened to the least.

I know I liked Wildfire though which a lot of people hated. That one was the most classic blink sounding song on the album to me.

Wildfire is a jam. 

Always my go-to on Deluxe. 

[Nosferatu]

2 hours ago, Kay said:

I don’t wanna start the “what counts as a riff” argument again but I don’t think of it as one.

That's fair enough. I guess for me when it comes to the blink songs, anything that's more of a lead guitar than a rhythm guitar during the intro is a riff, whether that's power chords (UAN, Snake Charmer), octave chords (Wishing Well, GOTDF) or the other riffs (Natives, This is Home, Love is Dangerous, EISF).

Everyone has different ideas of what a riff is but the intro from Ghost on the Dance Floor is catchy as hell. One of my favourite Neighborhoods moments for sure.

[daveyjones]

because @Kaybrought it up, i listened to NINE in the car today for the first time in maybe over a year.

i'm fine with the production overall and the writing is OK. i just listen to it like a +44-skiba type thing and not as blink.

the lyrics overall seem to be very skiba and not as much mark... taking all her meds, sleeping with her friends? drinking, drinking, drinking... dumps, breakups... mark has been happily married for like two decades. none of the words on this album seem to be coming from any of his own experiences.

i am a tempo person. so my biggest complaint is that travis has settled into only two kinds of songs: faster than fucking fast and slow as dog shit. give me a bunch of tracks with the tempo of like pathetic or josie or even don't leave me. but it's either a WICKED GALLOP that's twice the speed of a bad religion song, or something that sounds like the foo fighters fell asleep at the wheel.

TL;DR i don't see myself spinning NINE again any time soon.

that's my two cents.

[M!ke]

I love Nine, I think it's a good embodiment of what I hoped blink with Skiba would be.  While California played it safe and simple, I felt like Nine was a much more coherent and interesting album, it seems to be an album about a breakup, not sure if that was a theme they were aiming for, but it seems to work, even if it doesn't seem to be a reflection of a real breakup that any of them were going through at the time.  It's not my favorite blink album by any means, but it still gets regular play out of me, much more than California or even Neighborhoods (though I gave that one another spin recently and it has definitely aged far better than I thought it would have, still has it's own issues though).  I'd certainly welcome another album like that from blink, but I'm much more interested in the tease of Tom returning at this point, even though I'm sure it will lead to the same old bullshit again and again.

[You Dont Know Ball]

2 hours ago, Nosferatu said:

That's fair enough. I guess for me when it comes to the blink songs, anything that's more of a lead guitar than a rhythm guitar during the intro is a riff, whether that's power chords (UAN, Snake Charmer), octave chords (Wishing Well, GOTDF) or the other riffs (Natives, This is Home, Love is Dangerous, EISF).

Everyone has different ideas of what a riff is but the intro from Ghost on the Dance Floor is catchy as hell. One of my favourite Neighborhoods moments for sure.

I’m not trying to get into this argument either, I see both sides and I think both sides are right. But blink has never struck me as lead guitar playing, it’s pretty much all rhythm guitar playing 

[You Dont Know Ball]

1 hour ago, daveyjones said:

because @Kaybrought it up, i listened to NINE in the car today for the first time in maybe over a year.

i'm fine with the production overall and the writing is OK. i just listen to it like a +44-skiba type thing and not as blink.

the lyrics overall seem to be very skiba and not as much mark... taking all her meds, sleeping with her friends? drinking, drinking, drinking... dumps, breakups... mark has been happily married for like two decades. none of the words on this album seem to be coming from any of his own experiences.

i am a tempo person. so my biggest complaint is that travis has settled into only two kinds of songs: faster than fucking fast and slow as dog shit. give me a bunch of tracks with the tempo of like pathetic or josie or even don't leave me. but it's either a WICKED GALLOP that's twice the speed of a bad religion song, or something that sounds like the foo fighters fell asleep at the wheel.

TL;DR i don't see myself spinning NINE again any time soon.

that's my two cents.

This is what I didn’t like about Untitled. All depressing and dark, when the dudes are happily married, starting families, and on top of the world. And yes I understand that you can be depressed in spite of all of that. I know you can draw inspiration from elsewhere and from the past. Still, just seemed a little off to the vibes they could have had, and a little more bought in to the emo direction MTV was heading at the time.  I dunno, just my two cents. 

[Elite Takes - this is jan]

18 minutes ago, Johnny Fappleseed said:

I’m not trying to get into this argument either, I see both sides and I think both sides are right. But blink has never struck me as lead guitar playing, it’s pretty much all rhythm guitar playing 

15 minutes ago, Johnny Fappleseed said:

This is what I didn’t like about Untitled. All depressing and dark, when the dudes are happily married, starting families, and on top of the world. And yes I understand that you can be depressed in spite of all of that. I know you can draw inspiration from elsewhere and from the past. Still, just seemed a little off to the vibes they could have had, and a little more bought in to the emo direction MTV was heading at the time.  I dunno, just my two cents. 

[Elite Takes - this is jan]

Blink has plenty of lead guitar, as Mark's bass largely carries the rhythm. 

Part of why many liked blink more than Fall Out Boy or whomever is because there was at least a little more to the guitar than just power chords.  It's no Eddie Van Halen, but that always differentiated them even more.  Why many of us got a guitar was for Dammit. Adams song for me.

[You Dont Know Ball]

36 minutes ago, Funko Pop Salesman_182 said:

Blink has plenty of lead guitar, as Mark's bass largely carries the rhythm. 

Part of why many liked blink more than Fall Out Boy or whomever is because there was at least a little more to the guitar than just power chords.  It's no Eddie Van Halen, but that always differentiated them even more.  Why many of us got a guitar was for Dammit. Adams song for me.

I agree and I def love Tom’s riffs and stuff. Simple and tasty. I guess I think of “lead” guitar as more solo-y type stuff. I guess because blink is just one guitarist you could call Tom more of a hybrid? Although if he was forced to be in a two guitarist band that had rhythm and a lead, he would certainly be the rhythm guitarist lol

[Ghent]

Upon this revisiting of NINE I’m a bit on the fence about crazy Tom returning. The album didn’t get a fair shake because of the Feldmann stuff, it lacked a powerful lead radio single, they toured Enema instead of NINE because of the convenient timing and lack of a big single, AND covid hit.

We sure we want wacky Tom back in instead of strange, but mentally stable Skiba? Something to think about honestly. Tom could set the band on a course of total BS again for years. Would it be better to let Skiba continue growing in the band?

I’m not sure what my opinion is yet but it’s worth talking about for sure. Skiba is a loyal, productive member. We may be taking for granted a pretty good thing.

 

 

[M!ke]

41 minutes ago, Ghent said:

Upon this revisiting of NINE I’m a bit on the fence about crazy Tom returning. The album didn’t get a fair shake because of the Feldmann stuff, it lacked a powerful lead radio single, they toured Enema instead of NINE because of the convenient timing and lack of a big single, AND covid hit.

We sure we want wacky Tom back in instead of strange, but mentally stable Skiba? Something to think about honestly. Tom could set the band on a course of total BS again for years. Would it be better to let Skiba continue growing in the band?

I’m not sure what my opinion is yet but it’s worth talking about for sure. Skiba is a loyal, productive member. We may be taking for granted a pretty good thing.

I'm hoping it's not an instead situation, ideally I want to see them give it a try as a 4-piece. Maybe I'm alone in that regard, but I think that could be really cool especially if they're actually writing it all together in a house together as Mark seemed to have mused in some sort of ideal situation in that GQ article

[Russel Coight]

4 piece is best idea. I want more skiba-182 but also want to hear what Tom could possibly bring back to the band. We got the safety there in case Tom loses the plot again.

[Cheerios4u98]

It’s sad that they were never able to properly tour for NINE. Would have probably been our only chance to hear some of those songs live, because they seem to play a few songs from their new releases when they’re brand new and then go back to their pre-hiatus Greatest Hits list only. They’ve done that since Neighborhoods. Have they ever played anything at all from California Deluxe? Dogs Eating Dogs songs will probably never come back either.

[Cheerios4u98]

3 hours ago, daveyjones said:

i am a tempo person. so my biggest complaint is that travis has settled into only two kinds of songs: faster than fucking fast and slow as dog shit. give me a bunch of tracks with the tempo of like pathetic or josie or even don't leave me. but it's either a WICKED GALLOP that's twice the speed of a bad religion song, or something that sounds like the foo fighters fell asleep at the wheel.

What bothers me about this is I love the really fast songs but they only do it for super short songs and joke songs. Cynical, Generational Divide, Ransom, Brohemian Rhapsody etc. I’d love some fast songs that aren’t over in 30 seconds.

[Russel Coight]

9 minutes ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

It’s sad that they were never able to properly tour for NINE. Would have probably been our only chance to hear some of those songs live, because they seem to play a few songs from their new releases when they’re brand new and then go back to their pre-hiatus Greatest Hits list only. They’ve done that since Neighborhoods. Have they ever played anything at all from California Deluxe? Dogs Eating Dogs songs will probably never come back either.

I think Parking A lot got played. Pretty sure Feldmann came out and sung it once.

[Cheerios4u98]

2 minutes ago, Russel Coight said:

I think Parking A lot got played. Pretty sure Feldmann came out and sung it once.

Feldmann came out and sang Brohemian Rhapsody in 2016 when I saw them in Portland. It was so random because I still don’t know why he was even in Oregon that day lol. Unless he just went on tour with them?