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11 hours ago, Champ182 said:

It kinda makes me more empathetic towards Mark in the leadup to California honestly haha.

Just imagine you're Mark, you're jamming with Skiba and Travis, going through ideas, Skiba brings in this kinda shitty song written by Fat Mike and Skiba is apparently hyping it up and Travis is loving it, but it doesn't really sound anything like "classic Blink" that you're trying to revive - OR even like some kind of cool Alkaline-182 hybrid - I might start to get discouraged and gravitate toward someone like Feldy who's whispering sweet nothings in my ear and selling me fool's gold too.

(And on the other hand, if I was Skiba and this was a song I was excited about and was telling my friend that it might be the lead single, and then it was totally scrapped and your influence in the band was replaced by a new producer, I'd be instantly jaded too haha.)

And then, you accept to write NINE with a ton of co-writers and co-producers.

Hm...

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12 hours ago, Nosferatu said:

That song was ass but i do remember hearing about this being one of the first singles before Feldman came on board. It would've interesting to know what the blink version sounded like. It most likely would've been better as a blink song but I still think it would've been a bad blink song

The other NOFX song that was recently released "Darby Crashing Your Party" is a fucking tune though

 

Darby Crashing Your Party is NOFX's best song in years.
 
The other song, I cannot even imagine it arranged in a way that works for blink or NOFX really. It sounds way too lukewarm, no real hook, medium tempo, sort of tired lyrics, and Fat Mike isn't doing anything interesting vocally. Even his worst songs usually have something catchy about them, but I agree that blink's version would have been better.

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I don't like it much either. I do thnik it'd work better with Blink though.


I think everything they've released since 2003 has sorta ruined what I like about Blink. Some Mark songs and some Tom songs, you can tell who wrote which song, but they all fit together. Since then it's like they've been forcing this "we must both sing lead on each song" bullshit, that got even worse with Skiba.

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5 hours ago, thongrider said:

I don't like it much either. I do thnik it'd work better with Blink though.


I think everything they've released since 2003 has sorta ruined what I like about Blink. Some Mark songs and some Tom songs, you can tell who wrote which song, but they all fit together. Since then it's like they've been forcing this "we must both sing lead on each song" bullshit, that got even worse with Skiba.

It was an unique feature from the band to do on a couple songs every now and then, but it was overused during the Skiba era, which wasn’t as effective when Matt obviously had more vocal qualities similar to Mark than Tom. I guess the band was hesitant on letting Matt have his own song, which I get on California, but everything after should’ve included at least one solo song with Matt. Mark had Good Old Days, Happy Days, and the joke songs (which is acceptable, don’t want Matt on a joke song unless it utilized his humor - which wouldn’t have happened likely). Not gonna make a list of songs Matt should’ve sang entirely on because it’s fairly obvious.

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Tbh, Black Rain & No Heart to Speak Of couldn't sound more like Skiba songs if they tried. They wouldn't sound out of place on Alkaline Trio albums (especially if they weren't as overproduced). Mark might've sang on parts of them but they're definitely Skiba songs and great ones IMO. Black Rain was the track that Skiba took complete charge of as well based on the interviews around that song. It's a shame blink didn't have more Skiba songs though

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16 hours ago, Nosferatu said:

Tbh, Black Rain & No Heart to Speak Of couldn't sound more like Skiba songs if they tried. They wouldn't sound out of place on Alkaline Trio albums (especially if they weren't as overproduced). Mark might've sang on parts of them but they're definitely Skiba songs and great ones IMO. Black Rain was the track that Skiba took complete charge of as well based on the interviews around that song. It's a shame blink didn't have more Skiba songs though

it was annoying how they had to put mark on every single songs, they didnt do that when tom was around(before they did cali)

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48 minutes ago, Thibaut182 said:

A recent and very interesting interview with Benji Weatherley and Rick Devoe about the early days of Blink!

 

bwahahah, i never realised that the reason there was small people in that all the small things peformence was because of the song being all the small things ahahhah id just think why r all these nimblets running around

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On 11/7/2022 at 11:07 AM, Thibaut182 said:

A recent and very interesting interview with Benji Weatherley and Rick Devoe about the early days of Blink!

 

cool interview but damn benji never lets him really finish a story or thought. precisely why not everyone should host podcasts. both are energetic and talkative but it's hard to follow

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7 hours ago, Chewy030 said:

he still manages some bands. 

Yea I saw the girl band he was managing The Aquadolls was opening up for Incubus and Sublime with Rome this past summer, looks like he is still working some magic 

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5 hours ago, King of the Weekend said:

Tom. Is. Out. 
I have a vague memory of Rick being a weasel and essentially Tom’s bitch. 

tom paid him a shit load of money to be his manager so i wouldn't expect him to act any other way. he's not going to act in the best interest of mark and travis when they chose to part ways and hire their own individual managers. 

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