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If the news about the government being in possession of alien aircraft is true, Tom’s name will probably be in history books lmao. Even if he is just a pawn, the things he were saying a few years before all this is happening like the government is figuring out how to slowly drip out disclosure because they can’t control it anymore. It just lines up with how he framed things even if Tom latches onto absurdly fake things; he got pulled in for some use by the government.

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Just throwing some love to this gorgeus song. I fell in love with it when it came out. Even the first leak, which was titled Action (from that videogame I don't remember).

I love the instrumental.

 

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3 hours ago, Ghost said:

Just throwing some love to this gorgeus song. I fell in love with it when it came out. Even the first leak, which was titled Action (from that videogame I don't remember).

I love the instrumental.

 

When it came out on Madden that year I turned off every other song on the game and only had Action playing the entire time I played the game. 

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3 hours ago, Ghost said:

Just throwing some love to this gorgeus song. I fell in love with it when it came out. Even the first leak, which was titled Action (from that videogame I don't remember).

I love the instrumental.

 

The instrumental is great because you can hear the bass line a lot better in this song. Such a great bass line that I didn’t really know existed. It’s a shame Jerry had it so low in the mix of the actual song 

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15 minutes ago, Fap God said:

The instrumental is great because you can hear the bass line a lot better in this song. Such a great bass line that I didn’t really know existed. It’s a shame Jerry had it so low in the mix of the actual song 

I'm kinda at odds with how this song sounds. I feel like it's perfectly mixed yet at the same time the bass lines are great and I'd like to hear it more in the actual track.

I wish Mark would play the way he does in the recorded song live but he plays a more simple variation of it

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1 hour ago, Nosferatu said:

I'm kinda at odds with how this song sounds. I feel like it's perfectly mixed yet at the same time the bass lines are great and I'd like to hear it more in the actual track.

I wish Mark would play the way he does in the recorded song live but he plays a more simple variation of it

That bassline would do wonders for the live version imo

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4 hours ago, Ghost said:

Just throwing some love to this gorgeus song. I fell in love with it when it came out. Even the first leak, which was titled Action (from that videogame I don't remember).

I love the instrumental.

 

fell in love is such a good way to describe it. i didn’t get into blink until later than most — 2008-09 — but when i discovered feeling this it was like my fandom deepened. it’s suuuuch a banger, so interesting, so catchy, so different. it’s maybe the best blink song 

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4 hours ago, boxelder said:

fell in love is such a good way to describe it. i didn’t get into blink until later than most — 2008-09 — but when i discovered feeling this it was like my fandom deepened. it’s suuuuch a banger, so interesting, so catchy, so different. it’s maybe the best blink song 

Yeah man… same. I was a casual blink guy for so years it’s weird how casual it was looking back.

I remember the CD cover of Dude  Ranch growing up, pretty sure I thought Sum 41 and blink were the same band for a minute, remembered them again when I saw Charlie’s Angels end credits, always rooted for blink videos to beat the boy bands on TRL but… then Feeling This dropped and contextualized the whole thing.

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10 hours ago, Ghost said:

Just throwing some love to this gorgeus song. I fell in love with it when it came out. Even the first leak, which was titled Action (from that videogame I don't remember).

I love the instrumental.

 

It’s a cool instrumental. I always loved how simple Blink songs are but when you really listen to them it’s always a bunch of intricate little pieces put together. Listening to this I realized they used the verse riff in the outro too. I never heard that before, pretty cool.

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8 hours ago, Fap God said:

The instrumental is great because you can hear the bass line a lot better in this song. Such a great bass line that I didn’t really know existed. It’s a shame Jerry had it so low in the mix of the actual song 

Yep. There is the official multitrack floating around (maybe extracted from Guitar Hero or something), and is really cool to hear the bass line. I used to use the drum part to play along using Guitar Rig.

In this regard, I think Untitled would benefit A LOT in terms of sound if any specialized studio could do an 'audiophile' remastering. It would achieve another level in terms of depth and surrounding. Untitled is gorgeous, it sounds great and shows an amazing production. It was their first record done using digital equipment, but using 'old' techniques and analog stuff too. Finn and his engineer nailed it.

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1 hour ago, Matt. said:

It’s a cool instrumental. I always loved how simple Blink songs are but when you really listen to them it’s always a bunch of intricate little pieces put together. Listening to this I realized they used the verse riff in the outro too. I never heard that before, pretty cool.

Yup, I forgot to mention that part at the end as well. This instrumental really is great 

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12 minutes ago, Ghost said:

Yep. There is the official multitrack floating around (maybe extracted from Guitar Hero or something), and is really cool to hear the bass line. I used to use the drum part to play along using Guitar Rig.

In this regard, I think Untitled would benefit A LOT in terms of sound if any specialized studio could do an 'audiophile' remastering. It would achieve another level in terms of depth and surrounding. Untitled is gorgeous, it sounds great and shows an amazing production. It was their first record done using digital equipment, but using 'old' techniques and analog stuff too. Finn and his engineer nailed it.

I just don’t think the production is as good on that album for whatever reason. Bass is too low, drums are too low imo. But i might be a little biased against the album. I think Asthenia is amazing but most of the other songs I could do without. 

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On 5/31/2023 at 12:15 PM, boxelder said:

yeah i remember that tidbit. i’m excited for that book! sounds cool. sellout by dan ozzi was decent too even if it contained no new info. i’m expecting mark’s memoir to be hugely revealing… usually memoirs like that are, and can i say was. 

I definitely enjoyed the book but I don't ever recall hearing that when they finished the mastering of Dude Ranch, Tom and Mark drove over to MCA to play it for them and nobody would listen to it and nobody cared at all. That's usually such a bad sign. Not sure if that was indicative of how the label was feeling at the time about them or that the usual major label turnover was just so swift that most bands that got hot, got signed, made the record would usually find themselves in partnership with labels that had already moved on. 

Not sure if that was ever mentioned prior to the book but I always love hearing the creative decisions and business choices with bands like that. MCA being a Universal thing definitely helped them get into American Pie. Stuff like that I don't think has ever been talked about in detail. It seemed like MTV/MCA knew blink had a lot of potential by that point. I think the videos for Dammit and Josie gave helped them see the potential of blink as long-term video stars. 

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