The blink 182 general discussion topic

[Jan Mortensen]

6 minutes ago, Bad Boyz said:

Give me Butch Vig over Rick but I’d take either of them over Travis or Feldy or any generic producer any day. But like you alluded to, I think the days of Tom and Mark looking for a challenge of any sort are long gone. They don’t care about playing the correct parts over and over, they’re going to take the easiest way out with pro tools and all that shit every time now lol. 

Tom killed the band in 2006.  Mark wrote his revenge peace in 2006 because he was still in it. 

We've been dealing with scraps ever since.  That was just the end of Tom's care for blink music.  They're still good artists..still make good music..bla bla.  But that was the chapter/book whatever closing on their heart being in it.  I wish Hearts All Gone was made a bit better, because that would hit so hard.

[William J. Laimbeer]

1 minute ago, Locean Breeze - Jan said:

Tom killed the band in 2006.  Mark wrote his revenge peace in 2006.

We've been dealing with scraps ever since.  That was just the end of Tom's care for music.  They're still good artists..still make good music..bla bla.  But that was the chapter/book whatever closing on their heart being in it. 

At least Tom isn’t fat anymore and has a full head of hair again!

[thongrider]

I know he's dead now, but Steve Albini producing blink would blow my mind.

[William J. Laimbeer]

1 minute ago, thongrider said:

I know he's dead now, but Steve Albini producing blink would blow my mind.

Speaking of dead guys, I think this guy Jerry Finn who helped with Rancid and Green Day albums would have been a perfect fit for blink!

[JarJarBlinks]

give me a punk ep with Bill Stevenson

[m0z182]

37 minutes ago, Bad Boyz said:

Speaking of dead guys, I think this guy Jerry Finn who helped with Rancid and Green Day albums would have been a perfect fit for blink!

What do you think it would sound like if he were to produce a blink album? Give me a ball park sound?

[Elisa]

43 minutes ago, Bad Boyz said:

Give me Butch Vig over Rick but I’d take either of them over Travis or Feldy or any generic producer any day. 

Look up Aldae and Andrew Goldstein on Google. Imagine Travis showing up at Butch Vig's or Rubin's studio with them - Vig and Rubin would never want to work with these people. 

[William J. Laimbeer]

9 minutes ago, Elisa said:

Look up Aldae and Andrew Goldstein on Google. Imagine Travis showing up at Butch Vig's or Rubin's studio with them - Vig and Rubin would never want to work with these people. 

Lol you’re right. I hadn’t heard of Algae before but I noticed Andrew Goldstein’s name on some of the credits before. I forget which songs. 

[Resident Zoomer]

Speaking of producers…

[Knapppers]

I did chuckle as well when he went on about drum sounds and finding the perfect one. Like drums in pop punk haven’t sounded unique in a long time. 

[Dook]

What's the last blink album yall actually enjoyed..?

[Champ182]

22 minutes ago, Dook said:

What's the last blink album yall actually enjoyed..?

I absolutely love One More Time, favorite album since Untitled easily. I just wish the mix was better. It's so harsh that it's hard to listen on repeat as much as I would've wanted to haha.

[thongrider]

46 minutes ago, Dook said:

What's the last blink album yall actually enjoyed..?

Like all of us?

[Elisa]

24 minutes ago, Champ182 said:

I absolutely love One More Time, favorite album since Untitled easily. I just wish the mix was better. It's so harsh that it's hard to listen on repeat as much as I would've wanted to haha.

Same here. And I’m not going back to it for the same reason, but maybe it’s also because I’ve had it on repeat for months on end when it came out. I still love the album and all the original 17 songs – I can’t say the same about the deluxe and part 2. 

[Frank Woods]

On 3/18/2025 at 9:16 PM, Locean Breeze - Jan said:

Rick Rubin is a douche rock producer but I swear it'd bring out some magical songs.  Just give us a 5 track EP.  They've done the same album deluxe thing enough now.  

Rubin would certainly be able to push you to challenge yourself and play it less safe. The problem is that he also compresses the sound (Death Magnetic by Metallica for example is even louder than OMT to the point of being annoying)

[Jan Mortensen]

2 hours ago, Dook said:

What's the last blink album yall actually enjoyed..?

Enjoyed OMT launch quite a bit, flew down to see them live and everything that weekend. Good times.  Still ‘like it’, production bothers me.

Enjoyed Cali & Deluxe quite a bit, who wasn’t excited after all those years? Deluxe had some bangers too. Grew to dislike it but still consider it ‘okay’.

Hated Nine from the jump, couple good songs. 

Liked NH and ran it every day.  Didn’t love it until after the fact though.  DED loved off rip.  Like it better than all the follow ups (although A3 probably hit me the hardest since When I Was Young).  So actually enjoyed OMT, currently still enjoy NH?

[William J. Laimbeer]

1 hour ago, Elisa said:

Same here. And I’m not going back to it for the same reason, but maybe it’s also because I’ve had it on repeat for months on end when it came out. I still love the album and all the original 17 songs – I can’t say the same about the deluxe and part 2. 

Yea it’s a great album. We’re just nitpicking. It’s still rad that they’re together and they had an incredible run where they were the only song writers. I don’t care that they get some outside help at this point if it helps keep them together and having fun. It’s not like people are going to see the Rollings Stones in concert to hear their new material these days anyways. They’re in their old man chill stage lol.

I don’t care for the deluxe songs either except for Everything Everywhere and If You Never Left which I think both are rad 

[Knapppers]

Still listen to many songs from OMT on the regular. Has aged well. 

[Coightstradamus]

I still listen to OMT and the deluxe all the time. Love the albums. They’re great!

[vic vinegar]

We spin OMT on our roadtrips. It helps knock off about 75 minutes of the drive and it really does feel like blink again.