The blink 182 general discussion topic

[Jan Mortensen]

How good is Asthenia?

[JarJarBlinks]

1 hour ago, Coddled Jan said:

How good is Asthenia?

the only "blink" riff on the album.

[Jan Mortensen]

40 minutes ago, JarJarBlinks said:

the only "blink" riff on the album.

This kind of just mind fucked me.  I hadn't really thought about that.  Obvious, Stockholm Syndrome, Easy Target have riffs but not really vintage 'blink' riffs.

The Octave era.  

Still contention for GOAT album. 

[boxelder]

5 hours ago, Knapppers said:

The fact that he updates the look to stay current with how Tom looks is wild too. It’s one thing to like Tom’s style and dress like that style, but then to keep changing to look exactly like him is crazy. 

honestly impressive lmao. i'm never disappointed every time i look him up. the faces, the mannerisms -- it's all very creepy

[FAPLORD]

21 hours ago, Knapppers said:

The amount he copies him is so freaky. 
 

I got him to make a video of himself for BotBM a year or so ago and he completely thought we all loved him and were voting for him. 

Oh look. The seasonal poster who buddied up with Leo DeHoe for his own personal gain is now trying to distance himself from Leo DeHoe after board members slam the guy…color me shocked.

I really don’t care about the BOTBM contests but the fact you guys voted for Knapton over me is absurd. I must have pissed some people off right before the contest. 

[boxelder]

toby morse can be an irritating interviewer -- has anyone ever talked MORE? but there were some amusing relevations from this back and forth:

• Tom and Mark shared a bus for a leg of the one more time tour. i dont know why i was so shocked or surprised by this, but for two guys who would travel separately on buses, the idea of them SHARING one, especially with their wealth, shocked me. it just goes to show how much has changed -- or perhaps the insane cost of touring nowadays.

• the official meaning of the "vagina exploding" story from the book: mark's wife had an ovarian cyst burst. he just found it funny in the context of the big VMA success to juxtapose it with a story like that.

• mark flew so much when making his fuse show and living in london that he was offered american airlines concierge key status — the highest level they have lol. it's so elite that it isn't even publicized. royalty!

[Elisa]

I can’t wait to listen! And I agree that he’s irritating, but I loved the interviews he did with Tom, Travis and Skiba

[Champ182]

Pretty awesome to have separate gigantic interviews with all 3 members on this show! I'm stoked to listen to Mark's soon.

[Coightstradamus]

Listened to it a bit this morning. Love hearing mark talk about stuff. Toby is less grating so far this time around. 

[Elisa]

God I listened to the first 30 minutes in my car this morning and I turned it off because I thought it was unlistenable. Toby is basically reading the book back at Mark with some nice comments but Mark’s answers are only “yeah” - “right”. The conversation was way more fluid in the other interviews. 

[Scott.]

41 minutes ago, Elisa said:

God I listened to the first 30 minutes in my car this morning and I turned it off because thought it was unlistenable. Toby is basically reading the book back at Mark with some nice comments but Mark’s answers are only “yeah” - “right”. The conversation was way more fluid in the other interviews. 

Yeah mark is not giving much but the interviewer is terrible, he’s not asking mark questions he’s just reading back his book like you said. 3 hours of that is insane 

[Elisa]

1 hour ago, Scott. said:

Yeah mark is not giving much but the interviewer is terrible, he’s not asking mark questions he’s just reading back his book like you said. 3 hours of that is insane 

I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling this way. I think those 30 minutes were the worst interview I’ve ever listened to. Toby is terrible but Mark isn’t helping him either. When Tom was on, it still felt like Toby was reading his life off wikipedia, but it worked because when he mentioned some facts like “you got your first guitar” / “you got kicked out of school” / “you started listening to the descendents” then Tom went on a tangent and was great at keeping the conversation going, with Mark its jarring. Why did he even go to the podcast if he didn’t wanna expand a little bit on the book 😂

but I’ll give it another try during the weekend and I hope it gets better at some point 😂

[allsystemsgo]

Man, you guys really aren't selling this interview lmao. Sounds like it's a background while gaming podcast and not one that needs my full attention.

[_Kyle_]

i hate shit like that. 

I'd rather someone just ask wild ass questions.

[Elisa]

He still owes us a full unfettered interview. Maybe in 10 years. With @Ghent as the interviewer. 

[Scott.]

1 hour ago, Elisa said:

I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling this way. I think those 30 minutes were the worst interview I’ve ever listened to. Toby is terrible but Mark isn’t helping him either. When Tom was on, it still felt like Toby was reading his life off wikipedia, but it worked because when he mentioned some facts like “you got your first guitar” / “you got kicked out of school” / “you started listening to the descendents” then Tom went on a tangent and was great at keeping the conversation going, with Mark its jarring. Why did he even go to the podcast if he didn’t wanna expand a little bit on the book 😂

but I’ll give it another try during the weekend and I hope it gets better at some point 😂

Yeah Tom is an open book so he loves fucking rambling on but Mark is more of a closed book I feel and how many times can he speak about this book. I know he has to plug it but fucking hell I think he’s bored out of his skull talking about it, he’s great in other interviews 

[Champ182]

Toby Morse is clearly not a great interviewer haha, I'm an hour in now and it is still basically:

TOBY: "So like, you guys toured in a van and shit right?"

MARK: "Yeah!"

MARK: "Sooo sick bro, damn! That shit was crazy right?"

 

The Travis and Tom interviews were a lot better, if I remember right they were both friends/acquaintances with Toby from over the years but it doesn't seem like Mark is. That probably has a little bit to do with it.

[_Kyle_]

isn't he a seasoned musician? why is this news? did he think our band could be your life was fiction?

[boxelder]

i had to put that shit on like 1.75x speed to get through it, just to see if there were any interesting bits. mark gets better as the interview goes on. i've literally never heard someone talk more than toby. it's like he's nervous to let the other person get a word in edgewise. mark sort-of picks that up and just lets him go, but it's soooo awful. add in "oh so sick dude", "fuck, that's crazy", etc and he's absolutely insufferable.

you would think being in a band like h2o would have made him more relaxed around other pro musicians, but i guess that's not always the case.

[FAPLORD]

I didn’t listen to the Mark interview but you guys exaggerated how bad Toby was for the Tom interview. He’s not that bad or annoying. But also, when everyone in the world has a podcast now, most of them will be mediocre at best. Podcasts are lame