Dook Posted July 14 Posted July 14 "Starting Line sucks!! Stop telling me they don't suck!!" *pages of posts worth of this similar cringe* I wonder if they'd have a better job if the same amount of cringey passion was used on their essay work in college. I don't even like The Starting Line, but holy shit what an exhausting read. Quote
whales Posted July 14 Posted July 14 this spat made me listen to The Starting Line and enjoy being well adjusted. thanks diddy! 2 Quote
High Value Man Posted July 14 Posted July 14 Every time I open this thread lately, I wanna listen to The Best of Me. 2 1 1 Quote
Russel Coight Posted July 14 Posted July 14 Just listened to “say it like you mean it”. Was a good time. Thanks fap! 2 1 Quote
JarJarBlinks Posted July 14 Posted July 14 On 7/11/2025 at 12:42 PM, _Kyle_ said: Bedroom Talk I think kind of ruined their momentum. Very much a thud of a song that has hooky parts but doesn't really congeal right. Too much of a "we need a hit" kind of song. New album this year too. TSL is back baby! Get out the puka shells. was that the song about "tearing" someone's ass up or something? 2 Quote
allsystemsgo Posted July 15 Posted July 15 5 hours ago, JarJarBlinks said: was that the song about "tearing" someone's ass up or something? Tearing it up like we just got married. Married folks here van vouch. Quote
_Kyle_ Posted July 16 Posted July 16 Quote It’s been a weird 20 years since then. I covered Blink-182 extensively for Punknews.org, especially around the release of untitled (which is still their best album, fight me). By the time I got hired at Alternative Press, though, Blink was all but done — they went on “indefinite hiatus” in February 2005. My coverage didn’t stop, though: I became the go-to writer for all things Blink-related, interviewing Travis Barker about the Transplants, Mark Hoppus about his show on Fuse TV and the idiotically named +44 and even scoring the very first interview with Tom DeLonge about Angels & Airwaves. I interviewed all three guys countless times over the intervening years before they decided to get back together, and then I wrote not one but two cover stories on Blink — one, for the well-received reunion tour; a second for the not-as-well-received Neighborhoods album. It was that second cover story that really complicated my feelings on the band, as it was a messy, uncomfortable experience that found me being verbally threatened by their manager and having no one — not the band members, not my bosses — standing up for me. I wrote about the experience at length in the cover story itself, but to sum it up: It sucked. (Neighborhoods is still a pretty okay record, though.) Then Tom quit Blink again, and the band went all Sublime With Rome on us and recruited Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio, a band I also have a complicated relationship with (though the Trio’s manager has never threatened me, to the best of my knowledge). Long story short: California came out and completely killed any excitement I ever had for Blink. It was a truly terrible record, one specifically designed for mass consumption with little soul behind it, and everything more or less sounded like Goldfinger. (Thanks for that, John Feldmann.) This was officially a rudderless band — and as a diehard Weezer fan, trust me, I know a lot about rudderless bands. https://colorsofinsomnia.substack.com/p/coi007-while-youre-counting-your this article was on a tab I don't remember where from, but yeah, this stood out to me. Quote
twelve Posted July 16 Posted July 16 It would be interesting to know what he wrote/asked in that cover story to try to understand why he was allegedly verbally threatened by their manager. Quote
twelve Posted July 17 Posted July 17 What’s My Age Again? slowed down. I actually did something pretty similar back in 2009/2011, during a phase when I was experimenting with electronic stuff. It’s lost on a hard drive somewhere. 1:17 - All The Small Things. Quote
boxelder Posted July 21 Posted July 21 Just listened to pretty little girl for the first time in years and was absolutely horrified when the Yelawolf feature popped up. A true jump scare. Insane decision they made. It’s a pretty good song altogether but it really derails it. Shame too, cause the bridge itself is pretty enjoyable as an instrumental coke for a spoke 5 Quote
JarJarBlinks Posted July 22 Posted July 22 17 hours ago, boxelder said: Just listened to pretty little girl for the first time in years and was absolutely horrified when the Yelawolf feature popped up. A true jump scare. Insane decision they made. It’s a pretty good song altogether but it really derails it. Shame too, cause the bridge itself is pretty enjoyable as an instrumental coke for a spoke Wait up now hold up one second 1 Quote
allsystemsgo Posted July 22 Posted July 22 18 hours ago, boxelder said: Just listened to pretty little girl for the first time in years and was absolutely horrified when the Yelawolf feature popped up. A true jump scare. Insane decision they made. It’s a pretty good song altogether but it really derails it. Shame too, cause the bridge itself is pretty enjoyable as an instrumental coke for a spoke It's basically a jumpscare. It brings the momentum of the song to a screeching halt. 1 Quote
boxelder Posted July 22 Posted July 22 like, pretty little girl is really not all that bad. a tad creepy, sure. but it's something earned, true to the moment, and sincere (even if their marriage never worked out). you also don't hear songs admit that "some years and have been great and a few have been tough". the instrumentation is cool. and then, out of nowhere, a wild yelawolf appears. why would tom have said okay to that? why would travis have suggested it (presumably)? it's a mind-boggling decision 1 Quote
allsystemsgo Posted July 22 Posted July 22 Why's my post hidden in this thread? I can see it on my account. Strange. Quote
Russel Coight Posted July 22 Posted July 22 9 minutes ago, allsystemsgo said: Why's my post hidden in this thread? I can see it on my account. Strange. Which comment? Quote
allsystemsgo Posted July 22 Posted July 22 8 minutes ago, Russel Coight said: Which comment? I was replying to Boxelders comment but now that's gone too. Maybe he deleted it or something. Quote
Russel Coight Posted July 22 Posted July 22 54 minutes ago, allsystemsgo said: I was replying to Boxelders comment but now that's gone too. Maybe he deleted it or something. still there for me and no mod purple deleted comment box. Browser issue? Quote
Russel Coight Posted July 22 Posted July 22 Lmao this did bring to look in the deleted content section and @Raw JanJesus Christ lmao 1 1 Quote
allsystemsgo Posted July 22 Posted July 22 4 minutes ago, Russel Coight said: still there for me and no mod purple deleted comment box. Browser issue? Doesn't appear on my phone or desktop. Truly a mystery. Quote
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