Maddey Posted April 6, 2020 Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 Loved this one!! Really appreciate these covers. It's a nice little thing to look forward to in days like these. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thibaut182 Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 That Thing You Do 💕 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddey Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 The most recent one is not my favorite but still glad he keeps doing this thing. The tour photos gave me a lil bit of a heartache though, not gonna lie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thibaut182 Posted June 6, 2020 Report Share Posted June 6, 2020 This is pure gold, wow !!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindemulder Posted June 6, 2020 Report Share Posted June 6, 2020 Just listened to American Idiot front to back. I know this is a blinkforum and I am without a doubt a bigger fan but damn, that album is so cool, and I also believe its better than Untitled 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twentytwenty Posted June 6, 2020 Report Share Posted June 6, 2020 4 hours ago, Lindemulder said: Just listened to American Idiot front to back. I know this is a blinkforum and I am without a doubt a bigger fan but damn, that album is so cool, and I also believe its better than Untitled They're both great albums. I believe they're so different though that you can't put them against each other. It's like comparing a NOFX album to a Offspring album, maybe the same subgenre but they're so widely different 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M!ke Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 On 6/6/2020 at 10:44 AM, Lindemulder said: Just listened to American Idiot front to back. I know this is a blinkforum and I am without a doubt a bigger fan but damn, that album is so cool, and I also believe its better than Untitled Great album, but nah, Untitled is definitely better. American Idiot does get tired if you play it too much, and it has a bit of a lull in the middle of the album. Untitled never managed to get that staleness going for me, and stays strong from start to finish. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddey Posted June 8, 2020 Report Share Posted June 8, 2020 I think I'd pick AI if I had to pick a fav between the two, but it feels a bit like choosing a favorite child imo. Then again they're so different it's almost impossible to compare them, as pointed out above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hit me up Jans ex Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 On 6/6/2020 at 11:44 AM, Lindemulder said: Just listened to American Idiot front to back. I know this is a blinkforum and I am without a doubt a bigger fan but damn, that album is so cool, and I also believe its better than Untitled It is a better album. Great rock album for sure 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedo Posted June 10, 2020 Report Share Posted June 10, 2020 AI all the way, Untitled never rubbed me the right way. Outside of the singles, AI is the better album. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Kyle_ Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 AI gets annoying because there are songs on there that are just straight lifted from others. I didn't know a lot of them when I first listened to the record, but it really is jarring when you figure out what exact song they're ripping off. A lot of Green Day songs do this in fact. Everything from The Struts, Ryan Adams, Motley Crue, Jawbreaker, The Kinks, Dillinger Four, Isley Brothers, Chicago, The Clash, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twentytwenty Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 8 hours ago, _Kyle_ said: AI gets annoying because there are songs on there that are just straight lifted from others. I didn't know a lot of them when I first listened to the record, but it really is jarring when you figure out what exact song they're ripping off. A lot of Green Day songs do this in fact. Everything from The Struts, Ryan Adams, Motley Crue, Jawbreaker, The Kinks, Dillinger Four, Isley Brothers, Chicago, The Clash, etc. That stuff doesn’t bother me. but, I’ve always found this one to be super funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyjones Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 On 6/18/2020 at 6:42 AM, _Kyle_ said: it really is jarring when you figure out what exact song they're ripping off. yea, that never happens with blink songs... 🙄 [hums I–V–vi–IV ad nauseum] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedo Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 Everybody lifts from everybody else, it's what makes music great. Great ideas get filtered through other musicians and becomes a creation of their own that'll evolve into another. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyjones Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 9 minutes ago, Speedo said: Everybody lifts from everybody else, that's the nature of all art. one of my favorite quotes is "don't even try to be original. just be good." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M!ke Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 2 hours ago, daveyjones said: yea, that never happens with blink songs... 🙄 [hums I–V–vi–IV ad nauseum] I don't think he's denying that, he's just saying once you recognize where the tunes are being lifted from, it can be annoying especially when an album is full of it, and I get it to an extent. I can typically look past it if the music is still good. But it is interesting, you see Underclass Hero by Sum 41 get shit on a lot for that very thing, but I'd argue that album is no worse in that regard than American Idiot is. I think the Sum 41 situation just got more shit because it was the first album without the genuine talent of Brownsound infusing the music full of his own unique sounds, like Sum 41 prior to Underclass Hero weren't so known for borrowing so heavily from other music, while Green Day had been doing that for long before American Idiot. Frankly, I'd probably put both those albums on about the same level, enjoyable listens start to finish, not particularly breaking new ground with anything they're putting forward, fun to listen to over and over for brief periods of life, but too much can quickly get you turned off of the album and put it on a shelf again for months or even years before you listen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyjones Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, M!ke said: it can be annoying especially when an album is full of it indeed. i've done my fair share of griping on these boards that listening to "feeling this" or "always" is just hearing "man overboard" or "story of a lonely guy" or "dammit" or "dick lips" or "untitled" or "i'm sorry" or "carousel" or "m+m's" or "toast and bananas" all over again. at least tom is totally honest about this in the pursuit of tone documentary, calling it "the most basic chord progression that we've used a thousand times" ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M!ke Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 Just now, daveyjones said: indeed. i've done my fair share of griping on these boards that listening to "feeling this" or "always" is just hearing "man overboard" or "story of a lonely guy" or "dammit" or "dick lips" or "untitled" or "i'm sorry" or "carousel" or "m+m's" or "toast and bananas" all over again. at least tom is totally honest about this in the pursuit of tone documentary, calling it "the most basic chord progression that we've used a thousand times" ... True, and I have far less of an issue when a band is just ripping off themselves. I think it's a bit more disheartening when they're heavily borrowing from other artists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyjones Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 25 minutes ago, M!ke said: True, and I have far less of an issue when a band is just ripping off themselves. I think it's a bit more disheartening when they're heavily borrowing from other artists. that's curious. i feel the opposite. 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M!ke Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 16 minutes ago, daveyjones said: that's curious. i feel the opposite. 🤔 Well we certainly don't have to agree on personal preferences. But for me, I don't think it'd have bothered me at all if the tune for Ice Ice Baby was lifted from some of Vanilla Ice's other music, compared to how disrespectful it was to blatantly steal the tune from Under Pressure (and then of course couple that with how he'd go on to try and argue how they aren't the same at all). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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