Cultural impact: Blink vs Green Day

[daveyjones]

6 minutes ago, Speedo said:

I can't fucking stand U2.

i like them up to achtung. that's the cutoff.

[thongrider]

I like I Will Follow, Stories for Boys and New Year's Day. With or without You is a nice song too I guess. What a god awful band outside of that though. 

[Coddled Egg]

What’s really funny and lame was when Tom started trying to dress like Bono with his leather jackets and goofy sunglasses

[Fun, Catchy Pop-Punk]

I always thought it was weird when Tom was fixated on U2 and would reference them as an inspiration for when he first got into playing music...but I never recalled him citing U2 as an influence up until the AvA period. Like was he actually a fan when he was younger, or was it something he got into in the early AvA days and then pretended they were a big influence in his formidable years? That always struck me as odd, but maybe he just never bothered mentioning them when he was younger. 

[Fun, Catchy Pop-Punk]

23 minutes ago, Diddy Faplord said:

What’s really funny and lame was when Tom started trying to dress like Bono with his leather jackets and goofy sunglasses

Lol, that was arrogant, douche bag Tom phase. Like when he had those angel wings and halo for that photoshoot. It was also the time frame when he declared that AvA would be the most influential rock and roll band in the last 20 years. Then he blamed the whole thing on being on drugs after AvA flopped (compared to original expectations). Tom is such a weasel who never takes responsibility for his fuck ups lol. 

[daveyjones]

11 minutes ago, Tom Bot said:

I never recalled him citing U2 as an influence up until the AvA period.

100% it was not until AVA. he never listened to them as a kid.

[Coddled Egg]

3 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

100% it was not until AVA. he never listened to them as a kid.

For sure. This always annoyed me too because he never ever ever mentioned U2 up until then. Then it was almost like he tried to backtrack and say he always loved them. Maybe he did secretly and never wanted to admit it, who knows 

[daveyjones]

12 minutes ago, Diddy Faplord said:

Maybe he did secretly and never wanted to admit it, who knows 

whereas mark was always on about the cure all the way back to the attic children demos (though i'd argue it doesn't show much in blink's music until untitled). covering  "a letter to elise" was no publicity stunt. nor was co-writing "all of this" with robert smith.

[twentytwenty]

35 minutes ago, Tom Bot said:

It was also the time frame when he declared that AvA would be the most influential rock and roll band in the last 20 years. 

Why do people get so triggered about this?

[Russel Coight]

11 minutes ago, twentytwenty said:

Why do people get so triggered about this?

I don’t think anybody is triggered it just ended up being so, so, so wrong that’s it’s laughable these days.

[daveyjones]

9 minutes ago, twentytwenty said:

Why do people get so triggered about this?

i'm not sure that word applies, unless people are experiencing actual trauma as a result of AVA not delivering as advertised. me personally, i just find tom's promotional pontificating during that period to be hilarious beyond words. i blame it on the painkillers. outside of a couple tracks, AVA is, paradoxically, both a garbage fire and a pile of wet garbage. the fact that tom can defy earthly chemistry like that is impressive, i do admit.

[twentytwenty]

2 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

i'm not sure that word applies, unless people are experiencing actual trauma as a result of AVA not delivering as advertised. me personally, i just find tom's promotional pontificating during that period to be hilarious beyond words. i blame it on the painkillers. outside of a couple tracks, AVA is awesome. the fact that tom can defy earthly chemistry like that is impressive, i do admit.

I fixed that for you  

[daveyjones]

9 minutes ago, twentytwenty said:

I fixed that for you  

"I'm not going to say AVA is a better band than U2. Bono awoke the world to starvation on the African continent. But then they didn't have octave chords. I gave them octaves. The amount of octaves and hammer-ons in U2-style music is the highest ever because of me. Did U2 do that? U2 was great. A great band. But many people...many many people are saying that what I've done with AVA is even greater. Now I don't know if that's true. But many people are saying it." — trump giving a press conference for to the stars.

[Speedo]

Tom's a goofball and I love him for it, he seems like the funnest person in the band to hang with.

[Coddled Egg]

2 hours ago, Speedo said:

Tom's a goofball and I love him for it, he seems like the funnest person in the band to hang with.

I don’t know man. Having someone shove fake UFO videos down my throat and yap about aliens all day long doesn’t really seem that fun to me.

[Speedo]

23 minutes ago, Diddy Faplord said:

I don’t know man. Having someone shove fake UFO videos down my throat and yap about aliens all day long doesn’t really seem that fun to me.

You're not invited!

[Kay]

6 hours ago, twentytwenty said:

Why do people get so triggered about this?

Because it's as ridiculously arrogant as Oli saying he could replace Skiba

[theedge00]

10 hours ago, daveyjones said:

i like them up to achtung. that's the cutoff.

Give Pop a chance...highly underrated 

[Patient #48273]

3 hours ago, Kay said:

Because it's as ridiculously arrogant as Oli saying he could replace Skiba

I think Oliver seemed humble in comparison, honestly.

[Kay]

12 minutes ago, Patient #48273 said:

I think Oliver seemed humble in comparison, honestly.

True. 

"I've been singing songs about fucking dogs for over a decade and now I'm going to revolutionise an entire genre because I bought a delay pedal" is peak billy bullshitter stuff.