Meltdown Tracker Posted October 24, 2020 Report Share Posted October 24, 2020 I think after three albums and many live performances, the thing I'm most yearning for is the guitar synergy with Travis' drum beats. I'm not faulting Skiba - lyrically and vocally (ages considered for him and Tom) he's done fine, it's just the style of his riffs and lackthereof. I think I miss the Tom era mainly for moments like: But there are so many others. Stockholm Syndrome has a lot of those moments. Most of Boxcar Racer. Now, I'm not saying current Tom is still capable of that type of stuff (Travis definitely still is). But he's still good for 10-20% of that, and I'll take that over the Skiba era all day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheerios4u98 Posted October 24, 2020 Report Share Posted October 24, 2020 variation in live performances for me. The extended interludes and outros they used to play were always something I loved. I also enjoyed them playing songs faster than the album recordings. It was fun to hear versions of songs that weren't trying to sound exactly like the album versions we've heard 8000 times. I miss that a lot. Live shows aside, a few years back I could never imagine myself saying this, but I miss blink songs with only one singer. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kay Posted October 24, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted October 24, 2020 First thought best thought writing approach with outside writers. Mark makes better art when he agonise himself over it and puts himself into it fully. Feldmann is just a tween song factory and the more outside influence you have, the less identity the song has. as a result all of their songs are fairly 2 dimensional and cringy because of it. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mard_Smartiest_Blinkfan Posted October 24, 2020 Report Share Posted October 24, 2020 option 1: davey jones(for having contradictory musical taste) option 2: tom delong(for not being there so that blink can b blink and not matt-blink) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twentytwenty Posted October 24, 2020 Report Share Posted October 24, 2020 Their biggest weaknesses: 1. The lack of energy on the live shows due to click tracks and backing tracks. It's not even the backing tracks, plenty of band have energetic live shows while using them. 2. And marks "I'm feeling this" makes me puke a little in my mouth. But these were problems they had the last years with tom as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyjones Posted October 24, 2020 Report Share Posted October 24, 2020 5 hours ago, Mard_Smartiest_Blinkfan said: davey jones(for having contradictory musical taste) LOL if you think people aren't supposed to be riddled with contradictory tastes, impulses, and desires then you don't really know much about the human condition. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iguessthisisgrowingup Posted October 25, 2020 Report Share Posted October 25, 2020 The lyrics are number 1 for me. I really can't stand them, aside from maybe like 3-4 songs across Cali and Nine. A close runner up is Feldmann's production and creative input I really like them live sound-wise, aside from the occasional fumble with backing tracks. Matt's voice is almost always killer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mard_Smartiest_Blinkfan Posted October 25, 2020 Report Share Posted October 25, 2020 20 hours ago, daveyjones said: LOL if you think people aren't supposed to be riddled with contradictory tastes, impulses, and desires then you don't really know much about the human condition. i do and ur right that humans have all that, but urs(contradiction) is off the chart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elisa Posted November 1, 2020 Report Share Posted November 1, 2020 On 10/24/2020 at 9:32 AM, Cheerios4u98 said: variation in live performances for me. The extended interludes and outros they used to play were always something I loved. I also enjoyed them playing songs faster than the album recordings. It was fun to hear versions of songs that weren't trying to sound exactly like the album versions we've heard 8000 times. I miss that a lot. Same here, something I have really missed with Skiba are the extended bridges and creative improv. I don't know how much of these performances were planned or rehearsed, but you can tell Tom was improvising a bit even in his latest tours with blink (i.e the outros of I Miss You and Down) and the way Mark and Travis were able to follow and stay perfectly in sync with him was really what set the band apart. Now it's all just louder backing tracks and big visual effects. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Backing Track Posted November 1, 2020 Report Share Posted November 1, 2020 Everything, I don't even know where to start. They've lost it. 2 1 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheerios4u98 Posted November 6, 2020 Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 On 11/1/2020 at 2:41 AM, Elisa said: Same here, something I have really missed with Skiba are the extended bridges and creative improv. I don't know how much of these performances were planned or rehearsed, but you can tell Tom was improvising a bit even in his latest tours with blink (i.e the outros of I Miss You and Down) and the way Mark and Travis were able to follow and stay perfectly in sync with him was really what set the band apart. Now it's all just louder backing tracks and big visual effects. I think the bridges and outros were 100% a Tom thing. I mean he started AVA which is all about super long intros and outros. He continued doing extended live outros at shows with AVA. I forgot about this one but I actually saw it live in person back in 2006. Normal song ends at about 3:25 and the rest of the video is an outro. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twentytwenty Posted November 6, 2020 Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 47 minutes ago, Cheerios4u98 said: I think the bridges and outros were 100% a Tom thing. I mean he started AVA which is all about super long intros and outros. He continued doing extended live outros at shows with AVA. I forgot about this one but I actually saw it live in person back in 2006. Normal song ends at about 3:25 and the rest of the video is an outro. Damn, totally forgot about that. Listen to that guitar tone!! Matt W was such a better fit that Ryan was though 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosferatu Posted November 6, 2020 Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 I love that video. Just wish the guitars sounded better. David's guitar sounds almost as bad as Skiba's clean guitar tone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksdog Posted November 28, 2020 Report Share Posted November 28, 2020 Too much auto-tune. Not to mention they sound god awful live. I mean Blink 182 has never been the strongest live perfomers but now its at a point where it's starting to get on my nerves! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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