Bad News Track Discussion

[Jan Mortensen]

This song is so good, wtf.

Sounds like a song we would have heard Mark sing in 2001.

[Ghent]

1 minute ago, Dont Know What Jans Got said:

This song is so good, wtf.

Sounds like a song we would have heard Mark sing in 2001.

It's supposed to be kind of a filler Mark song but it's low key doing some heavy lifting on the album. So good. It's mastering the sound of all the blink copy cat pop punk bands that came in the early 2000s

[boxelder]

i’m such a sucker for songs like this. it sounds straight out of 2001. the little guitar melody under the second half of the verse — “i start reminiscing…” — is just unadulterated, classic blink. this will be an all timer favorite from this album.

no one can do this stuff better than blink. that’s why we’re all here

[raw_sounds]

1 hour ago, Ghent said:

It's supposed to be kind of a filler Mark song but it's low key doing some heavy lifting on the album. So good. It's mastering the sound of all the blink copy cat pop punk bands that came in the early 2000s

Yeah, it's like a turorial of how to make great modern pop punk.

 

I'm not even into NFG or Neck Deep but this song nails their style so much

[Coightstradamus]

I love songs like this and this is a perfect one. So good.

[blinkAVARacer]

this song is like TOYPAJ meets DR with a dash of Cali. fun song and mark sounds great. don't know how much i'll listen to this one, but its a decent tune

[Knapppers]

This one was solid from the first listen. Still loving it. 

[Ghost]

16 hours ago, boxelder said:

as much as i like this song, it feels like it could've been written by any sort of neck deep/state champs-type band. that's not to say it won't sneak up on me like blink always has the tendency to do.

this is kind of the vibe i get -- creative license is fine, but i feel like so often in the later mark work you see him write these types of lyrics he clearly doesn't feel ("why can't we get divorced for christmas?" in NACS from 2019).

Is just the opposite. This is the song all those bands would love to write.?

[Pirate Mexicano]

8 hours ago, Elisa said:

So this is Alabama's favorite song because she relates to Tom's divorce? ?

I thought it was the opposite. Seemed like Travis said it to troll her because she hates the song.

 

 

[Rhino7170]

This song + Hurt (interlude) + Turpentine go together.... Seems to be about Tom's divorce to me.

[stupidtallhotgirl]

1 hour ago, Rhino7170 said:

This song + Hurt (interlude) + Turpentine go together.... Seems to be about Tom's divorce to me.

The Tom Delonge divorce triple threat

[Elisa]

@Dont Know What Jans Got i finally figured out why Bad News reminded me of Lagwagon 

 

[Rhino7170]

2 hours ago, stupidtallhotgirl said:

The Tom Delonge divorce triple threat

An interlude ties 2 separate songs or acts together as 1 subject matter, typically speaking.

[Sdlythe87]

Lovvvvvve this man. What a great pop punk banger.

classic Mark melody for sure. It has a very NFG feel to it, it’s definitely gonna be one of my go to tracks. Good job Blink.

alot of Dude ranch feels too, with the guitar riff and drums through the breakdown and verses.

[Jan Mortensen]

5 hours ago, Elisa said:

@Dont Know What Jans Got i finally figured out why Bad News reminded me of Lagwagon 

 

Ahhhhh fangirling out!!

 That was the album I was thinking of

 thank you for this

[Mark_Tom_Travis_Show]

yeah this kinda does just sound like all the 2000's copy-cats bands. just a perfect execution of that style without the cringey vocals that 99% of the copy-cat bands have

[stupidtallhotgirl]

Imma just say it, it might sound biased but Mark or Tom can make that style work because they got a set of balls behind their voices lol

[Scott.]

This is pop punk heaven. I wasn’t blown away first listen but heard it now a few times and it’s fucking golden. Mark sounds great and I love the guitar. 10/10 track 

[boxelder]

the little guitar melody under “i start reminiscing about the times we had…”

[mahtmd]

I love this one! It’s very reminiscent of 2000s pop punk as others have said. I’m an obvious sucker for this style and Mark’s vocals are great. I love the lyrics despite not being divorced or even almost divorced, lyrics not being specifically relevant to the vocalist doesn’t bother me as much I guess. Top song imo.