One More Time… Official Discussion (Constant Tug and Nut)

[Elisa]

1 minute ago, Champ182 said:

Haha yeah definitely possible, you never know! I'm trying to remember the bands he shouted out in Urethra Chronicles 1 when he was just rattling names off the top of his head. NOFX, Jimmy Eat World, A Tribe Called Quest...

I don't know if he mentioned any new wave but yeah, regardless of whether it was an influence in his teens and early 20s, it's clearly an influence now and I think the band sounds great in that style. In my opinion it feels like the most "natural" evolution of what they were so good at in the pure pop punk days.

Yeah, I think we've talked about this in the past, but it's what I always wanted blink to veer towards now that they're old, because, like New Order, they are the best at creating something special out of a simple guitar or bass riff.  

[Russel Coight]

finally showed up today!

[just_bringing_good_chats]

i know they wanted to play on the whole "part 2/part3/ " thing there thats fine 

but that album isnt a part 2 lol... its the same fucking album! (yes with the nice extra song at the end but still same album)

i cant get over that

to me thats a big misnommer there 

otherwise great deluxe album

[Sun God]

@Locean Breeze - Jan fun fact, “Can’t Go Back” didn’t use a drum sample, at least for the snare drum. Cool new video from the producer GOAT just dropped on Reverb today. Apparently T-Rav just recorded all the drums for Yellowcard’s new album as well. 

 

[Drama-Free Jan]

6 hours ago, Bad Boyz said:

@Locean Breeze - Jan fun fact, “Can’t Go Back” didn’t use a drum sample, at least for the snare drum. Cool new video from the producer GOAT just dropped on Reverb today. Apparently T-Rav just recorded all the drums for Yellowcard’s new album as well. 

 

This is hands down the most depressing studio I’ve ever seen.  What a horrible concept/reason to have white walls.

Cool snares though. 

edit: really liked the interview, thanks Diddy 

[Sun God]

10 minutes ago, Locean Breeze - Jan said:

This is hands down the most depressing studio I’ve ever seen.  What a horrible concept/reason to have white walls.

Cool snares though. 

And who would have ever thunk it?! Travis wrote your favorite song (OMT). 

[Russel Coight]

I just briefly saw a bit of that on Reddit and so some bloke named Greg wrote OMT with Travis then they showed it to Mark and Tom? Mark and Tom barely had anything to do with it?

[eleven]

I suggest that @Bad Boyz be temporarily banned. He posted that video in two different threads, and now people are discussing this topic in two separate places.

[Drama-Free Jan]

6 hours ago, Bad Boyz said:

And who would have ever thunk it?! Travis wrote your favorite song (OMT). 

I missed that part. Not shocking. It’s generic and boring song.  Almost like our intuitions are right about Mark/Tom not sitting down and writing like they used to and that disconnect holding back the enjoyment slightly?
 Genuinely, I think Tom has just moved on to other things, same with Mark, as far as passion for making music goes. Not in a terrible way, but they’re focused on their families over writing ‘best song ever’ ever again. Like their 2000s stretch.  
The Adventure/WDNTW was really Tom’s “I’m so sick of this I’m writing one more album then done with this” in his heart at least. Then it became more just his job/obligation.

2 hours ago, Russel Coight said:

I just briefly saw a bit of that on Reddit and so some bloke named Greg wrote OMT with Travis then they showed it to Mark and Tom? Mark and Tom barely had anything to do with it?

Kinda takes the song down a notch, no?

38 minutes ago, twelve said:

I suggest that @Bad Boyz be temporarily banned. He posted that video in two different threads, and now people are discussing this topic in two separate places.

Not the worst idea. Also, leave it to boomer diddy to post a point in an 18 minute video without a timestamp. 

[Drama-Free Jan]

Honestly, that just solidifies this as California pt. 2 with Tom & a few gems, luckily.

I don’t need some guy named Greg writing my blink songs.

I don’t need Travis’ egomaniac writing them either.

I need Mark & Tom. That’s what I signed up for. And yes they owe me as a longtime fan.

That said, it’s still good music and good to hear Tom & Mark on songs to any capacity. They can almost do no wrong because their dynamic is that good.

This also solidifies Neighborhoods as better.  Tom & Mark definitely wrote that bullshit.

[thongrider]

Weird. I always felt guilty about disliking that song since it seemed Personal. If this is true I guess I can truly crown it among the worst blink songs.

[allsystemsgo]

Diddy is showing how the sausage was made and I don't like it!

[Elisa]

It's a great interview, but if the most heartfelt song on the album wasn't even written by Mark and Tom, then I'm no longer trusting anyone in music.

[Kay]

That interview wont load for me - tbf the music for OMT is boring as shit, and its the lyrics that are the meaningful aspect, so if they only wrote the music I don’t think it robs it all of emotion… its salty af though

[Russel Coight]

25 minutes ago, Kay said:

That interview wont load for me - tbf the music for OMT is boring as shit, and its the lyrics that are the meaningful aspect, so if they only wrote the music I don’t think it robs it all of emotion… its salty af though

They wrote the lyrics as well. Originally about  breakup with a girl but trav was like nah let’s make it about the band and how tragedy brings us together.

So Travis at least wrote the lyrics. Or a decent part.

[Sun God]

The song OMT sucked and always sucked. The video was the only cool part about it. The music, the chords used, all bland. Sorry that’s how I feel about it. Plenty of other bangers on the album tho. 

[Kay]

7 hours ago, Russel Coight said:

They wrote the lyrics as well. Originally about  breakup with a girl but trav was like nah let’s make it about the band and how tragedy brings us together.

So Travis at least wrote the lyrics. Or a decent part.

Honestly them not writing that together sucks so hard 😂

[whales]

if Travis wrote it, the others liked it, and it's accurate to their story, why's that a bad thing? i dunno, i'd get being bothered if no one from the band wrote it, but it's pretty neat that Travis cares enough to write lyrics like that.

[Russel Coight]

5 minutes ago, whales said:

if Travis wrote it, the others liked it, and it's accurate to their story, why's that a bad thing? i dunno, i'd get being bothered if no one from the band wrote it, but it's pretty neat that Travis cares enough to write lyrics like that.

I don’t know if you missed it but unless it’s mark tom and Travis writing the songs together it’s not blink here.

[eleven]

43 minutes ago, whales said:

if Travis wrote it, the others liked it, and it's accurate to their story, why's that a bad thing? i dunno, i'd get being bothered if no one from the band wrote it, but it's pretty neat that Travis cares enough to write lyrics like that.

Yeah, if we really think about it, this isn’t all that different from Tom recording a song with Aaron Rubin and presenting it to the band. What I question is the need to make something public, as it might take away some of the magic, especially when that song has been sold to the fans the way it was and means what it means.

I have no issue with ghostwriters or additional musicians. Sometimes, they’re necessary for various reasons. 
And speaking of something Fap mentioned yesterday or the day before, about there being guitars on this album that weren’t recorded by Tom, I just want to say that sometimes, there are cases where an artist re-records something written by someone else, and it may even sound good, but for some reason, it just doesn’t have the same impact, sometimes because you’ve already gotten used to that sound. At that point, decisions need to be made, and as long as the musician has a role in the decision-making process, I’m fine with it.

But would I prefer an album written entirely by the three of them? I think so.