One more time deluxe thread

[Speedo]

1 minute ago, anders182 said:

AAR? 

Anders182 Are Retarded

[Paparazzi Magnet]

10 minutes ago, 23 years 3 months 4 days said:

I don’t mean to brag, but I jerked off 9 times last Tuesday. 

[Elite Takes - this is jan]

11 minutes ago, Knapppers said:

Is Jan really in here bragging about his typing score? I miss when you could still bully people. 

This is called playing the long game. While you’re still trying to be cool, The girl you had a crush on in high school will have a stamp of my typing score on their ass by 2025 while you scream out cuss words out the sunroof of your Tacoma not understanding why that truck doesn’t have the same pull it once did.

[Elite Takes - this is jan]

12 minutes ago, 23 years 3 months 4 days said:

I don’t mean to brag, but I jerked off 9 times last Tuesday. 

Bro, get a fleshlight at that point.

[George R. Binks]

1 minute ago, Moldy Krampus Juice said:

Bro, get a fleshlight at that point.

It was just a joke. I was making fun of you. 

[Elite Takes - this is jan]

1 minute ago, 23 years 3 months 4 days said:

It was just a joke. I was making fun of you. 

Oh, well, there’s nothing wrong with masterbating.

[thongrider]

8 minutes ago, Moldy Krampus Juice said:

No, the key is to lean back in the steady. Dial in like you’re playing guitar solo.

I’ve also beat guitar hero on expert. This is my other talent.

These are my only talents

Mine are remembering pointless events, making dumb rhymes and one thing I can't remember (the pointless events makes me forget everything else)

[George R. Binks]

Just now, Moldy Krampus Juice said:

Oh, well, there’s nothing wrong with masterbating.

Tell that to God! Masturbating is a sin. Learn to spell. 

[frisky]

2 hours ago, Champ182 said:

Similarly to some of the music over the past 10 years, it sounds like someone else trying to sound like Blink and not getting it right.

Most bands that stick around multiple decades end up doing 1 of 2 things: they either stray so far from thier original sound that they alienate most of their OG fans or they become parodies of themselves trying to tap into nostalgia.

[George R. Binks]

[Kay]

Jamal Eats World is crackin’

[boxelder]

2 hours ago, Ghent said:

Yep exactly. Although blink was a bro band and said gross absurd shit, they were never a "horn dog" band. Which they've started to dabble in at age 50? It makes no sense.

There are hardly any old blink songs about thirsting for chicks or fucking, just quick references like "I wanna take off your clothes"

My criticism of this started with I Can't Get You More Pregnant. I want them to be funny, inappropriate etc, but this ain't it. It's just awkward.

Like I am a horn dog, but I don't need grandpa singing to me about it lmao

one of my favorite observations about blink came from the writer nitsuh abebe, both from the new yorker and new york magazine:

Their adolescent outlook, especially in the early years, occasionally found expression in spiteful breakup songs in which boys wonder what’s wrong with girls. “Enema of the State” included “Dumpweed,” a downright giddy farewell to a “nightmare” girlfriend, in which DeLonge sings, “I need a girl that I can train.” But many of Blink’s best songs endure because they turn inward: the lovelorn boy has sense enough to wonder what’s wrong with him. [...] The band’s great selling point wasn’t the scatological side of juvenilia; it was their tremendous sentimentality. And who’s more sentimental than adolescents? Blink-182 were generous enough to cater to that emotion without hauling out acoustic guitars and string sections to underline their sincerity. [...] Between songs about first dates and fighting parents, all the boyish jokes could seem like a pressure valve, the equivalent of two stunted guys who just hugged a few moments too long and now need to punch each other to relax.

[The Quiff Walker]

32 minutes ago, 23 years 3 months 4 days said:

Angel & AirBraids

[boxelder]

many of my posts over the years have expressed disappointment at the band regressing back to the standard pop-punk sound, one i thought the trappings of which they'd moved beyond. it started with some stuff on neighborhoods -- even if she falls, or wishing well even -- that i felt wasn't pushing the band to a progressive place i'd come to expect. california cranked that dial way past 11 with the most formulaic, botoxed songs i didn't even think they were capable of, and NINE was consequently confused with the way things turned out. cynical more or less outright admits mark felt washed: "you've said everything you'll ever say."

but what i'm beginning to realize is that window of time that mark and tom were churning out more mature, arguably deeper songwriting -- BCR i guess, untitled, +44, hell, even some AVA -- came during like a 3-4 year period in the mid-00s. what if that maturation wasn't truly who they were, or what they felt comfortable with? as a fan then it excited me to see blink pushing into different sonic directions ... it felt representative of their development as musicians and people. but maybe they felt it was forced, or like a grown-up suit that fit too big. maybe stupid sing-song shtick is where they feel happiest. more power to 'em i guess.

[The Quiff Walker]

Can someone please take producing duties from Travis and who’s mastering the vocals?  And why is Mark writing about cum stains?

[Ghent]

39 minutes ago, boxelder said:

many of my posts over the years have expressed disappointment at the band regressing back to the standard pop-punk sound, one i thought the trappings of which they'd moved beyond. it started with some stuff on neighborhoods -- even if she falls, or wishing well even -- that i felt wasn't pushing the band to a progressive place i'd come to expect. california cranked that dial way past 11 with the most formulaic, botoxed songs i didn't even think they were capable of, and NINE was consequently confused with the way things turned out. cynical more or less outright admits mark felt washed: "you've said everything you'll ever say."

but what i'm beginning to realize is that window of time that mark and tom were churning out more mature, arguably deeper songwriting -- BCR i guess, untitled, +44, hell, even some AVA -- came during like a 3-4 year period in the mid-00s. what if that maturation wasn't truly who they were, or what they felt comfortable with? as a fan then it excited me to see blink pushing into different sonic directions ... it felt representative of their development as musicians and people. but maybe they felt it was forced, or like a grown-up suit that fit too big. maybe stupid sing-song shtick is where they feel happiest. more power to 'em i guess.

There isn't much of a difference between California and OMT besides an upgrade/better fit at guitar/vocals. I'm sorry, there's just not.

(and that's a compliment coming from me, of course)

[George R. Binks]

39 minutes ago, boxelder said:

many of my posts over the years have expressed disappointment at the band regressing back to the standard pop-punk sound, one i thought the trappings of which they'd moved beyond. it started with some stuff on neighborhoods -- even if she falls, or wishing well even -- that i felt wasn't pushing the band to a progressive place i'd come to expect. california cranked that dial way past 11 with the most formulaic, botoxed songs i didn't even think they were capable of, and NINE was consequently confused with the way things turned out. cynical more or less outright admits mark felt washed: "you've said everything you'll ever say."

but what i'm beginning to realize is that window of time that mark and tom were churning out more mature, arguably deeper songwriting -- BCR i guess, untitled, +44, hell, even some AVA -- came during like a 3-4 year period in the mid-00s. what if that maturation wasn't truly who they were, or what they felt comfortable with? as a fan then it excited me to see blink pushing into different sonic directions ... it felt representative of their development as musicians and people. but maybe they felt it was forced, or like a grown-up suit that fit too big. maybe stupid sing-song shtick is where they feel happiest. more power to 'em i guess.

I don’t understand this take. They are a 3 piece band with limited playing and singing capabilities. Do you expect them to evolve into Pink Floyd or Dream Theatre or something? They’re at their best when they are simple and catchy and fun. 

[George R. Binks]

2 minutes ago, Ghent said:

There isn't much of a difference between California and OMT besides an upgrade/better fit at guitar/vocals. I'm sorry, there's just not.

Facts. Travis was taking notes the entire time he worked with Feldy. 

[Ghent]

2 minutes ago, 23 years 3 months 4 days said:

Facts. Travis was taking notes the entire time he worked with Feldy. 

You can easily make the argument that he took it a step FURTHER than pesky little Feldboy.

I also think blink's artistic prowess has always been a bit overrated by fans as they learned how to accept Untitled into the Discography.

[George R. Binks]

Just now, Ghent said:

You can easily make the argument that he took it a step FURTHER than pesky little Feldboy.

I also think blink's artistic prowess has always been a bit overrated by fans as they learned how to accept Untitled into the Discography.

You said it best, brother.