One more time deluxe thread

[Frank Woods]

12 minutes ago, Knapppers said:

Can we also take a moment to acknowledge that Can't Go Back lived up to, if not maybe even being better than we had expected? When you hear songs live or demos and love them, they almost never live up to the hype. Can't Go Back blew it out of the water though. 

Yeah, I was afraid that in the studio it would lose the live atmosphere, as happened to GOTD and After Midnight: very promising during the first dates of the Honda Civic Tour, but without transposing the same vibe on the studio record.

In this regard, unlike the first reunion, today it's a totally different era for blink: at the time those two songs - which I personally love - didn't have much impact on the crowd when they played them live before releasing them... while last year in Bologna the whole arena was blown up for Dance With Me and More Than You Know, released just the day before.

[WPGBlink]

The back half of Every Other Weekend is definitely a peak moment of the OMT era of blink for me. 

The Cure vibes with the instrumentation, Mark's vocals flying in and hitting the bullseye, and then finishing it off with the "every time I watch you gooooo" from both Tom/Mark. 

Just beautiful. 

[Ghost]

Firstly, when they announced 'OMT... Part 2' I though "Jesus, just release them as a new EP". Later, when I realized the 8 songs + the 2 other ones released just after the official OMT release were basically a whole new record, I though: "Jesus f'ing Christ, why in the hell they didn't held those songs to release a new 10 songs album"? But I get it. They pretty much come from the same period of writing and recording, so the overall mood is pretty similar, although there's a noticeable change in feel in the new ones, like some of you have said in this thread. They sound mellower, or darker, so to say. I don't know. They feel slightly different. So it makes sense to release them under the same umbrella, I guess, but also as an expansion of the original tracklist.

Anyways, this new songs are pointing to a different musical landscape. They are blending really well all their influences and side project visions, and the result is fantastic. I'm not expecting blink doing anything too experimental, but I do expect them to explore that path they have showed us in songs like Can't Go Back (qhich, in the end, connects directly to the Untitled era feeling).

Also, I agree Take Me In sounds like Childhood Part 2, or like what Childhood wanted to be, but I preffer Childhood over Take Me in, I guess. My only complain is the production on Chilhood, which has been talked enough.

[Scott.]

46 minutes ago, Knapppers said:

Can we also take a moment to acknowledge that Can't Go Back lived up to, if not maybe even being better than we had expected? When you hear songs live or demos and love them, they almost never live up to the hype. Can't Go Back blew it out of the water though. 

Yeah it’s great but they needed to have a more epic outro. It’s missing that imo. 

[Scott.]

51 minutes ago, Russel Coight said:

It’s fucking fantastic. It ticks so many boxes. Very different to the other standout tracks on OMT but so damn near perfect.

Love the guitar in the verses 

[vic vinegar]

Everyone Everywhere is my new jam for a bit.

[Elisa]

I'm obsessed with If You Never Left, the guitar at the end is pure Tom Delongeness.

[MassKirbycide]

2 hours ago, Russel Coight said:

I agree with you 100% but this is a complete 180 on your skiba era views. Back then you criticised the shit out of the band for writing songs about breakups, being young etc cause they’re older now and should write about that.

To play devil’s advocate, songs like that do feel more authentic with Tom in the band, since he never lost his immature, adolescent persona. Even during peak “I’M A SERIOUS ARTIST” era early on in AVA, he still told jokes about spreading barbecue sauce on his buttcheeks when I saw them live. 
 

I agree there’s definitely a bit of hypocrisy, but I get why those songs might feel more appropriate now than in the Skiba era. 
 

But also I’m admittedly a Tombot, so I can do plenty of mental gymnastics to justify liking this more than California. 

[Walrus]

10 hours ago, Russel Coight said:

Didn’t you hear about Tom and his wife being swingers? All these lyrics are obviously in relation to the rich girls he’s banging with his wife.

I’m ashamed to admit I googled this to see if it was true… I’m a dumbass 

[Drama-Free Jan]

Can’t Go Back to One Night Stand is an INSANE run

[Drama-Free Jan]

1 hour ago, Scott. said:

Love the guitar in the verses 

It’s crazy how this is such a dead thing now Tom doing it is like hearing Eddie Van Halen again.

[Scott.]

All in my head is underrated imo. That chorus is fucking great

[Elisa]

the only thing i could do without is Mark's metallic voice, i can't believe there is no way to make him sound normal? 

[boxelder]

2 minutes ago, Elisa said:

the only thing i could do without is Mark's metallic voice, i can't believe there is no way to make him sound normal? 

true, his voice is shockingly processed throughout these songs. was there not a better take? can we dial back the perfect tuning?

[Drama-Free Jan]

7 minutes ago, Elisa said:

the only thing i could do without is Mark's metallic voice, i can't believe there is no way to make him sound normal? 

What’s weird is that there’s moments (like If You Never Left chorus, first verse on All In My Head) where he does sound perfectly normal. And better. I don’t get the heavy effects either

[Drama-Free Jan]

18 minutes ago, Scott. said:

All in my head is underrated imo. That chorus is fucking great

It definitely grew a bit after the rest of the songs were released. Fits better next to those than See You, Cut Me Off, No Fun as a more upbeat song.  Still just okay just not great.

[2point5]

Didn't he say his vocal chords were completely wrecked by the chemotherapy? I think it's okay if he gets a few touch ups here and there.

[boxelder]

4 minutes ago, 2point5 said:

Didn't he say his vocal cords were completely wrecked by the chemotherapy? I think it's okay if he gets a few touch ups here and there.

good call, i forgot about that.

[Knapppers]

His voice definitely doesn't have as much oomph as it used to have.  He seems to sing a lot softer now. 

[Scott.]

I dunno I think he sounds great live so why they have to touch him up so much is beyond me.