Unreleased Skiba era song - The Start / Here We Are

[2point5]

posted this in the general discuss thread but I imagine it will get more eyes here. 

Really nice to hear one more Skiba song after everything. 

[Paparazzi Magnet]

Damn, not a bad track at all on first listen. Do we know if this is Cali, Cali Deluxe, or Nine era? Or meant for a future release with Skiba still in

[allsystemsgo]

Nah

[Monkey Chips]

2 hours ago, Paparazzi Magnet said:

Damn, not a bad track at all. Do we know if this is Cali, Cali Deluxe, or Nine era? Or meant for a future release with Skiba still in

I slipped up and forgot to share this when I came across it earlier, but most likely we will never hear any official Skiba stuff unless it's leaked like this song was:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCzqKwwNXA5/?utm_source=ig_embed

[JarJarBlinks]

Skiba's half of the song is great.  I'm happy with where things are at now but I sure do miss his voice sometimes.

[dave900]

6 minutes ago, JarJarBlinks said:

Skiba's half of the song is great.  I'm happy with where things are at now but I sure do miss his voice sometimes.

Yeah came to say this, Skiba's part is the best part of the song.  Hopefully other unreleased Skiba songs get released down the road.

[Elite Takes - this is jan]

Can’t wait to not rush to listen to another manufactured song, catering to some thing about nothing and Mark and Skiba laying their vocals with all sorts of effects and barely able to hear any guitar and only picture Feldman winking in the background. Oh, and I’m sure there’s a nice Travis E drum kit.

[JarJarBlinks]

Just now, Elite Takes - this is jan said:

Can’t wait to not rush to listen to another manufactured song, catering to some thing about nothing and Mark and Skiba laying their vocals with all sorts of effects and barely able to hear any guitar and only picture Feldman winking in the background. Oh, and I’m sure there’s a nice Travis E drum kit.

what a dumb comment.  song is nothing like that. 

[Ghent]

I hope some day we get at least one run of a four piece, I think it would be really cool and work well.

The Skiba era tunes aren't that much different than the OMT era, but it's a huge advantage having Tom vocals and guitar

[Champ182]

3 hours ago, Monkey Chips said:

I slipped up and forgot to share this when I came across it earlier, but most likely we will never hear any official Skiba stuff unless it's leaked like this song was:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCzqKwwNXA5/?utm_source=ig_embed

So is this (and the couple other random songs that have leaked over the years) from a lost 2020-21 album? That's pretty interesting. 

This song has some nice pieces, it definitely has the stank of being written by randos and doesn't really go anywhere, but it's pleasant enough. I'm really curious what kind of insights Mark is going to give about this era in his book! This is all rehashed but while I'm thankful that Skiba stepped in and the band stayed alive long enough for the reunion to happen, music-wise it should've just been a different band all along. 

[BobbyCuomo]

1 hour ago, JarJarBlinks said:

Skiba's half of the song is great.  I'm happy with where things are at now but I sure do miss his voice sometimes.

The problem with the Skiba era wasn’t Skiba 

[allsystemsgo]

8 minutes ago, BobbyCuomo said:

The problem with the Skiba era wasn’t Skiba 

Yep, the Skiba era could've been legendary, but they gagged my boy.

[Champ182]

31 minutes ago, BobbyCuomo said:

The problem with the Skiba era wasn’t Skiba 

That's why I try not to call it the Skiba era haha. It's the Non-Tom Era.

[Paparazzi Magnet]

7 hours ago, Champ182 said:

That's why I try not to call it the Skiba era haha. It's the Non-Tom Era.

My thoughts exactly. I have no bad blood with Skiba, and I really like the dude and what he did.

My main disappointment was Tom’s absence from the band, combined with Feldman’s annoying influence to further damage things.

[Russel Coight]

Skiba’s part of this song is so good. 

[Elite Takes - this is jan]

I’ve got a bone to pick with Skiba

He could have definitely done better live in the second half with covering songs.

But the whole thing was fucked by then so I can’t really blame him.  Hard to stay motivated or care when they’ve stripped you of all your qualities.

Glad he got paid. Deserved it. But it went on way too long. Would have much rather had just one (singular) album to look back on as ‘the non-Tom’ album.

[thongrider]

A big fat fucking bone?

[Ghost]

Skiba is gold. As someone pointed out. He was not the problem. Feldmann was.

I don't remember if I said this before but for me it always was a fantasy to have Matt and Mark doing some kind of side project, some sort of crossover between dark, rough, deep Skiba and also dark, deep and rough Mark- +55 plus AK3. Somehow, stars aligned and made it happen under blink's name. It was not the best output, though. Not either what I craved for or what I'd ever imagined, but I think is the closest I'd ever hear something as I'd love to hear.

[Scott.]

Let’s just pretend the skiba era never happened. The band should have ended. Skiba ffs. Cali and Nine are a fucking disgrace to the catalogue 

[boxelder]

horrible tune. 

mark and skiba having to sing over anodyne copy-paste melodies and hollow, craven lyrics that don't speak to anything personal or real to either of them. adam's song riff. loud, uninspired triggered drums. like there's nothing worse than songs like this right? why were they doing this? i understand that by 2016 they had abandoned any pretense of giving skiba an equal creative role, and that appeared to work fine on california. but by this era (and tbf, some of OMT), it felt like they were soliciting songs from songwriter camps and swallowed up by major-label machinery, doing whatever they could to stay relevant (xxxtentacion, powfu, etc). hearing this is like hearing the b-sides of california deluxe -- castoffs of castoffs. honestly, the whoah-ohs got way too much hate back then, but hearing them in this leaked track is like a war flashback.

2019-21 the darkest days in the band's whole existence, breakup era included. i really hope this stuff gets covered in an honest way in mark's book, but i'm not holding my breath.