Your favourite parts of blink songs

[Scott.]

What parts do you love?

I love the outro to Dumpweed and the riff after the first chorus sounds so much cleaner than the intro riff. 
 

I love Mark signing ‘she so smart and independent I don’t think she needs me quite half as much as I know I need her’ in Josie. 
 

I love Mark and Toms harmonies in the Give Me One Good Reason chorus and the bridge with Travis drumming. Superb stuff. 

Man Overboard intro is fire 🔥

Marks vocal in Bad News I love and Toms backing vocals sounding like Dude Ranch era. 

Going Away To College intro and bridge

Toms verse in I Miss You 

The electronic bit at the end of Always 

The contrast between Tom and Robert Smiths voice in All Of This. 

[Jan Mortensen]

Mark’s verses in Here’s Your Letter will always hit me like a ton of bricks more than probably any other blink part.

more recently, I gotta say Wildfire prechoruses and Don’t Leave Anything and Los Angeles bridge were really slept on. Between all the mud those were prime Mark I was waiting for.

Turpentine as soon as Tom comes in and that guitar, also the guitar on Anthem 3 guiding the way really was impactful. Anthem 3 ending too first time blew my mind since blink never does that.

Violence choruses first times were unbeatable.

Dick Lips “Nothing to lose!” - classic blink sound

Feeling this “fate felt short this time” was pretty hard to beat for its time 

Travis drumming on Stockholm syndrome and Hearts all Gone (that one video of him doing it over the tracks)

Tom saying ‘I think I like today’ so simple yet effective 

[scoobs]

The whole song really, but the last 1:30 of Stockholm Syndrome is peak blink 182

[Scott.]

Not a huge fan of here’s your letter but that bridge 🔥

[AmonRaStMAGA]

In All of This the first chorus is just Tom, the next chorus is like 75/25 Tom and the last chorus is 50/50 🍆

[LeGOAT]

2 hours ago, Scott. said:

What parts do you love?

I love the outro to Dumpweed and the riff after the first chorus sounds so much cleaner than the intro riff. 
 

I love Mark signing ‘she so smart and independent I don’t think she needs me quite half as much as I know I need her’ in Josie. 
 

I love Mark and Toms harmonies in the Give Me One Good Reason chorus and the bridge with Travis drumming. Superb stuff. 

Man Overboard intro is fire 🔥

Marks vocal in Bad News I love and Toms backing vocals sounding like Dude Ranch era. 

Going Away To College intro and bridge

Toms verse in I Miss You 

The electronic bit at the end of Always 

The contrast between Tom and Robert Smiths voice in All Of This. 

I’m confused on your assessment of Dumpweed. The intro riff on the high strings is the exact same as the riff right after the first chorus. It’s not played differently at all, I would in fact be surprised if it wasn’t the exact same take that Jerry just cut and pasted again right after the first chorus 

[Kay]

• The guitars at the start of the bridge in Aliens Exist 

• When “Cacophony” switches the tempo and feel

• The bass tone in the intro / instrumental sections of Asthenia

• The isolated guitar, pause, and crash of the bridge in Everytime I Look For You

• The drum outro of Kaleidoscope

Theres more I could do this all day 😂

[Scott.]

11 minutes ago, Sun God said:

I’m confused on your assessment of Dumpweed. The intro riff on the high strings is the exact same as the riff right after the first chorus. It’s not played differently at all, I would in fact be surprised if it wasn’t the exact same take that Jerry just cut and pasted again right after the first chorus 

I didn’t say it was different it just sounds slightly different. Sounds cleaner. Is there a lack of bass after the chorus? Go and listen I think it sounds slightly better 

[Scott.]

4 minutes ago, Kay said:

• The guitars at the start of the bridge in Aliens Exist 

• When “Cacophony” switches the tempo and feel

• The bass tone in the intro / instrumental sections of Asthenia

• The isolated guitar, pause, and crash of the bridge in Everytime I Look For You

• The drum outro of Kaleidoscope

Theres more I could do this all day 😂

That’s the point of the thread 🤣 don’t have to post them all in one go 

[LeGOAT]

2 minutes ago, Scott. said:

I didn’t say it was different it just sounds slightly different. Sounds cleaner. Is there a lack of bass after the chorus? Go and listen I think it sounds slightly better 

Yea I’m not sure, but I will take a listen later. I’m actually not going to write your assessment off. Because I like playing this song on guitar a lot , and I’ve actually had a fleeting thought before that the timing of the space between the notes was ever so slightly different the second time that riff kicks in, but I wrote that thought off a while ago and assumed I was just tricking myself 

[allsystemsgo]

The final chorus of Story of a Lonely Guy when everything comes together with the la-da-das.

The entire intro riff of Another Girl Another planet. To me it's a brief glimpse of what blink's sound could've evolved into if they never broke up.

The point of the song in Even If She Falls where Tom starts to sing in a higher register. Neighborhoods had some gems.

[Jan Mortensen]

Allen’s Exist breakdown..

almost forgot. So sweet.

[Scott.]

All Mark and Tom shared vocal songs are fucking great too. Those Everytime I Look For You verses are a thing of beauty. 

[Coightstradamus]

Romeo and Rebecca’s tempo change after the intro.

Dysentary Gary bridge when mark gets to sing before kicking back into the chorus is so perfect.

[Coightstradamus]

28 minutes ago, allsystemsgo said:

The point of the song in Even If She Falls where Tom starts to sing in a higher register. Neighborhoods had some gems.

This is probably my favourite part on that whole album. I’ve seen that song get hate but I don’t get how when that part exists.

[LeGOAT]

I love the ending riff to Anthem Pt 1. It’s kind of buried in the mix under the power chords, but it’s there, and it’s a beautiful kick ass ending riff to the album. It’s very fun to play on guitar. 

[Coightstradamus]

Some of the harmonies in Going Away to College still blow me away. “Ditched my lecture …. Is my picture…” they hit so hard.

[Kay]

The acoustic in the first chorus of Not Now

[thongrider]

Outro of Does My Breath Smell?

Solo(?) of Pathetic

Post chorus or chorus of Voyeur (part with the na nas)

[boxelder]

great thread idea. i've sorted them by album

 

dude ranch

waggy has this really unusual tom riff in the bridge/outro that is so weird, and i just think it's cool

apple shampoo for how wildly inventive and unorthodox it is particularly in its song structure. it follows no rules, straight autobiographical

 

EOTS

the tambourine part at the end of dumpweed with that weird gated reverb effect

roger manning's organ and piano parts across the discography, specifically the bright organ in wendy clear (and synth in always)

mark's bass part in anthem 

 

TOYPAJ

bridge of please take me home (let's go!)

the sound of the drums across TOYPAJ, particularly in songs like SOALG

the layered guitar parts one-by-one in anthem pt 2

the bridge in online songs (chef's kiss... crazy hook)

"i never did quite everything that she asked... in spite of everything! in spite of everything!" in EILFY

 

untitled

808 hits in obvious

all of stockholm syndrome, but mark's bridge is craaaazy

i think go is some of the most harrowing lyrics in the discography

asthenia's wavy guitar effects and handclaps

easy target/all of this transition

the acoustic guitar in the final chorus of not now, @Kay took mine. lmfao. such a great choice to start the last chorus out that way

the overall sonics and depth in i'm lost without you, especially in the outro

 

neighborhoods/DED

bridge in GOTDF is a aural feast, even with the muddy production. it's everything i wanted the band to be post-untitled, and where i wish they could return

chorus riff in when i was young is an all-time tom riff

 

california

the way in cynical matt's vocals fade out faster on "are you back again", leaving mark left by himself, like he's alone with his anxiety, and alone without tom

i actually really like jack hoppus's screams in KOTW, i think they're rad lmao

i'm a SUCKER for "then you kissed me like a storm at sea" [piano riff] "like i'm the only one you'll ever need" in teenage satellites

bridge in misery is top-tier

 

nine

heaven is extraordinarily underrated altogether, one of the saddest songs in the catalog.

i have no notes about pin the grenade, i just like it. just one of the better, hookier songs in the matt years.

 

OMT

jangly guitar part in the verse of bad news

all of anthem part 3, it just really works.

the riff (!) in dance with me, another of tom's greatest, and his vocalizations on the outro

i like the riff in WWWY but don't really like the song. it's just another distinctively tom riff, no approximation or AI could emulate it. just very him

childhood is controversial and very hammy and phoned-in, but i love the chiptune outro

i've been very consistent in my love for every other weekend, it's so good