blink-182 - One More Time… (October 20, 2023) • Page 48

Not enough Olé olé olés

Pass

 

More Than You Know is my favorite of the new tracks. The drums/pummeling on Tom’s verse are deliciously heavy for what will be one of 3 rock albums the general public will listen to this year and makes it feel like they are going for it and not phoning it in which I think makes the more cheesy/easy tracks feel less cheesy/easy. It makes me perk up more than I expected like when I heard the opening track on the new Death Cab and the messiness of the quiet/LOUD dynamics tipped me off that this isn’t going to be an easy auto-pilot DCFC album. Looking forward to the full album!

 

I like the new song. I don’t see why people are complaining about the lyrics so bad, I’d never expect blink to write anything with substance. But I guess I felt the same way about NFGs Forever album. And these songs are nowhere near as bad lyrically

 

for some reason I instantly liked it more on a second listen lol restraining myself to not listen again until next week.

 

I liked it yesterday.

I absolutely LOVE IT today.

The tempo in chorus is also very Cure.
Only thing I’d see there is the signature Cure ,,bass&guitar” tone but I know I would asking for too much haha

it also reminds me The Rest Of My Life from Less Than Jake in some way.

 

Just jammed all 5 songs on a quick errand. Edging is still easily the weakest for me. It feels like it could easily go on California or Nine. Besides Tom yelling “shit” going into that last chorus, it doesn’t really have his stank on the song. I mean stank in a good way, I swear haha! The other four all feel more distinctly blink with Tom. That makes them all more exciting to me. FIL is fun. DWM is also fun and catchy. OMT is a vibe and feelings. MTYK is just cool and blink firing on all cylinders. I do still like Edging. I just think it’s the most generic song when it comes to having the blink vibe.

 

I just think the production on some of these songs sound too "clean" and cookiecutter - like a Nickelodean-esque, "Big Time Rush" sorta production lol. The sound isn't raw enough to me. If that makes any sense. I'm likely just insane.

I felt similarly with Avril Lavigne's new music that was also produced by Travis

 

"Raw" Blink-182 was Neighborhoods ... and it wasn't very good. Make that shit as shiny as Enema all day every day.

 

There's a difference between enjoying the songwriting and enjoying the kind of sound to it though. I'm not saying I don't enjoy these new singles. I'm sure I'm going to love the album. I just wish it was a little less polished.

I would argue that these songs are "shinier" than Enema by quite a lot

 

I'd say Neighborhoods was... unfinished. Enema even has a raw-ish quality to it (recording to tape!) when compared the the ultra polish of the Skiba era.

 

I mean Untitled has a much more raw sound to it and is considered one of their best albums , no need to bring up a controversial album like Neighborhoods

(and no, I'm not saying that the songwriting itself has to sound like Untitled. I'm okay with a more classic blink sound)

 

I find this so funny to hear people say given what people said about Enema when it came out.

 

I find this so funny to hear people say given what people said about it when it came out.

 

Haha well yeah of course, it's a HUGE step up from everything that came before it :P

 

Haha I didn't know anyone disliked it when it came out. My first blink record in 4th grade that I loved immediately XD

 

It was panned by some people (and critics) as "over produced."

 

Enema and raw in the same sentence is just too funny for words

 

I think different people have very different definitions of "over-produced."

 

Oh for sure, and like I said, I might just be insane haha. I get all of this stuff is subjective, just sharing my honest opinion :)

 

Lol the Feldmann hate parade continues

 

No hate! I dig most of his productions, including his work with Blink. Doesn’t it mean it’s not ultra polished, which is what I called it.

 

The only thing lacking to me was attention to detail/variation with guitar tones on California which they remedied and then some on Nine

 

Agree 1000%. Easily my biggest gripe with California and glad there was variety on Nine.

 

to the point where the term is meaningless

 

What exactly do people want from blink other than a dumb catchy pop punk banger? I’ve really dug all the tracks so far.