blink-182 - One More Time… (October 20, 2023) • Page 115

So you pretty much just listen to New Again on repeat?

 

Well done, Jason! I loved the narrative wrap-around you utilized. I also really enjoyed this description, "... capturing vitality in three minutes is a magic trick. An adrenaline shot to the spine. A euphoric dance between the past and present, comforting yet new. And by using that connection with the audience's past, it elevates these songs. Mark, Tom, and Travis are able to bottle this feeling to give us everything we want without it seeming forced or saccharine—a genuine accomplishment."

And that Stand By Me reference *chef's kiss*

 

Where did our childhood go? I wanna know
Where did our childhood go? I wanna know

I hate not seeing Childhood get the credit it deserves from people.

 

It's so fucking good. I can just picture them going back and forth with rhymes for an hour and picking the best ones.

 

Definitely my second favorite on the album. Such cool vibes.

 

I wonder whatever happened with that Antemasque album that had Travis drumming on it

 

People on this forum have ranked it as the worst song and I gasped reading that.

 

Heh, always curious to see who gets what little things I throw in there.

 

Ranking things is bad for society.

 

Wellp, I've shown my fiance my top 3 songs on the album and she hates them all. I tried!

It took a lot of begging to even let me play them

 

Call it off now before it’s too late.

 

Haha, thank you! That reference and that specific part of the review is one of my faves as well. Trying to explain why someone likes a band like Blink has always been so difficult because so much of it is a feeling and not some simple chords and words.

I'll talk to one of my wife's (professional musician) friends and they'll all be talking about movement 5 of something great and then ask what kind of music I like ... and I get to do the uh ... face.

 

Told my gf she’d like Bad News and after the first few lines she asked if I was trying to tell her something about our relationship.

 

You know that episode of Bobs Burgers where they have random disco hour at the grocery and you just have to dance? That's Blink Wave. Just can't not bop.

 

@Jason Tate someone else already asked, but I’m also curious on what your first listening experience/setting was like for this one. Gonna remember mine for a long time

 

I really hope Blink Wave is the next single. They could do an awesome 80s video for it.

 

Beautiful review Jason

 

I don't hear New Found Glory like...at all in Bad News. Also they owe me 11 shirts. Fucking thieves.

 

We’re about the same age Jason and our paths to discovery are similar. I grew up in a musical house, exposed to all things 60s, 70s, and 80s. I’m old enough to have appreciated and been impacted by the grunge and alternative movement of the early 90s. I loved Dookie and its gateway to the world of punk music. I loved it all.

In late 1995 during the fall of 6th grade I was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. A football sized tumor grew out of my rib cage inward, crushing everything in its path. It was pretty dire. Through medical miracles, supportive family, and healing power of music and movies, after a year of treatment I was healed. I rejoined school in 8th grade after treatment and it was a very difficult transition. My friends all seemingly moved on without me. In many ways i simultaneously felt left behind but also ahead of them as I had this newfound perspective. Fast forward to that summer, I was facing high school and moving to a new school, anxious for a fresh start on top of the anxiety of starting high school. It was very tough. Then that September I heard a song that struck a chord, and hit me in a way I never felt before. Dammit. Then like many of you all I went down the blink rabbit hole, found my community, and started to find identity again, or at least an idea of it.

The emotions this new record have stirred in me, what this band has meant to me, and the soundtrack to my life they have been, just hits all so hard. To say I love this band is such a gross understatement but to me, since that discovery, it’s always been blink and always will be.

 

Some other reviews I've seen:

7/10: blink-182 Relive the Good Ol' Days 'ONE MORE TIME...' | Exclaim!

Not a fan of videos every three lines: Blink-182 'One More Time' a Powerful Journey (Review)

Blink-182 – ‘One More Time’

 

It’s everything I wanted from a blink album. I love it.

 

Can we please clear up who is singing on Fuck Face? I know Tom and Travis are trading vocals, but where does Tim Armstrong come into play?