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If you're going to connect to blink 182 lyrics at all, I don't see how Dude Ranch isn't the album to latch on to. There are some highlights on Enema in terms of lyrics, but I really don't think they got any better in that regard on the later albums. Almost every song on DR has better lyrics than the majority of TOYPAJ and Untitled.

 

Alkalines ?

 

indeed

 

You could listen to the Tom Lorde Alge single mixes of Dammit and Josie fer a very vague idea of what Dude Ranch would be like with slicker production.

And for a sense of what TLA brought to the sound vs Saint Jerry, Jerry mixed Party Song and Wendy Clear and TLA mixed the rest.

 

Right now, my two favorites are Dude Ranch and TOYPAJ

 

Do you feel that?

I feel it in the air.

A ranking storm is brewing.

 

I disagree because it doesn't have enough Dan.

 

I've only heard the Colleen Green covers of Waggy and I'm Sorry. I didn't really like the Waggy cover, which is strange because I love the blink version but absolutely loved her take on I'm Sorry which I think is even better than blink's.

 

Right now it's Enema and TOYPAJ for me. But honestly those two along with Untitled and Dude Ranch change depending on my mood or what day it is. I love all 4 just the same. I just wish there were better Tom only songs on Dude Ranch.

 

(To my ears, Jerry’s mixes tend to have a rounder bottom than the fam Alge et al, and Jerry’s attack/release times on comps sound way more gooey and groovy. I love how he used slower release times than other rock mixers, to me it’s a way more 3 dimensional sense of depth in the overall pump of the mix.

If you listen to Wendy Clear and then Anthem, you can hear how all the low end energy in Wendy Clear dips out and Anthem is all about this like massive mid rangey plastic smack. There’s like zero bottom in the kick, it’s all knock and beater tip. And the toms on Wnedy Clear have a beautiful deep boom but Anthen toms are like punching a steak)

 

Is the Colleen Green album available for streaming anywhere or you can only get it on Bandcamp?

I didn't love the Waggy song but I really wanted to hear it.

Also, hard disagree on the lyrics of Dude Ranch being better than Untitled. Untitled is not a lyric masterpiece or whatever but Dude Ranch as a lot of juvenile and bad lyrics. Altought TOYPAJ is the low-point.

I was actually thinking that the jump that Tom does from TOYPAJ to Boxcar Racer in just one year is crazy. Again, not that Boxcar is mind-blowing but TOYPAJ is so bad that it's really impressive he had something like Boxcar Racer in him just one year later.

 

For real though! Such a large jump. Before that, Mark carried each of the other Blink albums, lyrically.

 

i don't think i'll be listening to WMAA/A Milli too much but it was fun hearing Matt's background vocals at the end and the half time in a studio recorded version. if blink does another greatest hits comp in the future, it could be fun seeing them re-recording some of the older singles with Matt and adding other little switch ups that they do live to the songs (like Matt's woahs at the end of Always, etc). i know at least Zebrahead were one band that re-recorded songs with their newer singer for a best of.

(but i also know if they did, babies would whine as if the original songs will have been retroactively removed from time)

 

Untitled and TOYPAJ. Easily

 

Unwritten Law did that with their greatest hits and it was fun seeing them slightly change up the music/lyrics.

 

I’d love to see this happen actually but yeah, lots of fans would whine and cry

 

The lyrics to Untitled, Apple Shampoo, Waggy, and Pathetic are among the band’s best. Dicklips, Dammit, Enthused, I’m Sorry, Lemmings, and Emo are simple but work really well. Voyeur, Degenerate, Josie, A New Hope, are pretty juvenile/straight up joke songs, but have some character. Lyrically Dude Ranch is a top tier blink album, Enema and TOYPAJ dip in quality for the most part even though I still enjoy them, and while I love Untitled it can be a bit try hard serious sometimes.

 

Matt's extra IN MYYYY HEEEEEAD at the end of I Miss You live is so fresh

 

Dude Ranch changed my life after my mom bought it for me in 5th grade. Before that I was listening to Usher, Busta Rhymes, Puff Daddy, TLC, and the Space Jam soundtrack forever. Then I got hit with Dude Ranch.

But over the years, I think TOYPAJ became my number one.

 

We must be twins, I got dude ranch in the sixth grade and I was hooked forever. I was big into bands like green day and offspring prior to that since I just copied my older brother. Dude ranch was the first album I got that truly felt like it was my own discovery.

 

It would actually be kind of cool/fun if they did that but shook some things up a little more like the examples you mentioned. Zebrahead essentially just recreated the same versions of their own songs but with a different singer, if I remember correctly. It's kind of neat as a novelty thing, but after a time or two, I basically never listened to those versions over the originals.

 

Just listened to the Lil Wayne/WMAA mash up and the production is amazing. If that’s pulled from the soundboard and was mixed/mastered.....it’s time for the boys to release another live album. The instruments all sound fantastic. Almost Finn-like.

 

Press release say it's a new version of the song:

Multi-platinum, award winning artists blink-182 and Lil Wayne have released a reworking of their mash-up track “What’s My Age Again / A Milli” today via Columbia Records – listen HERE. The song is a new take on the track, released in its original form when the two artists announced their co-headlining tour earlier this year.

 

Yeah it definitely sounds like it was re-recorded/new version of the song.

 

The new version sounds awesome.