blink-182 - One More Time… (October 20, 2023) • Page 118

Tom throws in a solid “yead” in Anthem Part 3.. very grateful for that.

 

I heard that and immediately said "Tom is so fucking back"

 

This is my take after my first few listens. It feels like they took mostly all of the right lessons from everything they've done, both as blink and with their other projects, over the last 25 years and brought it together into this.

 

just ignore Murph he’s mad he lives IN Long Island and has never left

 

I’m at Best Buy and..they don’t sell CDS? Wtf?

 

Childhood finally hit me. Great song and perfect way to close the album.

 

It's not actually 2003, it just feels like it.

 

Really enjoying this record. It’s a nice return to form. My only minor gripes are the final track and the sequencing, which in all honesty doesn’t really matter these days. I’m sure the final track will grow on me.

Favorite track currently has to be Blink Wave

 

Well I wasn’t expecting this to show up first lol

 

they just stopped last week lol

 

Lmao just walked over to target and someone comes walking out in a Blink shirt

 

Aliens are among us

 

Tom has to have a boner beating Bono right now, no?

 

I do agree with the idea that they sort of brought every piece of their history into this album. Every side project, every album, etc. But the thing I appreciate is that you can still tell this whole thing has its own sound because it was worked on as a cohesive unit over the last year. Even the songs that stemmed from old ideas just fit so well on this album because of everyone else's input.

It's also why nothing really feels that derivative even though it's all familiar in some way. Almost anything of Tom's I've listened to in the last 20 years has me constantly thinking "I've heard that exact melody/cadence in several of his recent songs..." but that's not the case here. Sure, there are a couple guitar riffs here and there that sound familiar, but overall, it feels pretty fresh.

 

Real The Simpsons "Have the Rolling Stones killed" energy here.

 

Popping that into my car’s CD player felt weird haha

 

the Target by me apparently doesn't have the CD and I am devastatedddd haha

 

lol that's because you're supposed to put the CD in there.

 

Mail came

 

We thinking the next single is either Anthem or Blink Wave?

 

Did you kill the mailman to get it?

 

Spotify variant just showed up, Tom variant comes tomorrow!

 

Not sure if the highs on here match the highs from the Hoods/DED era. But the lows aren’t nearly as low from those efforts either. Overall it’s definitely a better album than Neighborhoods, I just don’t love anything on here as much as Natives, Hearts all Gone, Disaster ect. That’ll probably change with time though.