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Mark recently answered some questions on Discord and it turns out Part 2 wasn't all b-sides, some are new songs:

 

Can’t stop listening, pretty much love it all now. See You is probably actually my least favorite of all the post-og OMT tracks.

We are so fucking lucky to have this band back. Getting the same feeling I did when OMT came out; that some things are still good and normal.

 

Yup, these songs are (mostly) great. On first listen my favorites are No Fun, All In My Head, Every Other Weekend and If You Never Left but I can see them all growing on me a lot.

I've gotten really used to having Cut Me Off and See You on my OG OMT album but I definitely feel like they probably fit better here, and it also brings it up to an even 10 songs and 30 minutes so I think I'll probably move them over. Not as the first two tracks though, No Fun is a way better opener than Cut Me Off

 

We knew "Can't Go Back" and "Everyone Everywhere" were new (though the latter might have just been finished recently). I think the only ones in question were "All In My Head" and "If You Never Left". The four others were known titles floating around a while ago!

 

It's very refreshing to know a lot of these tracks are freshly new and not leftover recordings. Part 2 actually works well all together, which is not what I thought would happen leading up to this release. I thought it would've been all over the place and have zero flow to it. So, I'm happy to be proven wrong and, essentially, we just got a second album haha.

 

Wait… but all of you said these are “definitely b-sides” ?!?!

 

I definitely never said that

 

B-side material

 

I don’t think anyone did

 

That’s what I call my shit now

 

I think Childhood should have been the B-side and had Take Me In close the original album. There, I said it!

 

There are cool parts in pretty much every song BUT, for me, as a fan of older Blink whose opinion no one cares about or asked for, I think they don’t coalesce into complete cool new Blink favorites the way a handful of the tracks on OMT (Original Version) did. For being b-sides and brand new songs, they are pretty good though and I think they’re way better than the Skiba years for me. What a good reunion it’s been.

 

Also is the all caps title scheme a way to stand out in Spotify / music feeds? Adding an exclamation point to the end of Aquabats songs feels like an on-brand song title scheme but the all caps on OMT and all the versions just looks like contextless text shouting, IMO.

 

Childhood is so good ya’ll are nuts

 

I wonder if the two recently recorded tracks were meant to make up for See You and Cut Me Off being released early to juke the charts enough for One More Time to debut at number one. Perhaps they would've held See You/Cut Me Off until now had One More Time not needed that two-song chart boost last year.

 

One Night Stand is that old acoustic riff Tom’s been teasing on instagram for years. The one his ex wife originally posted like 6 or 7 years ago. Glad it finally came to life.

 

Not sure if it’s been said but If You Never Left sounds the most like Skiba era Blink. Marks part sounds very close to Misery.

 

I thought mark shut down his discord? Is this from another channel?

 

Haven’t been able to digest everyone’s comments in here, but HOLY HECK I had to listen to Every Other Weekend like three times in a row when I first heard it. INCREDIBLE. That’s some great blink work right there.

 

He brought it back a while ago

 

He brought the server back early on during the OMT tour.

 

Still not too totally crazy about "Take Me In" in some parts, but man, ending the whole double album with that chorus and then that little riff to take it out... magical.

 

Very California

 

All these complaints and not enough thanking

 

Lol @ how you made sure to clarify you were talking about the song.