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Still no concrete re release info? Ugh

 

I love Rabbit Hole

 

I think the verses on Los Angeles are one of the more unique parts on this album.. love it, however the chorus and bridge are complete throwaways that I feel I've heard in a bunch of other songs

 

How do you know how many songs they spend writing on the previous albums? We have no idea how many songs from those previous albums got cut. It could be a handful, could be 30 or none. We simply don't know how or what they did on previous albums are far as the writing and recording process because they never really spoke about it in depth like they did with California. We only got bits and pieces of info from previous recordings. For all we know they could have walked into the studio with nothing written, sat down with Jerry Flynn for 2 weeks and wrote 30 songs and picked the 12 best like they did with California.

I only mentioned songs like Dammit, Going Away to College, Rock Show and First Date as examples of them writing songs very quickly because Mark and Tom had previously spoke about them specifically, 3 out of those 4 songs were huge hits for them and the 4th, Going Away, would be ranked in the top of blink's song catalog in most fan's eyes. So I was pointing out that writing fast shouldn't be viewed necessarily as a negative (whether you like those songs or not you can't argue with the success of them). I also believe that Tom wrote All The Small Things during the Enema recordings fairly quickly. And as Cricketandclover mentioned a few posts previous in Travis' book he mentioned that they recorded Enema in 2 weeks.

I would have to think that most bands enter the studio with 20 or so songs/song ideas and then slowly cut them when they find out it's just not working for whatever reason or they get an idea(s) while recording and write new songs as the process continues. I think it would be strange if a band only wrote 12 or so songs and all of them made the album.

 

Yeah I don't know how many songs they made for old albums. I was meant to put "correct me if I'm wrong" in there haha. I've not heard anything about unreleased songs from EOTS or TOYPAJ sessions though. I'd love to hear them if there were.

Again, there's nothing wrong with writing songs quickly if they're good. The best songs probably do "write themselves." I think I'm just trying to come up with excuses why I don't like parts of California.

 

it generally comes down to this:

If inspiration hits you and you end up writing an entire song in 10 minutes, you're golden!
If you are sitting down forcing yourself to write a hit song and it just isn't coming organically, it's most likely not going to be a great song.

 

Yes exactly, and that's something Mark spoke about how he would consistently go back to songs he wrote during the Neighborhood recordings and change things and tweak things here and there and all of the sudden the song was unusable.

 

Exactly. Artists need to trust that initial spark and inspiration and then leave it alone. When you start over-criticizing yourself and re-writing over and over, it ruins it, usually.

One of my old bands wrote and recorded THIS SONG all within about an hour, and we were stoked as shit on it! Whether the song is great to anyone else, it doesn't really matter, because the excitement this song brings back to me every time I hear it, that's all that matters to us. If we had re-written it over and over, there's no way I'd feel as pumped on it. It takes me right back to that night we wrote it the way that it is. More bands and artists just need to trust that initial inspiration.

 

To the best of my knowledge the only demos that were leaked/released from Enema was an early version of Man Overboard which is basically the first verse and chorus repeated a few times and an instrumental song called "Life's So Boring" which is decent. You can probably find them both on YouTube or if you look hard enough can find the full Enema Demos album which include those two songs I mentioned plus Aliens Exist, Anthem, What's My Age Again, Dumpweed, Party Song, Dysentery Gary and Wendy Clear. It's actually a pretty cool to listen to the demos of those songs and how they started vs. the finished product.

I don't think any demos from TOYPAJ where ever released though.

 

Yeah, I love Mark's story about writing "Going Away To College", how he was watching "Can't Hardily Wait" one night and got to thinking about two people in love in high school and what would happen when they went to college and in 15 minutes he had that song written.

 

Yeah, i remember them saying that they barely had any unreleased songs because most of the matieral they wrote made it onto the records.. Speaking of "Life's So Boring", I was just listening to it a few days ago and thought about how HISALP sounds like a reworked/acoustic version of it

 

As far as California is concerned, I'd love for them to release a SOOHM EP, with the different versions/choruses on there (if they even recorded them)

 

I could be wrong but I could have sworn either Feldmann or Mark mentioned that they recorded each song with both Mark and Matt singing the song fully and then decided which verses/choruses/bridges sounded better sung by Mark/Matt and used that in the finished product.

 

man, that would be fun to have; the mark version and the matt version.

 

Yep, I need all those recordings.

 

Yeah seriously. I really wish where I could remember hearing/reading that. Watch me be completely wrong and it was never said or happened.

Something like that would be perfect for the Deluxe Edition of California.

 

The deluxe is just the entire album again with a Yelawolf verse in every bridge

 

Ugh.

 

Yelafornia?

 

Yelafornia sounds Tomish.

Eeey yere's da youuu, yelafornia

 

WE FUCK IN YELAFORNIA

 

That song is god damn awful

 

I hope they someday release the original sessions with Matt. They said the songs were really dark and sounded like a mix between "early blink and early alkaline trio", and we also have that clip that was on TV during a special about Travis' book

 

I really think there's no way they don't make at least one album like that if they keep going.

 

I had a cop pull me over just to say he liked my blink-182 bumper sticker and ask how I liked California. Showed him my group photo from the VIP from the show and he said he was jealous and let me go, that was all he wanted.

Blink fans are everywhere!