blink-182 - NINE (September 20, 2019) Album • Page 12

What lol Rabbit Hole isn’t even top 20 of Skiba era songs

 

posted this in the other thread: so I made a reworked playlist to try to change the pacing of the album just slightly, and to make the half-time chorus utilization on this record a little less noticable, and I love sequencing and trying to find the perfect sequencing

let me know your thoughts!

Some thoughts on pacing:

I think they really should have had Darkside as the second track, missed opportunity there to set the tone early

I also placed No Heart to Speak of before Remember to Forget Me as the outro leads into the closer really well, almost as if we're winding down. Also the melody halfway through sounds like a callback to the melody of No Heart

Happy Days into Generational Divide is funny in a meta way, and would be a much better fast "joke"song in that spot

 

Here's my ranking so far, but it'll probably change

1. No Heart To Speak Of
2. I Really Wish I Hated You
3. Hungover You
4. Ransom
5. The First Time
6. Darkside
7. Remember To Forget Me
8. Pin The Grenade
9. Run Away
10. Black Rain
11. Heaven
12. Generational Divide
13. Happy Days
14. On Some Emo Shit
15. Blame It On My Youth

 

Rabbit Hole rules

 

First listen through and the ones that stood out to me the most were The First Time, Darkside, Black Rain, and Hungover You.

Need to give it a few more listens to fully digest it, but overall it sounds really good. All of the songs were pretty enjoyable and sounded good (though tbh there are VERY few blink songs that I don't like)

 

Also, to add to this California disucssion, Rabbit Hole is a good song. Los Angeles is the best on that album though. And don't forget about Parking Lot and Misery, both of which were very good additions on the deluxe version

 

wow im glad that we all like different parts of the newer albums, they must be like good or something !

 

Sonically, they don’t sound similar to me at all.

 

Yeah to me Heaven is very +44 and Happy Days isn't. I don't need to detail any deeper than that haha

 

This would be much better for me if you cut all the singles except BIOMY

 

BIOMY is the only song I’d actually cut. Maybe Happy Days, if need be. Darkside is easily the strongest of the singles.

 

I’d keep all of the “singles”. And then I’d also keep the rest of the songs. And I’d probably leave them in the order they are already in.

That’s my hot take.

 

Some of the lyrics and melodies are cringeworthy but it’s a decent blink album. I haven’t been into them since untitled and this isn’t going to change that.

 

This album has made me revisit California deluxe and surprisingly there’s a great 16 song album in there. I reorganized the song order and this is my ultimate California mix I shall use from now on.

1. Cynical
2. She’s Out Of Her Mind
3. Rabbit Hole
4. Bored To Death
5. Left Alone
6. Home Is Such A Lonely Place
7. San Diego
8. Kings Of The Weekend
9. Parking Lot
10. Sober
11. Los Angeles
12. Last Train Home
13. 6/8
14. The Only Thing That Matters
15. Bottom Of The Ocean
16. California

All the other songs left out I sincerely do not like at all, they’re just very bland pop punk stuff to me that I don’t care listening to again.

 

The closing of Remember to Forget Me reminds me a lot of several moments on Bad Astronaut's - "Houston We Have A Drinking Problem", which is pretty interesting considering Blink listed it as one of the inspirations for Untitled.

 

this album stinks lol

 

Stinks like greatness.

 

On first listen This is much better than California so far. Black Rain is a banger and a half!

 

Everyone saying Matt kills it on this is 100% on point. No Heart To Speak Of is fantastic

 

You stink.

 

I can't get the idea out of my head that Halsey could sing on Hungover You

 

On Some Emo Shit rules too.

 

Early favorite.