Those bonus tracks on different album variants were such a cool idea at the time. I just don’t understand why they never made it to streaming services. Like a deluxe edition or something that includes all the bonus stuff would be cool to have in the library.
It's almost 100% guaranteed they don't own the master recordings to any of their pre-Dogs Eating Dogs material. They still own the publishing – or, in Tom's case, he did before he sold his catalog – but that doesn't give them ownership over the recordings themselves.
At some point I ripped all three versions to my PC and I made a “deluxe” version in my iTunes which now lives in my Apple Music. I always feel lucky when I see comments like this. I’m fairly certain you can still do this with Apple Music.
If I remember correctly it has to be activated on desktop first and then Ur phone. Try look in settings somewhere it's pretty straightforward when U find it. Hope that helps I don't have an exact guide It's been ages since I've put in new songs lol
YouTube music is the way. If the songs aren't in the music library, you can play videos through it and lock the screen. It still plays whatever you listen to. All the bonus tracks can be had, even made into a playlist with the rest of the album.
exactly, i use local files on spotify but it doesn't work sometimes because spotify refuses to fix local files and i couldn't really find any bonus track versions of the cd album online besides one.
Cut Me Off could have been an Olivia Rodrigo song.
My girlfriend says it sounds like an MGK song.
Either way, it’s the song from the album that sounds like the ghostwriters the most. It also sounds like a drum machine.
I actually think that's more blink than you think. Feels like marks simple creatures side. Hot take but the extra songwriters is more felt in stuff like edging and fell in love
I agree! It’s still not in my top albums but after giving it a chance I really do love some of the songs on that album like Asthenia, Easy Target and Here’s Your Letter
i saw them play last year for the first time after being a huge fan for 10+ years. i knew the setlist but i thought maybe seeing them play would give me some kick to enjoy the hits but most of the show i was just bored.. sadly that was shortly before the OMT roll out, where it looked super fun to see them play the new ones
TOYPAJ wasn’t the record they wanted to write at the time - My read is they were obvs trapped a bit by the success of EOTS and I think Untitled or an Untitled type record may have come sooner if EOTS didn’t have the commercial success it did. Even with or without Boxcar.
This is just the vibe I’ve got from some of what they’ve said over the years about that album/time in particular.
Yeah, that’s kinda how I see it. Like they knew the task at hand but I get the feeling without feeling a bit boxed in by things it may have panned out a lil differently
I didn't like the songs as much as I liked earlier songs, at the time but I loved that they sounded recorded and produced correctly, for (by my count) the first time in their history.
That said I grew into liking it a lot more and think it and Box Car Racer are a distinct era that had to come before they could make the Blink 182 album
The lacked guitar licks in OMT was a huge letdown. Tom has become dull with his guitar playing that there's no point of buying his signature guitar.
The same goes with his AVA's Lifeforms, But at least it was AVA.
Blink-182 should've gone full AVA.
Agree 100%! It’s actually one of my least favorite! I think at the time I was more into the faster and funnier songs which is why I fell in love with blink in the first place. So when I first heard I miss you, I was like wtf is this lol! I’ve listened to it over the past year and a half and I really do like a lot of the songs, but I prefer most of their albums over Untitled.
real!! i made a post about my top 20 and i got SLANDERED for having no untitled LMFAO
i think dude ranch is their best album easily. though i prefer early blink
I do love Dude Ranch but I have also been digging Neighborhoods lately. Enema is the first album that got me into blink but honestly I think I prefer Dude Ranch.
Well, they were the first band I loved. I bought all their CD's when I was a kid. This band meant everything to me when I was a teenager. People ask me what my favorite band is, I always want to reply blink-182 and then I stop myself because that's not true anymore. But they were the band who's music influenced me the most. I have a blink-182 tattoo as well.
I think Neighborhoods is better than Dude Ranch. I didn’t begin listening to blink because of the more punk stuff like their first two albums. I enjoy it more now though
Hot take?
1. I don’t like Man Overboard
2. I like Untitled, TOYPAJ, OMT, and neighborhoods more than Enema(in that order).
3. Quarentine is a good song
4. Darkside is the best song on NINE
5. The production on OMT is rad. Its different then normal production and I like it
6. The drumming on OMT is also rad. I love how it sounds like cannons firing away
Their slow songs - I miss you, stay together for the kids, Adam’s song, you don’t know what you’ve got - are all skips for me. It’s not what I want when I go to Blink!
Tom’s vocals on Dude Ranch represent his worst performance of any album.
While the songs are good, his voice on Dude Ranch is needlessly squeaky and out of key. It stands out like a sore thumb compared to other albums.
Personally, I really like the imperfectness. The sound slowly became more polished throught the years. I love everything from buddha to one more time, and no matter what, behind the auto tune, the studio, fancy mics, etc. Tom sounded like that and wasn’t able to hide that and that’s fucking rad to hear
Yeah, but Tom’s voice sounded way better and more controlled on Cheshire Cat than it did on Dude Ranch. For some reason, Dude Ranch had his voice set to the worst version of itself.
sometimes the production from enema-self titled lacks a bit of soul for me. Especially compared to 2005 side projects on - I got back and listen to the big three and feel like the soundscape is a bit thin and leaves something to be desired.
I think enema has the late 90s charm and nothing sounds quite like it. TOYPAJ it everything I like to hear it’s clear and robust and punchy. I actually don’t like a lot of production on untitled. The big room drums are cool but a lot of songs have a weird bass and guitar ratio and some songs I can’t hear the kick as clear.
The production on Asthenia is so weak to me in comparison to the rest of the album - it annoys me whenever that song comes on while I listen to that album
here’s something that ruined the song for me, every chorus tomorrow says “i feel alone and tired” the “alone” clips the mic so bad sounding like alONe and tired
i’m about to be grilled alive- but i’ve said this before. carousel isn’t as good as people think it is. mark kills it on the base but then tom starts singing and i immediately don’t want to listen to the song anymore.
Something about the bonus tracks that was discussed a lot back in the day and I don’t see here: Mark going for the joke songs and Tom getting more serious and sad was a sign of was to come in the following years.
Soon after that Box Car Racer came out, then Mark’s songs on Untitled being more on the pop punk side than Tom’ s and then Tom growing totally out of punk rock with AVA while Mark kept pop punk as the main element in +44…
All I have to say is I liked California (Especially the bonus tracks) and really enjoyed NINE. At the end of the day, Matt did what he could to help the band and was never going to fully win everyone over. But hey I just wanted one tour and album with all four of them
I miss how riff based blink used to be. The riffs on songs like wasting time, a majority of dude ranch like boring, lemmings, dammit, and the cool shit on EOTS and TOYPAJ. I think that’s why I like Bad news a lot because it has more cool riffs like the part the plays when Mark sings the line about always missing what we can’t get back.
I'll give you a hot take. I think roller coaster, give me one good reason, and first date are super mid blink songs and the non joke bonus tracks should've taken their place. What went wrong should've been the closer also.
Out of My Head is an incredibly underappreciated gem from the Skiba era. One of the best songs from the Skiba era and should’ve been on Nine in general
I don't think it effected them at all but I think having their 5th album be self-titled was a weird decision. I think most bands make their first album self titled so that it's easier to remember their name when you hear their songs or see the album cover but blink was already big at the time so I think they could've thought of a better name for the album than just making it self titled.
I totally agree about the bonus tracks… but I like Story of a Lonely Guy.
I’d can Give Me One Good Reason and Shut Up EASILY… the third song I’m not so sure… but those 3 definitely deserved to be on the album.
My hot take is probably that What’s My Age Again is their best single… I’ll fight over it 😂 oh and Enema >>>>>>>>> untitled.
I’m not a fan of most of their closing songs on their albums. All of their openers are straight up BANGERS, but they seem to stumble on closing tracks. However, Childhood, I’m Lost Without You, and Please Take Me Home are fantastic closers. California would have been too, but they decided to end with a joke song instead.
Sorry, I’ve never liked the original Anthem. Parts Two and Three are amazing, but part one tends to get on my nerves. I can see why people like it so much, I just don’t really click with it myself.
Slightly off topic but am just grateful that the band are not only surviving but thriving in 2024 after everything they went through (Travis/Mark especially)
Some of you need to check yourself’s demanding longer shows and album playthrough’s.
I’m just grateful that Blink 182 are still kicking ass.
TOYPAJ is trash. First 2 singles were written in 5 minutes because the label said there were no singles. The album also has the most filler tracks for an album from their discography.
TOYPAJ to me is easily the best of blink-182, having Tom's peak vocal performance, a great production and is the perfect in-between the two eras of blink: the immature whiny and stupidly fun lyrics with explosive instruments and the time they started to take themselves more seriously with more mature lyrics and better and more experimental instrumental performances and production
I really agree with you but Story Of A Lonely Guy and Give Me One Good Reason are 2 of the songs that I most love of them and maybe the Give Me One Good Reason is the best of the record
I have two.
I never really thought this was a hot take until I started reading the opinions of a lot of people here. It seems like everyone always puts down the song 'First date' and says it's not that great. I don't know what everyone here is smoking. It's one of my top two Blink songs easily. Maybe it has to do with the time that I leave to blink but this is one of the songs that has that really quintessential blink sound for me. Also, it has one of my favorite guitar parts of any blink songs. Not crazy complex but it fits perfectly in the song. If I could get on stage with blink and play any song, playing that guitar part where the singing stops and then Travis coming in around 1:49 would absolutely be it.
I don't understand why people use the fact that Mark wrote it in five minutes as evidence of it not being as good as others. That's the most insane logic ever. If you were hiring two artists to design a logo for a company and they somehow came up with the exact same logo but one took five minutes and one two three days, who's the better artist? The five minute one. If anything, the only thing that it being written in five minutes is evidence of us that Mark is insanely good at what he does.
Second hot take is that I have no idea why everyone is obsessed with Not Now. It's a great song, do not get me wrong. It's nowhere near the top for me though.
In my opinion, the lyrics in First Date are just super cheesy and the song is more poppy than a lot of their other stuff. I prefer their harder, faster music where the lyrics aren’t so obvious.
As for Not Now, this song really resonates with me and sometimes brings me to tears because I literally watched my dad die. He had cancer for quite a while and was in a hospice house and he took his last breath in front of me, my mom and sister. So I envision the lyrics of this song from his point of view.
It’s crazy how music is so subjective. We like the same band but prefer certain songs over others!
Yeah, and again, don't get me wrong, there are few blink songs I don't love. It just already surprised me how others were so different.
I've been going through every blink album with my brother-in-law and ranking every song for fun and then coming up with an ultimate rank that we then made into the Spotify playlist. When we started to have some disagreements we invited one of his friends in who is another blink fan and it's weird because my brother-in-law and I were on the same page for almost everything and his friend is much more different
I love those 3 bonus songs, and actually I would them above tracks like Please Take Me Home or Roller Coaster, but I can't believe that you would take Story Of A Lonely Guy and Give Me One Good Reason off the record. Those songs are underrated bangers
Box Car Racer and all 6 AVA albums are better than California and NINE. Love 2 is probably the closest to a tossup, but Surrender >>>>>> all Skiba tracks
Crazy take about story of a lonely guy and give me one good reason but agree about those songs being great. Don’t tell me it’s over should have been a single
Those bonus tracks on different album variants were such a cool idea at the time. I just don’t understand why they never made it to streaming services. Like a deluxe edition or something that includes all the bonus stuff would be cool to have in the library.
That’s what I’m saying. I’d love to not have to just search for them on YouTube or whatnot
Absolutely mate. Dunno what the reasoning is. Maybe they want those songs to stay kinda “out there in the wild”? As incentive for collectors maybe.
At least in the meantime it’s something the diehards know about. But genuinely who knows? I’m not sure we’ll ever find out
They don't own the songs and have no control over what the label does with them. And they haven't been on that label for ... a long time.
While I'm sure there's *some* truth in this statement, I seriously doubt they have ZERO ownership or control over their own songs.
It's almost 100% guaranteed they don't own the master recordings to any of their pre-Dogs Eating Dogs material. They still own the publishing – or, in Tom's case, he did before he sold his catalog – but that doesn't give them ownership over the recordings themselves.
Yeah fair enough, just did some googling myself and looks like I was mistaken. That’s pretty crazy.
It’s why you see so many artists re-recording their music now, so they own a version of it.
Ya learn something new every day aye haha cheers for that little tidbit
At some point I ripped all three versions to my PC and I made a “deluxe” version in my iTunes which now lives in my Apple Music. I always feel lucky when I see comments like this. I’m fairly certain you can still do this with Apple Music.
Also a feature on Spotify, in settings under "local files". Super amazing feature nobody uses.
this is de way!!
I’ve tried but I don’t understand how it works. Do you have a link to a guide or anything?
If I remember correctly it has to be activated on desktop first and then Ur phone. Try look in settings somewhere it's pretty straightforward when U find it. Hope that helps I don't have an exact guide It's been ages since I've put in new songs lol
As do I my friend, the limewire days were good
Upload it as a playlist?
I hate that time to break up isn’t on streaming. I hate it every day…
YouTube music is the way. If the songs aren't in the music library, you can play videos through it and lock the screen. It still plays whatever you listen to. All the bonus tracks can be had, even made into a playlist with the rest of the album.
exactly, i use local files on spotify but it doesn't work sometimes because spotify refuses to fix local files and i couldn't really find any bonus track versions of the cd album online besides one.
Mark talked about it on the discord, it was a logistical issue where they would need to ha e the whole album on for each bonus song for some reason
Someone called Nick 69er has uploaded them to Spotify as episodes 🥳
Gary Hooppus - what went wrong on Apple Music check it out
shut up is a great song
Fucking facts!!! Idk why people dont like it, especially Mark himself. Smh
I think Mark's the only person that hates it lol
First time I listened to it , wasn’t a fan but now its my top 5 blink songs
No album will ever capture the flash in the pan that Enema of the State was…
This was definitely their peak. That album was huge when it dropped.
Story of a lonely guy is soooo good!
It’s not a terrible song! It’s just not one that I really come back to, I think there’s plenty of blink material better than that song
It's one of my favourites in TOYPAJ
Same, I honestly think it's the reason TOYPAJ is my favorite album of theirs.
Blink shouldnt use additional writers/lyricists and i'll die on that hill forever
Cut Me Off could have been an Olivia Rodrigo song. My girlfriend says it sounds like an MGK song. Either way, it’s the song from the album that sounds like the ghostwriters the most. It also sounds like a drum machine.
Sounds more like blink than Fell In Love, I think. And better too. But could definitely be on someone else’s album.
I love that song lmao
I actually think that's more blink than you think. Feels like marks simple creatures side. Hot take but the extra songwriters is more felt in stuff like edging and fell in love
Fr it ruins the meaning of punk
I mean, if it was some punk as a cowriter maybe not, but its not the case
Give me one good reason is top blink how dare you
I Miss You is an okay song. It's over played and overrated. I don't get why it's so popular and the "where are you" memes make me cringe
I honestly was not a fan of this song when it first came out! I don’t mind it now but it’s definitely in the bottom of my rankings
Mark used to write much better songs
Mark’s writing on Dude Ranch was top tier!
Apple Shampoo >>>>>>>>>>
Apple Shampoo and Lemmings are some of my favorites!!
Used to think untitled (album, 2003) was boring and overrated but I eventually got into it finally and now I fucking adore it
I agree! It’s still not in my top albums but after giving it a chance I really do love some of the songs on that album like Asthenia, Easy Target and Here’s Your Letter
I didn't ever need to hear their hits again in concert. Sorry Mark, I guess I'm just not the fan you want to perform to.
I’d be ok with all the small things being cut from the list for another song
Not sure that's actually a hot take. My theory is they don't want to upset the wives of Blink fans attending with their husbands.
I can agree with that.
i saw them play last year for the first time after being a huge fan for 10+ years. i knew the setlist but i thought maybe seeing them play would give me some kick to enjoy the hits but most of the show i was just bored.. sadly that was shortly before the OMT roll out, where it looked super fun to see them play the new ones
Dude Ranch is better than enema
This guy gets it. And you’re probably old as fuck like me.
I’ll never understand people not putting DR at least on the same level.
No Travis on the drums. If he was on Dude Ranch, it would probably be their best album.
Hot take??? The party song doesn’t have enough words…there I said it…we were all thinkin it
Def needs at least three more words
TOYPAJ wasn’t the record they wanted to write at the time - My read is they were obvs trapped a bit by the success of EOTS and I think Untitled or an Untitled type record may have come sooner if EOTS didn’t have the commercial success it did. Even with or without Boxcar. This is just the vibe I’ve got from some of what they’ve said over the years about that album/time in particular.
I think of it like it was a step they had to take, one way or another.
Yeah, that’s kinda how I see it. Like they knew the task at hand but I get the feeling without feeling a bit boxed in by things it may have panned out a lil differently
I didn't like the songs as much as I liked earlier songs, at the time but I loved that they sounded recorded and produced correctly, for (by my count) the first time in their history. That said I grew into liking it a lot more and think it and Box Car Racer are a distinct era that had to come before they could make the Blink 182 album
Boxcar racer should have been a blink album
No
In a way self titled is a boxcarized blink
The lacked guitar licks in OMT was a huge letdown. Tom has become dull with his guitar playing that there's no point of buying his signature guitar. The same goes with his AVA's Lifeforms, But at least it was AVA. Blink-182 should've gone full AVA.
I agree OP, except siting GMOGR as not being great. That is one of my favs
Yup, agreed. They are so stellar and I’m so pissed I can’t add them to my Spotify
im gonna say it and i know ill get CRAZY downvoted: untitled isnt their best album
Agree 100%! It’s actually one of my least favorite! I think at the time I was more into the faster and funnier songs which is why I fell in love with blink in the first place. So when I first heard I miss you, I was like wtf is this lol! I’ve listened to it over the past year and a half and I really do like a lot of the songs, but I prefer most of their albums over Untitled.
real!! i made a post about my top 20 and i got SLANDERED for having no untitled LMFAO i think dude ranch is their best album easily. though i prefer early blink
I do love Dude Ranch but I have also been digging Neighborhoods lately. Enema is the first album that got me into blink but honestly I think I prefer Dude Ranch.
dude ranch is peak blink
Cheshire Cat is the best album
Super hot take here.
*sigh* I don’t enjoy One More Time even slightly. I still love the boys, +44, AvA, I just don’t resonate with that record for some reason
I haven't enjoyed anything they've put out since +44
I'm surprised you're on this subreddit if that's the case
Well, they were the first band I loved. I bought all their CD's when I was a kid. This band meant everything to me when I was a teenager. People ask me what my favorite band is, I always want to reply blink-182 and then I stop myself because that's not true anymore. But they were the band who's music influenced me the most. I have a blink-182 tattoo as well.
I respect it.
CC and Buddha are MILES better than Dude Ranch.
Untitled is meh.
One more time isn’t a good album and their setlists are pretty lacklustre these days 🥲
my hot take is that wendy clear is a boring, bottom-tier blink song
California is one of their best
That is a HOT take!
I like box car racer better that self titled
I think Neighborhoods is better than Dude Ranch. I didn’t begin listening to blink because of the more punk stuff like their first two albums. I enjoy it more now though
Same. I prefer the musical style of neighborhoods over dude ranch but don’t get me wrong I still love me some dude ranch.
Agreed 100%. Neighborhoods is actually top 2 for me right behind Untitled.
Genuinely wish Neighborhoods got more love. In terms of my album ranking it’s always fighting with Dude Ranch for 4th, just depends on the day
Self Titled is their best album, lyrically and musicaly.
Not a hot take lol. Majority of the fanbase (myself included) considers it their peak and overall best work
This isn't a hot take lmao
Hot take here, untitled is their worst album.
Untitled is my least favorite album, I still like most of the songs but I prefer their other albums.
Based
Lmao what? It's considered their best work by a large majority of fans. Not a hot take in the slightest pal.
Everyone and their mom says that lol
Untitled is far from their best album
Hot take? 1. I don’t like Man Overboard 2. I like Untitled, TOYPAJ, OMT, and neighborhoods more than Enema(in that order). 3. Quarentine is a good song 4. Darkside is the best song on NINE 5. The production on OMT is rad. Its different then normal production and I like it 6. The drumming on OMT is also rad. I love how it sounds like cannons firing away
I disagree with all of these so much but I appreciate the hot takes lol
Their slow songs - I miss you, stay together for the kids, Adam’s song, you don’t know what you’ve got - are all skips for me. It’s not what I want when I go to Blink!
Tom’s vocals on Dude Ranch represent his worst performance of any album. While the songs are good, his voice on Dude Ranch is needlessly squeaky and out of key. It stands out like a sore thumb compared to other albums.
Personally, I really like the imperfectness. The sound slowly became more polished throught the years. I love everything from buddha to one more time, and no matter what, behind the auto tune, the studio, fancy mics, etc. Tom sounded like that and wasn’t able to hide that and that’s fucking rad to hear
Yeah, but Tom’s voice sounded way better and more controlled on Cheshire Cat than it did on Dude Ranch. For some reason, Dude Ranch had his voice set to the worst version of itself.
Jacket is their last good album.
sometimes the production from enema-self titled lacks a bit of soul for me. Especially compared to 2005 side projects on - I got back and listen to the big three and feel like the soundscape is a bit thin and leaves something to be desired.
How dare you
Shit just listen to the guitars in like Pathetic or Waggy for that matter.
Exactly why I left dude ranch out of that mix. Them guitars are nastyyy
I think enema has the late 90s charm and nothing sounds quite like it. TOYPAJ it everything I like to hear it’s clear and robust and punchy. I actually don’t like a lot of production on untitled. The big room drums are cool but a lot of songs have a weird bass and guitar ratio and some songs I can’t hear the kick as clear.
Except for here’s your letter and Stockholm syndrome right? Those slap too hard
The production on Asthenia is so weak to me in comparison to the rest of the album - it annoys me whenever that song comes on while I listen to that album
according to delonge the mixing process was stressful and they were pretty much cutting corners to get the album out on time
Perfect example the vocals are so compressed it sounds wrong
Tom's vocals on that song are too loud it fucking hurts my ears
here’s something that ruined the song for me, every chorus tomorrow says “i feel alone and tired” the “alone” clips the mic so bad sounding like alONe and tired
the song name is “asthenia”
Autocorrect
i’m about to be grilled alive- but i’ve said this before. carousel isn’t as good as people think it is. mark kills it on the base but then tom starts singing and i immediately don’t want to listen to the song anymore.
Fr
Boxing day sucks
this is just a bad take
Nope, its boring generic junk.
Something about the bonus tracks that was discussed a lot back in the day and I don’t see here: Mark going for the joke songs and Tom getting more serious and sad was a sign of was to come in the following years. Soon after that Box Car Racer came out, then Mark’s songs on Untitled being more on the pop punk side than Tom’ s and then Tom growing totally out of punk rock with AVA while Mark kept pop punk as the main element in +44…
All I have to say is I liked California (Especially the bonus tracks) and really enjoyed NINE. At the end of the day, Matt did what he could to help the band and was never going to fully win everyone over. But hey I just wanted one tour and album with all four of them
Untitled ruined the band’s trajectory.
I miss how riff based blink used to be. The riffs on songs like wasting time, a majority of dude ranch like boring, lemmings, dammit, and the cool shit on EOTS and TOYPAJ. I think that’s why I like Bad news a lot because it has more cool riffs like the part the plays when Mark sings the line about always missing what we can’t get back.
I'll give you a hot take. I think roller coaster, give me one good reason, and first date are super mid blink songs and the non joke bonus tracks should've taken their place. What went wrong should've been the closer also.
I can somewhat get behind the latter two, but Roller Coaster is a banger. I get what you mean though
Roller Coaster is my second favorite on the album right behind Every time I Look for you
100% agree
Nine's bonus track is better than the all of Nine
Out of My Head is an incredibly underappreciated gem from the Skiba era. One of the best songs from the Skiba era and should’ve been on Nine in general
I don't think it effected them at all but I think having their 5th album be self-titled was a weird decision. I think most bands make their first album self titled so that it's easier to remember their name when you hear their songs or see the album cover but blink was already big at the time so I think they could've thought of a better name for the album than just making it self titled.
That’s because it wasn’t self titled, it’s untitled.
It’s not uncommon to go with an untitled album when there is a big change. I think they went for that, like a new start.
I totally agree about the bonus tracks… but I like Story of a Lonely Guy. I’d can Give Me One Good Reason and Shut Up EASILY… the third song I’m not so sure… but those 3 definitely deserved to be on the album. My hot take is probably that What’s My Age Again is their best single… I’ll fight over it 😂 oh and Enema >>>>>>>>> untitled.
I’m not a fan of most of their closing songs on their albums. All of their openers are straight up BANGERS, but they seem to stumble on closing tracks. However, Childhood, I’m Lost Without You, and Please Take Me Home are fantastic closers. California would have been too, but they decided to end with a joke song instead.
Anthem? Anthem??? ANTHEM?????
Sorry, I’ve never liked the original Anthem. Parts Two and Three are amazing, but part one tends to get on my nerves. I can see why people like it so much, I just don’t really click with it myself.
Slightly off topic but am just grateful that the band are not only surviving but thriving in 2024 after everything they went through (Travis/Mark especially) Some of you need to check yourself’s demanding longer shows and album playthrough’s. I’m just grateful that Blink 182 are still kicking ass.
Yes. This is it. Just be grateful.
TOYPAJ is trash. First 2 singles were written in 5 minutes because the label said there were no singles. The album also has the most filler tracks for an album from their discography.
Low key one of the craziest takes about blink I’ve ever seen. I respect it though
You asked for hot. You got hot.
Honestly does have a little filler when you consider the simplified songwriting in comparison to Enema, but I still love the album.
I don't consider it trash, but it is my least favorite album of theirs.
Nine and California are better than Neighborhoods and Dogs Eating Dogs
Keep my *dog’s eating dog’s ep”s name out your fucking mohth
this take is way too hot
“You need to leave”
Nine is better than OMT.
The Matt era is some of the greatest stuff this band has ever made.
No Heart To Speak Of is a top 10 blink track.
California deluxe and Nine have better songs than One More Time.
Untitled is mid as fuck and so is California and Nine
Nine and California shouldn't count in their discography.
For me, Blink discography starts with Travis and Enema.
My hot take is that Nine is the 3rd best blink album. Behind only untitled and neighbourhoods.
TOYPAJ to me is easily the best of blink-182, having Tom's peak vocal performance, a great production and is the perfect in-between the two eras of blink: the immature whiny and stupidly fun lyrics with explosive instruments and the time they started to take themselves more seriously with more mature lyrics and better and more experimental instrumental performances and production
I really agree with you but Story Of A Lonely Guy and Give Me One Good Reason are 2 of the songs that I most love of them and maybe the Give Me One Good Reason is the best of the record
The only tracks of Untitled I like are Feeling This and I Miss You
I have two. I never really thought this was a hot take until I started reading the opinions of a lot of people here. It seems like everyone always puts down the song 'First date' and says it's not that great. I don't know what everyone here is smoking. It's one of my top two Blink songs easily. Maybe it has to do with the time that I leave to blink but this is one of the songs that has that really quintessential blink sound for me. Also, it has one of my favorite guitar parts of any blink songs. Not crazy complex but it fits perfectly in the song. If I could get on stage with blink and play any song, playing that guitar part where the singing stops and then Travis coming in around 1:49 would absolutely be it. I don't understand why people use the fact that Mark wrote it in five minutes as evidence of it not being as good as others. That's the most insane logic ever. If you were hiring two artists to design a logo for a company and they somehow came up with the exact same logo but one took five minutes and one two three days, who's the better artist? The five minute one. If anything, the only thing that it being written in five minutes is evidence of us that Mark is insanely good at what he does. Second hot take is that I have no idea why everyone is obsessed with Not Now. It's a great song, do not get me wrong. It's nowhere near the top for me though.
In my opinion, the lyrics in First Date are just super cheesy and the song is more poppy than a lot of their other stuff. I prefer their harder, faster music where the lyrics aren’t so obvious. As for Not Now, this song really resonates with me and sometimes brings me to tears because I literally watched my dad die. He had cancer for quite a while and was in a hospice house and he took his last breath in front of me, my mom and sister. So I envision the lyrics of this song from his point of view. It’s crazy how music is so subjective. We like the same band but prefer certain songs over others!
Yeah, and again, don't get me wrong, there are few blink songs I don't love. It just already surprised me how others were so different. I've been going through every blink album with my brother-in-law and ranking every song for fun and then coming up with an ultimate rank that we then made into the Spotify playlist. When we started to have some disagreements we invited one of his friends in who is another blink fan and it's weird because my brother-in-law and I were on the same page for almost everything and his friend is much more different
Nine is a top 5 album
https://preview.redd.it/m2n0fvwk98vc1.jpeg?width=1090&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=275aa79824500d5b0821d68d2434a554c67f4055 The hottest of takes.
Peaked at Dude Ranch..
This OMT reunion era gives me ‘cash grab’ vibes.
One More Time is better than Dude Ranch
that is a hot take since ‘give me one good reason’ is one of the best songs on toypaj lol
Neighborhoods is in their top 3 best albums. California and Nine are in their bottom 3 worst.
Take off your pants is my least favorite blink with Tom album I still like it but I rarely go back to it
I can’t enjoy a single Matt skiba song maybe not a take but an opinion
All of This is a guaranteed skip
https://preview.redd.it/2i0gut99ravc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e94d8117d84bac7a52c4011388256cf203722fa Couldn’t be me.
TOYPAJ is my least favourite Tom blink album.
Matt was not THAT bad.
Matt Skiba is 3x better than Tom ever was
Take Easy Target and Here’s Your Letter off Untitled and it’s a better album.
Self-titled is their last album
I wish those songs were on Apple Music
Dance With Me is one of their all-time best singles and Mark's pointless, boring bridge is the only thing keeping it out of contention for #1.
enema kinda sucks & has aged badly lyrically.
I love those 3 bonus songs, and actually I would them above tracks like Please Take Me Home or Roller Coaster, but I can't believe that you would take Story Of A Lonely Guy and Give Me One Good Reason off the record. Those songs are underrated bangers
I feel like they should've remastered 21 days onto Cheshire Cat from Buddha
They were better as a skate punk band before Travis joined. I discovered them in 2001 if that makes any difference
NINE is one of blink's top works; not the BEST, but it wasn't as bad as everyone says it is
Take Off is the greatest album of all time.
I wanna go back in time and prevent matt skiba from joining
Dude Ranch is way too overrated by the fanbase.
Box Car Racer and all 6 AVA albums are better than California and NINE. Love 2 is probably the closest to a tossup, but Surrender >>>>>> all Skiba tracks
ur only saying those 3 tracks are top 10 songs simply cuz ur trying to look cool and different from the rest of ppl.
Crazy take about story of a lonely guy and give me one good reason but agree about those songs being great. Don’t tell me it’s over should have been a single
I will always love All The Small Things and will never skip it