Alkaline Trio Band • Page 4

I hope Mark and Travis are cool with Matt doing another Trio album sometime late next year/early 2018. Matt said the focus was on Blink "right now", but I def want some new Trio in a couple years.

 

This will be the longest gap between Trio records so far. It's usually only a couple of years, and we're looking at 4, possibly 5 years between My Shame is True and the next one. I have mixed feelings; I'm super stoked on new Blink and really happy that Matt gets to experience that level of success, but Alkaline Trio are my favorite band and I miss them.

 

Hopefully they'll at least do an EP in between full lengths. They don't need to tour around it. Just an EP of some new stuff, and then a year or so after that, a full length, and then tour on both.

 

I still haven't come to terms with there never being another Heavens record.

 

2018: year of the Trio.

I wouldn't mind if Dan wanted to record another Emergency Room record for next year though. All three seem to be really enjoying the fruits of their labor and taking time to flesh out their creativity. The irony of Matt joining a trio that's been through stages of rabid contention after he's been in a trio of dudes who never have problems haha

 

Yeah I'd love to get another ER record for sure. Though I assume Danny might take advantage of some downtime with his family.

 

How is Balanced On A Shelf on no one's Dan list?

 

I do like the song a lot, especially the intro. That intro is so Alkaline Trio hah.

But Broken Wing really outshines it, IMO. Sun Burns is pretty decent too, especially the outro. I love the "I feel my skin as the sun burns it" part.

 

"Broken Wing" might be on my list of Dan songs, but hard to say - it's def up there. Underrated track.

 

Man, all of Dan's songs on the Broken Wing EP are great. You could just make a playlist of all his bonus tracks from the last few records and it would be killer.

 

Yep. Going back to Good Mourning and Angel Alcohol, if you put all of Dan's B-sides on their own album, it'd be one of the stronger Trio albums in my opinion lol. And I'm actually not a huge fan of his This Addiction B-Sides. They're okay, but compared to all the other albums we have B-sides for, they're the weakest IMO

1. Angel Alcohol
2. We Can Never Break Up
3. Buried
4. Don't Say You Won't (Derek wrote it, but whatever)
5. Burned Is The House
6. In My Stomach
7. Kick Rocks
8. Those Lungs
9. Balanced on a Shelf
10. Broken Wing
11. Sun Burns


That's a pretty solid album lol. And you can add in his songs from the BYO split if you want, I love both of those too.

 

"Kick Rocks" and "Those Lungs" are so fucking good.

 

My favorite Dan songs are also my favorite Trio songs in general most of the time.

1. Blue Carolina
2. Balanced on a Shelf
3. Smoke
4. Settle for Satin
5. Take Lots With Alcohol
6. Message From Kathlene
7. She Took Him to the Lake
8. Crawl
9. You've Got So Far to Go
10. My Standard Break From Life

 

Matt sounded awfully dismissive of Alkaline Trio on KROQ today...

 

I'm sad about it. I have a bad feeling about the future of Alkaline Trio.

 

What did he say?

 

He's just stoked on Blink right now.

 

I don't really think so. He said that Trio is his family and that Dan and Derek are his brothers as well. Dan has already expressed his support several times and Derek is the most easy going guy in the group and hasn't expressed any negative feelings. I think they're fine and even though there's going to be a long gap this time between records, they toured Shame pretty extensively and then followed up with the past live tour so it was actually a pretty long stretch on the road these past couple of years. Maybe it's for the best they all get a bit of time apart to focus on their own things. They've always done that in their down time anyway. I'm borderline pissed that Trio got put on the back burner for this, I've already known that for quite some time but unlike a lot of bands, they all seem pretty chill and to genuinely get along and I think that's because they're all creative people with other things to do besides Trio and none of them have an ego or issue about it. They've said as much themselves. I'm actually hoping that Matt's writing improves a bit in the mean time.

 

I'm honestly glad they're taking a break from the 3 year album cycle. It makes the future so much more exciting to me.

 

Yeah, after the Trio album, Trio EP, solo albums and now this blink album in quick succession, it is a much better thing to wait it out anyway. Nobody who releases large quantities of music in quick succession is ever releasing really high quality stuff to me, unless you're The Beatles..

 

Yeah....still hurts

 

this addiction is the best album

 

That's my least favorite of their albums, haha.

 

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww man awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

Honestly, I've never seen someone with that opinion. It commonly ranks above or on par with Agony & Irony as their worst. Personally, I enjoy the record a great deal, but Alkaline Trio are my favourite band, so y'know.