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This is where I fall on it too.

I generally appreciate progression, otherwise you get situations like NFG where they release the same album over and over and it's boring as hell.

 

I think it's regression if you go back to it 100% once you've expanded into other sounds like they did with Untitled and to some extent Neighborhoods.

 

ya, unless that "expansion" was predominantly (but not entirely) pushed by the one dick head in the band that they're finally rid of.

 

I love Mark describing songs in the context of different albums. Really helps temper our expectations.

Also love that he can't compare the songs to anything Untitled and beyond.

 

He also did the piano in Adam's Song...easily one of the best bridges they've ever written, and it's largely due to that piano line.

"We realized, 'Well, this part here could sound rad if we put piano in here.' So we tried it out, and it sounded rad," said Hoppus

Hope this guy makes a come back on California.

 

Do you know who did the drums for those demos? Half the time I hear Scott, other times I see that Travis did it.

 

Some bands I don't need to reinvent the wheel. I never listened to Blink to give me the most intricate songwriting or some deeper artistic meaning. I got into them for fun music and catchy hooks. As much as I love the Untitled record, I never saw it as this holy grail in music that some people hold it to. That's great for those that do, but I feel like it sets you up for failure with this band. To me, Untitled has always been a really good alternative pop/rock album. Therefore, for Blink to make catchy and fun music again is not a regression. It's just doing what they sort of always done for me.

 

I'm sure it's all Travis

 

I did not use the word regression to quantify the type of music they play, I use it in the sense of moving forward or backward mentally. Referencing TOYPAJ and Enema as reference points is "regression" by definition, "a return to a former state" being one definition of the word.

 

lol then having any song that might work on a previous album is "regression", which has an unnecessarily negative connotation to it.

how about: They're making music they fucking enjoy for the first time in 10 years and if that's not good enough for you, don't listen.

The idea that bands have to be constantly pushing boundaries with every album is non-sense. That's why I never get the hate NFG gets.

 

Regression isn't necessarily a bad thing. I know it has a connotation with some people but Richard Linklater just made Everybody Wants Some!!, which is absolutely a regression for him and it's still my favorite movie of the year.

 

The people in this thread that wish the band would make music that sounds 15+ years old are the same ones acting hostile in their argument. Coincidence? (Well, other than Brad)

 

YES!

 

Is there a point in here somewhere?

People don't listen to blink-182 for their innovative musicianship. Same can be said for almost every other band that gets covered on this site.

 

i was directly responding to a single post with a straightforward answer, what part do you not understand?

 

Yea, this debate on their regression seems silly to me. I've liked the "Force Awakens" comparison to this new blink. They wanna make people feel familiar, and trust in blink's music again after the mostly mediocre songs on their last two releases. They're trying to just bring back that spark and energy that made everyone fall in love with blink in the first place. And like it's been mentioned before, there's gonna be other tracks that are gonna be completely different than anything blink's done before, it's not all just gonna be "throwback" tracks.

 

lol why do you guys need to talk to each other the way that you do? Everyone is so threatened by the idea that someone is taking shots at them for liking blink or liking punk. Regression is not an inherently negative word, you all seem to be adding that connotation in.

 

I didn't like the Force Awakens :(

 

Coming Home is their best album! (Sorry, it's an impulse.)

 

When regression is used in this context it definitely is negative:

"It always makes me feel a bit weird when bands tout their upcoming material as being like their older stuff. I'm sure it'll be great, but I kinda would like them to be wanting progression than regression"

Hilarious to me when talking about a pop-punk band but to each their own

Angels & Airwaves and all of Tom's U2/Coldplay/alien influenced blink songs are a pretty good example of when progression goes wrong

 

:/

 

And the response that "people don't listen to blink for songwriting" or "people don't listen to blink for musicianship" is such a poor, poor argument. A ton of people on here were heavy into blink when they were kids or teenagers without a wide swath of music knowledge or experience. Blink dipped out of relevance for me, personally, both because of my evolving tastes and because they didn't exist. There's nothing wrong with people's interests growing, discovering new bands and wanting to see something "different" just as there's nothing wrong with people wanting throwback punk songs.

 

perma-banned

 

Couldn't agree more - while I love "Coming Home" by NFG I love that they more so give the diehard fans what they want. If anything they could give us more riffs again but I won't be super picky. But fuck do they put on one fun live show man. Back to Blink... I think Mark and Travis just want to have fun again, and if that means playing fast paced "regression" songs than so be it.