blink-182 - One More Time… (October 20, 2023) • Page 114

I have no idea where this will end up on my year end list. I can't pretend it's the best album I've heard this year (and I never expected it to be), but the excitement surrounding it, all the subjective personal feelings about Blink and what they've meant to me for my entire life, and the fact that it's a far better Blink-182 record than I ever, ever could have imagined from them at this point in their career makes ranking truly meaningless. I'm truly and utterly hyped as shit on it.

 

Bart got Bars

 

There will be end of the years lists.

 

If this is not your top AOTY upon first listen and not competing with untitled for top spot for you please leave this thread immediately....!

 

(but speaking of aoty, it's awakebutstillinbed)

 

so true bestie

 

you can all get revenge on me next friday when im sobbing uncontrollably over the new gaslight album by saying you hate the production and wish it sounded more like handwritten

 

I just decided I'm going to buy the CD when I go to pick up Mario. This will be the first album I've ever owned on vinyl, cassette, and CD. (Also my first CD purchase since MBDTF).

 

chorus.fm

 

These are facts

 

on*

 

The album is a lot better when you skip around lol I think my problem was that the Mark heavy songs were pushed to the second side. BUT!!!! This happens on Dude Ranch too. So we will see. I like this a lot more than self titled. But that’s not saying much because I HATED that album for awhile. And it took me a literal year before I finished the last song.

I think if Bad News was where Terrified is I wouldn’t have been so negative initially.

 

What if I'm not like the otherrrssss.

 

Would it be too much to ask for a documentary about the making of this album?

 

Your journey to discovery and friendship because of this band isn’t too dissimilar to mine (and I’m sure plenty of others) - I think that’s blink 182 - it’s friendship ride or die type music

I haven’t spoken to my two best friends from HS in years but I texted both today because of this alum because of this band and the memories we shared over them

 

When you wrote this the other day:

I was like ... wait, did he read one of my drafts?

 

the closest thing we've had to the chorus of "Degenerate" since 1997 probably? haha

 

I love poetry

 

the AvA-ness in this record is particularly all over the harmonies

 

Was not expecting Jason's review to cause me to think of The Great Gatsby and Astral Weeks, but here we are. Good stuff.

 

Not nearly as exhausting as AVA tends to be, though.

 

So you pretty much just listen to New Again on repeat?

 

Well done, Jason! I loved the narrative wrap-around you utilized. I also really enjoyed this description, "... capturing vitality in three minutes is a magic trick. An adrenaline shot to the spine. A euphoric dance between the past and present, comforting yet new. And by using that connection with the audience's past, it elevates these songs. Mark, Tom, and Travis are able to bottle this feeling to give us everything we want without it seeming forced or saccharine—a genuine accomplishment."

And that Stand By Me reference *chef's kiss*

 

Where did our childhood go? I wanna know
Where did our childhood go? I wanna know

I hate not seeing Childhood get the credit it deserves from people.

 

It's so fucking good. I can just picture them going back and forth with rhymes for an hour and picking the best ones.