blink-182 - One More Time… (October 20, 2023) • Page 175

name a single song on Neighborhoods that sounds even remotely close to any of those songs... haha

 

Guys I love this band an obsessive amount, and do enjoy Neighborhoods for what it is. But I don't know how anyone could listen to any song on OMT and think it could fit well on that album. Listening to OMT followed by Neighborhoods it just sounds like a bunch of demos that weren't fully fleshed out. Is there even a true bridge on any song on that album?

 

Snake Charmer scratches the BCR itch for me on Neighborhoods. That song is criminally underrated IMO. Did it ever have a live debut?

 

Snake Charmer is criminally underrated. 100% agree. And there’s like…5 songs on neighborhoods I’d easily take over Terrified or More Than You Know lol

 

Everyone sounds bored out of their minds on Neighborhoods in comparison to this album.

 

I think you mean bored to d-- wait wrong album, sorry

 

Travis can write and play the kinds of typical drum parts he has in his sleep, at the very least. Sounds completely locked in on the new stuff. As opposed to parts of Neighborhoods sounding phoned in in general.

 

I dunno, I was literally thinking last night that TERRIFIED might fit on Neighborhoods. Some of the guitar parts give me Up All Night vibes.

 

Snake Charmer is just Violence pt. 2 with more phoned in parts.

 

I would take an album full of Edging 19 times in a row over Neighborhoods. It’s a night and day difference.

I truly don’t know how you can listen to OMT and watch the Zane interview and be like, yea it’s very similar to Neighborhoods.

 

I’m trying to imagine how insane people would have gone with the UK version of Untitled with Not Now and Anthem pt 2 live on it released today lol

 

man, I really like neighbourhoods

 

That Hihat part on After Midnight, the borderline Breakdown on Up All Night, the fastest song to date on Hearts All Gone, and the Killer part on Wishing Well would beg to differ. I do agree this is the most focused and "locked" he has sounded on a blink record, but to say Neighborhoods was phoned in is wildly undercutting his efforts on that one.

 

Sadly I'm broke (and unemployed) so I'll also be in the camp of those waiting for the bonus songs to be put up on streaming before I can hear them (just thankful my mother was willing to buy the CD Boxset for me).

 

Lots of shade at NINE and Neighborhoods since this record came out. IMO I see Neighborhoods DED and Califnoria NINE as very specific chapters in the blink history that I am stoked to have. They are not peaks by any means, but blink is blink and I have an appreciation for every era. Idk why a kickass album makes previous releases lesser to people.

 

Which is fine. I’m not even saying everything is bad with it. I’ll withhold that opinion. I just think the new album is so obviously this achievement of reforged friendship and true collaboration and it shows in the songs.

 

Also, a good bit of these could have been on Cali or Nine.

 

I might be a bit biased because I got into the band after they split, and got to experience the band 'properly' back in 2009 when they first reunited (and my first (and so far only) concert was back in 2011 during their Honda Civic Tour), but I like Neighborhoods a lot...

Even though OMT... did help me realize that maybe Neighborhoods wasn't the best (since I do skip a song or two on Neighborhoods and not OMT...) I'm still grateful for the albums release because I got to enjoy blink as a teenager/young adult at the time (again since I got into them during the indefinite hiatus/early days of YouTube).

 

I think the OMT songs I mentioned fall more in line with songs like Ghost, Natives, Up All Night, Snake Charmer, Hearts all gone, more so than songs like DANCE WITH ME, FELL IN LOVE, BLINK WAVE, BAD NEWS. I love that OMT thematically sounds like it has songs that are inspired from every era of the band, I’m just saying that those songs sound like they could’ve come from that particular era.

 

blink is a great band

 

I am curious if any of the songs are carryovers from the COVID writing sessions or unused ideas from California and NINE. IMO Tom adding his flavor to poppier cowritten stuff sounds a lot more effortless / less shoehorned than on the Skiba-era stuff. To me, it lives as its own thing simply because tom is back in the mix. But there are plenty of moments where I think "Yeah this could have been on the next release if the Skiba era kept going"

 

Oh yeah like when he's on, he's really on. Impossible for a Blink record not to have really impressive Travis Being Travis(TM) moments because he's just that good as a baseline.

 

I disagree. Terrified sounds like Box Car, cause it was. They didn’t do that on Neighborhoods. YDKWYG could come right off Cali or Nine. If MTYK was done then, it would have been a 100% Tom song probably.

 

He’s the X factor!