So the first couple songs they did together were scrapped but also from the first batch of songs was Dance with Me, More Than You Know, and Turpentine. All so fucking good, what a comeback
Almost feels like it was an idea to intro the album to me, but plans changed. Or maybe I’be just gotten used to Tom doing those sort of intros on AVA albums.
I skip a lot of the album unfortunately but this seems about right. Anthem Part 3 could have been so much greater if the outro happened twice. Also still feel like the chorus doesn’t live up to the name. The chorus bugs the hell out of me. It would’ve been cool too if they incorporated the “ooos” from the first Anthem’s “I Time Bomb” part. But yah. Other Side is the only song I’m completely happy with. Verse. Chorus. Bridge. Everything. A lot of these songs rank so high just because of one part but that one part was amazing enough to carry the whole song. Everything 10-17 is just skipped usually. I’m curious about the songs that were cut…. 1. Other Side 2. Dance With Me 3. Anthem Part 3 4. Bad News 5. More Than You Know 6. You Dont Know What Youve Got 7. Turpentine 8. Terrified 9. Blink Wave 10. One More Time 11. Edging 12. Fell In Love 13. Childhood 14. Cut Me Off 15. See You 16. When We Were Young 17. Fuck Face 18. Turn This Off 19. Hurt (Interlude)
1. Dance With Me 2. Anthem Part 3 3. Turpentine 4. Cut Me Off 5. Bad News 6. More Than You Know 7. When We Were Young 8. Terrified 9. Blink Wave 10. Fell In Love 11. Other Side 12. Edging 13. See You 14. Childhood 15. You Dont Know What Youve Got 16. One More Time 17. Turn This Off 18. Fuck Face 19. Hurt (Interlude) All the songs are great though.
Blink Wave Turpentine More Than You Know Anthem Part 3 Dance With Me One More Time Terrified Childhood You Dont Know What Youve Got When We Were Young Other Side Hurt (Interlude) Bad News Edging Cut Me Off See You Fuck Face Turn This Off Fell In Love
My favorite top to bottom are: 1. Anthem Part 3 2. Bad News 3. More Than You Know 4. Other Side 5. Terrified 6. When We Were Young 7. Cut Me Off 8. Fell In Love 9. Blink Wave 10. Dance With Me 11. You Don’t Know What You’ve Got 12. Edging 13. One More Time 14. See You 15. Turpentine 16. Childhood 17. Hurt 18. Turn This Off 19. Fuck Face Man do I love this album, been spinning my cd, vinyl, and streaming non stop!
It's clear from what others have said about not reviewing the lyrics to them not really taking it too seriously that they probably wouldn't have deliberately made that song as an intro to the album. In fact between that and all the cowrites they may have not even realized they recorded songs for an album.
The aaron interviews crushed. I have really felt the through line of tom branching out in a meaningful way on dreamwalker and lifeforms that cleared the path for him the crush on OMT. loved the BTS from aaron about how it got there. Haven’t done a play on dreamwalker in years. definitely not my favorite from tom but there’s some really rad ideas and it’s cool to have the context that he’s had this building need to push himself in big new directions while also getting back to his roots. lol in the 182 podcast the interviewer is all “oh man i can really hear how tom got to omt from odds and ends “ aaron “…. yeah idk on that one…” bummed that ava doc is in limbo indefinitely, would love some more context for that era in toms career. those comeback shows were nuts. aaron if you’re lurking in here blink die hards we’re lucky to have you in the fold in this era of the band \mmm/
Also weak the Gear 182 dude didn't ask Aaron to elaborate on BLINK WAVE - he was just like "We already touched on that let's move to BAD NEWS" but Aaron said earlier BLINK WAVE is the only one he did with all three of the guys in the room so it would've been fun to hear more about that one from him. Missed opportunity.
From the 182 News podcast it sounds like we have Aaron to thank for reigning Tom in on this LP. We should send him a gift basket or something
Yeah it was probably helpful that Aaron was a fan of blink before he started working with them and also worked with them on DED. It was huge that Aaron saw/realized the issues with Neighborhoods and DED and Tom actually listened to him to tone the AVA stuff down. Imagine Dance With Me with a long intro like it was originally?
1. Blink Wave 2. Anthem Part 3 3. Terrified 4. Dance With Me 5. Turpentine 6. Bad News 7. One More Time 8. Edging 9. You Dont Know What Youve Got 10. More Than You Know 11. When We Were Young 12. Cut Me Off 13. See You 14. Fell In Love 15. Turn This Off 16. Hurt (Interlude) 17. Other Side 18. Childhood 19. Fuck Face Sounds about right
I just imagine it being like "An Endless Summer" or whatever that solo song was called. Just a goofy, synthy intro that doesn't match the tone and adds nothing to the song. Basically just pads it to be longer lol.
Am I the only who sings or wants to sing “It’s Christmasss” instead of “it’s crazyyy” like how mark sings Christmas in Boxing Day?
They certainly made the right call on making it the lead single. So damn happy for them. Curious to see what gets pushed as next single in 2024. Blink Wave would be amazing, but I really want a video for Anthem Pt. 3. Maybe we can have both?!