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“Sunrise always gives us the creeps” sounds like such a Matt Skiba lyric and I love that it exists in a blink song. “Emo Shit” is a big highlight of the Skiba era for me.

 

I was at the Twitchcon set and they played Darkside. It ruled. It was open on the field at Petco Park and I was probably 2-3 rows of people back. It was the closest I will ever be and the show was free. Also my only Skiba show. I remember loving the show, but feeling that it felt a little tired and lack luster. The crowd was pretty tepid too, but it was at an event that wasn’t necessarily for the blink audience. I regret not going to a show while they were touring on California on a big high.

Seeing them with Tom this summer was by far the best and highest energy blink set I’ve ever seen. I hope they get a NINE song in the set at some point. The album deserves some love in this era of blink. I would gladly have them take Up All Night or any of the legacy songs that we are all ready to see retired out to put one in. Personally loved all the OMT love on the most recent tour, but I am curious how the set changes after the OMT hype dies down.

 

Actually went back and listened to Nime again because of how much I missed it.
Highs:
No Heart
Darkside
Black Rain
Rub Away
Pin the Grenade
Hungover You
First Time

Mid:
Heaven
Generational Divide
Ransom
Emo S
Remember To Forget Me

Unfortunately gets weighed down by some clunkers:
Happy Days
BIOMY
IRWIHY

Final verdict is that this sits above Neighbs and Cali, but still in this purgatory between not their prime and OMT.

 

I'm always just like "have fun with it"

 

Here for BIOMY and the chorus in Heaven.

 

Hahahaha I’m leaving it. This legit made me laugh out loud

 

NINE is such an underrated album that unfortunately came out during a weird time with the band. The album release date was delayed and ended up coming out on the last day of their summer tour (which wasn’t as successful as the band wanted coming off of the California Tour which was massive) and then COVID hit so they never got to go out on the road to support it. The label (and band) seemed to completely ignore the album once it was released probably due to the lukewarm reactions of their first 2 singles, BIOMY and Happy Days, which happened to be the weakest songs on the album which probably led to the seemingly poorer attendance of their summer tour that they had to switch to an Enema Anniversary tour to help boost sales.

In an alternate universe if the album would have been released in June/July at the start of their tour with Darkside being the lead single I think fans would be more fond of that record.