Tom DeLonge Reflects on ‘Neighborhoods’ • Page 2

I’m sure this has been beaten to death, but a 4-piece blink would be so cool

 

This would be the dream scenario, honestly.

 

I go:
The best songs on California/Deluxe > NINE > the filler on California > Neighborhoods.

 

Neighborhoods is great, even knowing how disjointed the recording sessions were. California has a handful of decent songs, but I couldn't get into anything off of Nine. Nothing from it has stuck with me except for maybe Darkside.

 

That’s wild

 

I’ll never forget reading an article in AP(?) and the record label didn’t like it at first saying it wasn’t strong (they didn’t like how blink pieced it together via email)

Mark, Tom, and Travis scrambled and actually met in a studio for two or three days and wrote Hearts all Gone,Kaleidoscope,MH 4.18.2011, and Wishing Well. The albums best songs.

 

I wonder what the scrapped songs were then since that would be only 8 tracks. I guess if they included the b-sides “Fighting The Gravity” and “Even If She Falls” it would be 10.

I will say that those 4 they put together are great songs but there’s also some really good tunes they put out on that record via email like Up All Night and Natives.

 

I'm not sure if those are the right songs. I'm like 99% sure I remember After Midnight being one of them at least, and to me MH and Wishing Well sound 100% like songs that Tom and Mark respectively had very little to do with creatively

 

After Midnight was 100% one of the songs from that session. Also one of the albums best songs by a mile.

 

I dunno, this was years ago ha. Always wanted this thing on vinyl but haven’t gotten it yet

 

Agree. I honestly doubt Tom even plays on MH.

 

I’ll make it worse; Amazing Spider-Man 2 isn’t a bad film.

 

uh this isn’t true at all I’m pretty sure lol?
Reads like a weird spin on the true story that their label heard toypaj for the first time and didn’t think it was as strong as enema-? Frustrated, Tom went home and wrote first date right then and there, Mark went home and wrote the rock show.

Didn’t Tom hear hearts all gone for his very first time when Mark dropped it on the site?

And Mark pretty much wrote MH alone.

Tom wrote Wishing before they ever even awkwardly announced “Blink-182 Is Back!”

and I’m pretty sure there’s videos of Mark alone writing and working in kaleidoscope

 

The lack of collaboration hurt Neighbourhoods a lot. I don't know how they ever thought going from living each other and recording the Untitled album and it working so well (given Jerry Finn's huge input), to working all completely in isolation with no producer and expecting a solid result.

It just doesn't make sense logically at all.

 

It’s from ten years ago, sue me for getting some songs wrong. You don’t need to make this an AP.net Saosin thread man.

 

Still like it way more than CA and Nine.

 

Honestly haven't even listened to the newest blink album.

 

No better time than now

 

Eh, I just put on Paramore's ST instead.

 

No better time than after Paramore’s ST

 

nine is a really fun time if you're not blinded by nostalgia tbh

 

I'm willing to support an evolution of blink's sound, but did they really need to bring in 16 other songwriters?

 

that will never be a criticism i care about tbh, whatever gets good music into my ears works for me

 

Fair enough. I have a hard time buying into the authenticity of lyrics if they’re crowd sourced

 

Here's how I look at it - everything after Untiled is shit. It's just a matter of how shitty is the shit. Neighborhood has less highs than California or Nine, but never dips down into the lows that California & Nine do. Looking right at you "Built this Pool," "Brohemian Rhapsody," & "I Really Wish I Hated You"