quote:
However, Blink's problem is that there comes a point when you DO grow up, and Blink never did. they just kept churning out songs about this same feeling, but now they were looking back and trying to recreate a feeling they no longer had. It became a puppet show, and no longer an honest expression of where they were in their lives.

A couple of new songs on California and the deluxe edition reference meeting up with friends to skateboard in the Target parking lot and sneaking into girl's windows to listen to music. Coming out of a gang of 45 year old men, it feels very fake and dishonest. Not sure how much of that is Feldman pushing the "pop" angle or what but I can't stand it. Mark's bass playing is the best it's been since Cheshire though!

More to your point, I read an article one time talking about Carousel and how Tom Delonge is exploring the realization that high school was a playpen, not a prison...and that the real, adult world is in fact much scarier, more restrictive, and depressing than what he just left. Those kinds of sobering moments that everyone can relate to are what I miss about Blink.

I think the Descendents are a punk band that aged gracefully. Their new song "Victim of Me" still has that same great energy, but the lyrics target exactly how I think people in their 30s-50s feel...sorta that mid-life crisis, stuck in a rut kinda thing we all get into from time to time.

2 ...

Report Post

Posted by Baloo

Formerly MDGeaux

Member since Sep 2003

49645 posts

Posted on 5/4/17 at 12:28 pm to tigrbabe08

The Descendents are a great comp to Blink, both are even pop punk bands (though the definition of pop punk was a little harsher in the mid-80s). And the Descendents did grow old... maybe not gracefully, but honestly. Their newest album feels like adults with jobs and kids trying to hold on to their ideals, not trying to nostalgically cash in on a time that has long since passed.

The Descendents have even gone back and changed some of the lyrics to some of their older songs when they play them now due to the lyrical content. They are rightly embarrassed by some of the misogyny and while they don't try and pretend it didn't happen, there's no reason to perpetuate it now.

0 ...

Report Post

Posted by kingbob

Sorrento, LA

Member since Nov 2010

67311 posts

Posted on 5/4/17 at 12:57 pm to tigrbabe08

quote:
More to your point, I read an article one time talking about Carousel and how Tom Delonge is exploring the realization that high school was a playpen, not a prison...and that the real, adult world is in fact much scarier, more restrictive, and depressing than what he just left. Those kinds of sobering moments that everyone can relate to are what I miss about Blink.

Agreed. I've always loved Carousel and it absolutely encapsulated life for me in college through to now. Just barely scraping by and realizing that growing up freaking sucks. School wasn't the worst thing ever like I thought it was at the time. I mean, it's such a perfect synopsis of that feeling, that angst, the regret, the longing, the jealousy, etc.

"I talk to you every now and then
I never felt so alone again
I stop to think at a wishing well
My thoughts send me on a carousel
Here I am standing on my own
Not a motion from the telephone
I know not a reason why
Solitude's a reason to die

Just you wait and see
As school life is a
It is a woken dream
Aren't you feeling alone?
I guess its just another
I guess its just another
I guess its just another night alone

Now as I walk down the street
I need a job just to sleep in shade
Buying food every once in a while
But not enough to purchase a smile
A tank of gas is a treasure to me
I know now that nothing is free
I talk to you every now and then
I never felt so alone again

Just you wait and see (just you wait and see)
As school life is a
It is a woken dream
Aren't you feeling alone?
I guess its just another
I guess its just another
Night alone"

0 ...

Report Post

Music Board - Replies to Post

Return To Board

Page 1

Return To Board