@@DezzreckEnema is strong throughout and classic blink, but 2003 is when they started getting moodier and more experimental. They're good for different reasons.
@@evieTVv production and mixing/mastering are closely related but not necessarily the same thing though, and are often done by separate people as individual processes
@@legoshi5925 you’re right that it does get handed to other people for the final master, but acting as though travis had “no involvement in the mix” is wrong, producers have a heavy hand in how the final mix sounds. travis has produced the mgk albums, and nine with matt, and the mix sounded like this. i would say it’s a little better this time around, but i think they really need an executive producer, cause jerry finn’s absence is palpable
A few days ago my principal talked about the release of this album on the intercom and said something like, "this is a rebellious punk album about becoming middle aged. Yeah!"
I completely agree but I actually like the album it’s a cool comeback but I think it needs more mixing. His chat didn’t really think of their own opinion.
Around 22: 30, he reads a chat that makes up their own opinion though. I feel like you may be just gravitating towards the negative comments. Some people who aren’t the loudest ones do voice their opinion in there that stream and a lot of others.
Brad u gotta check out their self titled, it came right at the end of their “peak” that you enjoyed during Enema and also happened right in the midst of their initial breakdown as a unit. It’s incredibly melodramatic but it wouldn’t feature a song with ROBERT SMITH if that wasn’t a good thing. Honestly nothing but good things to say about it. Production wise, writing wise, everything wise, it’s their creative peak
The thing is Self-Titled and Neighborhoods demonstrated authentic maturity. Then with California they went back to childish fart jokes. The last three albums feel like regression to me
I personally have basically the exact opposite takeaway. I always thought WMAA was a funny and self-aware song about how immature you are, but if 20 years later you refuse to evolve musically or lyrically, you probably are that person. One aphorism I've deduced from experience with creators is that the "characters" people play rarely don't reflect who they are as people. For example, if someone constantly jokes about being a sexpest, they probably are. Pointing out that you refuse to grow doesn't change that not growing is kind of frustrating. The reason we liked it back then because it's funny to poke at your insecurities and faults, but they just really are like that.
@@vinceeager8553Actually what in the world are you talking about? California had two joke interlude tracks, sure, but aside from that there isn't a single crude lyric on the entire album. Are you really holding two 20 second goof songs (something that blink is known for anyway) against that album at large?
I honestly really enjoy this album, because i think the songs at their core are well put together, and they connected with me a lot (especially childhood). However, travis barker HIMSELF produced the majority of this album. no hate to travis, but he’s sucks at mixing. i think for blinks next album they NEED to work with an executive producer, someone like rick rubin, who could be a taste maker- akin to the strokes’ newest album
Travis didn't mix the album and Rick Rubin also doesn't mix the stuff he produces. They got actual A-listers to mix, which makes the sound of the album really confusing, because the guys who did the job are supposed to be the best in the biz
Travis learned from Feldmann, and Feldmann sucks at mixing! That's why it still sounds like the stuff they made with Skiba when Feldmann was their producer.
Honestly, if Travis didn't mix the drums so far forward, his production would be a lot better. But I remember one of my issues with the Avril Lavigne album he produced being that the drums drowned out the guitar.
travis barker's drumming is definitely in time; that said, blink are definitely a band that value exact metronomic timing over unadjusted performances, and you can tell because of how in time these grooves are that they feel uncanny. compare to deftones; abe doesn't play with a metronome and has a real tendency of rushing things like triplet kicks but because the band act with that knowledge and everyone composes and plays with the other's styles in mind, the groove coalesces way easier than for blink.
I’ve liked blink-182 for a while now I wouldn’t consider myself a veteran listener as I am not as old as they are but I feel they were one of the first bands / artists I’ve listened to front and back and would def recommend in a top 5 ranking. Their untiled 03’ was definitely their peak.
The new blink album is 10/10 my reason for this is all three have basically fused box car racer,angels and airwaves and blink all together in one great sounding album... Its everything they have learned with each band and all in one. This is blink at its best.
That’s why you’re supposed to listen to mixes quietly in the studio because you can hear frequency responses more clearly, as opposed to listening to it loudly where sounds clash with one another preventing the producer from finding middle ground
It definitely didn’t help the hype for this album that they put out the WORST SONG as the first single like why the hell did they think that was a good idea???
Yeah, Edging is terrible lol. I loved the other early releases though (One More Time, More Than You Know, Dance With Me). They definitely should've just stuck with those instead.
can’t lie, amusing to listen to someone with no knowledge of music whatsoever tell everyone what to think and how to make music but hasn’t seemed to write a hit yet 🤷♂️
I remember when "Edging" came out and being strangely disappointed that they were a lot more mature when I was in middle school... 20 years ago. I'm all for having fun, but everything they've done Post-"Neighborhoods" has just not interested me and this new one left me bored. Where's the creativity and sense of rediscovery? Pop-punk in general has had this problem of figuring out how to age gracefully, which makes it a tough genre (that I still look back fondly on) to really appreciate. What's also odd is that I'm indifferent to Paramore and they're one of the few elder statesmen that still have some artistic integrity to respect.
I think the lyrics to Turn This Off aren't intended to be blink saying they're so edgy and/or going to be cancelled. The song is more of a thought that Tom, Mark, and Travis have had in their minds throughout their careers as Suburban Moms had nothing better to do than get riled up at immature 20-somethings talk about dicks and butts. It's normal to interpret the song as blink talking like they're a washed up comedian about to punch down but the writing wasn't written with that in consideration, which leads to the expected misunderstanding. I'd still put it down as a mistake on their part.
Edit: the grindcore interlude at the end is kind of a banger I miss Blink-182’s immaturity and funniness presented on Dude Ranch and EOTS. This depressing and mature soap opera breakup scene emo crap doesn’t fit the band at all.
that's,,,,,, not what grindcore is as someone who listens to a decent amount of it lol. it's just traditional hardcore punk, grindcore implies you've moved the vocal delivery towards screaming and the guitar tones to like. death metal levels of heavy (with the pretty ubiquitous usage of the hm-2 pedal) if that makes sense
Wasting Time A new hope Dammit Emo Rock Show Rollercoaster are the best blink songs to me 90s Blink with that skate punk to pop punk sound >>> Post 2000s blink tbh. altho untitled album still good tho.
i always told my friends back in 2005: i like going to pop eyes for the chicken, not burgers. if i wanted burgers i would go to my burger king. skate punk, pop punk is what made me like Blink best. if i wanted alternative rock i would go to my go-tos like the cure or smashing pumpkings or the strokes. when your favorite chicken place starts trying to make burgers and it ends up hurting their production of the best chicken it just sucks.
@@streetplaya23 What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul
As a huge fan of Brad, his streams, his channel, and his takes - I have to second the importance of forming your own opinions. This reaction is highly entertaining, but I mostly disagree w/ Brad here. I absolutely love this record as a long-time Blink fan. Is some of the production heavily compressed and super overblown? Yes. But I can look past it because I LOVE THE SONGS. This is, by far, the most excited I've been about Blink since their Untitled/ Self-Titled album in '03 (the cover art of which I have tattooed on my left shoulder - the famous smiley-face logo w/ the turquoise and pink behind it). I'm 31, so I grew up thinking Dude Ranch, Enema of the State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, and Untitled were some of the best Pop-Punk projects ever made (and for the most part, I still believe this). But yeah, you can enjoy Brad's content and still have your own individual thoughts! I love Pop-Punk, grew up on this stuff, and love that it's making a big comeback.
Yeah, and I'd also argue that this album is bigger than itself in a way too, it's really about what it represents. 10 years and they're finally friends again, making music again, and most notably still alive. Mark had to relearn how to sing after chemotherapy, Tom had to relearn how to turn off his AVA voice and use the blink one again, there's been a lot of stuff going on. I love Brad's entertaining reactions lol but I've never liked a song on first listen, I think that's my problem with his channel for the most part. You gotta revisit an album one, two, five times before you can make a whole opinion on it haha
@@axoharpoon yeah it's pretty awesome what this all represents, but even on my favorite song on the project, "TERRIFIED," you can tell how aggressive the compression is. Not looking to knock Brad, he has become one of my favorite youtube channels period. I just don't like the group-think sometimes
@@SeanLearyMusic yea, I hated him a while back and would hate watch his videos but his reactions ended up just making me laugh lol so i became a fan. And yeah, the compression and mixing on the album is just too much. It's overproduced, to put it lightly. That's not to say albums like EOTS or Untitled didn't have a whole team mixing and producing behind them, but this is too much. And it's a bummer, because the songs do sound a lot better and the lyrics are more listenable than Nine
The biggest issue is the production. The original producer during Enema of State and thier other 00s albums was the legendary Jerry Finn who passed away in 2008. Since then they have been totally lost without him sound wise
I agree. Lots of bangers on this album, but I'm surprised that for such a mainstream band with so many ties to sound engineers, it would come out with such an awful production. Travis has a lot to learn with regards to mixing rock music.
Tom's speaking voice is like that "nasal and young", he just naturally sounds like that in general. But he does sound like he tries to be more bratty on some of these songs where appropriate. The whole Angels & Airwaves style singing, softer and more relaxed does work for some blink songs, but a lot of fans and critics alike complained that he was getting too soft in the vocal department. It sounds like on the new album he does a bit of both. I do agree that More Than You Know is one of the best songs on the album though. As a blink fan I love Turpentine the most. But More Than You Know is a genuinely well-constructed song that I can see a lot of people who aren't even fans enjoying.
"Normalize audio" does not change the sound at all, it just makes each song either louder or quieter, so all tracks are overall the same perceived volume.
@@amysel Mixing is a step of audio engineering, where EQ, Compression, Gates (and so on), are applied to each instrument to make all of them sound clear and pleasant when they are summed into a single master track.
Always gotta be a guy like you. Casual Bink fan here and I think this album is great. Like what you like and stop trying to make a career out of what you hate (or think you should hate to get views and AD money).
I am not even a Blink fan but I cringe hard at this guys try hard opinions and the people in his comments that basically hate everything. Hipsters are apparently still well and alive.
their dick humor is tongue in cheek, brad. it’s a big reason why a lot of people like me loved them back in the day. it wouldn’t be a blink album without it. it doesn’t have to be that serious
@@krusher181 no you don’t have to like it, but if your criticism of it is “they’re too old for this” you’re missing the point. and untitled is just one song; not every single song has to be solely dick jokes. it’s still a good song
meh, you cant disagree or dislike a piece of music without being called cocky or something. we cant like everything and some reviewers dont wanna sugar coat it and wanna be honest about how bad it seems to them.
@streetplaya23 I'd have to disagree. There's having a personal opinion about what your taste in music is, but when your whole shtick is to run the artist down in such an arrogant way, on the internet for everyone to see. You bet there will be people telling you how cock and ignorant you are.
Gotta love all the chatters who agree with Brad cause they can’t come up with opinions on their own 🎉🎉🎉 shout out to yall for not thinking for yourselves. Yall might actually more music if you don’t let someone else dictate your opinion! Food for thought
I went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. It’s still like a C+/B- at best, but it’s the closest they’ve gotten to what I liked about them since their 2000’s output
I've only heard one album in which BAD production actually made me like the experience more, and that was Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra's "From Out Of Nowhere". Definitely a below average ELO album, but the bad production made the entire thing feel dated in a sort of dreamlike, nostalgic way... which helped.
no, dolby is the apple music mixing thing and it makes rock sound pretty bad, on phones ut very easy to switch out, by going to control center holding volume button and should be there. his mixing does kinda suck though
Just reacting to the title and first few minutes. Why is there this idea that the moment you hit 40 or 50 your life stops? You csnt have fun songs? Cant have sex? Cant have deeper songs mixed it, or reminiscing about youth? Like what? Im sure when were 50 we still will like fun, sex, and new found maturity mixed in and most likely recall awesome times in life.
I didn't like Edging, but the rest of the tracks were pretty good. There were some pretty serious ones in there too. The title track was them reflecting about it shouldn't take one of them nearly dying to rekindle their friendship (more importantly, the fact that it happened to them TWICE), You Don't Know What You've Got was about Mark's cancer, and then there was Terrified, my personal favorite, which was originally supposed to be a Box Car Racer song. I'm not too happy with the mixing, but apart from Edging, the album is pretty solid. 7/10 easily.
Does this do anything but bash on everything, i skimmed through the channel and its all just, "this is trash" "this is terrible" like honestly broz you do you but dont bash on peoples stuff just cuz it gets you attention
A lot of fair criticisms on the production. Always get disappointed on Anthem 3 getting bogged down by the drum mixing. That aside, I think was a kickass return to form. Watching Brad's stream is entertaining to guess his reactions, but frustrating seeing his viewers bandwagon (can't be helped, ig he attracts like minded ppl, lol). Anyway, liked the album, and getting a 3 from Brad translates to a seven for me, haha. Keep doing what you're doing, Brad. And listen to untitled!
Came into this fully expecting to get pissed off by Brads thoughts (blink is my favorite band of all time & I’m 100% in love with the album) and man oh man was I right 😂 like he said, respect everyone’s opinion but I severely disagree with most of what he said
It isn't as bad as nine or California... But that really doesn't say much. Especially since the drums were defening, the bass is inaudible and Tom literally cannot sing anymore 😅
@@cxrt420It's not their best album, but I definitely still put it above the Skiba ones. NINE is probably their worst album. The Jerry Finn-era ones are untouchable though (Enema, TOYPAJ, and Untitled).
Enema is their biggest album of all time. Tons of good songs. The vocals weren’t annoying yet… I dunno I’d say they peaked back then. Very obviously too
As someone who loves The Cure I just want to say GGGGRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRGggggHhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHH HOW DO YOU SAY THAT ABOUT MY FAVOURITE BAND 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Just kidding, love you Bradley ❤️ 😜
I think the drums are so prominent because Travis was the producer of thos album. So he's automatically gonna want more drums to show through in the songs
Pop punk isn’t for everyone. I grew up loving enema of the state, had the untitled one… I dunno this band bores me so much now. I get why people like it but I also see why people don’t. Totally makes sense to me.
As someone with severe ADHD, it takes a lot to sit through a podcast or video essay. But I can sit through most of Family Man by Black Flag, an instrumental and spoken word album. But when I listened to this new Blink album, I had to leave my computer after 3 songs. Not because I got bored, but because this was so unlistenable.
Would've been a 10 if they wrote a song about falling in love with an emo girl
BECAUSE I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE GIRL AT THE ROCK SHOW
She said “what?”
@@dmplacenciaAND I TOLD HER THAT I DIDN'T KNOW!
@@SalveASMR she’s so cool
@@dmplacencia gonna sneak in through her window
I just hope you react to the self-titled some day because having this, Nine, and Enema be your only experience with Blink is kinda rough lmao
Enema is way better than the self titled tho
Self-titled = GOAT
i think he should also listen to take off your pants and jacket as well
I still don’t know why he doesn’t want to react to their self titled album. That’s like the ultimate Blink album and influenced their newest one.
@@DezzreckEnema is strong throughout and classic blink, but 2003 is when they started getting moodier and more experimental. They're good for different reasons.
Honestly i''ll take 50 year old dudes talking about dicks and acting 23 over Roger Waters talking about death over DSotM (ambient edition)
In all fairness, the guy is 80 years old. Death is probably on his mind a lot.
@@MultiUnrealbut he wrote the lyrics when he was 30.
@@prometheustv6558 Ok? Doesn’t change my point.
Id kinda like to avoid both of these things
Lol
I'm assuming they let Travis mix the drums so he turned the gate down and turned the gain way up, that's why they bleed over everything else.
Nah travis had no involvement with the mix, it was mixed entirely by adam hawkins and mark spike stent with help from one or two others
lars moment
@@legoshi5925this is literally not true, travis had a major hand in the production. watch the zane lowe interview
@@evieTVv production and mixing/mastering are closely related but not necessarily the same thing though, and are often done by separate people as individual processes
@@legoshi5925 you’re right that it does get handed to other people for the final master, but acting as though travis had “no involvement in the mix” is wrong, producers have a heavy hand in how the final mix sounds. travis has produced the mgk albums, and nine with matt, and the mix sounded like this. i would say it’s a little better this time around, but i think they really need an executive producer, cause jerry finn’s absence is palpable
giving terrified a 0 was outrageous lol its easily my favorite off the album
yeah terrified is so good
A few days ago my principal talked about the release of this album on the intercom and said something like, "this is a rebellious punk album about becoming middle aged. Yeah!"
What school do you go to where the principal talks about Pop-Punk album drops over the intercom, and where do I enroll to go there?
That's awesome. Your principal had a great taste. 🔥
Holy crap that's cringe
Sure he did
That sounds like something that would happen.
Brad's chat is one of the most annoying chats I've seen. The same exact chat as Fantano's or XQC's, no opinions, just following.
yeah but there isnt many people with a chat that's not annoying
Explain Jeremy and Legoshi
@@benro6564They are the exception and I'm happy that they exist but they are still the 0,1%
I completely agree but I actually like the album it’s a cool comeback but I think it needs more mixing. His chat didn’t really think of their own opinion.
Around 22: 30, he reads a chat that makes up their own opinion though. I feel like you may be just gravitating towards the negative comments. Some people who aren’t the loudest ones do voice their opinion in there that stream and a lot of others.
Brad u gotta check out their self titled, it came right at the end of their “peak” that you enjoyed during Enema and also happened right in the midst of their initial breakdown as a unit. It’s incredibly melodramatic but it wouldn’t feature a song with ROBERT SMITH if that wasn’t a good thing. Honestly nothing but good things to say about it. Production wise, writing wise, everything wise, it’s their creative peak
Nah Dude Ranch was their peak imo.
I don’t get it… I hated that album. It’s so boring
I just don’t think they’re deep enough of a band to carry an album that serious
@@krusher181 i didnt like it at all at first too but damn it became a fast favourite hehe
i love that album but i bet brad would hate it lol
people will see a band that writes a song like “what’s my age again” and be off put when they aren’t “acting their age”
Doesn’t make it any less cringe
You make it sounds like that song existing means we all liked it and therefore shouldn’t be put off.
The thing is Self-Titled and Neighborhoods demonstrated authentic maturity. Then with California they went back to childish fart jokes. The last three albums feel like regression to me
I personally have basically the exact opposite takeaway. I always thought WMAA was a funny and self-aware song about how immature you are, but if 20 years later you refuse to evolve musically or lyrically, you probably are that person.
One aphorism I've deduced from experience with creators is that the "characters" people play rarely don't reflect who they are as people. For example, if someone constantly jokes about being a sexpest, they probably are.
Pointing out that you refuse to grow doesn't change that not growing is kind of frustrating. The reason we liked it back then because it's funny to poke at your insecurities and faults, but they just really are like that.
@@vinceeager8553Actually what in the world are you talking about? California had two joke interlude tracks, sure, but aside from that there isn't a single crude lyric on the entire album. Are you really holding two 20 second goof songs (something that blink is known for anyway) against that album at large?
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don't wayste yuor toime on me, shawty already like a melody in moi 'yead
I honestly really enjoy this album, because i think the songs at their core are well put together, and they connected with me a lot (especially childhood). However, travis barker HIMSELF produced the majority of this album. no hate to travis, but he’s sucks at mixing. i think for blinks next album they NEED to work with an executive producer, someone like rick rubin, who could be a taste maker- akin to the strokes’ newest album
Travis didn't mix the album and Rick Rubin also doesn't mix the stuff he produces. They got actual A-listers to mix, which makes the sound of the album really confusing, because the guys who did the job are supposed to be the best in the biz
It’s odd because I’m pretty sure they have a long time mixer (Jerry finn albums) that they didn’t bring on this time.
@@canucklehead2772 Jerry Finn died in 2008
Travis learned from Feldmann, and Feldmann sucks at mixing! That's why it still sounds like the stuff they made with Skiba when Feldmann was their producer.
Honestly, if Travis didn't mix the drums so far forward, his production would be a lot better. But I remember one of my issues with the Avril Lavigne album he produced being that the drums drowned out the guitar.
When I heard One More Time I was expecting Daft Punk, but instead I got the UFO chaser
Being a fan and never thinking that Blink would ever make a song like Anthem Part 3 or Bad News again, I'm loving this. 8/10 for me 🤌
All this coming from someone who sits in front of his computer all fucking day
travis barker's drumming is definitely in time; that said, blink are definitely a band that value exact metronomic timing over unadjusted performances, and you can tell because of how in time these grooves are that they feel uncanny. compare to deftones; abe doesn't play with a metronome and has a real tendency of rushing things like triplet kicks but because the band act with that knowledge and everyone composes and plays with the other's styles in mind, the groove coalesces way easier than for blink.
Brad doesn’t like edging, but he just needs to try it, he’s really missing out.
It’s can be pretty bad, but once you give it a fair shot the pay off is pretty big.
🤣🤣🤣
Lifelong blink fan and I hate edging, especially the new mix that's on the album which is worse than the original.
@@IDiggPattyMayonnaise
We’re talking about jerking cocks.
isn't the whole point of edging is that you're missing out something?
"Best Tracks: Jumping Out The Window Remix" LMAO
I’ve liked blink-182 for a while now I wouldn’t consider myself a veteran listener as I am not as old as they are but I feel they were one of the first bands / artists I’ve listened to front and back and would def recommend in a top 5 ranking. Their untiled 03’ was definitely their peak.
This is their best album in 20 years. Honestly the 4th best blink album.
i’d say fifth best, but agree it’s the best since self-titled
agree
y'all are really sleeping on neighborhoods
@@zemiguel8261 hasn't aged well imo. Production wasn't great. Songs aren't that good
@@zemiguel8261 top 3 blink
The new blink album is 10/10 my reason for this is all three have basically fused box car racer,angels and airwaves and blink all together in one great sounding album... Its everything they have learned with each band and all in one. This is blink at its best.
Facts!! and +44 too
You know, I'm glad you could get this much enjoyment from something I wasn't able to
100% agreed!
36:05 i’m sorry i only grew up knowing the melody of the chorus and now listening to the actual track i am ASTOUNDED 💀
The music is good on some songs but my god are those vocals PROCESSED TO DEATH. Christ it sounds like robots on some songs
What's the point of being an adult if you can't act immature at least once in a while.
I personally love this album
Im doing homework as listening, looking down and looking back up to see a different title was so confusing.
it was previously ONE MORE TIME
I keep changing it lol
37:12 The Moment that Brad Will not forget.
That’s why you’re supposed to listen to mixes quietly in the studio because you can hear frequency responses more clearly, as opposed to listening to it loudly where sounds clash with one another preventing the producer from finding middle ground
It definitely didn’t help the hype for this album that they put out the WORST SONG as the first single like why the hell did they think that was a good idea???
Yeah, Edging is terrible lol. I loved the other early releases though (One More Time, More Than You Know, Dance With Me). They definitely should've just stuck with those instead.
because it was the only song they had one year ago?
@@Elekterounlikely af
Sit down. You're embarrassing yourself
can’t lie, amusing to listen to someone with no knowledge of music whatsoever tell everyone what to think and how to make music but hasn’t seemed to write a hit yet 🤷♂️
All the fans just BATTLING Brad in this one
So proud of Brad for healing his legs to avoid drowning in the drums
no cameras!
I remember when "Edging" came out and being strangely disappointed that they were a lot more mature when I was in middle school... 20 years ago. I'm all for having fun, but everything they've done Post-"Neighborhoods" has just not interested me and this new one left me bored. Where's the creativity and sense of rediscovery? Pop-punk in general has had this problem of figuring out how to age gracefully, which makes it a tough genre (that I still look back fondly on) to really appreciate. What's also odd is that I'm indifferent to Paramore and they're one of the few elder statesmen that still have some artistic integrity to respect.
Blink matured a lot up until dogs eating dogs EP after that they basically became a tribute band to themselves
I think the lyrics to Turn This Off aren't intended to be blink saying they're so edgy and/or going to be cancelled. The song is more of a thought that Tom, Mark, and Travis have had in their minds throughout their careers as Suburban Moms had nothing better to do than get riled up at immature 20-somethings talk about dicks and butts. It's normal to interpret the song as blink talking like they're a washed up comedian about to punch down but the writing wasn't written with that in consideration, which leads to the expected misunderstanding. I'd still put it down as a mistake on their part.
This album is great. Glad to have them back
Edit: the grindcore interlude at the end is kind of a banger
I miss Blink-182’s immaturity and funniness presented on Dude Ranch and EOTS. This depressing and mature soap opera breakup scene emo crap doesn’t fit the band at all.
that's,,,,,, not what grindcore is as someone who listens to a decent amount of it lol. it's just traditional hardcore punk, grindcore implies you've moved the vocal delivery towards screaming and the guitar tones to like. death metal levels of heavy (with the pretty ubiquitous usage of the hm-2 pedal) if that makes sense
Actually now that I think about it it’s more of like, Bad Brains/The Offspring/Black Flag type stuff lol
Wasting Time
A new hope
Dammit
Emo
Rock Show
Rollercoaster
are the best blink songs to me
90s Blink with that skate punk to pop punk sound >>> Post 2000s blink tbh. altho untitled album still good tho.
i always told my friends back in 2005:
i like going to pop eyes for the chicken, not burgers. if i wanted burgers i would go to my burger king.
skate punk, pop punk is what made me like Blink best. if i wanted alternative rock i would go to my go-tos like the cure or smashing pumpkings or the strokes.
when your favorite chicken place starts trying to make burgers and it ends up hurting their production of the best chicken it just sucks.
@@streetplaya23 What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul
As a huge fan of Brad, his streams, his channel, and his takes - I have to second the importance of forming your own opinions. This reaction is highly entertaining, but I mostly disagree w/ Brad here. I absolutely love this record as a long-time Blink fan. Is some of the production heavily compressed and super overblown? Yes. But I can look past it because I LOVE THE SONGS. This is, by far, the most excited I've been about Blink since their Untitled/ Self-Titled album in '03 (the cover art of which I have tattooed on my left shoulder - the famous smiley-face logo w/ the turquoise and pink behind it).
I'm 31, so I grew up thinking Dude Ranch, Enema of the State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, and Untitled were some of the best Pop-Punk projects ever made (and for the most part, I still believe this). But yeah, you can enjoy Brad's content and still have your own individual thoughts! I love Pop-Punk, grew up on this stuff, and love that it's making a big comeback.
Yeah, and I'd also argue that this album is bigger than itself in a way too, it's really about what it represents. 10 years and they're finally friends again, making music again, and most notably still alive. Mark had to relearn how to sing after chemotherapy, Tom had to relearn how to turn off his AVA voice and use the blink one again, there's been a lot of stuff going on.
I love Brad's entertaining reactions lol but I've never liked a song on first listen, I think that's my problem with his channel for the most part. You gotta revisit an album one, two, five times before you can make a whole opinion on it haha
@@axoharpoon yeah it's pretty awesome what this all represents, but even on my favorite song on the project, "TERRIFIED," you can tell how aggressive the compression is. Not looking to knock Brad, he has become one of my favorite youtube channels period. I just don't like the group-think sometimes
@@SeanLearyMusic yea, I hated him a while back and would hate watch his videos but his reactions ended up just making me laugh lol so i became a fan. And yeah, the compression and mixing on the album is just too much. It's overproduced, to put it lightly. That's not to say albums like EOTS or Untitled didn't have a whole team mixing and producing behind them, but this is too much. And it's a bummer, because the songs do sound a lot better and the lyrics are more listenable than Nine
i can't believe i got Brad to remove the chat from the screen lmao
The biggest issue is the production. The original producer during Enema of State and thier other 00s albums was the legendary Jerry Finn who passed away in 2008. Since then they have been totally lost without him sound wise
There's a song called "edging?" That is not a mental image I wanted to witness at all.
The hate on terrified was surprising! That song is def one of the better on this album.
I love this album. But I do think Brad would enjoy Untitled by blink-182
If you remove “Fell in Love” and “Edging”, developed that short interlude “Hurt” and had great mixing on this album it would be so much better.
Fell in love is based off a classic Cure song it grew on me edging isn’t good though I agree with that
I agree. Lots of bangers on this album, but I'm surprised that for such a mainstream band with so many ties to sound engineers, it would come out with such an awful production. Travis has a lot to learn with regards to mixing rock music.
Tom's speaking voice is like that "nasal and young", he just naturally sounds like that in general. But he does sound like he tries to be more bratty on some of these songs where appropriate. The whole Angels & Airwaves style singing, softer and more relaxed does work for some blink songs, but a lot of fans and critics alike complained that he was getting too soft in the vocal department. It sounds like on the new album he does a bit of both.
I do agree that More Than You Know is one of the best songs on the album though. As a blink fan I love Turpentine the most. But More Than You Know is a genuinely well-constructed song that I can see a lot of people who aren't even fans enjoying.
To me, pop punk always sounds like it should only be played during a montage of intense shopping at a mall in a rom-com.
Your delivery sounds like Pete Davidson poorly impersonating Seth Rogan
"Normalize audio" does not change the sound at all, it just makes each song either louder or quieter, so all tracks are overall the same perceived volume.
What do you think mixing is?
@@amysel Mixing is a step of audio engineering, where EQ, Compression, Gates (and so on), are applied to each instrument to make all of them sound clear and pleasant when they are summed into a single master track.
@@pauliusmscichauskas558AKA actually doing things to the various sounds and putting them together to make your project.
In other words, all the things normalizing doesn't do. @pauliusmscichauskas558
Listen to When your heart stops beating by +44. It’s blink without Tom’s vocals
god i love twink 182 great stream
twinkin park
Love the vids tho Brad, and I hope you continue to find success.
brad taste in music’s chat try to come up with their own opinions challenge (impossible)
I passed. I like Vessel and Tally Hall's second album. Take that, commenter with a point that is largely agreeable!
I'm completely convinced you listen to podcasts all day and disavow music as a relevant thing in general.
AYY CONGRATS ON THE 3K SUBS, BRAD!!
This sounds like Bowling For Soup but without their self-awareness and self-parody.
whats wrong about being 50 and feeling on 23 ?
“These guys are fifty!”
Great Album, Great Band, but these things are in the eye of the beholder?
Always gotta be a guy like you. Casual Bink fan here and I think this album is great. Like what you like and stop trying to make a career out of what you hate (or think you should hate to get views and AD money).
He’s a music review channel. Videos would be pretty boring if he sucked every artist off huh?
I am not even a Blink fan but I cringe hard at this guys try hard opinions and the people in his comments that basically hate everything. Hipsters are apparently still well and alive.
Casual bink fan is mad guy has different opinion
He is pretyt boring. He is as much a music reiveiwer as his patchy beard is an actual beard@@14TND88
you're a c u n t @@Tavares0709
Such an unfair review of the album. Absolutely horrible.
their dick humor is tongue in cheek, brad. it’s a big reason why a lot of people like me loved them back in the day. it wouldn’t be a blink album without it. it doesn’t have to be that serious
No one has to like it tho?
Also how can people say their dumb humour is important and then also praise untitled???
@@krusher181 no you don’t have to like it, but if your criticism of it is “they’re too old for this” you’re missing the point. and untitled is just one song; not every single song has to be solely dick jokes. it’s still a good song
@@krusher181people can love multiple things about a band lmao
I feel like this dude thinks really highly of himself 😂😂😂
someone has to
meh, you cant disagree or dislike a piece of music without being called cocky or something. we cant like everything and some reviewers dont wanna sugar coat it and wanna be honest about how bad it seems to them.
@streetplaya23 I'd have to disagree. There's having a personal opinion about what your taste in music is, but when your whole shtick is to run the artist down in such an arrogant way, on the internet for everyone to see. You bet there will be people telling you how cock and ignorant you are.
I want to see the Jane Remover album review, hope it gets uploaded since the stream got copyright claimed
I wish I could love something as much as that random guy in chat loves Blink 182.
Listen to Dude Ranch, Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, and Self Titled
8 naked cowboys at Dude Ranch
Take Off Your Pants And Jack It
Brad, you seem a decent and respectable man.
I listen to your opinion for sure
We jumpin out the window with this one
only listen "normalized" when it's a playlist, come onnnn bradddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd we like dynamic range
oh and it didn't make it better lol
Had a blast with this album.
Gotta love all the chatters who agree with Brad cause they can’t come up with opinions on their own 🎉🎉🎉 shout out to yall for not thinking for yourselves. Yall might actually more music if you don’t let someone else dictate your opinion! Food for thought
Free thinking, more like, paid thinking 😈😈
@@leonsalgeuro it happens so much lol it’s unbelievable
So true
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its not just brads channel tbh every music reaction stream is like this i think fantanos chat is even worse for it
This one is for the fans. 💚
you've been listening to music with Loudness EQ on this whole time? yikes bro. RIP dynamics
Hating everything doesnt make you a critic
I went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. It’s still like a C+/B- at best, but it’s the closest they’ve gotten to what I liked about them since their 2000’s output
Dance with me is my favorite song on album
I wonder how far to the side the lead singer's baseball hat was tilted while he was recording these lyrics.
you need to listen to dude ranch. i see a lot of people saying their self-titled album is quintessential, but dude ranch is the goat
I've only heard one album in which BAD production actually made me like the experience more, and that was Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra's "From Out Of Nowhere". Definitely a below average ELO album, but the bad production made the entire thing feel dated in a sort of dreamlike, nostalgic way... which helped.
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A little bit of a newsflash for Travis: if you need to turn off atmos, which is supposed to make audio sound better, your mix is probably bad
no, dolby is the apple music mixing thing and it makes rock sound pretty bad, on phones ut very easy to switch out, by going to control center holding volume button and should be there. his mixing does kinda suck though
Bruh spike stent mixed this lol
The people in the chat had no idea what they were talking about, Atmos isn't on Spotify
Based Taste in Music, doesn't follow user ratings like a man. 😎
This album is nothing but bangers through and through
I need that Jane remover video
Just reacting to the title and first few minutes.
Why is there this idea that the moment you hit 40 or 50 your life stops? You csnt have fun songs? Cant have sex? Cant have deeper songs mixed it, or reminiscing about youth? Like what? Im sure when were 50 we still will like fun, sex, and new found maturity mixed in and most likely recall awesome times in life.
Interesting to hear this point if view, I like all of them.
I didn't like Edging, but the rest of the tracks were pretty good. There were some pretty serious ones in there too. The title track was them reflecting about it shouldn't take one of them nearly dying to rekindle their friendship (more importantly, the fact that it happened to them TWICE), You Don't Know What You've Got was about Mark's cancer, and then there was Terrified, my personal favorite, which was originally supposed to be a Box Car Racer song.
I'm not too happy with the mixing, but apart from Edging, the album is pretty solid. 7/10 easily.
Does this do anything but bash on everything, i skimmed through the channel and its all just, "this is trash" "this is terrible" like honestly broz you do you but dont bash on peoples stuff just cuz it gets you attention
A lot of fair criticisms on the production. Always get disappointed on Anthem 3 getting bogged down by the drum mixing. That aside, I think was a kickass return to form. Watching Brad's stream is entertaining to guess his reactions, but frustrating seeing his viewers bandwagon (can't be helped, ig he attracts like minded ppl, lol).
Anyway, liked the album, and getting a 3 from Brad translates to a seven for me, haha.
Keep doing what you're doing, Brad. And listen to untitled!
Came into this fully expecting to get pissed off by Brads thoughts (blink is my favorite band of all time & I’m 100% in love with the album) and man oh man was I right 😂 like he said, respect everyone’s opinion but I severely disagree with most of what he said
Best Blink songs imo:
-Adam's Song
-Not Now
-Man Overboard
-Dammit
-Shut Up
-Ghost On The Dancefloor
-Miss You
-Anthem Part 3
Aliens Exist is better than all those.
I'm happy to see someone gives not now the credit it deserves.
It isn't as bad as nine or California... But that really doesn't say much. Especially since the drums were defening, the bass is inaudible and Tom literally cannot sing anymore 😅
To me it’s one of their best albums.
the bass is inaudible??? lmaooo bro u are deaf
@@keygasmnot audible in a good way
@@i_fuze_hostages6 listen to Dance With Me. chunky bass tone bro
@@cxrt420It's not their best album, but I definitely still put it above the Skiba ones. NINE is probably their worst album. The Jerry Finn-era ones are untouchable though (Enema, TOYPAJ, and Untitled).
It's only horrible when Enema and Nine are the only album that you listened to.
Enema is their biggest album of all time. Tons of good songs. The vocals weren’t annoying yet… I dunno I’d say they peaked back then. Very obviously too
Drums are very loud and over compressed. Travis (the drummer) mixed the album, so it’s super drum centric lol. That’s why you hire a mix engineer
As someone who loves The Cure I just want to say GGGGRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRGggggHhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHH HOW DO YOU SAY THAT ABOUT MY FAVOURITE BAND 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Just kidding, love you Bradley ❤️ 😜
I think the drums are so prominent because Travis was the producer of thos album. So he's automatically gonna want more drums to show through in the songs
L take on this one Bradley. We've waited 20 bloody years for this one, let us have our time in the sun
Pop punk isn’t for everyone.
I grew up loving enema of the state, had the untitled one… I dunno this band bores me so much now. I get why people like it but I also see why people don’t.
Totally makes sense to me.
if your enjoyment of an album hinges on whether everyone in the world likes it then the issue isn't with the people criticising it
My intellectual and sophisticated comment got deleted literally 1984 reeee
I am so glad you recognized off the bat the same thing I did with the mix. It was disorienting and strange. I thought it was just me as well.
As someone with severe ADHD, it takes a lot to sit through a podcast or video essay. But I can sit through most of Family Man by Black Flag, an instrumental and spoken word album. But when I listened to this new Blink album, I had to leave my computer after 3 songs. Not because I got bored, but because this was so unlistenable.
DRUMS
In fairness, the audio settings thing is more your operating system's fault than the album's fault.
Atmos isn't a spotify feature, not really sure what people in chat were on about
maybe if kendrick lamar featured on this album people would like it better
Terrified is a 10/10, man you're just way too judgemental of everything.