Awesome New Blink...Ya You Heard Me!!!

Why does everyone talk crap about this album??? If it sucks so much why is it a best-seller??? Sorry Take Off Your Pants And Jacket but this has you clearly beaten. The Blink we heard in all the previous CDs is almost...you know..."childish" punk. This the mature punk. The REAL punk. This is the grown-up Blink-182. This is an album that you can listen to from beginning to end. This album dominates the radio and Much Music and MTV these days and it should dominate your CD player. This is actually more punk-rock than the previous Blink. If you like "All Killer No Filler" by Sum 41, then you will love this. If you like Feeling This, and especially Down, you will not be upset about your decision to buy this great CD. It has some dark songs, some softer songs. Here's my song rating:

1) Feeling This - 10/10

2) Obvious - 9/10

3) I Miss You - 10/10

4) Violence - 9/10

5) Stockholm Sindrome - 10/10

6) Down - 10/10

7) The Fallen interlude - 7/10

8) Go - 10/10

9) Asthenia - 10/10

10) Always - 10/10

11) Easy Target - 10/10

12) All Of This - 7/10

13) Here's Your Letter - 10/10

14) I'm Lost Without You - 7/10



In Total: 129/140=91% - This is really worth the money, it may not look like a 5 star CD, but you definitely will not get tired of listening to this. Go out and get it!!! $14.99

BLINK 182 ROCKS!

Whatever you hear about this album being rubbish is completly wrong. This album is one of the best. It sparked off my love of Blink 182. I picked my top 5 albums of the year that i hadnt got and asked for them for xmas. Guess what? This one was at the top. Its brilliant!

Yeah sure, Toms singing is a little bit wierd but it sounds great. So what if he says y'ead? hes american so i guess its usual. But Mark. oooo i love him. And Travis is great. I have to say that this is one of the best albums iv heard all year along with green day american idiot. I love these albums. I bet you will do too.

Blink-182-A tough review

Songs

1. Feeling This

2. Obvious

3. I Miss You

4. Violence

5. Stockholm Syndrome

6. Down

7. The Fallen Interlude

8. Go

9. Asthenia

10. Always

11. Easy Target

12. All of This

13. Here's Your Letter

14. I'm Lost Without You

















Album Review

There comes a time in every punk's life where he or she has to grow up, or at least acknowledge that maturity is just around the corner. blink-182 put it off for as long as they could, but ten years into their career and two albums after their big breakthrough, 1999's Enema of the State, they decided to make a stab at being grown-ups for their eponymous sixth studio album. As with many self-titled albums, the trio uses this as an attempt to redefine itself, and they have considerably expanded both their sonic template and lyrical outlook on blink-182. They're still rooted in punk-pop, but even songs that stretch no further than that sound are a little darker, a little restless, reflecting the overall mood of the record. In shorthand, this is the record where blink-182 delve into post-punk, opting for some appealingly sullen moodiness, off-kilter hooks, lots of sonic textures, and even a duet with the Cure's Robert Smith. Since the trio is an inherently catchy group, this is a far cry from neo-post-punk groups like Interpol or even the dynamically hooky Hot Hot Heat, but there is a greater variety of sounds on blink-182 than on any of the trio's other albums, and the songwriting is similarly adventurous, alternating punchy, impassioned punk-pop with weirder, atmospheric pieces like "Down" and "I'm Lost Without You." If nothing on the album has the immediate impact of "All the Small Things" -- though the opener, "Feeling This," comes close -- and if, on the whole, blink-182 isn't as bracing or visceral as Dude Ranch or Enema, so be it: there's more to explore on this album than any of their other records. It's an unexpected and welcome maturation from a band that just an album ago seemed permanently stuck in juvenalia.

I bought it because I heard it was good...

...but it turns out I listened through it 2 times before I stopped listening to this CD forever. I'm not really into Blink 182 although I liked some of their older songs. And the band broke up anyway.

Very Good Blink CD, but not their best.

I own this CD and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. I'd have to say that they both tie for my favorite Blink CD. I really recommend this CD to all Blink 182 fans. Here's my review for the songs.



1. Feeling This 5/5: A cool and fast song. Great song to start the album. However the lyrics have adult themes, but leave nothing to the imagination. Has a very cool chorus and an awsome outro. First single on the album.

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2. Obvious 4/5: A dark song about being cheated on (at least I think so) The beginning starts off kinda slow, but the outro is just as climatic as Feeling This.



3. I Miss You 5/5: A nice cool song about losing someone dear. The lyrics are great and so is the melody. Another single from the album.



4. Violence 3/5: A very strange song. The verses are strange but interesting (they're spoken, not sung). However, the choruses are short and unoriginal.



5. Stockholm Syndrome 5/5: An awsome, hard, and fast song about paranoia. The beginning has Mark's grandmother reading a letter from his grandfather who was in WWII. The piano riff in the backround keeps the mood sad. I like how, in the song, the guitars stop, the piano comes in again, then the guitars come in again. Mark really lets his lungs out in this song. I wish this could have been a single. But it's kinda short so maybe not.



6. Down 4/5: At first I detested this song. But after listining to it for awhile, it grew on me. But I still think that it did not deserve to be made a single.



7. The Fallen Interlude 0/5: WHAT IS THIS!? A song that's pure instrumental (except for the end)? If they had wanted to do that then at least make it with solos and cool riffs. No with some wierd beat in the backround and what appears to be a harp! And what's with those guys with wierd voices who sing "Down down down down, pick me up I'm falling"? Please save yourself the pain and boredom of listining to this track and skip it.



8. Go 5/5: A cool, fast, punk song about Mark being abused at home (nothing graphic just explains how he wants his mom to leave his abusive father). The lyrics are nice and meaningful. Pitty it's short.



9. Asthenia 4/5: A cool original song about an astronaut who doesn't want to return to Earth. The guitars are really cool and use a strange effect. However, the long, boring NASA transmission at the beginning and Tom's slightly above-average singing takes off a point.



10. Always 2/5: Yuck, really mushy song, especially the chorus. The only thing I like about this song is Travis' cool stick rhythm at the beginning. But this should NOT have been made a single.



11. Easy Target 5/5: Awsome and dark song. This should have been made a single instead of Always. The choruses are cool and so is the riff at the ending. This song is about one of Tom's friends who was humiliated by a pretty girl called Holly whom, he thought, liked him.



12. All of This 1/5: Man, Robert Smith totally ruined this song. This song would have been a 3/5 if he hadn't sung. His wierd voice in the verses and Tom singing a wierd and dumb chorus do not mix well. I think this song could be called Easy Target Part 2 because it takes the same riff at the end and translates it to an acoustic. Also, it describes the boys inner feelings about Holly.



13. Here's Your Letter 3/5: The verses are cool, but the chorus is short and unoriginal. It seemed as if they added the chorus as an after-thought.



14. I'm Lost Without You 1/5: Awww, Blink has gone soft. So are we supposed to rejoice? The verses are slow and mushy. The chorus sounds like something from the Backstreet Boys. The only interesting thing about this song is Travis' long drum solo at the end. Blink has never been very good at ending albums (Well at least with this one and Take Off, I'm not sure about the others).



The CD also contains some videos that play along with select song from the album if you put it in a combatible computer.



1. Feeling This 4/5: Shows Blink at an American Army camp in the desert. It shows them flying inside a helicopter and touring a submarine. At the end they begin playing for the soldiers.



2. Obvious 5/5: Shows clips of Blink in concerts and of them in airplanes and limos.



3. Violence 2/5: Basiclly a home-made video of the song. Shows them playing in pitch black room with a flashlight attachted to the camera for an eerie effect.



4. Down/The Fallen Interlude: 5/5 (Down) 1/5 (Fallen Interlude) The Down part is very cool. Shows them recording some of their songs in a house that they rented. Also shows them playing tennis and inventing songs. Probably the most interesting clip on the CD. However, Fallen Interlude clip was just as weird as the song. It shows Travis getting another tatoo (like he needs more) and then shows a girl being filmed on the beach in wierd colors.



5. Stockholm Syndrome 3/5: Another homemade video of Blink playing. However, the beginning of this song (with Mark's grandmother)is very cool. It looks like an old movie and suits the theme the song creates.



I can't remember if there's another but I've got to go so I'll finish.



In the end, this CD has it's triumphs and it's losses. But there is enough cool stuff to keep you busy. The booklet is very cool and has info about each song from Mark, Tom, and Travis and some of the clips deserve to be watched several times. The good songs are catch and interesting. I await Blink's next CD with great anticipation.

Wow

Totally not what you'd expect. ITs so different from any of ther other cd's. Some good songs, Stokholm Syndrome, All of This, Lost With out you, Down