Angels and Airwaves

Tom DeLonge.

Also his (presumably totally earnest) claims that "We Don't Need to Whisper" is going to be "the greatest music in decades" are really disarming and make me want it to be true even though I know the album is going to be a total disappointment.

I imagine him singing this like All-4-One.

Yeah, there was one from Ireland though

Uuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh

Pity the band that the whole backstory 'concept' seems to be resembling is Marillion.

From the June 15 Rolling Stone "My List":

"I think we're the first band to bring [U2] in as an influence without ripping them off."

They were appalling. I didn't think there was a good reason to not applaud the demise of Blink-182 but I think he's discovered one.

Blinkbloke rambled on between songs about 9/11 and "how people shouldn't die" and "you can do anything you want if you truly believe". Biggest cheer they got was for the comment "this is our last song".

This is beautiful. :-D

His heart is in a very wrong place.

ihttp://www.mssimages.com/uploads/20060803/20060803_100_6278_1154582515-658424843.jpg

(actually jealous of hair like that to be fair)

http://www.mssimages.com/uploads/20060803/20060803_100_6368_1154583008105737428.jpg

I like him a lot better than I like the band, that's for sure.

Brief anecdote: My friend Kassy and I snuck into SDSU to watch Oingo Boingo's last show at the Open Air. There was a balcony from which you could see the stage from basically directly overhead, and required a lot of sneaking around in the shadows. We saw Blink's Tom and Mark try to powerplay their way into the backstage area and get kicked to the curb by the security folks. One of my favorite memories.

Hey, oh, here I am (do this with me),
and here we go, life's waiting to begin (do this with me).
Hey, oh, here I am (do this with me).
And here we go, life's waiting to begin,
life's waiting to begin

So, is "I cannot live, I can't breathe unless you do this with me" how Tom Delonge asks for sex?

'Hey-ho, here I am,
and here we go'

So these feebs have a second album coming out tomorrow.

i wanted them to not suck.

that kind of attitude didn't stop your mom

heyo

she's into emo tho.

Emo's into your mom.

eno* i never told you guys?

"I swear it's going to be something that will compete with the greatest rock records of all time...within two years, we'll be the biggest rock act in the world. There's never been a rock band from America that sounds like us."

RIP

Jesus, dude, just give it up already:

Even as he prepares for blink-182's summer reunion tour, guitarist Tom DeLonge is deeply ensconced in the next project by his other band, Angels & Airwaves -- an album and film project called "Love" that should be out before the end of the year.

DeLonge tells Billboard.com that "Love" -- which will be released for free thanks to corporate underwriting -- is "the biggest release of my life, the pinnacle of my creativity" and likens it to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" in the scope of its ambition. "It's super conceptual and highbrow in many ways, very artistic, very Stanley Kubrick," he says. "But it's not a rock opera. It's a very modern version of what could happen when you blend the film industry and the music industry together in a very, very arty, kind of cool way with professionals involved all along the path."

DeLonge says the "Love" movie -- which began life as a documentary about Angels & Airwaves recording its 2006 debut album, "We Don't Need to Whisper," and expanded from there -- "blurs the line between full-fledged live action and documentary with these epic kind of...meditative sequences where the sound design and the music and the picture all bend together to create a sonic experience as much as a visual one." The script, meanwhile, "tells a story of human life and destiny but at the same time really makes usual moments of life extraordinary. It's a circular narrative in many ways, where it kind of sums up the human race in a time capsule."

The music of "Love," DeLonge says, will have a prog-rock kind of flavor. "It's like blending Radiohead and U2 together with these kind of Pink Floyd movements," he explains. "Things happen unpredictably and take you to these epic soundscapes. It's very much in the spirit of Angels & Airwaves, but it sounds way, way more thought-out and way more ambitious."

dude should stop making music and focus entirely on press releases & interviews from now on

worst music ever made

― chaki (chaki), Monday, May 22, 2006 8:46 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

And people say Kanye is an egomaniac?

Yeah, but tbh, he isn't proclaiming himself to be the greatest songwriter ever or anything. DeLonge is just way overestimating his talents and listeners level of actually caring about this project. Different from Kanye's ego-stroking.

also w/ Kanye his music is good enough that the self-aggrandizement seems ultimately kind of unnecessary. w/ Delonge it's just hilarious.

i would rather kiw delonge than kanye any day though

faint praise

haha yeah i guess

kanye's become pretty unkickitwithable lately

Basically I say, "Tom STFU and work on next blink album kthxbye".

it's crazy this guy is gonna spend the summer singing kaka poo poo i'm 13 and i'm in looooove

not that i don't prefer blink but his return just seems like such a crass interruption of his divine quest

meditative sequences where the sound design and the music and the picture all bend together to create a sonic experience as much as a visual one.

btw anyone seen any of blink's latest performances? never thought i'd miss his whiiiiiny, over-enunciated vocals but his new "serious" voice is some godawful, embarrassing shit.

his return just seems like such a crass interruption of his divine quest

That's what I was wondering when I saw this story -- what's he going to do, go out there and apologize to everyone for each performance for being too much 'of the world'?

Still continuing, I see:

Angels and Airwaves’ Love Part I and II Set to Release as 4-LP Vinyl Set in October from Shop Radio Cast

Angels and Airwaves - Love Part I & II 4XLP O Card

Shop Radio Cast will release Angels and Airwaves’ Love Part I (2010) and Love Part II (2011) as a 4-LP vinyl set. Product is expected to ship around October 25. Both albums are double LP's and come in their own gatefold. Both gatefolds will be housed in a full color 4/4 CMYK O Card.

Vinyl Color:

Love Part I- Transparent Green / Love Part II - Transparent Purple (LTD 500)
Love Part I&II - 180 Gram Black (LTD 500)
Love Part I&II - Clear with white smoke (LTD 1,00) - Hot Topic Exclusive

Track Listing

Et Ducit Mundum Per Luce
The Flight Of Apollo
Young London
Shove
Epic Holiday
Hallucinations
The Moon-Atomic (...Fragments And Fictions)
Clever Love
Soul Survivor (...2012)
Letters To God, Part II
Some Origins Of Fire

Saturday Love
Surrender
Anxiety
My Heroine (It's Not Over)
Moon As My Witness
Dry Your Eyes
The Revelator
One Last Thing
Inertia
Behold A Pale Horse
All That We Are

smells like a concept album! a concept album covered in crap!

When I saw the title "Soul Survivor (...2012)" I thought "Man wonder if that's some bizarre reference to Asia -- thus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTMJamacqA8

And then I read this upthread from da croup a few years back:

They want to be Asia but they don't have the chops

CONSPIRACY.

DELONGE!!! WE KNOW YOU'RE IN HERE. SHOW YOURSELF!!!!

The dad of a friend of mine is supposedly in the movie, I should check with her again about that.

Nah, this material has actually been done for awhile now, its just now getting an LP release. And, yes, it is a terrifyingly awful concept album, for which Delonge claims to be making a movie. As a sometimes Blink defender, I can say there are a handful of songs from the A&A debut that are okayish, but everything since has been unmitigated crap.

Never change you insane idiot

http://www.rocksound.tv/features/read/tom-delonge-this-has-never-been-done-in-the-history-of-rock-n-roll

the new album actually seems like it's going to be great, i've loved all the new songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLgE6xNkTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkI6ySenf08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV-JS5AxSwc

i say this while not really liking their first two records at all, a few songs aside. never listened to the love double album behemoth but i'm diving in now

These are fantastic.

yeah! incidentally i got about five songs into love before becoming totally exhausted

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/angels-and-airwaves-dream-walker-stream-20141208

"mercenaries"!

Still listening - I think at least twice so far I've thought that the musicality of this stuff reminds me of Lansing-Dreiden.

holy shit this record rules

i don't believe you

lol

Do you believe me?

no, because I listened to one of these songs (Tunnel) and eh, it just sounded really generic.

the "dream of it" backing vocals i think really elevate "tunnels."

incidentally hearing that song made me want to check out the record

Wrote on "Tunnels," which is my favorite song of the year.

http://thisiheard.blogspot.com/2014/12/angels-and-airwaves-tunnels-2014.html

I can think of two songs called "Tunnels" I like better than this.

New EP!

http://tothestars.media/blogs/news/147394247-listen-to-angels-airwaves-new-chasing-shadows-ep-now

"Voyager" my favorite on first listen.

"Voyager!"

Continuing to remind me of Lansing-Dreiden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjh5XZsMb18

really like this song, great ilan rubin drumming throughout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H13WPJFmY1o

hell yes

prob the best their whole "synths + pop-punk + healthy appreciation for the cure and u2" formula has ever sounded

"Chasing Shadows" is a great one as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUxCynz-1vk

periodically updating this thread to be like "hey the new angels and airwaves song is good"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJRrlE5bky4

hyped for the album, out sept 24

where are my ava heads at

liking new tom delonge songs this much at this point in my life makes me feel cursed

Holy shit I just heard "The Adventure" (?) on the radio and fuck yes. The marriage of the emo and Chameleons/KoD/Comsat Angels-esque too-many-effects-pedals-is-not-enough dream pop is an idea whose time has surely come. I always hated Blink-182 but I find myself unable to contain my enthusiasm about this song--even his voice is less embarassing in the context of all those guitars. Also I like the clanky, barely audible beat backing up the drums throughout the song. It reminds me of "1979".

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Saturday, May 20, 2006 8:04 AM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

was reading old posts in this thread and came across this totally otm description of "the adventure," wow

i'd say i'm a pretty big AvA fan. finally saw them live in late 2019.

i do hope that if tom ever returns to blink 182 again, he drops the "AvA" voice though.

i think he just sings like this now, by which i mean his voice has deteriorated a lot. kinda prefer his voice now for the most part but "restless souls" def has a weird strangled quality in the verses

was just listening to we don't need to whisper and god "the war" is an incredible song

we don't need to whisper earns its monotonous reputation tbh, but i-empire is a great little album. underrated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnQITWLLrHI

^^^ i'm just as surprised as anyone that the opening of this song is a dead ringer for underworld's "juanita"

the album is completely awesome btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ws-NjI2X6M

best ava song ever maybe

anyone else love this stupid album

lol missed that it even came out, gonna check it out!

i have to accept that i love this stupid horrible band. been running backwards through the blink universe and every ava album has been a pleasure :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVJssSV9LF8

this song ("the war") is so cool

was just listening to we don't need to whisper and god "the war" is an incredible song

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, June 17, 2021 7:15 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is who i've always been