Blink 182 - "Feeling This"

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completely bizarre (for them at least) and more than a little awkward, but it's really growing on me.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 22 November 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't care for it.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It's alright but they totally don't do the overdub punk-pop thang as well as the All-American Rejects.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 22 November 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's on the radio now.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 22 November 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's their 'let's get it on' emo song. It's only good as kitsch and the eye candy on the video.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 23 November 2003 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Aye ain't phel-in' et.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 23 November 2003 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The entire new record is disappointing me so far. I hope that changes.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Sunday, 23 November 2003 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i like how they say "oh the new one is really drum and bass influenced" and then the intro to this song is like travis playing the amen beat for two measures then it goes right back to the sucky ass vocal melodies and poor ass riffs they've always done. fuck these guys.

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 23 November 2003 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew these guys wouldn't age gracefully. Calling in Robert Smith to help is a sign that they know their betters, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 November 2003 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in a diner in Manhattan last night where the asshat waitstaff played this album 3 times in a row. How can anybody like this crap?

― hstencil, Sunday, 23 November 2003 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

They should have brought these guys in as song doctors:
http://www.ryanbuck.com/bigdick/

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Sunday, 23 November 2003 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm totally fine with these guys no longer pretending they're 13. Especially cuz they never sounded like any thirteen year olds I've ever known.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 23 November 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

They could also throw Mark Hoppus off the back of a truck and I really wouldn't mind. Especially cuz he'd probably make a really funny face right before he hits the pavement. I don't think I'll ever forgive him for "What's My Age Again?" (though I dug "Dammit" and most of the Tom DeLonge songs).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 23 November 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

anthony, the lyrics are still as if they're pretending they are 13. i mean... "IM FEELIN THIS!" ?!?1

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 23 November 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, Chaki, I could name tons of aging OC jocks that would be saying things like that right now as their will starts to sap.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 November 2003 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

This is really really funny.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 23 November 2003 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

What on earth to you waste your expectations of these twats for?

― FobbaBecklor, Sunday, 23 November 2003 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

you talkin to me?

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 23 November 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

U all suck Blink rok so fk yous all

― , Friday, 27 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

No, actually, they suck....thus summarily, you suck for liking them.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Blink 182 don't irritate me the way Good Charlotte and Simple Plan do, and speaking as someone who loved The Icicle Works' "Whisper To A Scream" back in grade school, "I Miss You" is a damn fine attempt at a reinvention.

Now if they could just remember to tune up when they play live...

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I Miss You is a great video

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

who loved The Icicle Works' "Whisper To A Scream" back in grade school, "I Miss You" is a damn fine attempt at a reinvention.

You should be whipped with the corpse of a dead weasel for comparing the singular majesty of "Whisper to a Scream" to the cloying "I Miss You." And whipped hard.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

You should be whipped with the corpse of a dead weasel for comparing the singular majesty of "Whisper to a Scream" to the cloying "I Miss You." And whipped hard.

Oh, please. Play them back to back. Blink obviously had "Whisper To A Scream" on heavy rotation when they were writing "I Miss You".

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

That doesn't mean they succeeded in replicating any of its greatness.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

That doesn't mean they succeeded in replicating any of its greatness.

Nowhere am I suggesting this.

I liked "I Miss You". I felt it had just enough of The Icicle Works threaded through it (especially when I saw the video, which is an obvious nod to New Romantic and New Wave imagery) for me to want to hunt down a copy of "Whisper To A Scream", a song I had not heard in a good two decades. My fortysomething business partner, who spent a good chunk of the 80s in cover bands, also found the similarities to be more than coincidental.

Sometimes I like songs simply because they evoke other songs that I like even more, and thus make me more appreciative of the source material (so to speak).

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Miss You" has NONE of the energy and passion of "Whisper to a Scream"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Miss You" has NONE of the energy and passion of "Whisper to a Scream"

Nowhere did I suggest that, either. Methinks you're taking this all a bit hard...

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Miss You" is a damn fine attempt at a reinvention.

Your own words.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

That's "a damn fine attempt at a reinvention" as in "Blink 182, a band I am neither despise nor adore, have cottoned on to the fact that they could be drawing on influences other than their usual punk rock idols". This could be interpreted as "artistic growth" or simply as "Oh, they've found another era of popular music to crib from" - I just appreciated the fact that they weren't releasing yet another pop-punk-by-numbers anthem.

Are the Icicle Works a favorite of yours? Because I feel as though I'm blowing my nose on the sacred parchment here. I just like the two songs, and see no contradiction or heresy in doing so.

Anyway, Alex, I think this debate has exhausted itself.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 28 August 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not a huge Icicle Works fan, but a great song is a great song ("Understanding Jane" was mighty fine as well). That said, I think "Whisper to a Scream" is a crystaline slice of perfect pop. I don't hear the similarities between said track and "I Miss You" in the slightest. Moreover, I LOATHE Blink 182, and that track especially (regardless of Robert Smith's input)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"dammit" is a great song

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 28 August 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

So this is basically the most important song of the decade, right? Where Ver Kids give up on stadium punk and discover this thing called emo, via the medium of XTC.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

i can't think of anything more important than the first stadium emo song, no

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

oh look my latest very important issue of AP has just arrived

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

the irony of my '03 comments about Hoppus is that +44 is definitely more sufferable than Angels & Airwaves

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

I still kind of like this song but it turned out to be the 4th best single off of its album.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

SHOW ME THE BAFRUM FLOOR
SHOW ME THE BEDRUM MEEEEERRRRRR

― Blap for Lashes (The stickman from the hilarious xkcd comics), Sunday, 1 March 2009 23:08 (sixteen years ago)

I really like this song.

― Marty Innerlogic, Monday, 2 March 2009 13:25 (sixteen years ago)

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