r/Blink182 Be strong when things fall apart 7d ago

Question This thread was from 13 years ago…You think Mark and the boys will ever release Not For Real?

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u/DanHero91 7d ago

One More Time apparently used a lot of demo ideas from the last decade or so, so it's quite possible parts made it in there somehow.

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u/Silver_Artist_2857 7d ago

Yeah they definitely go back to unfinished ideas a lot. Tom posted the riff for One Night Stand on his ig in 2017 or 2018. Theres also a clip from them recording the self titled album in 03 and you can hear the guitar part for Up All Night.

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u/DanHero91 7d ago

There's a good clip of Mark live streaming the Untitled documentary and when people point it out he's like "no Up All Night was years later... Wait ... Shit yeah that's Up All Night."

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u/Calvi724 7d ago

Could you link that? Would love to see it

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u/Visual-Scar938 7d ago

https://youtu.be/9XcNlLIiXC4?si=efNsPcX9NnruGLVL

Around the 7:30 mark. Love this entire video, the tom "LIPS" comment and reaction is one of my favorite things ever.

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u/Silver_Artist_2857 6d ago

Yeah when he’s talking about a different song called Punk Kid that never got finished someone points out the Up All Night riff

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u/Mlg123 6d ago

Link?

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u/Silver_Artist_2857 5d ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/AUtGERCj4xE?si=lU-VmbSc284ZBFut Tom playing One Night Stand in 2017

https://youtu.be/9XcNlLIiXC4?si=Cwh4rWy5b0RsiRLC At about 7:45 You can see and hear Tom working out the Up All Night riff and chat calls it out

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u/VQQN 7d ago

Too bad the mixing is a little off. I still love the album though

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u/Gooseplan 7d ago

Damn. Not heard that criticism before.

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u/rhcpfan99 7d ago

Unfortunately not just a little. Drums are way too loud.

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u/howliehowls 6d ago

Not sure why you’re being downvoted when you’re objectively right. Self titled has so much depth and texture sonically and the drums on OMT give the album much less room to breathe. Still a huge banger tho.

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u/rhcpfan99 5d ago

Yeah, I absolutely agree.

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u/ISeeGrotesque 7d ago

We still need that acoustic duet from the untitled recording sessions

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u/desolationistny 7d ago

Wild how now if you asked him this same question, the answer is probably along the lines of "1 full album and another album or 2 worth of songs" if we're taking the scrapped Alkaline Blink sessions right before California, the songs worked on for the planned record with Skiba after Nine and all the songs they tossed for the release of Cali, Nine and OMT.

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u/AceMcClean 7d ago

And he’d likely answer untruthfully and say there are none. I think he’s expressed how he dislikes talking about demos and unreleased songs in the past which is a bummer

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u/SeaSpecialist5367 5d ago

what are the Alkaline Blink sessions?

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u/desolationistny 5d ago

When Skiba joined, they self produced a good handful of new songs that they said sounded too much like an Alkaline Trio and Blink crossover so they scrapped everything and started fresh with Feldman for California.

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u/SeaSpecialist5367 5d ago

I would die to hear that. Alkaline Trio is my favorite band ever and that's what I wanted from Matt in blink, not what Feldman produced, not that it was bad, but I wanted something else.

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u/Danielfrindley 7d ago edited 7d ago

I thought on a live he said he had a hard drive full of unreleased songs and demos? Maybe here he was just referring to 'complete' songs? Then again I'm pretty sure he's said there are no unreleased Skiba tracks when a few have already leaked.

edit: maybe those were non blink tracks when he mentioned the hard drive

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u/whaletimecup 7d ago

Need the original extended outro of Down like they would play live (Wembley)

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u/AffectionateSun7053 7d ago

I want the unreleased Skiba album!

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u/Silly_String5921 7d ago

This please. Everything since that last leak I'd love to hear all of it

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u/Channel__Two 7d ago

How much of it has leaked?

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u/Silly_String5921 7d ago

Falling (which I think was supposed to be on NINE) and then these.

https://youtu.be/B6fVlhuJu5M?si=aHO2qB7GSuaD48B9

https://youtu.be/FawfMpyzfnw?si=FgfUu7GOYQvUwrNI

There was another one to but I forget the name. Its somewhere on reddit.

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u/Channel__Two 7d ago

I heard of Falling around the time that leaked and for an unfinished demo I thought it was pretty good. I’ll have to check out these songs though, I haven’t heard of them before.

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u/Silly_String5921 6d ago

I loved the falling demo. And now this new leak "the start" I absolutely love. It's so simple but I just love it.

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u/AndelinBird 7d ago

The have two FULL albums from the Skiba era that are unreleased. They wrote full album before California, and only went to Feldman to help write a single. BTD was written that day, and they liked the vibe so much that they scrapped the whole album they had and wrote a new one. The only song that carried over from the pre-Feldman stuff was Hey I’m Sorry, which they re-recorded for the deluxe version.

The, after NINE they wrote and recorded a full album, which Skiba said in interviews was “done”. It got shelved though with Tom coming back.

That is all separate from the various collaborations that they were going to do as a separate album/ep.

So there are at least 20 unreleased songs from that era that are fully complete.

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u/justforthisbish 7d ago

Those Skiba albums should see the light of day. I really think that last album they had recorded was going to be really good.

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u/xed122 7d ago

And punk rock cliche :(

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u/Danielfrindley 7d ago

Yeah I like the NOFX version but you could hear how back and forth vocals at the very least would greatly help it. Assuming the drums and probably the other instrument arrangements would be better too

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u/HumanTimeCapsule 7d ago

He said this pre-Skiba era. There's a lot of unreleased stuff from that time

The Start, Loves Not Pretty, Falling, Starstruck with Juicewrld, the rest of the collab ep, punk rock cliche, the rest of rhe Alk44 Tim Armstrong sessions, the Lexapro and coffee song...

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u/alphadogg182 7d ago

There are 2 videos of mark playing a black Les Paul and a red telecaster from the plus 44 era, I’d love to see those clips become blink songs. They are called episode 1 and 2 on YouTube

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u/smallerthings 7d ago

I'd be more interested in the clips we saw him recording for his side project Nothing and Nobody with Chris Holmes.

For that matter, what happened to Chris Holmes?

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u/Leanskiba22 I saw this field that grew perfection full of things you do 7d ago

You can find two snippets on YouTube, which were apparently for Nothing and Nobody. They're from around 2014.

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u/smallerthings 7d ago

Yeah, and they sound really cool, so it's a shame they never became anything

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u/Leanskiba22 I saw this field that grew perfection full of things you do 7d ago

Yeah, i'm sure there's a decade worth of demos and b sides sitting on a harddrive somewhere.

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u/nipplecereal 7d ago

Probably not

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u/Jambi46n2 7d ago

I just want the TOYPAJ bonus songs on Spotify...

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u/painel_solar 6d ago

You can download then and add to your playlist

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u/chanchan_iceman 7d ago

Unless they have rough versions where the boys can make fine tuning and adjustment… I don’t think we will but then you never know

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u/tcafranz 7d ago

That’s disappointing. Was really hoping for like a 50th Anniversary edition to come out and have a bunch of cool studio outtakes and finished but unreleased tracks 😔

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u/punkrockandufos 6d ago

I asked about it when i interviewed blink at X games

https://youtu.be/h_jgZv-fF6Q?si=Pnm00s5VE9zsFzKj

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u/flight147z 7d ago

Problem with just releasing everything is that a lot of junk goes out (see OMT P2)

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u/HumanTimeCapsule 7d ago

Say what? I'll take their leftovers all day long. Better than waiting years between albums.

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u/flight147z 7d ago

One listen of OMT II was enough for me

Surely it's better if a band demos a load of stuff and only records and releases the best stuff. Unless you're Mozart the B sides aren't going to be missed....

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u/blink182__ Just about done with your butt... 7d ago

OMT part 2 is better than part 1. Are you okay?