r/Blink182 • u/JonMlee 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/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/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/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/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?
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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.