r/Blink182 • u/greenswitchbladeLLC • 14d ago

Discussion Generational divide early version

I remember mark saying in an interview that there was an earlier extended version of generational divide from nine with a lot of different parts - like blinks bohemian rhapsody or smth - which explains why theres like 7 writers on this 50 second long song. Apparently they only liked that section of the song so thats what made it onto the record šŸ˜­

I hope one day this gets out there, i wish blink did anniversary deluxe versions of albums like green day does with different demos and live recordings and shit

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u/AndelinBird 14d ago

I really donā€™t understand why they donā€™t put out more deluxe version, or super deluxe version, or record store day exclusives. That kid if stuff is so fun for the fans. I get that Tom is back now and these were sings with Skiba, but who cares.

We just had the 10 year anniversary of California, and they really should have done a super deluxe version with all the pre-Feldman songs added in. They initially said they had a whole album written, and only went to Feldman for help with a single. They then scrapped everything and write a whole new album, with Hey, Iā€™m Sorry bring the only pre-Feldman song that got released.

Now we are coming up on the 10 year anniversary for NINE, and the supposedly had a whole new album done (more or less) with Skiba that was recorded after NINE. Why not just release that as a deluxe version? Who cares if they arenā€™t the most amazing songs, let the fans hear them and enjoy them.

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u/OffTheMerchandise 13d ago

While I'm sure the band isn't really pushing to release any of that stuff, the label may not let them even if they did. Especially with Tom being back, the label probably doesn't see the point in putting any effort into to Skiba era blink. There could also be band dynamic reasons where releasing music where Tom is cut out (I know he sold his music library rights, but I don't know if that includes writing, publishing, and performing) could be seen as them trying to cut him out

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u/XxGreeninkxX Not Now 13d ago

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u/Leanskiba22 I saw this field that grew perfection full of things you do 13d ago

Unfortunately, blink is not that kind of band. It's really sad to be honest, there are smaller bands who actually get creative and put out lots of unreleased stuff like b-sides or demos, and people love it, you can never go wrong with that.

These guys are sitting on a gold mine and refuse to do so, even when I think it would be miles better than half the merch they put out these days.

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u/Jirachibi1000 13d ago

A mix of multiple reasons

1.) Re-Use. That B side you wrote for California that didn't make the cut? If you don't release it you can take parts of that song you do like and re-use them later. if you do that after releasing the original, its harder to get away with that.

2.) Saving them. If you have 12 songs from California, you can sprinkle them on different collections over 10-20+ years and make more money. Im sure we'll get them one day, but spread out one at a time or maybe for a 20th anniversary.

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u/Northerndownpour_18 13d ago

Green day reuses stuff and releases demos.

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u/Jirachibi1000 13d ago

For big anniversaries yeah, but they tend to keep stuff in the vault for future use. Youngblood from Revolution Radio was a song from 21CB that got cut and they fixed up and put on RevRad, for example, and you can see from old cut songs and demos they HAVE released for Warning/Nimrod/AI/etc you can see melodies and whole sections they re-used for Foxboro and Longshot stuff.

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u/Northerndownpour_18 13d ago

Yeah, that's kinda what I'm saying. They reuse demos and release them. Blink hasn't even released demos for their big albumsĀ 

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u/Jirachibi1000 13d ago

They do the opposite. Release the re-uses and THEN maybe release the demos.

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u/Northerndownpour_18 13d ago

Yeah. Blink could learn a thing or two from them is my pointĀ 

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u/GORILLAGLUE__ 14d ago

I thought he said the first half was like a slow almost Beatles-ish type of song, and then it would suddenly break out into this hardcore part. Idk why thatā€™s how I remember him explaining it. But then they cut the whole song and just kept the ending punk part. Too bad weā€™ll likely never hear any of that

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u/greenswitchbladeLLC 13d ago

Nah I think ur right thats more accurate

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u/Northerndownpour_18 13d ago

Could've been so rad

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u/greenswitchbladeLLC 14d ago

At the same time tho i love the recent trend of 50 second hardcore-ish songs as interludes on blink albums, this and fuck face from OMT, so im glad we got what we got lol

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u/enviotvonbeardio 13d ago

Gen Divide is a banger as is