that’s the only reason i didn’t vote for Carousel
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oh wait i voted for Strings and that’s on Cheshie too 
dipshit, fucked the thread at the first vote
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In the context of the album I love how Sometimes sounds on Buddha, it’s the only one that might sound better than on Cheshire Cat for me.
IT’S CHESHIRE CAT DAY 
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ok baby let’s go x
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the year is 1995, the albums we’re listening to are:
Cheshire Cat by Blink 182
The Bends by Radiohead
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I wish Radiohead did more space rock stuff like Planet Telex. What a banger.
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Cheshire Cat is Blink 182’s magnum opus. (With the caveat I’ve not listened to their post hiatus stuff.)
Enema and Take Off Your Pants are hugely overproduced and do a disservice to some brilliantly written songs. Self titled suits the glossy production more but it doesn’t really feel like a Blink album. Buddha is underproduced, lots of germs of great songwriting but not nurtured to perfection. Dude Ranch and Cheshire Cat have the exact right level of production to let those songs shine.
Dude Ranch is Very Good but honestly? The songs on Cheshire Cat are better for me personally; they are so consistently good, the energy is high, some of the love songs are beautiful (Strings is really lovely). It’s genuinely a top 20 album for me - years of listening to and enjoying the music of Blink 182 have softened my ears to the variable quality of singing and it all goes down like a nice hot chocolate.
Almost all the re-records from Buddha are better, and the one I prefer on Buddha is marginal. M&Ms is lovely. Wasting Time is fucking brilliant and one of my top 3 Blink songs - just an absolute delight.
And then there’s the holy trinity.
Ben Wah Balls: a stunning saga of a lovestruck couple WHERE THE MAN TURNS OUT TO BE HER FATHER(!!!) 
The tone shift is handled masterfully.
Just About Done: sparse yet effective and atmospheric, really captures the primal thrill of group anal play. very much the Sexual Healing of the 90s.
Depends: a harrowing but catchy tale of the trials and tribulations faced by those with incontinence issues. One of my true pleasures in life is tunelessly singing along to this while I’m working from home.
I like The Bends (“that album is entry level”) but I simply don’t think Radiohead offer the emotional range or peerless storytelling ability that Blink 182 offer in this expansive masterpiece.
Cheshire Cat supremacy for life. 10/10
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i love you
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going to listen to Cheshire Cat on the format that God intended it to be heard on. love to hear the warmth, cracks and pops of Ben Wah Balls
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fond memories of being 11-15 and doing nothing with my life apart from going to school and hanging out in my best friend’s basement playing Rollercoaster Tycoon and listening to this album.
I still do it now 
Ill be voting for Strings but that run of Carousel - Peggy Sue is really strong
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I can’t quite put why into words but the fact that in Depends, out of everything that he could have possibly chosen to sing, Mark went with “I’m sick of offending everyone I meet” while Tom yells “GO GO GO GO” (and eventually that singular “GO” after the next line) gets me every time.
Nailing every subtlety on a song about pissing and shitting yourself in a diaper.
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Cheshire Cat is a great time. Even early on they had such a sense of song construction and pacing - there’s no aimless drifting, it’s all hooks and setting up the hooks. Love how Scott’s drumming basically gets them off to the races at all times.
No idea what the best song is. Back in the day I would have said Wasting Time or Touchdown Boy but Carousel and M&M’s are hard to ignore. It feels like Peggy Sue is very under-appreciated, that one in particular feels like it could have been on a skate / snowboard compilation.
Don’t think there’s a real dud on it - Cacophony feels a bit “it’s time for the introspective ballad” but it works. The beginning of Does My Breath Smell? is excruciating though, not one to listen to with anyone else in the room who isn’t fully on board.
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yes! Does my Breath Smell becomes fun but starts so, so stupidly
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I had heard “Depends” before seeing “Airplane (1980)” so I had no idea what the impression was from until I’d seen it
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that was more interesting in my head so here’s a poll instead
I heard/seen first
- Airplane (1980)
- Depends (1995)
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it’s kind of interesting that the guitar solo in Fentoozler sounds less like the Dammit riff on this version eh
i’d forgotten how stupid Touchdown Boy is, that fucking skit in the middle
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STRIIIIIIIINGS STRINGS
man Peggy Sue kicks arse eh. listen, i don’t want to talk ill of the Holy Trinity ©️ @TheBarbieMovie2023 but like, 13 tracks and half an hour is a great length for an album