gotta say box car racer is absolutely successful as a side project, it contains every element that a blink fan could expect but with more depth and darkness. Personally, I feel bcr very different from the later ava.
For me its like, as long its tom who is writing the music and singing I will like it. I don't know why but like everything is so fucking good. I think EVERY single blink 182 song 1999+ is awesome. I feel the same about bcr.
I started to read this before opening the comments so I could only see a portion & I was like EXCUSE ME??? 😆 But this is so true I've never seen anyone say they don't like BCR. I swear its Tom at his best. It's really special. If I remember correctly even Travis & Tom said it's their favorite projects they've been apart of.
This album came out one month after my mom pass away in a really bad car accident 😢 and the sound of this album match with the feeling i had at this time to go trough my pain thanks thomas and anybody who make this album possible.
Notice how his album with Travis was all red and it had him using angry aggressive vocals and Marks album with Travis was all blue he was using light vocals.
As a true Blink182 root fan, I think Box Car Racer is the closest to sounding like Blink 182 than any other band co founded by the members of Blink 182. Which is great ! It's even better than what Blink 182 sounds like today. Too bad it didn't last long.
I can't imagine Tom writing music this good now he just couldn't do it. Every one has a golden age of song writing and this was during the height of his. This spawned Blink's self-titled which is their best in my opinion.
SDADSDSFDSGDA I think he’s just changed his style sooo much. Started off skate punk which was very weird and unique to a more pop punk and then to boxcar and then To pre Ava then to AVA which changed so much and now he’s done a lot ya probably hard to make new material. Making music is like growth spurts. You get a lot as it goes on then after a while you stop growing. But also toms made some cool AVA songs. But his early stuff is brilliant especially boxcar racer. I love it
You must be too young to have experienced enema of the state and take of your pants and jacket because the self titled album as a whole was garbage compared to their 90s albums. Two or three songs were good. The rest was just meh.
@@denisuntoro Yea i looked at the time these comments were laid down and thought ah shit all these guys must be a whole step further than me now already...and cried internally. You know my fresh brand new comment will undergo the same route, in a few years it will sting different even if it just sucks right now. Well done with the depressing bit i took, guess i just need to move on
Mark didn’t believe the music Tom was doing which wasn’t his style. Tom was special in Blink 182. He wasn’t afraid of trying new shit. But I think Tom trying so many styles in music nowadays gave him a dryspell but he’s still one of the greatest musicians of Alternative Rock!
I wouldn’t say Brian Wilson. Sure I like Tom he’s talented and creative but Brian Wilson is a literal musical genius who could play multiple instruments and knew music wayyyyy above and beyond what Tom knows.
Honestly wish Tom had kept up with BCR instead of AVA. This was by far the best side project he has ever made. The music was so dark, heavy, catchy, and the lyrics have so much depth and it even inspired me to start my own side project aside from the band I am currently in.
Hey I know I’m 2 years late but I feel like BCR and blink 182 were both things that inspired me to make music and work on trying to start a band because I like very nice catchy pop punk songs and make jokes about running on the streets naked but also do songs that are a little more dark and have more depth which is like the post hardcore side of Tom’s song writing and shows that there’s more to what Tom can do other than act like a 12 year old with blink
He said in an interview that because of the way it effected Mark & Blink 182 he couldn't ever make another Boxcar Racer album. Which I get but it sucks cuz I like it more than blink.
It really was an amazing album! I been a fan of Blink 182 since the self titled album I was no older than 12 years old. Found out about Boxcar Racer when I was about 20 years old. I ain’t knew Tom did a side album without Blink but this let me know Tom Delonge can shine with or without them.
I’ve been a huge fan of blink since I was 6. Started with Buddha. Then when I was 13 I traveled to Thailand. Was sitting on the ground in a hotel room in Phuket Thailand and “I feel so” came onto the “MTV Asia” channel. And I fuckin lost my mind. I searched all over Thailand for weeks to find it. And I finally did on a little island of the coast of the mainland. I was SOOO fuckin happy and had it for years. I lost it years ago now. But I’ll never forget where I was the first time I heard this CD. And this album means so much to me. Such a great fuckin album!,,,
Works can’t ever express how much this band and these songs mean to me. I’ve never had a band mean so much emotionally until I heard these guys. It started because I stumbled across my first punk song and decided to randomly listen to other songs from them one day. Best decision of my life.
I Feel So is maybe my favorite song Tom has ever made. So much power and emotion, plus it all seems so natural. Secret crowds is the only other song that captures that magic, for me at least, outside of his songs in Blink. I like AVA, don't get me wrong, but there is just something about I feel So..
I think it would be pretty hard to look past it. If my bandmates started a new project and I was the only member to not get an invite I'd feel pissed, it's just human instinct to feel jealous in Mark's situation.
When I heard Box Car Racer's album for the first time (a little over two years ago at this point), I definitely saw the influence it had over Blink-182's Untitled album.
As much as I like the album, it's so disappointing that this side project single handedly strained the relationship between Tom and Mark and blink's ultimate break up in 2005. Dogs Eating Dogs and Neighborhoods had some good tracks, but it felt out of sync. The albums they've done with Matt are repetitive and boring.
Been a fan of blink since late 1998, what I never understood is why Tom could ask Mark to play bass? Or learn the parts for the tour? Never made sense to me. I’d be pissed too.
He starts that live version of “There Is” at 4:35 and I definitely thought he was playing cardboard for a moment. The difference in snare tone is crazy from this version to the studio
I’m serious, I have been through a lot of s#it. Rape, verbal abuse, physical abuse and and worse. Your music saves my life every time I hear it. I want to collaborate and write with you about all the s#it I’ve been through. Contact me!
Also, I just realized this looks like they’re standing outside of the girl’s house from The Starting Line’s music video for “best of me” - but at night time, in the rain (secret music video universe about this girl maybe??)
If box car racer were still a band today... it would probably of been one of the best punk rock bands to date. They absolutely smashed their first album and I can only imagine they would of got even better if they made more songs. I mean wtf is blink 182 now.. the album California is so cheesy, catchy weird choruses So mainstream. They don't have the blink 182 raw style, riffs anymore without Tom.
I know their cool now, but I always thought it was funny that before they all became friends Mark bitched about BCR breaking up blink but still ended up being on the album for elevator
You know tom said that there is was going to be the opening to the album its a good song but it wood not work as in opener to it i feel so is a great opener
