ALKALINE TRIO Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs

[@randytandy9746]

Love the reaction, don’t apologise for speaking dude. You are clearly a fan, what you were saying wasn’t offensive. Look at matts change from joining blink to leaving blink. I think it affected him. I loved the Matt driven songs he released with blink. I’m a blink fan and trio fan. The fans should have treated him better. But boy oh boy he’s back to what he does best in this song! Excited for the album! New sub btw

[@thepunkrockreview]

I 100% agree with your points about Matt and Blink, and welcome to the family!!!

[@robsiddall9731]

Loved how they stuck in 97at the start also blinding vid appreciate the effort dude thanks

[@thepunkrockreview]

Heck yeah, I love this band! Just dropped a podcast ranking all their albums, lemme know if you need a link!

[@ryanphillips4700]

how did i miss this reaction...well done brotha!! this song gives me high hopes for the new record...cant wait to be the chunky, 46 year old in the front row screaming all the songs at house of blues, orlando

[@thepunkrockreview]

I'll be at the Houston show in Feb, being the same guy, lol

[@OllieS-vs2ox]

Atom Willard in Alk3 is absolutely insane to me. He's a legend!

[@thepunkrockreview]

Yeah thats true, I didn't even mention that, did i?

[@jamescruttwell3870]

He played with them as well around 2001. If you watch the Private Eye video, Atom is drumming!

[@MrChris37280]

He’s no Derek

[@chrishuston9092]

New here but diggin’ ya. The opening scene is with skate legend Steve Caballero and the same skate pool hotel as the legend video

[@thepunkrockreview]

Welcome! I completely missed that was Steve Caballero! I used to love that guy! We have a lot of stuff coming soon for you guys. Looks like I may have to edit some of the song reaction/review videos in the near future, but I don't do a ton of that anyways. KZbin is a weird thing... lol. Thanks for watching!

[@ioncewasmikey]

He's the zombie who takes a cymbal to the face also lol

[@felipeaguiardefreita]

I don't know why this is the second time I'm watching this review. It's great. The song is awesome. Nice job!

[@thepunkrockreview]

Ayyye! Thanks for coming back around, I appreciate it!

[@bryanross6264]

It's all pro skaters in the bowl. Steve Caballero, Chris Cole and a few others.

[@thepunkrockreview]

That's dope, it's been a while since I've seen any of them so I didn't recognize them

[@DrewbaccaJR]

Based off the 90s POWELL Skate video " The search for Animal Chin "

[@stlcardinalsfan4655]

I absolutely love the music video! Kinda find it interesting that Green Day has the same Halloween vibe with “The American Dream Is Killing Me”

[@thepunkrockreview]

I thought is was pretty wild too, I love both videos!

[@Heartandskullprojects]

There’s a story to that pool and skater at the intro….Alk3 for life!

[@thepunkrockreview]

Well let's hear it!

[@Heartandskullprojects]

@@thepunkrockreview Look up Steve Caballero and the skate movie “The Search for Animal Chin”

[@mikejustman1542]

I'd be down for a new Falcon album...and a new TLA record too

[@thepunkrockreview]

When was the last Lawrence Arms album? And I LOOOOVE The Falcon

[@andrewweltlich9065]

I'm a fan of Alkaline Trio and Blink 182. I really loved Matt Skiba's time with Blink and was excited to see what Tom was going to bring back to the band, but man I've been disappointed in their new album. It's OK, just not what I was wanting from them I guess. This new Alkaline song is absolutely perfect though. This is what I was hoping Blink would do.

[@thepunkrockreview]

I like the new Blink album pretty good but I like this way better! I agree w what you said too

[@bryanross6264]

Love your spotify Playlist! Didn't know anyone still listens to authority zero. Have you heard their new ones?

[@thepunkrockreview]

I love that band! They have a new song?!?

[@bryanross6264]

They have a fee that came out in the past couple years.

[@bryanross6264]

Check out the bollox too. Has Jason Devore from Authority Zero as the singer.

[@rogeremery3723]

My understanding was matt was just helping out with a tour for blink in 2015 when Tom quit and he knew it wasn’t long term lasted longer then he thought and it’s all love now

[@thepunkrockreview]

Lol, nah

[@kaiguaaa]

I agree when you say (5:17) that blink draws inspo from Alk3... The verse riff in their new song "More Than You Know" sounds eerily similar to the riff from "I Can't Believe" from Skiba's 2018 album with Trio (ITTC?)

[@thepunkrockreview]

Oh man, TONS of stuff off the new Blink album is inspired by Alkaline Trio! I'm glad you see that, most Blink fans don't

[@KitTheMisfitToys]

Subscribed. Gratci for sharing. Glad I found you.

[@thepunkrockreview]

Ayyye! Thank you! Welcome to the family!!!

[@craig2196]

It breaks my brain that Atom Is the oldest member.

[@_____oo1159]

I think Matt got cleaned tho (it’s just my opinion ), the same thing happened to friends who are sober . Also …Blink will never be in the same league as bands like AT , people usually get upset when I say it , but it’s the truth , there’s a reason why AT recently played a gig with Discharge and The original Misfits .

[@thepunkrockreview]

Oh shit! I didn't even consider sobriety as a reason, and I'm 10 years sober and ABSOLUTELY gained some weight and look different... I hope he's doing ok! I feel bad for bringing it up, lol. And yeah, I agree about AT being in a different league. But it depends on what you like, bc if you're just a normie, you'll probably like Blink way better. But imo AT is a cut above most

[@_____oo1159]

@@thepunkrockreview Of course bro , I’m not discrediting blink at all , just because I don’t like their music , it doesn’t mean they’re bad , they’re obviously very talented , but AK it’s different (to me at least) , I honestly used to dislike AK back in the early 2000’s and now they’re up there with my faves : The Damned , Rudimentary Peni , misfits and all the greats , it took me some time , but now I love and appreciate this band for what it is and what it represents .

[@craig2196]

yeah but hasn't he been sober for a while now? like before blink?

[@_____oo1159]

@@craig2196 Honestly tho , only the people closest to him know that answer , but some friends who got sober for real ,looked like him , kinda chubby/bloated and that was after they quit and got clean for good .

[@slashtrio]

@@craig2196sobriety (not doing coke) but ask being in your mid 40s. For many the metabolism slows way down in that decade of life. I’m the same age and have had to change my diet a lot to not gain weight, even with while working out and being active. It’s called getting old 😮

[@ryanphillips4700]

I'd love to chat with you sometime...i'm not really a online content creator or anything, but i like your style...you remind me of me...only, i think i'm much older

[@thepunkrockreview]

I'm always down to have a new guest on the show! You have a topic in mind? And yeah, I'm 41, usually the old guy in the room, lol

[@bryanross6264]

Miss 'The Falcon'. You into 'Slapstick'?

[@thepunkrockreview]

Looooove The Falcon! I can't remember if I've liked Slapstick or not.... need to revisit them

[@bryanross6264]

It was basically The Falcon, but a sort of ska. They only had one album.

[@DrewbaccaJR]

Slapstick is Ska/Punk, the FALCON is NOT....

[@forparsing]

this is not punk rock this is pop punk like blink 182

[@thepunkrockreview]

I dunno man, this was pretty punk rock. On the same level as GBH, The Casualties... stuff like that.

[@trashbme4004]

It could came after This Could Be Love on the Good Mourning album!!!!

[@thepunkrockreview]

I agree, this song is awesome

[@slashtrio]

@@thepunkrockreviewI’d say crimson more than good mourning. Good mourning has a signature vocal rasp that no other trio record has. Matt’s songs on good mourning are a bit more punk and raucous than this. This sounds like more like mercy me. It’s cool though

[@DrewbaccaJR]

Sounds more of the This Addiction/My Shame era.. 🙄

[@marcsfortaner]

A3 is my fav band but I can´t undertsand why are they stuck in that sound and riffs over and over so she lied to the fbi and mercy me, they made awesome records original and different from other bands so unique now they sound boring, just my humble opinion.

[@thepunkrockreview]

To each their own, I love it! I like that they found a sound that works for them and are just doing what they're good at. This new song didn't sound boring to me at all, and I love the other songs with the same chords. But I can totally see why you feel that way

[@slashtrio]

@@thepunkrockreview yea I think some of it is that Matt is not a great guitar player, and I mean that respectfully. I think he has a very punk purist guitar approach (like the ramones or misfits), just a 3 or 4 power chords and a lot of down picking. He plays no lead guitar at all. I think Dan is actually technically a better guitar player than him. Skiba just has the lyrics, the prolific song writing / creatively, and used to have the looks (we all age). I personally like when some bands just kind of stick with what works, kind of like what NOFX has done. I’d love to hear another album that sounds like from here to infirmary, loud buzz saw guitars and less produced.