004 - Up All Night

"I mean, I think some sort of 'we're gonna talk about this song' and then playing the song is nice but we can also riff for a minute."

## Episode Summary

### Housekeeping

* Josiah picked the song for this episode because they have been doing a lot of 'firsts.' This song represents the beginning of an end and also the first single from an album people hated.
* Sam brings up the fact that Josiah has been interacting with Mark Hoppus on Twitter, but Josiah wants to defer this discussion until later.

### Initial Thoughts

"So you're saying Up All Night is kind of a really condensed version of Red Medicine meets the new Pains of Being Pure at Heart album?"

Josiah felt the song didn't work and hated it on first listen. Sam agreed but also admired the 'fearless stupidity.' Both love the chorus.

### Main Discussion

* A video from 2003 shows Tom playing the Up All Night riff while they were recording the Self Unentitled (referred to as 'Self-Titled' here)
* The band still plays Up All Night with Matt Skiba. Josiah puts forward a theory that the jocks and normies that love all of blink's biggest hits don't read the liner notes and maybe have not realized that Matt and Tom are different people. This is potentially why they dressed Matt up in a Hurley shirt for promo photos after he was announced as a new band member.
* Clip: Matt Skiba singing Up All Night live at iHeartRadio Theatre. Sam and Josiah appreciate the crooning, Morrissey quality that Skiba brings to Tom's song.
* Clip: Tom singing Up All Night on Jimmy Kimmel. His vocal delivery was an extremely exaggerated "Tom voice" and difficult to listen to.
* Josiah tweeted at Mark, asking to tell him something people don't know about Up All Night. Mark responded by saying "the kind of phase-y arpeggiated keyboard at the top of the song is an homage to Tom Sawyer by Rush. Sam feels it would been better for the episode's narrative if he said it was an homage to Repeater by Fugazi.

### List of Covers

* The Future Idiots "Neighbourhoods and Morning Woods" is a re-recoding of Neighbourhoods as if it were an old blink album. Sam and Josiah both agree this album is good. They cover Up All Night twice, which makes Josiah respect the song a little more because it's so difficult to grasp.
* Rang Dang - Soundcloud EDM remix
* Mike Parsons - Skrillex style cover

### Final Thoughts

Josiah hated the song at first but now sees how the bad parts work with the chorus. This song made him reconsider Neighbourhoods (although it is still disappointing).

Sam thinks it rips but the Future Idiots cover makes him think it may have been better off on TOYPAJ.

## Bands/People/Places Mentioned

* POD - Josiah saw POD at a youth convention in Saskatchewan when he was 15. He told singer Sonny that they will carry the torch for Rage Against the Machine (who had just broken up)
* Fugazi - The song sounds like Tom trying to sound like Fugazi without ever having heard Fugazi
* Rush - Geddy Lee has a good pop punk voice and could be in The Wonder Years
* Damian Abraham from Fucked Up - some of Sam and Josiah's earliest twitter interaction were in 2011 when they were trying to convince Damian to interview Mark on The Wedge (a MuchMusic show)
* Owl City - Rang Dang remix sounds like Owl City, or possibly Frank Ocean mixed with Tom DeLonge sounds like Owl City. Owl City killed the Postal Service because things got too corny.

## Other Notable Items

* Sam and Josiah decide to riff "too much" before playing the song clip because of the riff in the song (this doesn't even reach three minutes)
* Josiah mentions Travis Barker's autobiography, noting he's finally reading a second book (Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle)
* Sam and Josiah note multiple times that they don't want to mention previous episodes (a practice that would not last)
* Sam and Josiah both searched for covers of this song
* Sam mentions that they discussed the song for one hour and 34 minutes, but the episode run time is only 47:36, meaning Sam edited this episode down by half.