I am Mitch, I like punk music and because we all live in a society where we need to class ourselves, calling myself a twat wouldn't seem right, or fair, well not to those who are twats. So I call myself the punk, hence Mitch the Punk. See what I did there?
I like a lot of things, such as eating, sleeping, Pimms, eating, punk music, eating, playing punk music etc. But what I like 10 times as more as those things, is coming back from a week down in a beautiful part of the country (Cornwall), where I had no interaction with the internet, so I can check out three new things that my ears might be, or might not be interested in. And today kids, that was three new tracks from two different/contrasting artists.
Yes, Blink 182 released a new track from their long awaited comeback album, and Billy Bragg released a new (free) song. So where do I start?
Lets go for Blink 182. I'll be honest, I used to dig them back in the day of when I used to think girls sucked and wrestling, football and friends are the best things ever in life, and with them releasing a new song from their highly anticipated album (same day as what is supposed to be the Birmingham, England leg of their cancelled UK tour), I was curious. Yes, curiosity killed the cat ladies and gentlemen, but for a moment, I was the suspect. It is called "Up All Night". I'm on my third repeated listen now. And I'm not gonna pull any punches here, but Blink fans are going to be majorly pissed off by it. Albeit, its something totally different from their back catalogue, but it isn't anything good either. The introduction sounds like the character selection music from the old WWF Smackdown games, which to me, doesn't even fit in with the song, and if anything, the shitty little breakdowns and vocal styles sound more like an even more shittier version of Angels and Airwaves, and I detested that band. To me, it didn't seem like a tradition Blink song. It seemed slow for a Blink song. Check it out here:
Rating: 1/5
Now Billy Bragg. I like him. A New England was the first song I heard from him because my first band covered it. He's popular, he's stuck to his working class roots via the lyrics in his songs and he is ruddy good. During the week, he released on his website "Never Buy the Sun". The quick story behind this song his the whole News of the World, News International, Rupert Murdoch, Rebekkah Brooks, Milly Dowler, phone hacking thing, which has become "serious shit". News of the World got closed down and the one of the other good thing to come of this thus far, is that Rupert Murdoch has pulled out of the takeover for BSkyB, or Sky for us British, non business folk. Never Buy the Sun, was played live for the first time Saturday, recorded on Monday and published on Tuesday. Now on to the song. It cannot be called an instant classic, and it won't be held on the same pedestal as "New England" and "To Have and to Have Not", but its good. It refers to the Sun's sales in Liverpool, which never recovered after its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster and the aforementioned News of the World scandal. As I said, I like Bragg, and I like what he stands for and what he fights for. Check it out here:
Rating: 3.5/5
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