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  • where is this

  • why is toms voice different than the recorded version??

  • Everybody needs to shut up about whether Box Car Racer or AvA is better! Tom has the right to do what he wants with his music and his voice. If you have a problem with that go ahead and be mad. But kindly leave the rest of us out of it!

  • one of tom's best songs ever!

  • I love them! Fucking great band

    Love tom!

  • how come no one on youtube gets the band name right? it's Box Car Racer, because Travis wanted the name to be three words.

  • @StJimmyRocks92 Reason being the plane that bombed hiroshima, was called Bockscar. That's how Box car racer got their name.

  • @IGotAPagina I know that, and I guess I can see why people get confused, but it still is three words because Travis wanted it to be.

  • @StJimmyRocks92 It was actually Tom who came up with the name and then later found out that the plane was named bockscar :X

  • @IGotAPagina i knew tom made the name, but i heard he knew it was the plane, and travis didn't like it at first because of that. but, it's the internet. i should probably check multiple sources before believing something lol.

  • @StJimmyRocks92 travis came up with the name. its based on an airplane called the B-29 "Bockscar" which was used in the bombing of hiroshima in WWII. Its usually misspelled "boxcar" and travis wanted to be in a band with 3 words so "Box Car Racer" lol

  • @Boeser51 I'm pretty sure it was Tom who came up with it. I KNOW I read that Travis at first didn't like the name when he found out about it being the bomber.

  • @StJimmyRocks92 "The name of the band, Box Car Racer, was originally the name of a band Barker was in shortly after high school. DeLonge liked the name, but was uneasy after learning the origin: the term was a reference to the B-29 Bomber which dropped the second wartime atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan – the plane’s name was "Bockscar". The plane’s name was commonly misspelled as "Boxcar", and, due to Barker’s desire for the band name to be three words, was spelled out as Box Car Racer."

  • @Boeser51 but i got this from wiki. wiki isnt always right. who knows.  not important. box car racer!!!

  • @Boeser51 .... I would get it backwards....

  • tom's ego ruined his voice -.-

  • @kingx2000 sadley I have to agree with u :/

  • Travis is a beast in this vid

  • Boxcar Racer > AvA

  • WHY PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT AVA OR BLINK? THIS IS BCR MOTHERFUCKERS! ANOTHER BAND! CLICK ON PLAY AND ENJOY FUCKING MUSIC!

  • Wow David used to be fat. It's kinda good to see that they're both still friends too :) David's a really nice guy

  • Boxcar Angels

  • AVA is Box Car Racer with a different drummer.

  • this intro is from violence,the intro to and i is the same as the tourist by death cab for cutie,and the intro to everythings magic by ava is the same as anthem prt.2

  • tom needs to bring back boxcar, screw ava

  • blink 182> box car racer > +44 > angels and airwaves

  • oh, I'm sorry is this an angels and airwaves video?NO!!!!, shut the hell up

  • TRAVIS IS STILL THE BEST NOT TOM!!!

  • both of them are good ... ;)

  • why does everyone always go on about Toms voice it realy pisses me off -__- every perfomance he does is quality so what if his voice sounds different in some its still good music and that all that matters....love you Tom :-D

  • this perfomance was unique. outstanding, so bad he can't sing like that anymore

  • lol, my comment is now on Top Comments !

  • @1:38 where is the bass?!?!?!?!

  • You can see Angels and Airwaves in his eyes, This was the beginning!

  • Tom fucking Delonge oh yeh boxcar was such an amzing band for the little time they was i love the album so good <3

  • LOVE TOMS RED OUTFIT :D

  • \m/ \m/

  • Travis' Bass <3

  • @petercaveney17 oooohyeeees!

  • I'm vegan hence I feel so.

  • amazing fill at 1:17

  • o Travis tok pra kraio ele é o kra.......

  • amazing ;D

  • autotune sucks! You can sing or not!

  • @svenvanveggel autotune makes you hit the RIGHT notes! Don't you hear the notes he's missing? Secondly, if it were autotuned, he would sound like a robot. Yeah, he couldn't sing at all in this performance. But he is NOT using autotune.

  • wtf all "blinks back" comments were posted 1 year ago

    are they still fucking back or not??

  • @tipailovas yeah they are working on an album dude, its just taking a while

  • @qgriffosu ahh good

    how come theres no new songs outta their new "album"?

  • @tipailovas They aren't going to release anything until the album is "completely finished". Mark said that awhile ago on twitter. The planned approximate date is April-May of 2011.

  • @bobbie922 hope blink's new album has nothing gay like AvA !

  • @quainhankid14 AvA is fucking awesome man, sit down and listen to we dont need to whisper the whole way through and if you think that is gay then idk what your opinion of music is but you shouldnt even be listening to boxcar. Tom is incredibly talented, he made blink and AvA is the future of tom delonge. You should get on board or you never really were a fan of his in the first place.

  • @rodgers527 I agree with you, Tom is incredibly talented. And Yes, I'm not a fan of him, I'm a fan of Blink's , Boxcar Racer's music ! But not AvA's. In my opinion, AvA is totally different from Blink. So, there are no need for a Blink's fan to like AvA ! Sorry, my English's quiet bad :-p, and sorry for saying AvA gay !

  • @quainhankid14 It's all good, not everyone can get into them i guess but im glad you said your sorry for saying AvA is gay :-D.

  • @quainhankid14 AvA is not gay, maybe if u understand the message of AvA then you maybe change ur opinion

  • @wwwwwoooeeee I agree to that, however i am not a fan of AvA so i cant say i like em' AvA technically didnt ruin tom's voice, however he sings like a cancerous ogre now due to him singing so differently. If he kept boxcar racer alive, then AvA wouldnt exist, because in a lot of people's opinion Boxcar Racer is so much better than AvA.

  • If you actually knew anything about the time you'd know that tom is playing this with a disc tearing into his syatic nerver or whatever, he got addicted to pain pill which is why boxcar only lasted for such a short period of time.... and tom left blink because he couldn't take the fighting anymore..... tom actually made a successful band after blink.... AVA got way bigger than +44 but its because tom never thought blink would be back.... oh and i just say blink on Aug 17 and tom sounds mint!

  • @xS3XP4NTH3Rx Actually, his back and painkillers didn't end Boxcar Racer, he only made Boxcar to experiment with a new style of music. And he left Blink-182 because Mark and Travis made him choose between his family and his band.

  • @baumannadam k so your wrong, travis is boxcar racers drummer, so he and mark didn't make him choose between and blink in the band. boxcar was to experiment writing on his own at home, yes. but boxcar would have been a bit longer but tom could continue playing live with him because of his discs in his back. he needed 2 years to heal after and then boom blink is back. the reason he left after blinks untitled album is because he couldn't take the arguing anymore, called his manager and he left

  • @xS3XP4NTH3Rx I am not wrong. Travis and Mark made Tom choose between Blink-182 and his family. I did some research on an Angels and Airwaves DVD where Tom explained why Blink broke up. And actually, after their (boxcar racer's) first album, Tom Delonge said "Boxcar Racer had served it's purpose and Is now defunct." And I'm not stupid, I know Travis is Boxcar Racers drummer, AND Blink's drummer, and the drummer for +44 and ex-drummer of the AquaBats. I know my Blink lol you're wrong.

  • @baumannadam I call bs. Mark was and still is married with at least one kid same as Tom.

  • @baumannadam of course Tom would say that. He doesn't want to admit it's his fault.

  • @xS3XP4NTH3Rx i was there it was sickk

  • @IGotAPagina I think he still would've bled some AVA influences into Box Car Racer, eventually. I think that's where he was headed, creatively.... that's the sound he wanted as he got older - a more stadium, grande sound

  • @gt198gtr Yeah but I don't think that would haver happened really. Boxcar is a hardcore band. Hence why he didn't continue with the name boxcar.

  • @IGotAPagina I think you are right, you win

  • @IGotAPagina agreed. I think Box Car Racer is one of the best things tom ever did. AvA is a continuation of Box Car Racer. Theyve stated thats basically what it is and its got tom and david kennedy (who was also in box car racer). Tom sed box car racer has served its purpose and it will never come back.

  • @Boeser51 it wasnt intended to even be a real band. hell tom only asked travis to drum because he didnt want to pay a studio drummer. in the history of blink, box car racer is extremely important. Its the reason the final blink album sounded the way it did, and also very responsible for their breakup, as mark was hurt that tom asked travis to be in the band and not him. But tom wasnt trying to hurt mark he only asked travis to be in it for the reason i put above.

  • @wwwwwoooeeee gay is the wrong word, but very very boring would be the 3 right words for AVA

  • @quainhankid14 if you call AvA gay, so you're saying Tom's gay 2

  • @quainhankid14 i hope you have a cock shoved far up your ass for such a bold opinionated statement

  • @tipailovas Well Travis is working on a solo album, Marks producing shit, and Tom's still workin on Angels and Airwaves shit so its taken awhile

  • @tipailovas

    2011 European Tour.

    Can't wait.

  • just me or tom forgets the lyrics from 2:18-2:24?

  • @blinkMATIC yes he does. lol

  • at 0:37 it kinds sounds like something out of Obvious by Blink-182

  • I feel travis tells the story of my life in ever drum beat in this album.. the boxcar racer album is amazing.. way different style and I find very telling of life. Things change.. but sometimes things stay the same.. life.

  • the song is great but the album version, Tom voice is so lack of everything

  • just amazing .

  • 11 people are fucking gingers and have no soul...

  • 11 dickheads disliked the video...

  • i dont even read comments anymore

  • ♫ I feel so mad, i feel so angry

    with your voice, mother fucker ♫

    don't believe this, I love box car racer and blink obviously

    but the tom voice it's horrible

  • @travloco horrible in your opinion and it maked millions so stfu. Tom´s voice is amazing btw.

  • best show evarrrr

  • Box car racer ws the genesis of AVA...

  • sadly id take boxcar over +44 but i am not a huge fan of tom anymore

  • i would have loved to been at this show. early AVA with the screaming before the song.

  • I'm a bigger fan of Blink, because Tom, Mark, And Travis all together are awesome. +44 was way better than Angels and Airwaves. If Tom and Travis

    Would have went back to BoxCar i wouldn't have been so mad Blink broke up Cause atleast they kick some serious ass.

  • Box Car = Blink without mark

    +44 = Blink Without tom

    whos better?

  • @JaredTuozzo or who's worse!

  • @tinclunge123 nah dude box car is rad as fuck i vote for box man

  • @JaredTuozzo

    +44 ;]

  • Box Car.......of course....

  • @JaredTuozzo BCR

  • i wish blink 182 was more like this : DDD

  • this song is sick! :D

  • i wish angels and airwaves was more like this.

  • TBH, I actually prefer Box Car Racer to Blink 182

    No offense to Blink though

  • @EmoKidRH I feel ya! Till this day since this record came out, i still listen to Cat Like Thief, and Elevator before i go to bed.

  • @chadwick275 i have the epiphone es333 tom delonge signature and it is awesome, i can play ava or blink with a perfect sound, i recommend you this guitar, good and cheap

  • @chadwick275 personal opinion. Blink is great, the godfather's of our generation of punk rock, for sure. and AvA is prolly my fave modern band, but boxcar was just different.

  • yeah this was the best side project they ever did

    this surpasses anything they ever did, besides blink of course ;)

  • @chadwick275 i know what you mean. it took time for me to like AVA too. but once i started listening to them more and more i started to like them better. i even went to AVA's concert in charlotte NC 2 weeks ago.

  • love the drum beats on this song travis makes the simple beats sound amazing

  • Part of the song sounds like Violence from Blink-182.

  • @KingArthur777 "Violence part 2?"

  • @KingArthur777 lol....1) this song came out wayy b4 violence did lol....so technically it would be violence part one.....and 2)...this sounds nothing like violence lol

  • @KingArthur777 thats what i thought too.

  • traviss bass drum is sweet.

  • i miss the days when tom was bad at singing, but relatively in tune. his voice has changed so much. and that isn't to say i don't like his voice now, it's just... different. haha.

  • Indeed. His singing was much better back then, not to say it isn't still good. I just miss the old way.

  • Angels & Airwaves :D

  • auto tune wasnt even used during this time period /facepalm

  • autotune was actually used by Cher haha, way before this

  • lmao. im pretty sure thats just how cher sings.

  • Auto-Tune was also used to produce the prominent altered vocal effect on Cher's "Believe," recorded in 1998...wiki....easy to hear, train your ears please

  • oh alright man. i didnt actually know that i just thought she had a fucked up voice haha

  • facepalm

  • Box Car Racer sorta transformed into AvA

  • im so sad theyre done.

  • He needs to project his voice out a little more during the chorus of this song, but he is the master haha

  • Amazing. ♥

  • I've always loved the intro to this song. What am I talking about? I've always loved the entire damn song.

  • travis is a beast......

  • By far the best intro to any song i've ever heard in my llfe!!

  • people probably think it's auto-tune because of the amplification, place where they played's acoustics, and the wuality of the video.

  • everybody who think this is auto tune is dumb

  • @trapnoob true dat

  • damn auto tune !!!!!!!!

  • whatever other band the guys are in, +44, AvA, Boxcar Raver, whatever, they are all at home in blink.

  • it's called auto tune kids

  • @FeebleMindedKid182 do you know what auto tune means?

  • omg tom sucks on this performance (singing)

  • @kickflipxlife sounds like tom to me...

  • @lax4life1193 ???

  • @kickflipxlife he sounds like he always does...

  • toms never been an amazing singer, his voice is just unique

  • @beausagerproductions Thats one word for it....

  • @beausagerproductions totally agree!

  • @beausagerproductions Maybe his voice is unique but it fits perfectly.

  • @beausagerproductions Maybe his voice is unique but it fits perfectly!

  • @beausagerproductions

    listen the blink182 live in chicago, and try to tell me that he hasn't a good voice..

  • @Bassist2295 haha dude that's cause it was touched up by the studio. Can't you hear the auto tune in those videos??

  • @pshizz Listen to him sing I miss you at the pepsi mash...or hear him in person then he'll sound like the greatest singer ever

  • @ilovetomdelonge18244 I've heard him live on multiple occasions. Pepsi Smash is an exception...trust me almost every blink fan agrees that tom is not a good singer. He never was, he just had a cool sound.

  • @pshizz Welp i guess thats your opinion on if hes a good singer or just unique.. but me personally i think hes the best ever..When i saw him in person with AvA his voice was perfect like a voice of a god..

  • @beausagerproductions yea you are so right! its just he delivers so amazingly!

  • i love the strat tom play's in this vid xd i regret buying the gibson tom delonge sometimes when i see the strat

  • Any who want to hear Tom sing well live, go to an Angels & Airwaves concert. He is SO much better and focused. At Blink concerts he goofs around a lot and changes lyrics. Either way, he's still amazing!! GO BLINK!!!

  • @Sean0109 i think hes more entertaining when he is goofing off its so funny hehe. and he still plays awesomely

  • lol 1:08 sounds like chipmunk or sumthing xD!! but songs cool thoug :)

  • Yea, I saw Blink in Toronto this summer, and Tom was singing really well. I watched a ton of their new live videos from late night show appearances and performances, and I was a little worried about how Tom was singing. But on tour, it was perfect. Actually, better than ever./

  • yeah i had the same worries cause i paid a ton for my ticket haha i didnt wanna get ripped off by having tom ruin some classics ... but he sounded great

  • you wanna here tom singing good you should have gone to this summers tour i saw him and salt lake and he sounded crisper then any of there cd's

  • totaly agree!

  • Is Tom playing a Squier Strat? It looks like it from the headstock a bit. Idk I may be seeing things

  • he has a CBS era headstock on his custom

  • haha dude i seriously doubt that. its probably just the style. im pretty sure he's using his signature

  • hell no.. its his signature strat

  • well his signature guitar for a bit was a strat, but not a squier

  • yeah i highly doubt hes using a squier, cuz hez got lots of money and a squier is basically a cheap, crappy version of a strat. which is what i use, cuz im poor :\

  • @pooflip01 nothin crappy about squier

  • @gizmo359c well its made cheaper... doesnt sound as good... and doesnt last as long, its not exactly crappy, but its not as good.

  • @pooflip01 it lasts as long if you take care of it, as far as sound goes, try a sqier classic vibes strat, if your talking about the bullets then yeah, not as good, but anything over that is fine, and if you can honestly notice any difference in the sound (which is more of an amp thing anyway) stick a new pickup in it. you can get a just as good as fender strat for under $500

  • i love his strat

  • toms voice isnt that great with boxcar

    but with blink hands down AMAZING

    travis alwyas does great

    long live blink

  • @MrHurleyboy182

    it's the same singer....they both have good vocals

  • If only Boxcar racer came out with another Album.... AHWELL.. blink's back. =]

  • @darrelnicolaye no way. mark hoppus needs to be in it all :)

  • @JDKMM7 That'd be awesome aswell.

  • @darrelnicolaye AvA kinda fills the bcr hole if ya know what i mean

  • they def did they just did it under the name of angels and airwaves. hahaha

  • whos playing bass? cos Tom played bass in the recording and the other lad is david kennedy.

  • anthony celestino

  • anthony celestino

  • no, in the recording tom played guitar, theres 2 guitarists in this band, tom and david, the bass player is anthony celestino.

  • Blink is always going to be my favorite band, but boxcar racer was soooo fucking sickkkkkk