Blink-182

[Mattman]

Blink-182 announced the other day that they are going on an "indefinite hiatus."  In effect, they have disbanded.

 

I know a lot of you guys hate Blink, but they're one of my favourite bands.  Even more so than Green Day, they provided me with countless songs that were relentlessly catchy, simple, and talked about stuff I could relate to.  I mean, I love Guns N' Roses and Motley Crue with the best of 'em (80s hair metal is my favourite musical genre).  But technically speaking, I can't really relate to a bunch of guys of sing about banging groupies and shooting up heroin on the Sunset Strip.  I can just rock out to them.

Blink, on the other hand, always sang about stuff that really resembled what my life was.  They talked about being suburban boredom, being dumped, high school losers, hanging out at the mall, first dates, rude hijinks, problems with parents and teachers, getting high, and all that kind of shit, all served up with a healthy dose of immature dirty humour.  In a boring small town in Ontario, this is what life as a teenager was like for me, and Blink was the soundtrack to it.  Me and this friend of mine loved Blink.  We saw them in concert, and formed a band that sucked, but it was still fun.  Except for a few originals, all we really played were covers of Blink songs like "Blow Job".  And it was cool.

The time I saw them live they were fantastic.  They were touring for the self-titled record and because of its more mature sound, they pulled back the bathroom humour on stage a little bit, unfortunately.  But they were still funny, and they put on a great show.  I was all the way in the back of a giant ampitheatre and we were all still on our feet.

I think that the thing I liked most about Blink's music was that it was catchy and FUN.  I think that this is the most overlooked contribution of punk-pop; the fact that it's the only really fun rock music out there today.

I'm really gonna miss Blink.  Oh, sure, we still have Green Day, which is the more critically respected and "cool" band, and they did just put out a great album.  But I always preferred Blink-182.  They were just improving with every album; I was really liking their new sound on the last record, with the Cure influences and quasi-80s keyboards.  I would have liked to see for it to develop.

So long, Blink.

[disease51883]

Possibly my all-time, least favorite group. Good riddens to 'em.

[Genesis]

Possibly my all-time, least favorite group. Good riddens to 'em.

Likewise. Only Blink could come with a sentence like 'Shit-piss-fuck-cunt-cocksucker-motherfucker-tits-fart-turd n' twat' and make a song out of it

[GnFnR87]

yup, ill admit it, i like them, mattman ur right their easy to relate to compared to GnR etc... Their last album was spectacular, i was wondering when they'd be going back into the studio for a follow up ,so much for that.... well lets hope this is just for a couple years.

[Dave_Rose]

  oh no

[Izzy]

Good riddance. They made music for 14 year olds.

[jgfnsr]

What a BLOW to the music industry.   

[MadmanDan]

First Busted, now these guys? Rock is starting to clean up...

[Mattman]

Good riddance. They made music for 14 year olds.

Yeah, but when I was 14 years old, that worked out just fine.

Even now, when I'm in university, they're still making great tunes like on their new album.  In my opinion, "Always" was the best single of the year.

[Slashly]

Good riddance. They made music for 14 year olds.

Hey, that hurt!I?m not even 14? (will be in a couple of months) and I dont listen to that bulshit, not even when I was nine.(Although, now that I think about i, I?ve heard my people as old as I am sccreaming: BLINK ROCKS!!....Aghhhh)

In my opinion, "Always" was the best single of the year.

Ha ha, good one


Well, great to see they wont be there to torture my ears anymore!








Baby Slash//

[Metallifuck]

Good riddance. They made music for 14 year olds.

I would have been offended if I was 14 and heard you say that 

[usurper]

Bad thing about Busted breaking up, FightStar. THEY SUCK BIG DONKEY BALLS. Good riddance to Blink-182, shit music for a shit generation. Now it is left for all the other shit music to go away.

[Dot]

I?m sorry for the Blink fans. It catches me by surprise..I thought they were doing fine.

[mrlee]

Possibly my all-time, least favorite group. Good riddens to 'em.

Likewise. Only Blink could come with a sentence like 'Shit-piss-fuck-cunt-cocksucker-motherfucker-tits-fart-turd n' twat' and make a song out of it

dude that song rocks!!!! Seriously thats one of my child hood memories....i used to lmao and i still think its funny now.

[Markus Asraelius]

They never said that they were breaking up. They just said indefinite hiatus. It does sadden me but I'm not much of a punk fan. Relax, maybe they'll get together again in a couple of years.

[Mattman]

They never said that they were breaking up. They just said indefinite hiatus. It does sadden me but I'm not much of a punk fan. Relax, maybe they'll get together again in a couple of years.

Well, this IS rock 'n' roll, and bands have a tendency to reunite at some point down the line.  So maybe they'll get back together some day.  I hadn't detected any bad blood between the members previously.

[matt88]

Good Riddance to bad trash.

If u really wanna make me happy announce that Simple Plan have split.

[usurper]

Good Riddance to bad trash.

If u really wanna make me happy announce that Simple Plan have split.

I will be so happy the day they break up!

[Mattman]

You know, in defence of punk-pop, I really think it's the best form of mainstream rock out there today.? It's the only modern rock that still contains a sense of fun, unlike the downtuned nu-grungers.? Plus, it has a sense of humour, which had been sadly lacking in music since the late 80s.

I really do think that the punk-pop of the late 90s/early 2000s and the pop-metal of the 80s have a lot in common.? They were both poppier, more highly produced and commercial forms of music that was originally all about being anti-mainstream, and they both got a lot of flak from critics and more "hardcore" fans.? But both produced music that was catchy, was a lot of fun, and had an enormous fanbase in its heyday.

[Izzy]

You know, in defence of punk-pop, I really think it's the best form of mainstream rock out there today.?

It's the ONLY form of mainstream rock...