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...

[*Izzy*]

This news is gonna be my moment of the year, ? ? ? ? _{if Chinese Democracy don't come out}?

Izzy?

[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 form of mainstream rock...

What are you talking about?  There's also the remnants of nu-metal (Linkin Park, Slipknot), grunge lite (Nickelback, 3 Doors Down), pussy rock (Radiohead, Coldplay), emo (Taking Back Sunday), and screamo.  That last one, exemplified by shitty bands like Alexisonfire, is in my opinion the worst single subgenre of "mainstream" rock music ever.  Anyway, you take all those different genres, and except for a few wild card bands like The Darkness, punk-pop is the only popular genre where the music is both fun and catchy.

[N.I.B]

i say the world will live without Blink 182. i like a few songs here and there but the world will be better off.

[Mattman]

i say the world will live without Blink 182. i like a few songs here and there but the world will be better off.

How so?  Blink was one of the better punk-pop bands.  I mean, now acts like Simple Plan and Good Charlotte are left to pick up the crumbs, and those acts are both either more contrived or juvenile than Blink was when they broke up (and yeah, I know Blink loved the toilet humour.  But that was better than Simple Plan's kiddie punk).

[N.I.B]

i say the world will live without Blink 182. i like a few songs here and there but the world will be better off.

How so?? Blink was one of the better punk-pop bands.? I mean, now acts like Simple Plan and Good Charlotte are left to pick up the crumbs, and those acts are both either more contrived or juvenile than Blink was when they broke up (and yeah, I know Blink loved the toilet humour.? But that was better than Simple Plan's kiddie punk).

im just saying we shouldnt make blink breakin up a big deal. the world will move on. they are the better pop-punks bands but im not typicly into that genre. i like a few songs but all im saying is a big huge deal shouldnt be made.

[Mattman]

Well, we'll just see if they move on.

[mrlee]

well blinks stuff was full of energy (not including the most recent album), alot of bands like green day lack in that energy these days. Can someone please tell me how that green day album won best album over VR....that Green day album is seriously weak and commercialised.

[Sakib]

i used 2 luv Blink. O well, i dont n e more. theyr crap. hahaha. they broke up

[Skeletor]

^ur spelin is retrded

[*Izzy*]

His spelin is kool?

  Izzy?

[axl_rose_700]

O     no      how      will          we               survive?!

Sarcasm btw

[Eazy E]

I must say, no American Pie sequel will be the same without them. 

[Mattman]

I don't care what anybody says.  They were second only to Green Day as one of the better punk-pop acts.

[N.I.B]

I don't care what anybody says.? They were second only to Green Day as one of the better punk-pop acts.

i actully like em better then greenday

[Slashly]

I don't care what anybody says.? They were second only to Green Day as one of the better punk-pop acts.

i actully like em better then greenday

r u nuts?Green Day put a good couple of albums before geting comercial with American Idiot.Blnk allways tried to look like this kind of bad boys who make fun of Backstreet Boys (as if they were so much of  rockers material!.)Seriously, Blink 182 allways sucked assand we?ll be better off withoutout them!Now I?ll be able to sleep at night.







Baby Slash//

[Mattman]

r u nuts?Green Day put a good couple of albums before geting comercial with American Idiot.Blnk allways tried to look like this kind of bad boys who make fun of Backstreet Boys (as if they were so much of? rockers material!.)Seriously, Blink 182 allways sucked assand we?ll be better off withoutout them!Now I?ll be able to sleep at night.

First of all, how exactly did Green Day get all commercial with American Idiot?  The music is based on the same basic elements as all their other albums - tuneful punk-pop.  The lyrics were actually more intellectual and expansive than anything they'd written before.  And they continued to experiment.  I don't see how suddenly starting to write nine-minute epics makes you "commercial".

As for Blink...they never tried to be bad boys.  They freely admitted that they were just goofballs who liked making fun of things and revelled in adolescent toilet humour.  But they also happened to write really catchy songs that I can relate to, and that's why I like them.  The great thing about Blink was that even though they appeal to the same fanbase as emo bands and stuff, they always had more of a sense of humour than almost any of their contemporaries.  They're not trying to be hardcore rock badasses.  They were just an immature bunch of guys who wrote music that a lot of people really enjoyed.

[Skeletor]

Green Day put a good couple of albums before geting comercial with American Idiot.

Quote of the week!

[Slashly]

First of all, how exactly did Green Day get all commercial with American Idiot?  The music is based on the same basic elements as all their other albums - tuneful punk-pop.  The lyrics were actually more intellectual and expansive than anything they'd written before.  And they continued to experiment.  I don't see how suddenly starting to write nine-minute epics makes you "commercial".

Yeah, I wrote wrong.I?m not saying they didnt write good lyrics or good songs, just that they changed their whole image based on what is considered punk today.That kind of dark clothing stuff.I mean, can u see a diference between this:

and this

And its obvious their producer or A&R made them make the songs more chatchy and radio frendly (like Boulevard  Of Broken Dreams)
About the Blink thing, eyah, I think I went too far too, my bad!

Green Day put a good couple of albums before geting comercial with American Idiot.

Quote of the week!

May I wonder why??





Baby Slash//

[Eazy E]

And its obvious their producer or A&R made them make the songs more chatchy and radio frendly (like Boulevard Of Broken Dreams)

Baby Slash//

Dookie came out over 10 years ago, and almost ever song on that album was catchy and radio friendly.  I fail to see how Green Day "caved" to corporate pressure and became more commercial... Just because Boulevard is a hit?

[Skeletor]

Green Day put a good couple of albums before geting comercial with American Idiot.

Quote of the week!

May I wonder why??

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Dookie came out over 10 years ago, and almost ever song on that album was catchy and radio friendly.

[Malcolm]

Never liked Blink anyways

[Sakib]

the old greenday r shit

[Queen of Everything]

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//

Agreeing!!! Blink128 are B-A-D!!! Always was NOT the best single of the year.... people can not seriously listen to Blink 128 and say they have some listen-to-able quality?!! *coo coo*

[*Izzy*]

the old greenday r shit

I don't like Greenday but I thought Dookie was okay for what it was?

  Izzy?

[Jamie]

FINALLY!!!!

[Butch Français]

they are not exacly one of my fav bands, but their last album is great!
I hope they're just taking a year or two off.

[GnFnR87]

always had a soft spot for them. the last album showed alot of potential, i'm slightly ashamed to say that i am excited.

[crow316]

Fun band. Great drummer.

[Padmasana]

Their best album was their last one, so if they really are picking up where they left off, it'll be interesting to hear where they take it.

Hopefully not the road of painfully thin guitars and overwrought 'Californian' accents.

[MeanBone]

that's one great band there. looking back, they were a lot better than i though. they're missed, that's for sure. i miss their sense of humor

[mrlee]

haha, awesome. I hope if they do make a new album its more like enema of the state. Rather than the last album...they went all serious and toned down n it just wasnt the same.

[AxlsMainMan]

Growth and maturity will do that.

[mrlee]

Growth and maturity will do that.

That works with a band that is technically efficient enough to pull it off.

With a band that have a fun pop punk sound, trying to be all depressive n serious...isnt gonna ring well with the music genre.

[AxlsMainMan]

But there comes a time when fart jokes become old, and you want to make something a bit more artistic.

[Padmasana]

But there comes a time when fart jokes become old, and you want to make something a bit more artistic.

And something that's actually musically valid in an industry full of vapid, faceless tat.

Also, the 'music genre'? Give me a break. God forbid musicians dare to defy inane efforts to classify their sound...

[mrlee]

come on.

These guys did "the blow job song".

Everyone who is a fan of Blink 182 will cite there earlier stuff as a preference. Its good fun music. Its like when Motley Crue did Generation Swine, it doesnt work.

[AxlsMainMan]

Blink-182 aren't Motley Crue, thank Gawd.

[GnFnR87]

they are all over 30. it would come off as insincere if they kept doing stuff like enema.

the self titled was great, and a welcome change.

[axlrosegnr]

The only thing I recall about them, is the singers retarded voice, and the 100's of singers that sounded exactly like him.

[AdZ]

Everyone who is a fan of Blink 182 will cite there earlier stuff as a preference. Its good fun music. Its like when Motley Crue did Generation Swine, it doesnt work.

  I'm a fan of Blink-182 and cite their later stuff as a preference.

Not to I don't like their old stuff.

Just that their more complex arrangements and harmonies on the last album were far more fulfilling aurally.

[mrlee]

fair enough.

I think when they took more serious tones on their previous albums, i dunno, the songs came across better. "Adams Song" "Stay Together For The Kids" etc. Cool tunes!

I just couldnt get in to that last one. I hated that miss you song with a passion. But "feeling this" was pretty cool.

[CheapJon]

I like "miss you" and i like "what's my age again"  liking them for what they are, But i guess i like the funnier catchy songs better, i probably consider them the best band in the "genre", would be cool to see them live

[mrlee]

I like "miss you" and i like "what's my age again"  liking them for what they are, But i guess i like the funnier catchy songs better, i probably consider them the best band in the "genre", would be cool to see them live

I would agree on that. I can tolerate these guys. While not the most serious of bands, their pop punk songs are good and not lacking in substance.

I think alot of the other bands of the genre, like crappy Bowling for Soup, try too hard to make every video a "teenage comedy" movie.

[cotis]

Going to see these guys in October at MSG. Figured I'd check them out once, can say that I've seen them then. Back in 1999/2000 I was into them a good deal...

[Bodhi]

It looks like Blink-182 just dropped the rock album of the year.  Getting great reviews everywhere.


Blink-182 "Neighborhoods" Review ? 5 out of 5 stars


"I saw your ghost tonight," exclaims Tom DeLonge. "It fucking hurt like hell."

The final refrain of "Ghost On The Dance Floor" is equally charming and chilling. It's the last phrase on the opening track of Blink-182's anxiously awaited new album, Neighborhoods, and it holds heavy resonances throughout the rest of the journey that follows.

Neighborhoods isn't simply Blink-182's best album, it's a landmark rock record. The trio effectively manages to infuse an otherworldly darkness a la Muse into the pop punk format that they pioneered.

"Ghost On The Dance Floor" is the perfect example of that hybrid. A swirl of distortion and synths encases Travis Barker's patented pounding before a snappy guitar propels the song into an arena-ready hook. Mark Hoppus's bass rumbles as DeLonge tears through a calculated, catchy riff twang. Lyrics like "Dreams can't all be real" resound most powerfully as the music cascades from orchestral art rock into near-metallic pop.

A bombastic buildup fuels "Natives" as Hoppus and DeLonge trade lines and licks with an impressive seamlessness. The speed conjures the group's early material, but the evolution feels immediately palpable.

Hoppus croons, "I'm just a waste of your time, maybe I'm better off dead" and "I'm fucking Jekyll and Hyde" before calling for independence. The punk spirit underneath it all doesn't rely on old tricks of the trade or practical jokes; it relies on the talent of the three musicians themselves.

"Up All Night" exudes a Foo Fighters-style bravado, but there's a certain sonic daring that separates Blink-182 from their peers. The instrumental "Heart's All Gone [Interlude]" is a gorgeous and melancholic display of the group's musical prowess. It moves and shifts symphonically before the punked out powder keg that it explodes into.

After moodier fare such as the excellent "Love Is Dangerous" and "Fighting The Gravity", Blink-182 gives us their most cinematic tune yet, "Even If She Falls". It's a beautiful closing tune giving the band one final hurrah as they run from Neighborhoods into outer space.

Blink-182 have certainly come a long way from Dude Ranch, but they've never compromised who they are. Those "ghosts" are still present and will happily haunt listeners forever.

[Falcon]

It looks like Blink-182 just dropped the rock album of the year. 

I never thought I'd here "Blink 182" and "rock album of the year" in the same sentence - wow.

I always considered them a bit of a novelty, never have taken them serious really.

Mark Hoppus is getting ready to go on Jim Rome to pimp the new release, Rome's been a fan for a long time.

 

[LongGoneDay]

It looks like Blink-182 just dropped the rock album of the year. 

I never thought I'd here "Blink 182" and "rock album of the year" in the same sentence - wow.

I always considred them a bit of a novelty, never have taken them serious really.

Same here.

Funny guys though.

[Bodhi]

It looks like Blink-182 just dropped the rock album of the year. 

I never thought I'd here "Blink 182" and "rock album of the year" in the same sentence - wow.

I always considred them a bit of a novelty, never have taken them serious really.

Same here.

Funny guys though.

yeah I thought they were going to be a novelty act back in the late 90's but they really matured on their self titled album that came out in 2003.  The break was probably the best thing for them.  Tom went on to expand his songwriting with Angels and Airwaves who I am a huge fan of, and Mark and Travis did other projects too.  The new album is just a more of a rock record than pop punk.  Even The New York Times gave it a rave review.  Since they got back together they have been playing sold out shows all over the world, with most venues holding up to 20,000.  I went to the show in Jersey and there were a huge amount of kids who werent even born when Blink's first album came out.  Blink was able to stick around and stay relevant to a new generation, thats very hard thing to do.  While the songs are more mature, the shows still consist of Tom telling Mark that he fucks his dad, so at least that will never change haha.

Heres the new video, check it out, some of you who didn't like Blink originally might dig it, its a cool rock song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpYhGdrknlA

[Falcon]

Hoppus was good on Rome, still not a fan of his band but he came off well in the interview.

Follow up from Rome after the segment was interesting, slammed GNR and Journey for touring "on the name" for cash grabs...

Rome can be emailed at jim@haveatake.com for those who care to voice their displeasure.

[Bodhi]

It's Time For Critics to Reevaluate Blink-182
By Luke Winkie LA Weekly

Critics do their best to ignore Blink-182. After all, it's not easy to get scrunched up with deep opinions about lip-ringed, occasionally naked SoCal troublemakers hawking pre-YouTube music-video softcore on early-morning MTV rotation. Pitchfork didn't even bother publishing a flogging (a la 21st Century Breakdown) of Blink's 2011 comeback album Neighborhoods, much less a review.
In fact, to fans of previous musical generations, Blink-182 might be two notches above nursery rhymes in terms of the grand musical canon. Rolling Stone would call their 1999 album Enema of the State "harmless," which is profoundly wrong. Simply because there's a huge demographic of college kids thinking hard about music who consider Blink-182 one of the most important bands of all time, in about a decade, the band's best songs will achieve the respectable ubiquity of classic-rock radio. Blink-182 is anything but harmless, and they absolutely deserve their forthcoming revisionism.


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http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/06/blink-182_enema_fuck_guilty_pleasures.php