Part of the chorus (“Nobody likes you when you’re 23”) has become a fitting social media caption for those stuck in the purgatory between being old enough to drink and too young to rent a car, but the entire song remains timeless. With the popularity of “All the Small Things,” it’s easy to forget that the first single off Enema of the State was “What’s My Age Again?,” a rowdy lament about growing up. So, to celebrate this year’s 30th anniversary of the band and the 25th anniversary of Dude Ranch, which took place over the weekend, Paste is ranking the band’s 25 best songs, which range from distorted demos and rowdy thumpers of angst to timeless pop punk masterpieces. nine times total, won a Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award and turned an unfiltered garage jam session into a mountainous three-decade empire of millennial punk. The band’s discography is dense and diverse, with boggling charades and drugged-out stupors as plentiful throughout as heavy ballads about familial and relationship trauma.
After the band’s first hiatus, Hoppus, DeLonge and Barker each turned to solo projects: DeLonge and Barker played together in Box Car Racer in the early 2000s Hoppus and Barker created +44 and DeLonge found success in his new band Angels & Airwaves in 2005.īut across eight studio albums- Cheshire Cat, Dude Ranch, Enema of the State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, Blink-182, Neighborhoods, California and Nine-Blink-182’s sound has gone from pop punk to post-hardcore to power pop, as they’ve long postured themselves as chameleonic within the alternative landscape. Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba replaced DeLonge in 2015 and has filled that role ever since.
That success hasn’t come without turbulence, though, as the trio has broken up once and DeLonge has quit the band twice. They were groundbreaking in how they made explicit lyrics so perfectly compatible with radio-friendly instrumentals unabashed and unafraid of leaning as far into corny songs as they could to evoke candy-coated emotions (here’s looking at you, “I Miss You”). Blink immediately became the group we think of them as today: MTV mainstays who went big with their 1999 breakout record, Enema of the State, and helped make millennial rock and roll fashionably lame. In the group’s early days, which included co-founder Scott Raynor on the drum kit, they made distorted, unpolished skate punk for Cargo Records and became Warped Tour legends (thanks to the success of their 1997 song “Dammit”).Īfter a long battle with alcoholism, Raynor was dismissed from the band and replaced by Barker, who’d previously drummed in ska bands.
The trio, famously composed of Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker, helped vault the genre into the mainstream alongside Green Day and The Offspring nearly 30 years ago. Now might be the time for it.Formed in 1992 in Poway, California, a San Diego suburb, Blink-182 has endured as one of pop punk’s most beloved acts. Would they decide to go live together in a house somewhere again he wondered. He said he wouldn’t know how it would work out. During the CQ interview with Mark he talked about the possibility of Tom rejoining the band and he answered in a very interesting way. And why wouldn’t it? After all that has happened, why wouldn’t they decide to make an album together again. And if there’s talk, something is brewing with blink-182. What really changed my viewpoint on all of this is when somebody asked Matt on instagram that he should make a song with Tom Delonge, he answered there’s talk.ĭoesn’t seem like a lie. There’ve been teases from both Mark and Tom, as well as from Matt. Blablabene wrote, “Lately I’ve seen a lot of people discuss the possible reunion of blink-182. Matt Skiba recently broke his silence on rumors of Tom DeLonge returning to Blink-182, and he said there are discussions of DeLonge returning to record.
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