Too bad he’s having too much fun to care. Why would you wish that on me? I never want to act my age from What’s My Age Again?” Conversely the guy in this song gets dumped because of his immaturity. No one should take themselves so seriously. The pantyhose and the bras she threw on my guitars from Time To Break Up.” We do tend to overdo the makeup… I mean you do want to be kissed right? Girls should also steer clear of guitars as well as anything referred to as “tools” or “gear if they want to keep their men.ĥ. “Don’t depend on me to ever follow through on anything but I’d go through hell for you and I haven’t been this scared in a long time from Going Away To College.” In this sentimental songs the boys disclose the truth that some guys aren’t willing to admit: They can’t always give girls what we want or expect. How did this night end? “I said I’d call her but never I’d bother.” Guys you don’t want that girl. You should just turn and run because you’ll find out that some girls try too hard from The Party Song.” This is a warning to guys looking for hookups at parties- they’re better off “back at home watching TV alone” than with the typical easy girl at parties. “So when you see her standing there with green eyes and long blond hair she won’t be wearing underwear and you’ll discover this girl’s not the one and she’ll never be fun. Men obsess over the pursuit- it’s their God-given right. Something about a chick who keeps a guy waiting makes him tick. And if I ever got another chance I’d still ask her to dance because she kept me waiting from The Rock Show.” Why would he ask her to dance? Because she kept him waiting. But did you ever think those pop-punk jokesters could actually give us reasonable dating advice? One visit to and I’ll admit several one-woman rock shows in Conner Hall later I compiled the top 10 words of wisdom sung by one of the defining bands of our generation.ġ. We still blast Blink-182 songs that were on MTV’s “Total Request Live” when we were in the fifth grade. The streaking music video (featuring porn actress/ Enema cover star Janine Lindemulder) is arguably the most iconic in all of pop-punk, and has been endlessly parodied – twice by the band themselves for the aforementioned Man Overboard and She's Out Of Her Mind.Let’s be real. And as us fans have grown up with the music we've come to understand that revisiting them is as satisfying – and even more poignant – a form of rock escapism as ploughing through battlefields alongside Iron Maiden or tearing up the Sunset Strip with Guns N' Roses. These guys understand that you don't truly appreciate the comedy, tragedy and low-key beauty of your teenage years until they're behind you. For many, the idea of men in their late-twenties (writing as men in their early 20s) continuing to fixate on high school hijinks and the flutters of first romance seemed strange, if not a little sad. Less a song title than a tongue-in-cheek mission statement, What's My Age Again? found the band bravely facing up to the question of whether they might be getting too old for this sophomoric shit – then flicking a punkish two-fingered salute and carrying on regardless. We’ve done our best, however, to provide a comprehensive overview of the finest milestones on blink’s ever-onward path… With such shifting tones – both sonically and philosophically – different fans from contrasting eras will surely have their own opinions on which sorts of songs belong on a list like this. Bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus, however, remains a rocksteady constant.ĭig into their eight albums (nine if, like the band, you wish to count 1994’s Buddha demo), however, and you’ll find an artistic evolution drawn out over three decades that few others in rock can match. Original drummer Scott Raynor was replaced by the untouchable Travis Barker in 1998, while guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge was swapped out for Alkaline Trio mainman Matt Skiba for their last two LPs. Maybe it’s that their stop-start output, numerous side-projects and the changing faces of their line-up have undermined their monumental significance as pop-punk figureheads in some fans’ minds. Perhaps it’s an impression informed by the throwaway façade of their early years (an endless barrage of toilet humour fronting, as it does for so many young men, the well of more complex emotion within) having been mistaken for genuine numbskullery. Even two decades since the undeniable artistic watershed of their Untitled LP, there remains a strange consensus amongst many fans that there’s something insubstantial about blink-182’s body of work.
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