Just listening to them now. I swear that for nearly everyone I know around my age, these were the "stepping stone" into better and more obscure music. Still think they're ace though!
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i took her out
it was a friday night
we walked alone
to get the feeling right
WE STARTED MAKING OUT, SHE TOOK OFF MY PANTS
yes
I'll unashamedly admit that Blink 182 got me into music at the age of 14 when I picked up Dude Ranch. Dude Ranch was a fucking rollicking pop punk album.
"ace"???
they're fucking gash.
They're ACE.
:D
I never REALLY liked them
And I still dont.
Linkin park was where my scene was at. They had a dj for christs sake.
i never really liked blink 182 either.
i was more into the ataris and less than jake.
I wish I had my own, I wish I had my own, my very own,
MY OWN FLAG!!!
...
Dalkin is listening to Blink 182 right now.
I on the other hand never have.
you losers.
ataris
first two albums were reet good. All went downhill after the... Album... With the ... Blue... Cover...
Can't remember its name.
blue skies
broken hearts, next 12 exits.
that was a GOOD album
it had san dimas high school football rules on it.
i'm going to go and find my old ataris albums later.
less than jake have been shit since borders and boundaries. by which i mean that borders and boundaries is 'pretty good', while everything since then has been awful. i think the horn section is pretty much redundant now. sigh.
SIT DOWN! REMIIIND ME HOW, THIS IS THE SAAAME OLD STORY OF GROWING UP AND GEEETING LOST.
they really connected with me when i was thirteen.
GEEETTING*
obvs.
I still like Blink a fair bit
ace singles band they were.
Seriously
This was one of the worst bands ever.
Poor man's Vandals!
...and NOFX to a lesser extent. I always listened to NOFX and Pennywise cos they were the background music on my cousin's skating videos.
be quiet!
blink 182 are just great, or were great, or are great. something
angels and airwaves though. FUCKING HELL what is going on there
I know yeah
even Boxcar Racer were alright...
Egad
The Vandals are?/were? even worse than Blink!
They are so bad it hurts
This may have something to do with my younger brother listening to them and nothing else for about two years straight when he was 13/14.
Although that doesn't necessarily alter the fact that they're one of the worst bands it's ever been my displeasure to come across.
They were my favourite band
for a couple of years a long long time ago, of course now I find it all horribly embarrasing. Not as embarrasing as the fact that I have a friend who STILL LISTENS TO THEM
nah
the only people i know whose stepping stone band were blink 182 were a bit odd. clearly nirvana are THE Stepping stone band, then green day if you got into punk. blink 182 were always derided as a bad green day ripoff back in tut day, and deservedly so.
well
that's because you are older?*
I still like Blink 182. Dammit is one of my favourite songs of all time.
* Nirvana and Green Day were before my time
i'm only a year
older than you. nirvana and dookie-era green day were before my time but i still got into them and ignored blink.
I got into Nirvana
But Blink were one of THE gateway bands for me.
Nirvana came about 6 months later.
I got into music late. Hendrix was actually first. And Oasis.
for me
it was eels, blur and pulp.
i bought beautiful freak, the great escape and different class within about 2 weeks when i was 12 or 13 and they changed my life.
I didn't buy an album
until i was 14
I bought some BAD singles, (and one or two good ones) before.
yeh
well i bought stuff before then but they were my intro to 'real' music i guess.
my first album was probably michael jackson - bad on cd.
My 'stepping stone'
bands were probably Travis and Stereophonics and The Verve and Catatonia (aside from older stuff). Which is probably not much better than Blink1 182 etc.
The live album is ace!!!
never understood
Why Green Day were held in so much higher regard than Blink. There were two deifnate camps, and neither band particuarly liked each other.
Blink's first three albums (buddha, cheshire cat, dude ranch) were great pop punk albums. I instantly preferred them over Green Day. I guess it was because Blink became the first to make the "sell out" album in Enema. I think Warning was released slightly after? But Warning was a pile of gash.
not true
Warning was the best Green Day album.
^^^^
!?!!?!??!!?!!?!??!?!?!?!?!???????!!!!
Warning:
WAS the best Greenday album.
Of the rest, I've only heard Dookie, and American Idiot. Dookie is a bit patchy and the new one's just a bit cack.
Warning was amazing, it had Beatlesy things in it. Well not amazing, you understand, just better then the rest.
Greenday = most overrated band ever?
blink and green day did tour together
when big
pah!
everyone knows dookie was the sellout!
Awful band.
Their S/T album is the only one with any credibility, IMO.
Wrong
The S/T is the best granted. But Blink have NEVER really had credibility.
Fuck credibility. Blink 182 wrote better songs than 90% of 'credible' bands.
what the fuck..
is this a pisstake?
"credibility"?! since when did that matter?
take off your pants and jacket was my favourite album for quite some time.
i listened to it recently and could still sing along to EVERY WORD.
what about angels and airwaves?
SUPERROFLMAO
man i used to love them so much when i was 11.
they were my stepping stone onto every type of music ever. they wrote great fun songs.
i didn't like 'take off your pants' so much.
i liked the live album the best i think.
the live album
is fantastic. Fast, energetic and good fun pop-punk.
The live album
is the worst of all. Thought Blink couldn't possibly make their songs any more shit? Wrong! Just take a large selection of the shittest, play them back to back for an hour (really badly and at double speed), intersperse with liberal helpings of jokes about hilarious stuff like boobies and poop et voila! Probably the worst record ever made.
....
I hated them live. HATED. They sped everything up, and it was shite.
However.
The following songs are really really good, and I couldn't give a shite about the rest of their input:
Dammit
Aliens Exist
All The Small Things
Reckless Abandon
Feeling This
Stockholm Syndrome
Easy Target
the singing never ever changed from montone
, i couldnt understand why a one of the worst live acts in that scene ever made alive album.
They got me into music.
I had albums before but never really followed it up. Within six months I was on Nirvana, Green Day, Foo Fighters. I rarely listen to them now but they are a really great band to get people into music.
They're pretty good for what they are
not saying they're pretty good 'gash', but they make alright pop-punk immaturewhinecore. It's not my bag and people generally grow out of it and apppreciate more 'mature' 'guitar music'. I can't imagine a child or early teenager going straight from the neutral wasteland of 'chart-music' to listening to much of the 'higher' brow music on here, so as annoying as the bands may be on retrospect, they do serve a purpose. What does grate with me is people who don't grow out of teenage musical obsessions. Actually that's an extremely intolerant thing to say, apart from the obvious, if it were an obsession with Can, Iggy or anything else I approve of, I'm sure I could deal with it. It's just the concept that some people seem to have that music died in 19**, that irritates.