Saturdays bonus disc, the soundtrack to my journey from Stafford to Wigans arse kicking of Villa was Blink 182's Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.
This is my favourite Blink 182 album containing my favourite Blink 182 song in Rock Show, considering the result of the football, I needed something that would cheer me up and this was as near as damn it a CD that would.
I think as pop punk goes, actually as rock music goes, this CD is possibly amongst the best, you have the fun good times songs in Anthem Pt 2, The Rock Show, First Date etc, then you have the incredibly peurile in Happy Holidays You Bastard and Mothers Day, but then also you have a song like Stay Together For The Kids, a song arguably that could have been on the Boxcar Racer album, similar in feel to I Feel So.
I really love this album, its an enjoyable romp start to finish at its Blink at the height of their powers, its a grin along album that you need to take seriously, out side of Happy Holidays You Bastard....or Mothers Day, neither of which are suitable to play around your aged mother, but that all pails with their song called Fuck A Dog, not on this album.
10 out of 10.
The Rock Show By Blink 182
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Sunday, 16 August 2009
Friday, 14 August 2009
Blink 182
Whilst Kev is shuffling I am listening to Blink 182’s eponymous album, their final studio album before their hiatus, re-emerging this year.
I will be honest with you hear, I listened to an album yesterday that I never reviewed, it was a double album, a compilation done for me by a friend a few years ago that I never listened to at the time, and this time I listened to half of it on the way to work, and a third of the second disc on the way home, and as I passed my wheelie bin I popped it in, it has nothing to do with todays listening, it was bad obscure indie that was dreadful.
Todays album is not Blink 182’s best and it does contain their worst bit of music in The Fallen Interlude but on the whole the album is good to listen to and at times has some works of genius, Down, Go, Feeling This, I Miss You as well as a song sung by Robert Smith of The Cure in All Of This.
It does have a few needless track in The Fallen Interlude and a live version Anthem Part Two, but they are crimes that are forgivable on the whole, after all anthem is a very good song.
The album though does venture into that maturer sound that bands, particularly of their ilk, have to adopt to continue selling records as their fanbase grows up, The Offspring, Green Day have tried to do it, so why not Blink 182? I personally think though that Blink 182’s attempts are a lot more enjoyable, fulfilling but perhaps not as profitable as Green Days, thankfully though Blink 182 collaborate with Robert Smith and not U2.
So all in all enjoyable, 8 out of 10
All Of This by Blink 182 ft Robert Smith
I will be honest with you hear, I listened to an album yesterday that I never reviewed, it was a double album, a compilation done for me by a friend a few years ago that I never listened to at the time, and this time I listened to half of it on the way to work, and a third of the second disc on the way home, and as I passed my wheelie bin I popped it in, it has nothing to do with todays listening, it was bad obscure indie that was dreadful.
Todays album is not Blink 182’s best and it does contain their worst bit of music in The Fallen Interlude but on the whole the album is good to listen to and at times has some works of genius, Down, Go, Feeling This, I Miss You as well as a song sung by Robert Smith of The Cure in All Of This.
It does have a few needless track in The Fallen Interlude and a live version Anthem Part Two, but they are crimes that are forgivable on the whole, after all anthem is a very good song.
The album though does venture into that maturer sound that bands, particularly of their ilk, have to adopt to continue selling records as their fanbase grows up, The Offspring, Green Day have tried to do it, so why not Blink 182? I personally think though that Blink 182’s attempts are a lot more enjoyable, fulfilling but perhaps not as profitable as Green Days, thankfully though Blink 182 collaborate with Robert Smith and not U2.
So all in all enjoyable, 8 out of 10
All Of This by Blink 182 ft Robert Smith
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Cheshire Cat
I listened to the debut album by Blink 182 today, Cheshire Cat. Less puerile than the albums that followed and not chock full of hits. Enough for me though.
Notable tracks are M+M’s and Carousel, but there is a little more to it than just those songs, you delve into it and it does reward. Although there isn’t a single track on it I don’t love, just because of the quality spread across their subsequent albums, it is my least favourite of theirs and as such the least played, but Blink 182 on a bad day is better than most on great days.
This album features Scott Raynor on drums, their little know first drummer, replaced by Travis Barker some time later and also initially they were called Blink but some dodgy British indie band made them change their name, such is the power wielded by dodgy British indie bands, unless you are called Suede, The Beat or The Charlatans. All of which is inconsequential when it comes to the debut by Blink 182.8 out of 10.
Carousel by Blink 182
Notable tracks are M+M’s and Carousel, but there is a little more to it than just those songs, you delve into it and it does reward. Although there isn’t a single track on it I don’t love, just because of the quality spread across their subsequent albums, it is my least favourite of theirs and as such the least played, but Blink 182 on a bad day is better than most on great days.
This album features Scott Raynor on drums, their little know first drummer, replaced by Travis Barker some time later and also initially they were called Blink but some dodgy British indie band made them change their name, such is the power wielded by dodgy British indie bands, unless you are called Suede, The Beat or The Charlatans. All of which is inconsequential when it comes to the debut by Blink 182.8 out of 10.
Carousel by Blink 182
Friday, 22 May 2009
Enema of the State
The enema of the state today, the charmingly titled album by pop punkers, Blink 182. I love Blink 182, you should know that and none of their albums in the coming weeks will get below 8 out of 10, that might spoil it a little for you, but you can save up you bile until the last album of theirs.
This is potentially my favourite Blink 182 album, it could be called Greatest Hits and I would nod in agreement, one of my favourite Blink 182 tracks in Adams song, a single track across an extremely consistent album, from Dumpweed to Anthem and everything in between it really cant be bettered by them.
It would be easy to write them off as a band that play guitars and do jokes about ladies parts. On Adams Song they sing about teenage depression and suicide and it startles me that a group of their ilk could write something so good, and that I think was the song that made me love them.
Also present are the singles, All the small things and Whats my age again, 2 more reasons to love this album. 9 out of 10.
Adams Song by Blink 182
This is potentially my favourite Blink 182 album, it could be called Greatest Hits and I would nod in agreement, one of my favourite Blink 182 tracks in Adams song, a single track across an extremely consistent album, from Dumpweed to Anthem and everything in between it really cant be bettered by them.
It would be easy to write them off as a band that play guitars and do jokes about ladies parts. On Adams Song they sing about teenage depression and suicide and it startles me that a group of their ilk could write something so good, and that I think was the song that made me love them.
Also present are the singles, All the small things and Whats my age again, 2 more reasons to love this album. 9 out of 10.
Adams Song by Blink 182
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits
Todays sojourn through my CD’s is the start of what I think will be three days of The Ataris, todays is Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits. This album contains my favourite Ataris song in San Dimas High School Football Rules. A song that initially got me into The Ataris and a song I still love today. The album was fantastic to listen to and a great pick me up after the last few mediocre albums. Extremely enjoyable and will potentially be the album of the week for me, depending on if so Long Astoria is tomorrow or not.
Pop punk at its best I think, as good as Green Day or Blink 182 at their very best and after playing 2 whole times each journey still enjoyable each run through. Marvellous. 8 out of 10.
Pop punk at its best I think, as good as Green Day or Blink 182 at their very best and after playing 2 whole times each journey still enjoyable each run through. Marvellous. 8 out of 10.
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