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| Artist: Blink-182
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music
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Rating:  129 reviews
Sales Rank: 6893
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 72
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602498614082
EAN: 0602498614082
ASIN: B0000W3YME
Release Date: November 17, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Feeling This | | • | Obvious | | • | I Miss You | | • | Violence | | • | Stockholm Syndrome Interlude/ Stockholm Syndrome | | • | Down | | • | The Fallen Interlude | | • | GO | | • | Asthenia | | • | Always | | • | Easy Target | | • | All Of This | | • | Here's Your Letter | | • | I'm Lost Without You | | • | Not Now | | • | Anthem Part Two | | • | Feeling This | | • | Obvious | | • | Down / The Fallen Interlude | | • | Violence |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Save one salty reference to sporting an embarrassing "boner during PE", the eponymous Blink 182, the band's fifth studio album is mercifully bereft of the references to farts and turds that have littered the lyrics of preceding million-sellers such as Enema of the State. Both Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge have become proud dads and thus have familiarised themselves with the fragrant pleasures of the 3.30am soiled-nappy change. Suddenly, shit isn't funny anymore, which is probably just as well seeing as Blink 182's comedic turns make the average Carry On film look like something by Moliere. Otherwise it's pretty much business as usual. Guitar buzz, girl troubles and teenage hormone dilemmas, big chanting choruses come flying out like volleys of snot from a pit bull terrier's nose and the whole thing sounds like Bob Mould's Sugar fronted by the imaginary snivelling younger sibling of Dean Friedman. While "Easy Target" bucks the trend by indulging in snarling minor-chord meltdown and Robert Smith of the Cure is commendably mopey on "All of This", to call this loveably hummable buffed-up racket "punk" would be wholly disrespectful to the much cherished memory of Sham 69 or the Lurkers. The fans will love it, of course, but the uncommitted will find themselves somewhat boner-less, even during PE. --Kevin Maidment
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| Customer Reviews: Read 124 more reviews...
 More Mature..... but is mature better? March 30, 2008
This album is good. It features the best song Blink 182 have ever made; "I Miss you". This song has perfect pacing and metaphorical lyrics with deeper meanings. You MUST hear this song before you die. Mark Hoppus and Tom Delonge both work together very well on this song; their voices contrasting perfectly.
The rest of the album is a little bit shaky. Some of the songs are great whearas some are bland and forgettable. "Violence" has a pointless intro and a questionable layout but features an excellent chrous which more than makes up for the errors in the song. It's a fun song but is it excellent? I'm not sure.
"Down" is a good song and was released as a single. It has a good chorus, but what makes the song great is the excellent conclusin to each chorus in which Mark Hoppus repeatedly says: "Down, down, down, down, ect." Its excellent and another fine example of the perfect contrasting voices of Tom and Mark. It's a shame they no longer work together.
Talking of Mark, where is he on this album? He barely has the main vocals on any of the songs. He mostly does backing vocals or sings one verse here and there. He shines on this album and its a shame he wasn't used more. Tom is very much the main vocalist here(as usual). Its good that Mark can now express his voice with his new band +44 because Tom certainly hoggs most of the vocals on this album.
I've been a bit negative! This album is quite good(not Blink's best) but a lot of the fun of the prevous albums is gone and I'm not sure that Blink 182 had matured in the correct way. They should have said something about the world with this album but IMO they fail to do that. It's a decent album, and if you like Blink 182 then you'll definetly like it. It's good and definetly worth a listen or two!!!
Punk jokers grow up, make album of their lives, split up. December 28, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Blink 182 didn't make a great deal of progression across their successful career. They made one great leap when Travis Barker, arguably the best drummer in punk rock history, replaced founding drummer Scott Raynor, but outside of that there was little evidence of it until this album. This untitled, not self-titled album was one final stab at maturity. It burned them out, and they broke up shortly before they finished promoting it; the perfect way to bow out, having proved themselves.
Their previous masterpiece, Enema Of The State, bares little resemblance to this eclectic, lovely collection. That was an album of adolescent frustration through the eyes of a sophomore comedian, and the music was more or less straight pop-punk. Here, there are no joke songs - although the toe-curling spoken word section of 'Violence' comes close, though not deliberately - and the lyrics have gone from teenage jokes to more adult longing and lost loves. After the shameless retread of Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, this is definitely welcome.
Augmented by pianos, synthesisers, a Robert Smith guest vocal and dozens of ideas, the band show themselves to be more ambitious than you would expect multi-platinum selling pop-punkers to be. 'Feeling This,' with its effect-laden drum opening, shows you that this album has gone somewhere else, before alternating lyrics between the romantic and sexual sides of love. It is, in many ways, one of their greatest singles and certainly their finest album opener. The other singles show the band breaking further boundaries - 'Always' all flat-fifth chords, spilling over four minutes to be their longest single to date; 'I Miss You,' an all-acoustic ballad with tongues not in cheeks; and the claustrophobic 'Down.'
Even better than those songs are the lesser-known album tracks, which give them even more room to breathe. 'Easy Target' with its percussive backing track, the spiralling, seven-minute length of the heartbreaking closing track 'I'm Lost Without You,' and best of all, the two-minute rush of 'Go,' a return to their hardcore roots and one of the definitive moments of this album and their career.
Taking this album into account, one imagines that blink-182 broke up at exactly the right point. Their success built and built as their career went on. Having seen them at their last UK gig before breaking up, I can certify that they bowed out at their live peak. And with this record, they'd finally proved themselves to be serious artists, perfecting their body of work. If you think you know blink-182, get this album and prove yourself wrong.
 Give it a chance August 26, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Blink 182 introduced me to the music that I listen to today, the very first time I heard 'All The Small Things'. If it wasnt for them I wouldn't be into such great music. I loved all of their previous albums, I loved seeing them live with their great jokes and laughs.
Then this album arrived, I was just the same as everybody else who critisized it for being nothing like their previous outings. I made myself hate it because it just wasn't Blink. Now nearly 3 years down the line, knowing that they had split up. I started listening to this album again and I realised what a great album it is, even though they changed their sound it is a masterpiece and they went out on a high note.
Thanks Blink for all your great music.
Different but still great. April 4, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album is very different from the other albums, more mature but still a very high quality. My favourite song is Always. Unfortunatley this is the last proper album from Blink 182, but i look forward to their seperate bands.
This album is not their best it has to be said but i still like it and it still would be high in my cd collection. Buy it.
Back to form December 17, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
i have bought pretty much all albums prior to this one so have a good flavour for blink 182. It certainly is good. It seems to have taken a more slower approach, with them trying out some new sounds and techniques. worth your cash.
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