Sep 19, 2001 11:25 AM
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This the new offering from the san Diego threesome Blink 182 takes the band bakc to it''s earlier roots. By that I mean a more hardcore skate punk sound less associated with pop and pop fans. It is like a mix of both Dude Ranch and Buddha (but better quality obviously!) with sprinkles of Enema Of the State to give those newer fans something to sing along to, but giving the older fans (such as myself) a roller coaster ride of punk rock mayhem.The album itself is filled with laughs and gags, enough in fact to do a whole stage show on!! The quality of these jokes shows that Blink have not lost thier sense of humour and are still childish at heart even though they have quite obviously grown up a great deal. All of the gags come in Song form, and they are all funny as hell! Below I will write a track listings then a review of each song.
1 : Anthem Part II
2 : Online Songs
3 : First Date
4 : Happy Holidays You Bas-tard
5 : Story Of a Lonely Guy
6 : The Rock Show
7 : Stay Together For The Kids
8 : Roller Coaster
9 : Reckless Abandon
10 : Every Time I Look For You
11 : Give Me One Good Reason 12 : Shut Up
13 : Please Take Me Home. And:
14 : What Went Wrong 15 : Time To Break Up 16 : F**k A Dog OR
14 : What Went Wrong
15 : Grandpa Is An Ass-hole OR
14 : Time To Break Up
15 : Mothers Day Now on to the song reviews Anthem Part II – This is one of the best songs on the album. It starts off with the guitar and drums then the drum stops, then it starts again. Then the bass starts up after a bit. The lyrics are pretty good on this song but not the sort that you would expect from Blink 182.
Online Songs – This is also a good song, but not the best on the album. The singing starts out right away, and Mark is the singer for this song. The lyrics (and the name) suggest that this is about having a girlfriend who you know from a chat room who breaks up with you, but she lives quite near so you cant avoid seeing her with others.
First Date – This is obvious isn’t it! This is about gong out on a first date with a really beautiful girl and wanting to make the night seem like forever, and wishing you werent so nervous.
Everyones been there right? Happy Holidays You Bas-tard – This is a short song (42 seconds long) and is one of the comedy tracks I told you about. I haven’t got a clue what this one is about but it is pretty rude and crude.
Story of a lonely Guy : This one is pretty good, but it gets a bit boring listening to it over and over. About being really sad, and not having a life or a girlfriend, but wanting one. That is harsh!
The Rock Show – This is the most well known song on the album purely because it was released as the first single. Great beat and amazing singing, but after litenin to it a couple of hundred times it starts to get a LITTLE boring. Great video though!!
Stay Together For The Kids – This is my favourite track on the album. It starts out slow and the bass doesn’t come in until the chorus, and it isn’t in the verse at all. This is about a kids parents who are staying together for their kid but arguing all the time. Meanwhile the kid understands that the parent s are fighting and he wishes that they would just break up. Roller Coaster – This, once again, is about Falling in love and wanting to ask a girl out , but not having the guts. Trying to work up the guts….. not the best song on the album
Reckless Abandon – This is also about growing up (I think), and how the band love those kids that are different and those that listen to the punk rock, and about parents not understanding what growing up is all about, and having a great summer with your friends.
Every Time I Look For You – This is a bit of a weird song. Not the best song on the album, but not all that bad. I think that this one is about….wait while I think….it is about….looking for the girl of your dreams, but not being able to find her.
Give Me On Good Reason – This one is about saying to the one you love, ‘give me one good reason why I should fit in and be the same as everyone else, and fit in, and not be different and who I want to be. When they want you to fit in with everyone. Shut Up – About being controlled by the one you love, and leaving them and not wanting to, wanting to stay and be with them. That is just a theory and is probably completely wrong!!
Please take me home – This is about being with someone and liking them, but then something going wrong and you not wanting to be near that person any more….probably because the relationship is going wrong. What went Wrong – This is sort of an acoustic. This is about……………….well I don’t know exactly what this is about, but I like it a LOT. It is my second fave songon the album. Time To Break Up – This is a bit of a fast song, and I like it quite a bit. It Its is about, well breaking up….that’s what the whole gist of it is! F-uck A Dog – this is another comedy track and is the funniest on the whole album (apart from ‘
Grandpa is an Ass-hole’).The title of the song is basically what it’s all about. There is nothing else to it. Grandpa is an Ass-hole – This isn’t on the version with the three bonus tracks and video on it. It is about when you were with your grandpa, and you fd him in the ass-hole. I don’t think this is the best Blink 182 album yet. That was ‘Dude Ranch’, but it is really good.
All I have to say is, if you are easily offended then you had better watch out!!!!
