Performer Notes
- This is an Enhanced CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
- Blink 182: Tom DeLonge (vocals, guitar); Mark Hoppus (vocals, bass); Travis Barker (drums).
- Additional personnel: Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. (keyboards).
- This is an Enhanced CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
- Blink 182: Tom DeLonge (vocals, guitar); Mark Hoppus (vocals, bass); Travis Barker (drums).
- Additional personnel: Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. (keyboards).
- blink-182: Tom DeLonge (vocals, guitar); Mark Hoppus (bass guitar); Travis Barker (drums).
- Personnel: Roger Manning (keyboards).
- Audio Mixers: Jerry Finn; Tom Lord.
- Recording information: Big Fish; Bomb Factory; Conway Recording Studios; Mad Hatter; Signature Sound; Studio West.
- Photographer: David Goldman .
- Arranger: blink-182.
- Blink 182 embodies all the rock & roll verities, from savage, power chord-driven, guitar-bass-and-drums attack to a carefully cultivated tastelessness (see album title and cover art), bolstered by plenty of attitude (the abundance of tattoos doesn't hurt either). The band's post-Green Day pop-punk leaps out of the speakers with zero subtlety and maximum aggression. Guitars alternately blaze and chug over breakneck rhythms, while the vocal melodies pay homage to the time-honored pop hook tradition. Despite the band's four-on-the-floor approach, the arrangements are regulated by careful, radio-minded production for a more accessible sound.
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (7/8-7/22/99, pp.149-50) - 3 stars (out of 5) - "...gnarly enough to forment the kind of anti-everything rebellion that spawned rock & roll way back in the day....more power to 'em."
Rolling Stone (7/8-7/22/99, pp.149-50) - 3 stars (out of 5) - "...gnarly enough to forment the kind of anti-everything rebellion that spawned rock & roll way back in the day....more power to 'em."
Q (10/99, p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...bright, three-minute pop tunes with adolescent vigor...More fun than Crass, at least."
Q (10/99, p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...bright, three-minute pop tunes with adolescent vigor....full of songs about frat parties, making out, shitty jobs and, yes, bottoms....More fun than Crass, at least."
CMJ (5/31/99, p.5) - "...a geeky, three-chord rocker that employs a locker room sense of humor....While Blink 182 does slow down punk's pace, making it accessible to the pop-happy masses, this small concession hardly dilutes the band's potency."
CMJ (5/31/99, p.5) - "...a geeky, three-chord rocker that employs a locker room sense of humor....While Blink 182 does slow down punk's pace, making it accessible to the pop-happy masses, this small concession hardly dilutes the band's potency."
