Blink 182

Editor's Review:

Punk has never sounded so ahistorical, though its hard to expect anything pre-NOFX from kids still excited over pubes No. 6 and 7. All the good tricks are here - the whiny little voice, the frantic power chords and the once-satisfying (circa '81) stops, references to self-as-loser, positively uproarious soundbites of a dog lapping fresh beer piss outta the toilet and, of course, Buddhist meditations on the very nature of human existence ("My girlfriend takes me home when I'm too drunk to drive / And she doesn't get all jealous when I hang out with the guys.") Mark Trombino (late of ultra-rad San Diego noise rockers Drive Like Jehu), possibly sensing surf and skate flick royalties, has done a sparkling production job though he probably should of warned the Blink teens that they accidentally wrote the same song 16 times. Still, way better junior-high jams than Hanson, but not by much.

- Greg Heller

First appeared in BAM magazine 6/27/97
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Record Label MCA Released June 1997

Tracks 1. Pathetic 2. Voyeur 3. Dammit 4. Boring 5. Dick Lips 6. Waggy 7. Enthused 8. Untitled 9. Apple Shampoo 10. Emo 11. Josie 12. A New Hope 13. Degenerate 14. Lemmings 15. I'm Sorry