my life is complete again!! a hole has been refilled!!
 

Blink-182 re-form for album and tour



Four years and a plane crash later, Blink-182 are back together.

The persistent, obnoxious and – let's admit it – hugely catchy punk-pop band announced their reunion at the 2009 Grammy awards, confirming the news on their official website. "To put it simply, we're back," they wrote. "We mean, really back. Picking up where we left off and then some."

The band are recording a new album and hope to tour this summer.

Blink-182 split in 2005, 11 years into their recording career. In a YouTube video posted the next year, guitarist Tom DeLonge slammed his former bandmates, saying "I do not want to be in a bullshit pop band with some bullshit pop songs while you drive your fucking bullshit car and sing along to it like you're some 14 year-old girl."

He was fed up, it seemed, with persistent, obnoxious and giftedly catchy punk-pop songs.

Though the band-members' change of heart may have been brought on by many things, it was more than likely linked with Travis Barker's near-death experience last year. The tattooed drummer was one of two survivors in a South Carolina plane crash.

Speaking at the Grammys, Barker cast the reunion in simple terms. "We used to play music together, and we decided we're going to play music together again," he said.

God fucking help us all.

kind of a "big deal" for you?

If they'd come to Finland I'd like to see them just because I used to be a big fan. Great memories with high school and Blink.

this thread is another reason why i should be made in to a moderator

or they should just close this board down

Agreed.

Fuck this bullshit.

aight sorry guys. it was funny for like half a minute i swear.

i didn't know they had split up.

didn't know the singer hated his own band, and the drummer was involved in a plane crash.

just go buy all the early screeching weasel records. it will wipe the blink 182 stink off ya

screeching weasel are the reason why blink 182 exist.

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Screeching Weasel are good, though.

This band is and always has been so inconceivably shitty. I fail to see the reason for excitement, even for nostalgic reasons.

yeah.. let's just forget about this thread's existence really.

bump

bump x 2

haha.
one of the best bands evar.

the girl next door
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5RIisJ6re4

music elitists getting all whiny about this band getting back together and making sure we all know that they're familiar with the roots of a genre they seem to hate makes me giggle.

Keep up the great work, oh defenders of good music.

I do not admit this.

Sorry, your shame shall not be vindicated through peer agreement.

It's one of my favourite things when a band re-forms without my noticing their split. A bit like when Michael Stipe came out and I thought he'd been out years.

(praise from Ceasar!)
it all starts with the Ramones.

I dnt think Blink 182 are bad musicians. I just think their lyrics are stupid and trite most of the time.

i think blink 182 is full of bad musicians not in the sense that they can't play instruments (they can play the same 3 chords on the bass over and over again like fucking champs!) but because theyre tools.
that guy had it right when he broke up with them the first time.

this is why genocides and wars exsist. we keep letting the failures of history repeat themselves.

though I agree they're tools, it makes no sense to say they're a band full of bad musicians because they're tools. You should just say they're a band full of tools and then you're statement will be accurate.

Here's my stance. How many people here aren't capable of listening to other things than them? No one? Great! Stop caring then and listen to something that you preder.

Are we cramping your Blink-182 love in?

some people love partying with 12 year olds I guess.

I don't think I've actually heard a full Blink 182 song to be honest.

I'd preder easier to follow grammar.

I'd prefer someone with a spell check installed on their computer but we can't all get what we want.

dude, you were the one who typed "preder" to begin with. That's what I was pointing out! haha.

Oops, my bad. I'm usually more attentive to my spelling. I guess I've become much lazier though. =\

haha. Alright, I'm done being a jerk now.

we all know you bought front row tickets for all their shows and will following them in an old rv with all your 13 year old friends.

drinking "soda pop".

the title of this thread makes it sound like you got a new buttplug

I love pop punk.

so do i. just not pop punk via mtv.

Right. Just not pussy punk. There's a difference here.