i won my high-school talent show four years ago playing "damnit" by blink. hells yea.

blink 182 was one of the doors for emo into the mainstream. while the band itself wasn't exactly emo (but their last album was headed in that direction), they helped make it cool for nasal-toned pre-pubescent overly-dramatic suburban kids to get out there and slit their wrists in style (even though 182 liked to sing mostly about fucking your mom).

Wow, you have no idea what emo music is.

Wow, you have no idea what emo music is.

i never said blink was emo. i said they opened the doors for the radio-friendly punk styles of modern "emo" bands.

and yes, i know about emo's early days with bands like minor threat and rites of spring and how they sounded nothing like these poppy modern incarnations do like jimmy eat world or fall out boy. i know that they're hardly like what emo was.

I AGREE.
THIS IS WHY I WANTED THIS TO HAPPEN.
+44 and AVA GONE. YES.

As for Blink themselves, they're not bad... but not exactly musical geniuses or too interesting. I guess they're a solid band. They do what they're meant to do.

I concur.

Blink is anything special. but how many bands last as long as them. They write songs that make you feel good. They're funny. It's upbeat and fast. It's solid pop-punk. Like the queers evolved into something not better or worse.

i've enjoyed some blink 182. i remember before i had heard any of the "commercial punk" bands when i was younger and figured they had the same sound as sum 41. probably because my juvenile head saw that they both had numbers in their names.
anywho, i got a kick out of a few songs and still do. dude ranch, buddha, cheshire cat, and that old side project they had are still a mystery to me. i liked enema, pants/jacket album blew mostly, and the last one was surprisingly pretty decent. i always liked how "i miss you" was built around one guitar riff and still came out great.