• Band Name: blink-182
  • Record Label: MCA
  • Release Date: Nov 7, 2000
Metascore
56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. 80
    It's the between-song banter that makes The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show worth its weight in gold.
  2. DeLonge is one terrific little guitar player, the comic chitchat interludes are a sweet bonus for fans, and Blink-182 steal enough moronic hooks to make The Enema Strikes Back a hoot.
  3. 70
    On this speedy live best-of, loads of smirky, self-deprecating one-liners about boobies, boners, and crooked wieners can't conceal the music's winning wistfulness. [12/2000, p.222]
  4. This collection is a sugar-high set, adrenalized even more than Blink's souped-up studio albums by the waves of Cheap Trick Live at Budokan-like female screams pouring from the audience. And the playing offers plenty of evidence to quiet anyone who thinks these guys are just three-chord wonders.... But young audiences love Blink shows in part for the wiseacre, self-deprecating quips, and this album is full 'em -- and not just between songs, as there are (count 'em) 29 extra tracks of banter lasting over 10 minutes at the album's end.
  5. This is as base as it gets, friends, a frantic, frenetic, and unapologetically adolescent orgy of sexual and scatological tomfoolery.
  6. The Mark, Tom and Travis Show is indeed a real rock show and catches Blink 182's shameless personalities and childlike giggling about oral sex, dog semen, and masturbation.
  7. Unfortunately, the toidy humor isn't funny, and the introspective songs aren't that relevatory. [#3, p.105]
  8. It's not that this wise ass trio of lucky punks make terrible music -- their crass, hyperkinetic tunes are just the thing for adolescents who find Green Day too intellectually challenging -- but this collection is wholly unwarranted from a band whose breakthrough album is barely a year old.
User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 84 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 61 out of 63
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 63
  3. Negative: 2 out of 63
  1. ZogthorS.
    10
    Critics are gay! Who agrees. They are probably a bunch of lowlifes who can't do better and rip people off because they feel **** that they can't get the same. Who's with me? Full Review »
  2. EMileH
    10
    Blink 182 Rocks! Just wish they never Broke up...
  3. F**k haters knowbody causally listens to that rock sh*t anyway pop punk is way better one of my favorite album of blink182. They can relate to kids better Full Review »