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They don't mess around much outside their tessitura - they like to keep everything light, fast and punchy.
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In toeing the fine line between clever and dumb, they've always worn their "I'm With Stupid" T-shirts with goofy pride. But don't cry for them, as this time they've polished their musical turd to a brilliant sheen.
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Blink-182 sticks to the winning formula of past efforts Dude Ranch and Enema of the State on Jacket, an extremely well-produced, hard-hitting exercise in pre-pubescent punk rock that will no doubt sell millions to throngs of misguided juveniles who relate to the band's piss takes on life's everyday miseries.
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Somehow Blink 182 have captured the space created by Green Day.
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The carping is intercut with elegiac little pauses that align Blink 182 with a branch of punk rock you could trace back through the Replacements and Ramones Leave Home, to the more ethereal of early Who songs.
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In fact, on the musical front blink-182 are more reminiscent of the Beach Boys than the Sex Pistols: a very, very fast and tasteless Beach Boys, admittedly, but those massed harmonies and that glossy production are the pop perfectionist's fantasy taken to its logical conclusion.
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Overflowing with sparkling riffs and rhythms punched up with the kind of self-deprecating, angst-lite lyrics the boys craft so well.
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Q MagazineYet when they stop arsing around for the sake of it, Blink-182 write some very good pop songs. [Aug 2001, p.124]
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The band work so hard at it, and the music is such processed sounding mainstream rock played fast, that the album becomes a paradox: adolescent energy and rebellion made joyless.
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High on boyish charm and low on moral fiber, Blink's songs have all the lyrical depth of a whoopee cushion.
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The sad fact is that Blink-182 are now indistinguishable from the increasingly tedious 'teenage dirtbag' genre they helped spawn.
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Positive: 118 out of 129
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samaJun 5, 2006blink are the buisness you can't beat them there F***ing rock! dont eva put down their album becuase u'll miss it!
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