Live at the Mark, Tom & Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back)
by blink-182
  • Record Label: MCA
  • Release Date: Nov 7, 2000
Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. CDNow
    80
    It's the between-song banter that makes The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show worth its weight in gold.
  2. Rolling Stone
    70
    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. Spin
    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]
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  5. Sonicnet
    60
    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.
  6. Wall of Sound
    52
    This is as base as it gets, friends, a frantic, frenetic, and unapologetically adolescent orgy of sexual and scatological tomfoolery.
  7. AllMusic
    50
    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.
  8. Revolver
    40
    Unfortunately, the toidy humor isn't funny, and the introspective songs aren't that relevatory. [#3, p.105]
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  9. Entertainment Weekly
    25
    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.

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#11 Most Discussed Album of 2000
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#56 Most Shared Album of 2000

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User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 101 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 86 out of 101
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 101
  3. Negative: 9 out of 101
  1. ZogthorS.
    Apr 4, 2008
    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 shit that Critics are gay! Who agrees. They are probably a bunch of lowlifes who can't do better and rip people off because they feel shit that they can't get the same. Who's with me?… Full Review »
  2. EMileH
    Sep 28, 2006
    10
    Blink 182 Rocks! Just wish they never Broke up...
  3. EPIXMAN15
    Nov 8, 2011
    10
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