blink-182 - ONE MORE TIME…

blink-182 may have set the tone for pop-punk with the angsty rebellion of 1999's 'Enema Of The State' and 2001's 'Take Off Your Pants & Jacket', but the band were always bigger than that. There were powerfully tender conversations around broken homes ('Stay Together For The Kids'), depression ('Adam's Song') and generational frustrations ('Anthem Part 2') comfortably set alongside giddy escapism ('All The Small Things') and puerile humour ('Happy Holidays, You Bastard'). Even the more mature 'Untitled' charged between brooding emo, stripped-down theatrics and experimental punk as the trio set about pushing things forward.

Their first go at a reunion album 'Neighborhoods' picked that spirit of evolution back up and landed on sci-fi rock & roll, while the Matt Skiba-featuring 'California' was a love letter to what had come before. More at ease a second time around, 'Nine' was a dark, vicious punk album that wrestled with joy. Desperate to maintain the identity of blink-182, that trio of focused post-hiatus albums lacked the spindly, reckless abandon that had first made the band such a generational force.