POLL: Meeting Blink 182 times...

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Yeah I was just wondering, what people think of Blink 182. I'll be honest here, i love them but i'm just interested in what other people think fo them. No bad feelings felt to those that don't like them ... until an argument ensues etc etc.

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Poll Results: Meeting Blink 182 times... (36 votes.)

Meeting Blink 182 times... (Choose 1)
* Yep! I love them silly! - 31% (11)
* It and, i mean, IT doesn't appeal to my ever exquisite tastes - 36% (13)
* I'm indifferent. So - so. Radio stuff etc. - 19% (7)
* Who? - 14% (5)

 

I don't like their music.

I'm actually indifferent to the band itself.

 

Blink 182 rocks. Musically and comically.

 

Well, I had to say that they don't appeal to my exquisite taste, but.. I don't really care. I don't hate them like I hate limp bizkit, I just don't think they're that interesting... the video where they dressed up in 70's stuff was cool, but apart from that it's just a bit too shallow for me.. I like music with some kind of purpose and meaning.. it doesn't hurt if it's original too.

 

That's my band! WOOHOO! Blink 182 rocks!!!!! I have all their cd's. I listen to them the most. Their also a big influnince on my gutar playing. There is no better punk band then blink! Yea there are better bands but no better punk bands.

 

I like about 3/4 of the blink songs i've heard (quite a lot of them). As with all my musical preferences i only care about the music.

P.S. has anyone heard the New Found Glory song 'My Friends Over You' ? Listen to various blink songs then listen to that. About every 3 seconds you'll be convinced your listening to blink because basically the music is very similiar (the same in places) to various blink songs and the about 1/3 of the lyrics are actually right out of various blink songs (sometimes rephrashed but if you know the lyrics well enough it gets very scary). Just thought i'd share this with you. Evil New Found Glory ripping Blink's songs! grr

[ August 03, 2002, 22:41: Message edited by: Lazy Bonzo ]

 

"Blink 182" is child's slop coughed up to serve expensive dinner to a loose-economy's teenagers.

All you are hearing is a fat paycheck for a bunch of fictional characters. Their musical value should be known as humiliating, but instead they are marketed to teenagers who are gullible to literally anything that is loud, obnoxious, and rebellious...

...though these I have no problem with (guaranteed, I enjoy heavy metal when misanthropic and pissed off), but the detention and expulsion of other musical (as well as emotional) genres which is imbued into the listener after hearing the music, especially to the targeted youth audience, is loathsome.

Music is the performance, the communication, the language, of raw emotions. Blink 182 is the literal equivalent to a bubbling infant jacked up on steroids - supplies a quick, delightful feeling of power and rebellion for a teenager, then the darkness returns and your money is gone to someone you only know from phony, fictional music videos.

Some music has lasting impression of exhilaration, sorrow, contentendness, serenity, or one of a trillion other emotions, but usually those emotions are enjoyed for people who can fathom experiencing them. Blink 182 procures your money in trade for taking your time - and thus, why is it so popular?

Nothing is popular without amazing skill, talent, or newness behind it. Therefore, it can be concluded that Blink 182 is fueled by marketing and marketing alone.

'Each to his own opinion,' as it should be.

Although I do say the intentions of any person, be in in music, politics, marriage, or any other arrangement, should always benefit the purchaser somehow. Blink 182 is a drug to keep your money flowing into that loud, putrid, gawking teenage mouth in the music video which you enjoyed so much.

If you want to kill me for this post, please do so through email - Xaelifer@aol.com

 

LOL. Xaelifer, you are out of control.

It is obvious that anyone who thinks Blink 182 *is* a punk band -- let *alone* the best of that genre... has not heard much punk. Doesn't it seem incongruous that they are a Top Ten, MTV, major-label band? How often is it going to happen that something truly subversive -- which punk must be by definition -- is going to get that kind of support from huge multinational corporations?

Yes, I know it *has* happened -- but not often, and never to that extent. Punk is not a beat or a distorted guitar sound or some guy yelling -- it is anti-*something*, it is a reaction against the status quo.

How does Blink 182 meet that definition?

 

Blink 182 have some good songs but are definatly not ranked as one of my all time favourites. I realy liked Damnit and Adams Song though. What was unmeaningful about these?

 

How can you like them, do they not make your stomach crawl?! Christ, they're nearly as bad as Gareth Gates!!!
All they sing about i how they love girls in a really annoying teen way. In that high voice, all their songs sound the same too! Yuck yuck yuck. I remember some wise words herf once said to me, "they're a commercialised boy-band".

 

Blink 182 are cool, i have their first album which most of i enjoy but ofcourse they are some shockers.

The second album i did not buy since i was informed by my fiend that the only good song on there is Rock Show. So i didnt end up getting the album.

But overall i think they are a cool band, nothing extraordinary but cool.

 

Woohoo! Fun time! Where do I start or beating back those that insult the cult?

Xaefiler,

Wouldn't that also include your taste in Heavy Metal? As for Blink 182 being there just to enfuse the youth with adrinaline rushes and a sense of rebellion, I must contest that. I mean, howabout this fora taste of emotion and indepth stuff. Blink 182 send their messages in a lighter hearted kind of tone. Something that can be taken in a fun way and not into brooding depression style.

And also who says that music has to have outstanding stuff to be good? A band doesn't have to have amazing or blinding solos and riffs to make a point. Sometimes too many riffs and solos can be a mind number. Sometimes keeping simple is the best way for a point to be put across. Its also easier on the listener to take in.

Methylviolet
You say that those that think Blink 182 are the best punk band havn't listened to much punk. Wrong! I've listened to absolutely tonnes of punk bands (some being famous such as 'Green Day' and some being not so famous such as '4ft fingers') and i can honestly say that Blink 182 is the band that appeals to me the most. Sure the other bands are great and i have their albums etc. but i can honestly say that Blink 182 are my favourite.

Z-Layrex
Think about it. How many songs are there that aren't exactly connected to love? Yes there be a few but most contain some hint of love or bonding in them. Death of a friend, War, straight forward love, puppy love, family, broken homes etc. all have an element of love and bondage in them.

Gormenghast,
Enema od the State isn't the bands first album. Its their 4th. Take of your pants and Jacket is their 6th etc. Their 1st - 3rd are as follows:
Cheshire Cat
Buddha
Dude Ranch.
But that aside, get their latest album. Its good stuff!

What else? ah yes, dragonRider Skyward, if you have the time, dig up my old topic ... i can't remember off hand but it has something to do with guitaring ... post your thoughts there and how Blink influences you.

*Breathes deeply*
Okay thats my token of peace over

[ August 03, 2002, 19:07: Message edited by: Sniper ]

 

Methylviolet:

"Out of control"? Blegh. What, exactly, are the forums for?

Realize that this 'subversive' music is exactly what millions of teenagers are willing to pay for. Huge multinational corporations? Like what? America Online? Microsoft? Of course not!

I mean that this teenage drivel has the potential to make billions, which is its entire purpose. This band was designed, created, and clothed by a low-key phantom corporation to inherit easy money from teenagers. These are people who seek out new impressions that teenagers will pay big money for - I've seen it myself. They search for something cool and use it. Even if the band started out as a musical persuasion, they were sucked in by these phantom corporations who wish simply to market them.

Their purpose is the money.

Sniper:

Correct. The emotions drawn from you like blood by the music are not the problem.

The problem is that Blink 182 is merely a vessel of monotonous teenage idiocy. My heavy metal (which I listen to about once a year) I listen to only when I feel misanthropic and pissed off, like I said. I also listen to anything else when I feel like it.

But when some dumb teenager restricts himself to hearing ONLY Limp or Blink, he shares views that other types of music are stupid - indefinitely. This does, as you seem to think, occur with Heavy Metal - but I, however, do not overuse listening. I am not shallow enough to only listen to Heavy Metal, and thus, I don't fall for their views. Who do you know that enjoys a good ear-spanking by Blink and then a tootsie dance by Beethoven? One punishes the other.

Bands must have something to give them fame. I don't care how good they are, but to be famous requires something new. And Blink 182's fame is fake and cheesy.

 

I mostly agree with Xaelifer. The music of today is a product that a group of people produce. It isn't a art form anymore. Anybody can (and it seems like everybody does) make a song nowadays. They can't sing. Their voice is rescrambled by a computer, all the music is put together by a computer. They might play the music themselves, but it is combined by a computer, which chooses the best parts and just puts them together. There are almost no good bands nowadays. The thing that is called music has commercialized and Blink 182 is just an example of this. Bands might get fame, but it mostly it isn't because of their musical talents, they're a product with action figures and their own clothes. Music of this time isn't legendary anymore. The bands of this time disappear as quickly as they appear. Music means only money nowadays. Punkbands who can't make good music and only yell a bit with some slashing on a guitar or boy bands who seem to only be in the business to get chicks. Rappers don't have a message, they just wanna shock people. You can notice music of this day is to commercialized by the way people handle their fame. They are famous because they produced a record and think suddenly they can act to. Well, they aren't famous and in ten years only a few will remember their names. Why do you think that in the charts of best songs ever only older songs are in the top ten or top hundred even. Those songs leave a legacy. Most music of nowadays is just crap, there are a few exeptions however.

[ August 03, 2002, 23:03: Message edited by: Silverblade ]

 

Xaelifer, I agree with a lot of your views on this subject but you seem to be using the word "teenager" very loosely.

What you said applies to some of todays teenagers however in this case you cannot generalize the populations youth.

 

Xaelifer, you misunderstand. I meant "out of control" in the kooky, wild, *admirable* sense -- I certainly did not mean that someone ought to control you!

And it is not packaged "subversion" -- this pap that pumps the nads and burns off teen rebellious energy -- but actual subversiveness that I admire in the best punk rock.

 

Blink 182? Manufactured Boy Band. My favourite saying in the world.

It's bands like these that give rise to the masses of skateboarding trendies trying to be "Alternative," they just don't realise that because so many of them are "Alternative" they just aren't "Alternative," they're the norm nowadays.

Blink 182 aren't original, all of their stuff is digitally recorded and touched up with todays vast knowledge of music... And the result shows it.

The band are told what to wear, their viedos are all planned and pictured by other people, they are told what music to play, what words to sing, when to eat, when to sleep and when to piss. Manufactured. To me, bands like this are no better than Britney Spears or [insert name of any manufactured boy band here]. And that's saying something.

 

Why do you put so many freakin' excuses behind this? The only reason you need to tell us is that you think it's too damn mainstream for you. Why the hell are you writing all these long posts out?!

 

We say that Blink 182 aren't original. But which bands are? Right now none. All bands are derived from an influence and not their own. The only bands that have a tint of originality about them are the ealry punk / rock bands. After that, its all kaput! Hell even Nu metal aint original. Its a mixture of certain styles tried and tested.

As for what songs Blink 182 write and what they are told to do. I think not. Sure they are whacky and light hearted but whats wrong with that? Nothing. And it isn't exactly like pop stars where they do have everything done for them. As for computerized effects. Nah. All thats happened is extra tracks been layed on top. Eg. another guitar piece. As for vocals. they sound the same in their tracks as they do live.

Okay, whose up for round 3?

note: does it really matter?

 

Xael, have you heard any of the songs off Dude Ranch or any earlier album? While I agree that everything Blink has put out post DR has been that unbearably crappy, "look at me, I'm a *punk* version of NSYNC" trash, the early albums were pretty good. They are one of the few bands I ever describe as having sold out