I’ve often said that they are in my top 10 bands of all time that is true (their post-hiatus work notwithstanding, and which will not be discussed here, as I am unfamiliar with it and it is also for the most part irrelevant to their legacy).Īgain, as David points out, blink-182 were deliberately juvenile, routinely misogynistic, and were one of the biggest purveyors of gay panic humor. Is it really that hard to understand why blink-182 decided to do the exact same thing?”īlink-182 is a band that holds perhaps one of the most prime spaces of mental and emotional real estate within me. "The kids who liked this music were told they were dumb, and that the things they liked were, too, so they just gave up and went all in with it. David’s closing quote is perhaps the most illuminating: It has nothing to do with the author, Jeremy Gordon, who by all standards is a good writer, and everything to do with the culture of Pitchfork, as outlined by Dan Ozzi here, and the “eternal purity test,” as my friend David Anthony describes it here.
This is one of the worst record reviews I’ve ever read in my life, whether contemporary or retrospective. I would like to dedicate this post to my life, my love, and my happiness: the blink-155 podcast.
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