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8	[floatboxright: Influences: Music/GreenDay, Music/{{NOFX}}, Music/DeadKennedys, Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/ScreechingWeasel, Music/{{Descendents}}, Music/{{Lagwagon}}, Music/{{The Cure\|Band}}.]
9	[floatboxright:Related Acts:
10	* +44 (Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker)
11	* Music/AngelsAndAirwaves (Tom De Longe)
12	* Music/TheAquabats (Barker)
13	* Box Car Racer (De Longe and Barker)
14	* Transplants (Barker)
15	* Music/AlkalineTrio (Matt Skiba)]
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17	->''Always, I know,\
18	you'll be at my show,\
19	watching, waiting,\
20	commiserating.''
21	-->-- '''"All The Small Things"'''
22
23	Blink-182 (stylized as blink-182) is a three-piece {{pop punk}} band from Poway, California. The band was formed in 1992 by Tom [=DeLonge=] (vocals/guitar), Mark Hoppus (vocals/bass) and Scott Raynor (drums) under the name Blink, eventually adding the hyphen and 182[[note]]Just a random number that the band decided on; contrary to popular belief, it's '''not''' the number of times that Creator/AlPacino says the word "fuck" in ''[[Film/Scarface1983 Scarface]]''[[/note]] after being threatened with a lawsuit from an Irish pop rock band also named Blink.
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25	After releasing their first two studio albums, ''Cheshire Cat'' and ''Dude Ranch'', Raynor left the band in 1998 and was replaced by the iconic Music/TravisBarker (a.k.a. the guy with the tattoos who survived that plane crash), with whom they would release their mainstream breakthrough album ''Enema of the State'' in 1999, followed by further success in ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' and ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Blink-182]]''. [=DeLonge=] left the group early in 2005, putting the band on hiatus until 2009, when they got back together "for real", according to them (due to Travis surviving said plane crash). After releasing their comeback album ''Neighborhoods'' in 2011, the band celebrated their 20th anniversary the following year, during which they also released the EP ''Dogs Eating Dogs''. Their sound by then was a mixture of the traditional blink sound and various elements of the groups they formed during their hiatus.
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27	As of 2015, Tom [=DeLonge=] was "confirmed" by his bandmates to have left the group again, citing reasons to focus on other projects. The confirmation and the aftermath of it was... messy, to say the least. After [[RunningGag months of shoving in and promoting him]], Mark and Travis announced that Matt Skiba of Music/AlkalineTrio would be their new guitarist, with whom they recorded and released the albums ''California'' and ''Nine'' (with a deluxe edition of the former being released between the two). Their sound now is influenced by more modern pop punk as well as taking cues from both Alkaline Trio and older blink.
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29	In October 2022, [=DeLonge=] rejoined the band, to which they released the non-album single "Edging." About a year later, on October 20, 2023, they released their first album since [=DeLonge=]'s return, titled ''One More Time...'' (which features the aforementioned "Edging").
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31	On lyrical terms, the band is historically known for their gross-out and sexual sense of humor, which they use for stage banter, and occasionally is featured in their songs. While this aesthetic was very prominent at the time of their earlier albums (sans for a few more serious songs), they eventually left it for the most part with ''Blink-182'', which had a serious, emo-oriented style. Their current output since ''Neighborhoods'' is arguably an in-between for those two orientations.
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33	!!Band Members (founding members in '''bold'''):
34	* '''Tom [=DeLonge=]''': Vocals, guitar (1992-2005, 2009-2015, 2022-present)
35	* '''Mark Hoppus''': Vocals, bass (1992-2005, 2009-present)
36	* '''Scott Raynor''': Drums, percussion (1992-1998)
37	* Music/TravisBarker: Drums, percussion (1998-2005, 2009-present)
38	* Matt Skiba: Vocals, guitar (2015-2022)
39
40	!!Discography:
41
42	[[AC:Studio albums]]
43	* ''Cheshire Cat'' (1995)
44	* ''Dude Ranch'' (1997)
45	* ''Enema of the State'' (1999)
46	* ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' (2001)
47	* ''Blink-182''[[note]]The way this album is referred to is split between a SelfTitledAlbum or an [[NoTitle untitled]] one.[[/note]] (2003)
48	* ''Neighborhoods'' (2011)
49	* ''California'' (2016; deluxe edition in 2017)
50	* ''Nine'' (2019)
51	* ''One More Time...'' (2023)
52
53	[[AC:Other notable releases]]
54	* ''Buddha'' (1994; demo album)[[note]]Since around the time of ''Nine''[='=]s release, the band considers this to be their first studio album (likely because it was their first commercial release), hence the former album's title since it would be the ninth one that way.[[/note]]
55	* ''They Came to Conquer... Uranus'' (1996; EP)
56	* ''The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!)'' (2000; LiveAlbum)
57	* ''Greatest Hits'' (2005; GreatestHitsAlbum with additional non-album songs)
58	* ''Dogs Eating Dogs'' (2012; EP)
59	* "Not Another Christmas Song" (2019; non-album single)
60	* "Quarantine" (2020; non-album single)
61	* "Edging" (2022; non-album single)[[note]]Would later be included in the tracklist for ''One More Time...'' in 2023.[[/note]]
62	----
63	!!blink-182 provide examples of:
64	* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Subverted with Travis...up to the point that [[DoubleSubversion he actually starts playing]].
65	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKiTEwtJ_ak Travis versus Animal.]]
66	* AlternateAlbumCover:
67	** The deluxe edition of ''California'' has a re-color of the album's cover artwork to distinguish it from the standard edition; the original artwork is still featured within the deluxe edition's packaging.
68	** While all the physical formats ''One More Time...'' was released on share the MinimalisticCoverArt with the band's name, the album's title, and a new version of the band's smiley logo, each format has a different background color: cyan for CD, bright pink for vinyl, and lime green for casette. The album's digital release, on the other hand, uses a plain white cover featuring three black-and-white photos of the members alongside the band name and album title.
69	* AlternateMusicVideo:
70	** The original video for "Josie" features the band playing in a room, which gets flooded. They were so unsatisfied with the result, that they decided to make a new, much more known version set in high school, which has Mark trying to impress Creator/AlyssaMilano. The original version was only released as a 40 seconds long snippet in 2011.
71	** The first music video for "Stay Together for the Kids" features a wrecking ball demolishing the house in front of which the band plays. As this video was made just prior to the September 11 attacks and could be seen as unintentional reference to them, the band shot a new video shortly afterwards, set in front of a derelict mansion.
72	* AnonymousPublicPhoneCall: The second verse of "What's My Age Again?" describes a disguised prank call from a pay phone:
73	-->''Later on, on the drive home,''\
74	''I called her mom from a pay phone.''\
75	''I said I was the cops and your husband's in jail.''\
76	''This state looks down on sodomy.''
77	* AntiChristmasSong: "I Won't Be Home For Christmas", "Happy Holidays, You Bastard", "Boxing Day" and "Not Another Christmas Song".
78	* AtomicFBomb: "Dysentery Gary" features one that comes out of absolute nowhere due to a break in the vocals occurring right before it.
79	--> FUCK this place.
80	* BestialityIsDepraved: The hidden track "Fuck a Dog" from the "Pants" edition of ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket''. Three guesses as to what it's about.
81	* BoyBand: Parodied brilliantly in the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ht5RZpzPqw "All the Small Things".]]
82	** "All The Small Things" ended up influencing other groups, pop punk or otherwise, to make similar videos. Music/AllTimeLow went out of their way to make two parody videos with heavy influence: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNX6QeFBEYQ "Poppin'"]] is "All The Small Things": Hip-Hop Edition and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTJkE8Ki3Gg "I Feel Like Dancin'"]] parodies current pop acts, with the addition of a label executive critical framing device.
83	** Heck, they even influenced '''Music/OneDirection'''. Their first video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJO3ROT-A4E&list=UUbW18JZRgko_mOGm5er8Yzg "What Makes You Beautiful"]] was filmed at Santa Monica Beach, along with 1D having similar outfits and the video being filmed with the same angles, but the content [[{{Reconstruction}} wasn't]] PlayedForLaughs. This lead to jokes that blink had ''retroactively'' parodied them, a decade before 1D came into existence. Later on, their video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_v9MY_FMcw "Best Song Ever"]] would evoke classic blink videos by taking the piss out of 90s boy band cliches, taking even more of the piss out of themselves, introducing characters that wouldn't feel out of place in the "First Date" video, and [[http://assets7.gcstatic.com/u/apps/asset_manager/uploaded/2013/29/one-direction-best-song-ever-16-1374574802-custom-0.png Zayn Malik]] beating [[http://s13.postimg.org/5d1jibpxz/blink_182_All_The_Small_Things_mp4_snapshot_01.png Tom]] in the [[{{Crossdresser}} crossdressing]] department. Music/LouisTomlinson has even covered "First Date" live, which Mark was actually curious about.
84	* {{Bowdlerise}}: Several song titles were changed name-wise for ''The Mark, Tom and Travis Show''.
85	* TheBusCameBack: Looks like Boomer from the "First Date" video is out of prison. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lleJmyDQFvM No one is safe.]]
86	* CanonDiscontinuity:
87	** The band disowned their first music video, which was for "[=M+M's=]".
88	** "Man Overboard" was banished into discontinuity when fans started asking if the mean spirited TakeThat was about Scott Raynor, their previous drummer. It wasn't until 2011 when the band put the song back on their live sets.
89	* ChangingChorus:
90	** The chorus of "What's My Age Again?" changes after every verse:
91	*** First chorus:
92	---->''And that's about the time she walked away from me\
93	Nobody likes you when you're twenty-three\
94	And are still more amused by TV shows\
95	What the hell is A.D.D.?\
96	My friends say I should act my age\
97	What's my age again, what's my age again?''
98	*** Second chorus:
99	---->''And that's about the time that bitch hung up on me\
100	Nobody likes you when you're twenty-three\
101	And I'm still more amused by prank phone calls\
102	What the hell is call ID?\
103	My friends say I should act my age\
104	What's my age again, what's my age again?''
105	*** After the guitar solo at the bridge, the chorus plays twice:
106	---->''And that's about the time she walked away from me\
107	Nobody likes you when you're twenty-three\
108	And you still act like you're in freshman year\
109	What the hell is wrong with me?\
110	My friends say I should act my age\
111	What's my age again, what's my age again?\
112	That's about the time she broke up with me\
113	No one should take themselves so seriously\
114	With many years ahead to fall in line\
115	Why would you wish that on me?\
116	I never want to act my age\
117	What's my age again, what's my age again?''
118	** A similar thing happens to the chorus of "Ghost on the Dance Floor":
119	*** First chorus:
120	---->''Yeah, I, I saw your ghost tonight\
121	The moment felt so real\
122	If your eyes stay right on mine\
123	My wounds would start to heal''
124	*** Second chorus:
125	---->''Yeah, I, I saw your ghost tonight\
126	The moment felt so real\
127	If your eyes stay right on mine\
128	My wounds would start to heal\
129	I felt your ghost tonight\
130	And God, it felt like hell\
131	To know you're almost mine\
132	But dreams are all I feel''
133	*** Final chorus after the bridge:
134	---->''Yeah, I, I saw your ghost tonight\
135	It fucking hurt like hell\
136	I felt you here tonight\
137	But dreams can't all be real\
138	I saw your ghost tonight\
139	It fucking hurt like hell\
140	I felt you here tonight\
141	But dreams can't all be real''
142	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: All the members could qualify, but [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-blink-182s-singer-was-clearly-abducted-by-aliens/ Tom]] takes this a step further, the only exception being Matt.
143	* ContinuityNod:
144	** The first lyric line of "Online Songs" from ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' name-drops "Josie" from ''Dude Ranch'', which it has a similar tempo and guitar riffs to.
145	--->''Josie, you're my, source of most frustration''
146	** "Bored to Death" from ''California'' is name-dropped in "Blame It on My Youth" from ''Nine''.
147	--->''I was bored to death, so I started a band''
148	* {{Cowboy}}: The photos from ''Dude Ranch''[='s=] packaging feature the band members dressed in cowboy costumes.
149	* {{Crossdresser}}:
150	** Tom in the "All The Small Things" video. As with many things blink does, this is PlayedForLaughs.
151	** The above is touched on in the album artwork for ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'', where one of the photos included in the liner notes shows Tom holding up a dress with a floral pattern and smiling.
152	* CelibateHero: "Going Away To College".
153	* ClusterFBomb: Tom at live shows.
154	* TheColoredCross: After a request from the American Red Cross, the subsequent releases of ''Enema of the State'' removed the red cross from the hat of Janine Lindemulder's NaughtyNurseOutfit on the album's packaging. For the cover of ''The Mark, Tom and Travis Show'', the drawn nurse based on Lindemulder has a hat with a red heart.
155	* CoverVersion: They covered Music/BillyIdol 's "Dancing With Myself" and Music/JanAndDean 's "Dead Man's Curve" for tribute albums.
156	* DarkerAndEdgier:
157	** They started to head this way with the untitled album, and dove right in after they reunited with ''Neighborhoods'', as they had gone through a significant amount of turmoil throughout the hiatus, especially with the death of their longtime producer Jerry Finn and the near-death of Travis.
158	** In contrast, however, they considered to include a few LighterAndSofter songs on ''Neighborhoods'' with the historical humor that people came to expect from the band, but concerns of MoodDissonance and not having the time to put them on led them to be shelved for the time being. Apparently, it was said that their then-upcoming follow-up to ''Neighborhoods'' might have a song with [[RefugeInAudacity an entire chorus about dicks]]; furthering these rumors, lyrics posted by Tom on Instagram featured a song about a guy who is ''really'' proud about ''really'' getting around.
159	** The resulting album, ''California'', managed to bring back quite a bit of the humor with tracks like "She's Out of Her Mind" and "Brohemian Rhapsody". Still, it also has similar songs to the untitled and ''Neighborhoods'' ("Home is Such a Lonely Place" and "Long Lost Feeling", for instance), so it's more of a balance now than anything else.
160	* DoubleMeaningTitle:
161	** "Wrecked Him" is aptly named as far as the lyrics go. But [[ToiletHumour it's blink-182]], so the title is a pun on the word "rectum".
162	** While not outright confirmed, ''Dude Ranch'' has been speculated by fans to play on multiple meanings that have been unofficially given to the term, including the most common meaning of a ranch used for tourism (giving us the cover art), a ranch wherein visitors come to play as cowboys (hence the internal photos of the band members dressed as cowboys), and ''especially'' its use as a sexual slang (mostly the meaning of "semen", but it has been used to refer to various sexual acts too).
163	** ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket''. The double meaning is all in that last word.
164	* DyingAlone: In "Adam's Song", the lyrics twice mention the words, "I never thought I'd die alone."
165	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their pre-''Enema'' material notably sticks out from the rest of their discography. On top of having a rougher, significantly muffled mix, they're considerably more focused on raw song compositions than melodic ones. Several songs also feature recorded non-musical sounds used for comedic effect.
166	* EpicInstrumentalOpener: The Prelude to "Heart's All Gone".
167	* FaceOnTheCover: The cover of the non-album single "Edging" is a photo of the band's members.
168	* FadingIntoTheNextSong:
169	** On ''Enema of the State'':
170	*** "Going Away to College" fades into "What's My Age Again?". Makes sense, as the two songs are thematically connected (the former has the singer growing up, moving on, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin going off to college,]] apparently leaving his girlfriend back in high school; the latter is about a ManChild who continues to pull childish shenanigans at age 23 and coming to terms with the fact that people are tired of dealing with his act).
171	*** "Adam's Song" ends with a synth sound that transitions into the beginning of "All the Small Things".
172	** On ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'', the closing riff of "Roller Coaster" continues into the intro of "Reckless Abandon" with a garbled sound quality.
173	** On the self-titled/untitled album:
174	*** The short end point of "Go" contains the beginning of the radio noise that begins "Asthenia". "Asthenia" in turn ends with a brief bit of the ambience that opens "Always".
175	*** Similarly, the very end of "Here's Your Letter" has a part of the opening bell-like sound from "I'm Lost Without You".
176	*** The outro of "Easy Target" involves an electric riff that progressively becomes slower (accompanied by some electronic sounds) until it matches the rhythm of "All of This", whose main acoustic riff (which opens the song) shares the same melody, on top of also using the name "Holly" in its lyrics like "Easy Target" does.
177	* FauxYay: For better or worse, Mark and Tom's bromance inspired [[Music/FallOutBoy an entire]] [[Music/PanicAtTheDisco generation]] [[Music/AllTimeLow of pop-punk bands]] to play-up stage gay for all its worth.
178	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Spend too much time watching Mark get hot wax poured on him in the "All The Small Things" video and you'll [[http://s8.postimg.org/yqkevl6yt/blink_182_All_The_Small_Things_mp4_snapshot_01.png miss Tom making out with his future wife]] completely oblivious to Mark's pain.
179	* GoodbyeCruelWorld: Subverted in "Adam's Song". While the song comes off as this at first, it ends on a much lighter note. [[WordOfGod Mark]] says that the song is about loneliness in general, not suicide. Tom, however, says that it ''is'' about suicide. It also doesn't help that Columbine Massacre survivor Greg Barnes killed himself while he had this song playing on indefinite repeat. [[HarsherInHindsight So there's that.]]
180	* {{Goth}}: The video for "I Miss You".
181	* GrammarNazi: Mark, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSNKhpq7pkI&t=11m here]], when he was a guest on ''Series/NeverMindTheBuzzcocks''.
182	* IntercourseWithYou: "Feeling This" and "Always". Admittedly, they are also both break-up songs, with this trope being mostly relegated to "flashback sections".
183	* JekyllAndHyde: Mentioned in the chorus of "Natives":
184	-->''They turn us loose in the night\
185	I'm fucking Jekyll and Hyde''
186	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A whole band full, with the obvious exception being [[NiceGuy Matt Skiba]].
187	* LeadBassist: Mark is one of the two frontmen, and was particularly dominant in the early days, as a Tom-led song only became a single the 11th time around with "All the Small Things".
188	* LongestSongGoesLast: ''Dude Ranch'' ends with "I'm Sorry", which at 5:38 is the only song on the album to surpass the 4-minute mark (even without counting the sound effect-based outro, at which it would clock at 4:27).
189	* LyricalDissonance: "Adam's Song" and "Carousel".
190	* {{Manchild}}: The 23-year-old singer of "What's My Age Again?" thinks he's too old to watch TV as he's about to get laid or do prank phone calls, but can't resist doing both things.
191	* {{Mascot}}: A FunnyAnimal rabbit who [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal only wears jeans and sneakers]] by standard, but has worn many other outfits in the band's promotions and merchandise.
192	* MinisculeRocking: A few songs, including:
193	** "Family Reunion" (0:51), "Blow Job" (0:40) and "The Country Song" (1:00) from ''The Mark, Tom & Travis Show''.
194	** "Happy Holidays, You Bastard" (0:42) from ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket''.
195	** "Built This Pool" (0:16) and "Brohemian Rhapsody" (0:30) off ''California''. The album's deluxe edition also features "Can't Get You More Pregnant" (0:34).
196	** "Turn This Off!" (0:23) and "Fuck Face" (0:27) off ''One More Time...''.
197	* MushroomSamba: ''Neighborhoods'' has the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w18wV72OgwE Fighting the Gravity]]", a little ditty Mark wrote about what he was going through when he was accidentally slipped LSD in a drink. Spoiler: It wasn't a fun time. Even for ''Neighborhoods'', it was an exceedingly different-sounding track.
198	* MusicVideoOvershadowing: While [[NakedPeopleAreFunny running around naked]] is something a {{Manchild}} such as the narrator of "What's My Age Again?" would do, the video's still not fully representative of the lyrics.
199	* NaughtyNurseOutfit: Porn star Janine Lindemulder wears one in the cover and album art for ''Enema of the State'', and also appears with it in the music video for "What's My Age Again?", being the only thing that makes the [[NakedPeopleAreFunny naked and running]] bandmembers to go out of their way.
200	* NewSoundAlbum:
201	** Their self-titled/untitled album was noticeably different from their past catalogue, with a more somber and introspective tone, almost to the point of being a TropeCodifier of {{Emo}} as we know it. The album itself is somewhat a SpiritualSuccessor of Tom and Travis' Box Car Racer project, and clearly went on to influence the style of Tom's later band Music/AngelsAndAirwaves.
202	** ''Neighborhoods'' brings in elements of the band's side projects, along with a lack of the juvenile content the band is known for. This is understandable, considering what they've been through since 2005, but the fanbase's overall reaction to the album was [[BrokenBase inevitable]].
203	** The ''Dogs Eating Dogs'' EP goes like this: ''Neighborhoods''-styled song, old school-ish blink song, (practically) an Angels & Airwaves song about a ZombieApocalypse, [[OutOfGenreExperience a folk song]], and another ''Neighborhoods'' song with [[AWildRapperAppears rap guest vocals]] at the end.
204	* NoodleIncident:
205	** Scott Raynor's departure from the band [[ThePeteBest right before their popularity exploded in 1999]]. Tom and Mark refuse to talk about the circumstances at all, and neither does Scott. The most popular theories are: Mark had Scott fired due to an alleged drinking problem, Scott bailing because he wanted nothing to do with the band "selling out" with a more commercialized direction, and Scott being utterly unprepared with fame and the lengthy tours that the band would be going on to promote their music and basically bowed out on his own free will. Given that his departure came in the middle of a tour in 1998, it seems unlikely it was amicable.
206	** "Man Overboard" is widely seen as blink-182's "response" to the departure of Raynor, even though the band denies it. Of course, they refuse to say WHO the song is about and continue to refuse to talk about why Raynor quit.
207	** Tom's "departure" is seen as this. Mark and Travis state they got an email from Tom's manager confirming that he had decided to "exit the band" and he had "not taken interest in blink anymore" (which is considered by ''a majority of fans'' false due to Tom's energetic attitude during 2013-2014, especially at the Readings Festival). The two broke the news to the media, but then Tom posted on his Instagram that he had ''not'' left the band. ''But then'' Mark and Travis went to ''Rolling Stone'' and confirmed that Tom was in fact out. The entire spectacle was a huge ''public break-up'' which left fans devastated, but no one really knows what happened (or Tom's position due to the ambiguity of it). Nobody really knows, but Tom rejoined the band in 2022.
208	* NudeColoredClothes: In some of blink-182's videos, the band members look like they are running naked, with pixels censoring the nudity. It has been confirmed, however, that they were actually wearing skin-colored speedos.
209	* OutOfGenreExperience:
210	** "Boxing Day", intended to be a folk song.
211	** "I Miss You," which is a goth-pop song done InTheStyleOf Music/{{The Cure\|Band}}, particularly their 1983 single "The Lovecats", and was done entirely on acoustic instruments. Mark even plays double bass.
212	** "Stockholm Syndrome" has quite a post-hardcore/emo sound to it, featuring shouted vocals in the verses that are characteristic of the genre, as well as a slower, melodic chorus. Although the self-titled album had an emo influence, it never quite played the genre straight except for this song - which went on to be very influential on the crossover emo bands of the day.
213	* PeriodPiece: The video for "First Date" is set in TheSeventies, with particular focus on homaging Music/TheBeeGees.
214	* PrecisionFStrike: While they're not usually this subtle, "Dammit" has a good example (and yes, it has a subtle emphasis on the F-bomb):
215	-->''The steps that, I retraced''\
216	''The sad look, on your face''\
217	''The timing, and structure''\
218	''Did you hear? He '''fucked''' her''
219	* ProperlyParanoid: Travis is completely terrified of planes, which often gets in the way of tours since they either need a bus or a boat, but it's hard to blame a man who ''survived a plane crash''.
220	* PunBasedTitle:
221	** ''Enema of the State'' uses the word "enema" for a play on "enemy of the state".
222	** ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'', complete with a VisualPun cover.
223	* RealSoonNow: Expect to wait a long time for new releases from them, what with everything else they're juggling.
224	** [[AvertedTrope Except]] for Dogs Eating Dogs, they started on it around Halloween of 2012 and it came out in December of the same year. It's just way faster for them to get work done when they're actually in the same room.
225	* RearrangeTheSong:
226	** The band has done this with several of their songs for live shows:
227	*** "Aliens Exist" has been reworked with new lyrics so that it's now about a closeted gay teenager comparing his secret sexuality to the notion of the government covering up the existence of aliens.
228	*** "What's My Age Again?" has lyric changes: "hell" is replaced with "fuck" and Mark, instead of singing "What's my age again?" as part of the chorus, will occasionally sing "Where's my Asian friend?".
229	*** "Going Away to College", when performed live, has Mark name-dropping his wife's name in the chorus, to make the song a love ballad from him to her.
230	*** "Dammit" is considerably changed in live form: Tom now sings the chorus instead of Mark and the band sticks in verses from other songs during the instrumental break right before the final repeating of the chorus.
231	** "Waggy" was first released on ''They Came to Conquer... Uranus'', in which it had the line "I'll just hide in my room until then" and no vocals after this point. When it was re-recorded for ''Dude Ranch'', the line was changed to "I'll just jack off in my room until then", and a coda was added featuring the lyrics "It's never over till it's done, and I don't think that you're the one".
232	* RecordProducer: Jerry Finn served as their main producer from 1999 until his 2008 death, producing ''Enema of the State'', ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' and ''Blink-182''. As a result of his passing, ''Neighborhoods'' was largely self-produced, while ''California'' was produced by John Feldmann and ''Nine'' by a combination of Feldmann and Tim Pagnotta.
233	** In TheNewTwenties, Travis became a successful record producer in his own right producing for other artists, including Music/MachineGunKelly and Music/AvrilLavigne (collaborating with Feldmann while producing the latter's ''Love Sux''). When Tom rejoined the band in 2022, Travis produced their comeback album ''One More Time...'', having earlier produced "On Some Emo Shit" on ''Nine''.
234	* RedOniBlueOni: Tom and Mark, respectively.
235	* RefugeInAudacity: "Family Reunion" is literally nothing but the SevenDirtyWords in song. The video for "What's My Age Again" is the band running naked through the streets of LA[[note]]They were actually wearing skin-colored shorts under the censor blur[[/note]]. They have a song titled "Dysentery Gary" and "Fuck a Dog". blink is not afraid to cross some lines and when they do [[CrossesTheLineTwice they cross all of them at once]].
236	* RepeatAfterMe: In ''The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show'', Tom addresses the audience: "I want all of you to say FUCK with me!" On the count of three, the audience yells out-- you guessed it-- "Fuck with me!" Mark asks Tom why he would want them to say that. [[DontExplainTheJoke They explain that Tom wanted them to say "fuck", but he wanted them to say it with him]]. They try it a second time and get it right.
237	* RockTrio
238	** FreudianTrio: Tom = TheMcCoy, Mark = TheSpock, and Travis = TheKirk
239	* SelfBackingVocalist: Usually averted - if the song is Tom's, he sang it and Mark provided the backing vocals; if the song is Mark's, the opposite happened; there are some occasional duets too, but the rule remains for the person who's not the "main" on that particular section (verse/chorus/bridge). Exceptions include "What's My Age Again?", "Online Songs" and "Feeling This", all of which, at some point, have Mark's lead (sometimes double-tracked), Tom's backing ''and'' another harmony vocal by Mark.
240	* SelfDeprecation:
241	** Mostly by Tom: "we're professionals at what we do - we professionally suck!"
242	** If their merch is to be believed, their genre is "crappy punk rock".
243	* SequelSong:
244	** "Anthem Part Two", released on ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'', is this to "Anthem" from ''Enema of the State'', sharing the topic of rebellion. Whereas "Anthem" is about a teenager's hatred for their oppressive parents, "Anthem Part Two" is a ProtestSong against the manners of governmental, corporate and societal authorities.
245	** Averted with "Anthem Part 3" from ''One More Time...'', which, despite its title, has differently-themed lyrics to "Anthem" and "Anthem Part Two" (namely, about a person moving on from a regretful past, and encouraging a partner who had experienced the same thing as them to follow their lead).
246	* SevenDirtyWords: "Family Reunion" is the titular words ''in song!'''
247	* ShoutOut:
248	** "A New Hope" is prominently themed around ''Franchise/StarWars'', and Mark has confirmed that it was named after the [[Film/ANewHope film]]. He's been a fan of the franchise since his father brought him to the cinema to watch ''A New Hope''.
249	** From "Dysentery Gary": "He's a player, diarrhea giver; tried to grow his hair out, friends were listening to Music/{{Slayer}}."
250	** From "Adam's Song": "[[Music/{{Nirvana}} I took my time, I hurried up; the choice was mine, I didn't think enough]]."
251	*** The song's title is also a reference to a ''Series/MrShow'' sketch, wherein the metal band Titannica writes a song called "Adam's Song (Try Again)," with the intent of getting a young fan to kill himself so they won't have to take him on tour with them. ItMakesSenseInContext.
252	** "Family Reunion" is [[Creator/GeorgeCarlin the seven words you can't say on TV]] put to music.
253	** "The Rock Show" is basically a modern Music/{{Ramones}} song.
254	** From "I Miss You": "[[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas We can live like Jack and Sally if we want, where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas]]."
255	** From "She's Out of Her Mind": "She got a black shirt, black skirt, and Music/{{Bauhaus}} stuck in her head."
256	** From "San Diego": "We bought a one-way ticket, so we can go see Music/TheCure."
257	** An official artwork used in Halloween-themed merch of the band since 2019 depicts Jason Voorhees' appearance in ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'' with a blue shirt and a mask with the band's smiley logo introduced in the self-titled album. More recently, said artwork was animated for screening in live performances of "Violence".
258	** The "Violence" screening also features the band's rabbit mascot dressed as [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. The fact that both horror franchises are referenced together may or may not be a nod to the fact that they were largely close to each other in commercial terms (including the ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' movie).
259	* SpiritualSuccessor: Travis and Mark's short-lived band +44 (formed soon after blink's breakup) was supposed to be this. It's a stark contrast to Tom's post-blink band Music/AngelsAndAirwaves, which has a completely different style. Though it's now a moot point, since the band eventually got back together.
260	* SpringtimeForHitler: "The Rock Show" and "First Date" from ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' were the result of a meeting with the band's then-label manager, where he asked why the album didn't have a "feel good summer anthem". Furious, Mark and Tom set about writing "the cheesiest, catchiest, throwaway summertime single you've ever heard", with the former coming up with "The Rock Show" and the latter putting out "First Date." The two songs, in addition to becoming the album's most popular ones, ended up among the band's highest-charting singles.
261	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: ''One More Time...'' has Travis providing vocals on three songs: He performs lead vocals (along with Tom) on "Fuck Face", additional vocals on the title track and backing vocals on "Fell in Love".
262	* StopAndGo: "Always".
263	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Averted with Travis Barker replacing Scott Raynor, as Travis was the polar opposite of the shy, normal-looking Raynor.
264	* TakeThat: [[WordOfGod According to Tom and Mark, "Man Overboard" isn't about Scott Raynor]], the band's original drummer who left the band under mysterious circumstances and deny that the song is a mean-spirited attack against Scott (the song is about an unnamed drunken friend who Mark is glad is not around anymore and one of the rumors about why Scott Raynor left the band was that he had a drunken problem that caused Mark and Tom to fire him over). But the band won't say who the song is about and more so, they had refused to even play it live up until their 2011 shows due to people repeatedly asking whether it was about Raynor.
265	* ToiletHumour: Frequently. In "Happy Holidays, You Bastard", the singer complains about their grandpa because he's "always fuckin' shittin' his pants".
266	* TransparentCloset: Played with, most notably by Tom in the live version of "Aliens Exist".
267	* UranusIsShowing: Invoked with the title of ''They Came to Conquer... Uranus''.
268	* VocalEvolution: Tom is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fqUL6N-XTA frequently noted for this]], as his voice varies from high-pitched and nasal to more mellow depending on the era of the band. Even more so when considering his other projects, where he sounds almost completely different.
269	* VocalTagTeam: Some songs by Tom, some songs by Mark, and tracks such as "Feeling This" and "I Miss You" will alternate them.
270	* VulgarHumor:
271	** Several of their shorter, ruder songs, such as "Happy Holidays, You Bastard" and the misleadingly-titled "Family Reunion", whose lyrics consist entirely of the expanded version of Creator/GeorgeCarlin's SevenDirtyWords.
272	** They also seem to enjoy yelling things of varying obscenity, like "Fuck [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]]!" and "Orgasm!", right before starting a song live. About half of ''The Mark, Tom and Travis Show'' is stage banter between songs, rife with them. The album's [=iTunes=] version even has an expanded tracklist with one long hidden track consisting of ''nothing'' but banter.
273	* WalkingShirtlessScene: Travis most of the time.
274	** [[StupidSexyFlanders Stupid sexy Travis.]]
275	* WeUsedToBeFriends: ''In spades''. Around 2005, Mark and Travis had a ''huge'' fallout with Tom following an immense complication of PoorCommunicationKills, not speaking to each other until 2008 when Travis endured his plane crash. The reasons of the fallout were caused by Tom's formation of [[StartMyOwn Box Car Racer]] with Travis, which Tom only made to expand his style and skills as a musician with music that wasn't "blink friendly". This was only complicated by Mark (who was not included in the project [[note]]though he ''did'' contribute guest vocals on the album version of "Elevator"[[/note]]) who felt ''very'' betrayed by the situation and lead to more complications with Tom wanting to be with his family and Mark and Travis desiring to continue blink which lead to the break up.
276	** HereWeGoAgain: And history repeats itself, when the ''same shit'' went down again, back in January of 2015, this time with Mark and Travis telling Rolling Stone that they received an email from Tom's manager that he was out of the band due to focusing on]] [[Music/AngelsAndAirwaves his other project]]. The result was now Tom being out of blink (although some fans are still clinging that he's out ''for now''), and Mark and Travis keep promoting blink with Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio as their temporary vocalist (although Mark and ''especially'' Travis keep hinting Matt will be a permanent member).
277	** From an outside perspective, it looks like the problem was, them not really communicating well. Tom apparently had contracts signed with AVA's label, to make 2 of their albums, and 2 solo albums, for release in 2015, which would be an heroic amount of work, even if he wasn't also busy, with another band. His "I'm too busy to do this right now" message, was clearly misinterpreted, and the lack of an actual face to face conversation going on, has exacerbated it. Shouting at each other through social media, really isn't the way to stay friends.
278	** Following Hoppus' lymphoma diagnosis and successful treatment, tensions between the two sides have cooled considerably. Tom tweeted a [[https://twitter.com/tomdelonge/status/1407851919901544448 sweet message of support]] to Mark when the diagnosis was made public, and by late 2021, [[https://www.nme.com/news/music/tom-delonge-mark-hoppus-relationship-cancer-diagnosis-3053317 he said]] that his friendship with Mark had completely repaired.
279	*** And Tom has now rejoined blink-182.
280	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: It's something of an easy target, making fun of Tom's, ahem, "''unique''" vocal style. [[http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/i-made-a-linguistics-professor-listen-to-a-blink-182-song-and-analyze-the-accent This article]] attempts to pin down just exactly, ''what'' Tom's singing voice sounds like.
281	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The video for "First Date."
282	* AWildRapperAppears: Yelawolf shows up at the end of "Pretty Little Girl". While he's good friends with Travis and partnered up with him for their Psychowhite side project, this makes it only the second time a blink song had guest vocals.
283	* WindowLove: The video for "Feeling This."

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