History Music / Blink182

* After a request from the American Red Cross, the subsequent releases of ''Enema of the State'' removed the red cross from Janine Lindemulder's NaughtyNurseOutfit on the album's packaging.

* TheColoredCross: After a request from the American Red Cross, the subsequent album covers the album ''Enema of the State'' removed the red cross from the NaughtyNurseOutfit.

** ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket''. The double meaning is all [[ADateWithRosiePalms in that last word]].

** ''Take Off Your Pants and [[ADateWithRosiePalms Jacket]]'', complete with a VisualPun cover.

* 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?".

* NaughtyNurseOutfit: Porn star Janine Lindemulder wears one in the cover for ''Enema of the State'', and also appears in the video for lead single "What's My Age Again?".

As of 2015, Tom [=DeLonge=] was "confirmed" by his bandmates to have left the group [[HereWeGoAgain 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. Their sound now is influenced by more modern pop punk as well as taking cues from both Alkaline Trio and older blink.

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 after being threatened with a lawsuit from an Irish pop rock band also named Blink.

* NoPronunciationGuide: It's supposed to be pronounced "Blink One Eighty-Two" instead of "Blink One Eight Two" or "Blink One Hundred Eighty-Two".

** "Waggy" was first released on ''They Came to Conquer... Uranus'', wherein 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".

* RearrangeTheSong: The band has done this with several of their songs for live shows:
** "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.
** "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".
** "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.
** "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.
** "Waggy" was first released on the 1996 EP "They Came to Conquer Uranus", and includes the line "I'll just hide in my room until then" and no vocals after this point. When it was rerecorded 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".

* ''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 latter album's title since it would be the ninth one that way.[[/note]]

* MinisculeRocking: A few. "Happy Holidays, You Bastard" (0:42), "Family Reunion" (0:46) "Built This Pool" (0:16) and "Brohemian Rhapsody" (0:30) off ''California''.

** From "Dysentery Gary": He's a player, diarrhea giver; tried to grow his hair out, friends were listening to Music/{{Slayer}}."

* MultipleReferencePun: 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).

* PunBasedTitle: ''Enema of the State'' and ''Take Off Your Pants and [[ADateWithRosiePalms Jacket]]'' (complete with a VisualPun cover)

--''>I said I was the cops and your husband's in jail.''

-->Later on, on the drive home,
-->I called her mom from a pay phone.
-->I said I was the cops and your husband's in jail.
-->This state looks down on sodomy.

--> The steps that\\
I retraced\\
The sad look\\
On your face\\
The timing\\
And structure\\
Did you hear?\\
He ''fucked'' her

*** "Adam's Song" ends with a synth sound that transititions into the beginning of "All the Small Things".

** On ''Enema of the State'', "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).

[[caption-width-right:350: Top: Current lineup from 1998-2005, 2009-2015, and 2022-present (L-R): Tom [=DeLonge=], Travis Barker, and Mark Hoppus.\\
Bottom: The lineup from 2015-2022 (L-R): Mark, Travis, and Matt Skiba]]

->''Always I know,\\
You'll be at my show,\\
Watching,\\
Waiting,\\
Commiserating.''

Blink-182 (stylized as "blink-182" with a lowercase b) 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 after being threatened with a lawsuit from an Irish pop rock band of the same name.

After releasing their first two studio albums, Raynor left the band in 1998 and was replaced by the iconic Music/TravisBarker (aka. 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 the also popular ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' and ''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.

As of 2015, Tom [=DeLonge=] was "confirmed" by his bandmates that he has left the group [[HereWeGoAgain 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. Their sound now is influenced by more modern pop punk as well as taking cues from both Alkaline Trio and older blink.

* AntiChristmasSong: "I Won't Be Home For Christmas", "Happy Holidays, You Bastard", "Boxing Day", "Not Another Christmas Song"

* OneOfTheKids: "What's My Age Again?"

* 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.

* 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. Spoilers: It wasn't a fun time. Even for "Neighborhoods", it was an exceedingly different sounding track.