Blink 182 10 Best

10. Dance With Me

The music video serves as tribute to the Ramones, one of Blink 182’s favorite iconic bands. 

The song was released in ’23 as the fourth single from their ninth album “One More Time…” It was written by the band -guitarist Tom DeLonge, bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker – along with engineer Aaron Rubin and songwriter Nick Long.

9. Adam’s Song

“I remember the day I played (“Adam’s Song”) for Tom (DeLonge) and Travis (Barker), and they were like, “Wow, that’s a pretty heavy song. It’s really good,” remembered bassist Mark Hoppus, the track’s primary composer. “(There) was never even a question of whether or not to put it on the record, or was that a “real” Blink song, or was that the right direction for us to go. Whatever song we write, if it’s a good song, we’ll put it on the record.”

8. Feeling This

The band wrote the song in one day. “I think if I sit there and try to analyze everything, what would be cool here or there, I just feel like I get so far away from what I would do, and I think your gut instinct is usually the best thing,” said Barker.

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7. Going Away To College

From the band’s third full-length studio effort, “Enema Of The State” (1999), the song, mostly written by Hoppus, with help from DeLonge, examines themes of heartbreak and lovesickness.  It was inspired by the teen film “Can’t Hardly Wait.”

6. One More Time

“Having a song like (“One More Time”), I think a lot of people can relate, because we all get older and look back…” noted guitarist Delonge. “I think it was a good moment for us to relate on a really human level and bring people more into our story. Which is essentially Punk Rock.”

5. All The Small Things

“Once we recorded this song and heard it, it gave us the chills,” explained DeLonge. “We just looked at each other and knew we had this little piece of magic. We knew that thing was going to be a gigantic thing, I don’t know how, but we just felt it straight away.”

4. The Rock Show

With “Take Off Your Pants And Jacket” nearly completed, the band’s manager, Rick DeVoe. wanted to know why there was no “Blink-182 good-time summer anthem (thing).” Hoppus was furious. “I’ll write you the cheesiest, catchiest, throwaway fucking summertime single you’ve ever heard!” Hoppus then went home and wrote “The Rock Show” in ten minutes. DeLonge, equally annoyed, came up with “First Date.”

3. Mutt

 It was written primarily by DeLonge about his friend and former roommate, surfer Benji Weatherly, whose nickname was “Mutt.”

“It’s just a song about a guy and a girl who like to have sex and who don’t really care about much of anything else,” DeLonge noted. The song is heard during Weatherly’s appearance in the surf film “The Show” (1998).

2. What’s My Age Again

The song became one of Blink-182’s best-performing singles and was in heavy rotation on MTV. The video featured the band running around naked (actually wearing flesh-colored Speedos). It became “something of an albatross” with them being seen as “some kind of erotic boy band.” 

“We were so naïve that we would run around naked,” DeLonge recalled. “The label fashioned a whole thing around us that we didn’t even understand. So it took us a little bit to dig out of that and come back to who we really were.”

1. Dammit

The track received heavy radio airplay at many key radio stations and reached #11 on Billboarf’s Hot Modern Rock Chart becoming the band’s first hit single.

“(When the song took off], we were freaking,” DeLonge enthused. “We couldn’t believe what was happening to us.” The song is about a breakup and the difficulty of seeing a former girlfriend with another.

Blink 182:

Tom DeLonge – Guitar/Vocals

Mark Hoppus – Bass/Vocals

Travis Barker – Drums

Former Members:

Matt Skiba– Guitars/Vocals (2015–2022) Replaced DeLonge

Scott Raynor – Drums (1992–1998)