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blink-182 Album: “Greatest Hits [Bonus Track]”
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Greatest Hits [Bonus Track] |
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Release Date:2005-11-07
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Label:Universal
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:4988005409836
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Review - :
First rule of greatest-hits albums: start things off with a bang, not a song that takes about a minute to get off the ground, and about 80 seconds before the vocals kick in. {&"Carousel"} may be a chronologically accurate way to begin {$blink-182}'s {^Greatest Hits}, yet it gets things off to a slow start -- but then again, {$blink-182} hardly sped out of the gate themselves. It took them a long time to get up to speed -- it wasn't until their third album, 1997's {^Dude Ranch}, that they developed a flair for sugary {\pop} hooks, as evidenced by that album's {&"Dammit,"} not just their first big hit, but their first memorable song. It was enough to buy them a ticket to the big leagues and their next album, 1999's {^Enema of the State}, turned into a blockbuster, thanks to the crossover Top Ten hit {&"All the Small Things,"} an incessantly catchy, irresistible slice of {\bubblegum}-{\pop} that sounded at ease sandwiched between {$*NSYNC} and {$Britney Spears} on Y2K radio. This, as {^Greatest Hits} proves, was both {$blink-182}'s blessing and curse: they had the ability to turn out some great {\pop} singles, but when they missed the mark, they sounded lightweight and disposable. This wasn't just true of their defiantly stupid party songs, of which there were many; even such brooding, angst-ridden teenage melodramas as {&"Adam's Song"} seem a little lightweight and transient. Of course, the band was helped neither by its crystal-clear, super-slick production -- which was the antithesis of {\punk} -- or by the thin, whiny edge of vocalists {$Mark Hoppus} and {$Tom Delonge} -- which tended to make even serious themes seem like frivolous adolescent concerns. Over the long run, these two factors tend to undercut whatever snotty charms {$blink-182} may have had, particularly because their writing tended to be hit or miss, to the extent that even this {^Greatest Hits} is uneven. It may have all their best songs -- {&"Dammit"} and {&"All the Small Things"} in particular, plus {&"Josie,"} {&"What's My Age Again?,"} {&"The Rock Show,"} and {&"Stay Together for the Kids"} -- but at 17 songs, including the previously unreleased {&"Not Now"} and a cover of {$the Only Ones}' {&"Another Girl Another Planet"} taken from the {@MTV} reality series starring drummer {$Travis Barker} and his Playmate wife, this runs a little long. It may have all their charting singles, but its generous length tends to highlight {$blink-182}'s weaknesses instead of their strengths. That said, the group did set the standard for {\pop}-{\punk}'s commercialization at the turn of the millennium, and not only were they better than the sound-alikes that followed, they did have some good tunes, all of which are best heard on this intermittently entertaining collection. [A Japanese version added a bonus track.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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