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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.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - Scott Raynor, ComposerLyricist - Steve Kravac, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - blink-182, MainArtist - King of Santee, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - O, Producer - Scott Raynor, ComposerLyricist - Steve Kravac, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - blink-182, MainArtist - King of Santee, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - MARK TROMBINO, Producer - Scott Raynor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - blink-182, MainArtist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - MARK TROMBINO, Producer - Scott Raynor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - blink-182, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Finn, Producer - Travis Barker, ComposerLyricist - blink-182, MainArtist - Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, Bass Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Finn, Producer - Travis Barker, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - blink-182, MainArtist - Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Finn, Producer - Travis Barker, ComposerLyricist - blink-182, MainArtist - Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Finn, Producer - blink-182, MainArtist
℗ 2000 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Femio Hernandez, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Finn, Producer - Travis Barker, ComposerLyricist - blink-182, MainArtist
℗ 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Robert Read, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Femio Hernandez, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Finn, Producer - Joe McGrath, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ted Regier, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Travis Barker, ComposerLyricist - Joe Marlett, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - blink-182, MainArtist - Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Robert Read, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Femio Hernandez, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Finn, Producer - Joe McGrath, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ted Regier, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Travis Barker, ComposerLyricist - Joe Marlett, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - blink-182, MainArtist
℗ 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - Alan Mason, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Femio Hernandez, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Finn, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ryan Hewitt, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Sisco, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Travis Barker, ComposerLyricist - John Morrical, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - James McCrone, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Seth Waldmann, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - blink-182, MainArtist - Sam Boukas, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joseph Manning Jr., Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2003 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - Alan Mason, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Femio Hernandez, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Finn, Producer - Ryan Hewitt, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Sisco, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Travis Barker, ComposerLyricist - John Morrical, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - James McCrone, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Seth Waldmann, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - blink-182, MainArtist - Sam Boukas, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joseph Manning Jr., Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2003 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - Alan Mason, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Femio Hernandez, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Finn, Producer - Ryan Hewitt, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Sisco, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Travis Barker, ComposerLyricist - John Morrical, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - James McCrone, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Seth Waldmann, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - blink-182, MainArtist - Sam Boukas, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joseph Manning Jr., Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2003 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - Alan Mason, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Femio Hernandez, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Finn, Producer - Ryan Hewitt, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Sisco, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Travis Barker, ComposerLyricist - John Morrical, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - James McCrone, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Seth Waldmann, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - blink-182, MainArtist - Sam Boukas, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joseph Manning Jr., Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2003 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Finn, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Travis Barker, ComposerLyricist - blink-182, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jerry Finn, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ryan Hewitt, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Seth Waldmann, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - blink-182, Producer, MainArtist - Peter Albert Perrett, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Delonge, Singer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mark Hoppus, Singer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Travis Barker, ComposerLyricist - blink-182, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Geffen Records
Album 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.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:00
- Main artists: blink-182
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Geffen
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2016 Geffen Records This Compilation ℗ 2016 Geffen Records
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