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 Influences: Green Day, NOFX, Dead Kennedys, Nirvana, Screeching Weasel, Descendents, Lagwagon, The Cure.Related Acts: +44 (Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker) Angels & Airwaves (Tom De Longe) The Aquabats! (Barker) Box Car Racer (De Longe and Barker) Transplants (Barker) Alkaline Trio (Matt Skiba)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 182note Just a random number that the band decided on; contrary to popular belief, it's not the number of times that Al Pacino says the word "fuck" in Scarface after being threatened with a lawsuit from an Irish pop rock band also named Blink.After releasing their first two studio albums, Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch, Raynor left the band in 1998 and was replaced by the iconic Travis Barker (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 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 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 months of shoving in and promoting him, Mark and Travis announced that Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio 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.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").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.Band Members (founding members in bold): Tom DeLonge: Vocals, guitar (1992-2005, 2009-2015, 2022-present) Mark Hoppus: Vocals, bass (1992-2005, 2009-present) Scott Raynor: Drums, percussion (1992-1998) Travis Barker: Drums, percussion (1998-2005, 2009-present) Matt Skiba: Vocals, guitar (2015-2022)Discography:Studio albums Cheshire Cat (1995) Dude Ranch (1997) Enema of the State (1999) Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001) Blink-182note The way this album is referred to is split between a Self-Titled Album or an untitled one. (2003) Neighborhoods (2011) California (2016; deluxe edition in 2017) Nine (2019) One More Time... (2023)Other notable releases 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. They Came to Conquer... Uranus (1996; EP) The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) (2000; Live Album) Greatest Hits (2005; Greatest Hits Album with additional non-album songs) Dogs Eating Dogs (2012; EP) "Not Another Christmas Song" (2019; non-album single) "Quarantine" (2020; non-album single) "Edging" (2022; non-album single)note Would later be included in the tracklist for One More Time... in 2023.
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