arian, how do you always manage to say the right things? I love this!

and for the record, I was a green day fan too. BJA 4E!

god, so true

hahah, i'm excited about the comeback, but this is great

aggressive.
i love it.

this is pure sex.

my verification word is cookiten.
which makes me think of cooking kittens.
which is the opposite of the feeling i get from reading this article.
which is good.

popsense is so schizo, i love it

http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#topic=Crafts&url=http%2525253A//craftydaisies.com/2007/07/26/crayon-nibbles/

long live green day.

really?, .... i mean really??

well for a start your flawed logic is the way you post a one sided blog to favour your choice now lets see to everyone who was and is a fan of blink this is a big deal but because your not its not so the reason of not liking a band because of clothes is retarded and also the fact that you say tom sings like a backwards canadian hmmm have you heard what BJA sounds like in early albums if you dont like the band for you it pointless for others its brilliant imho i reckon both there bands weren't doing to well and there like shit need money to pay off my solid gold toilet better reunite bin and milk the cash cow for all its worth anyway i can say this being a fan of blink and a fan of green day and if they tour Australia ill go c them same with green day and ill buy both there new albums because thats what fans do.

take a chill pill matt, he's just saying that its impossible for a reunion to ever be as great as when the band was in its prime/appropriate era

matt, please speak english if you're going to be mocking people. That was a fucking mess of an attempt at complete sentences.

As to your commentary--
"if they tour Australia ill go c them same with green day and ill buy both there new albums because thats what fans do."

No, my friend, that is what sheep do.

Guys, calm down. Matt was obviously trying to make some sort of ironic protest against punctuation and coherent sentence structure generally speaking. Don't let his profound linguistic statement go over your heads. Where else have you seen a question mark, a comma, and an ellipsis in immediate succession to one another, followed by something vaguely resembling a "paragraph", something that is completely devoid of any punctuation whatsoever and makes an obscure reference to golden toilets? Nowhere else, my friends. Nowhere else.

We are in the presence of something great.

You are obviously a biased Green day fan. Blink was the trigger for amazing music that leads the market today. Bands such as A Day to Remember, Boys like Girls, WE THE KINGS, Devil Wears Prada, and many more all claim that they we inspired by blink. Their last CD was a masterpiece. if they had not wrote that CD. Ignorant people like you would claim they have no taste and cannot keep up with the changing music world.

la ti da I saw a kid wearing a hanes tee with "BLINK 182 IS BACK" written in thick sharpie on it and I wanted to slap him across the face and gleefully sing the "na na"s from All the Small Things

Dearest Mark,

It's fairly obvious that my musical opinion is biased. Kudos to you for figuring that out. What strikes me is that you would use bands like Boys Like Girls and We The Kings to make a ridiculous point. Here's what I'd like you to do - in fact, everyone can do this:

Listen to "Check Yes Juliet" by WTK and "The Great Escape" by BLG. At the point where the pre-chorus leads into the chorus ("Throw it away" in BLG and "Run baby run" in WTK), one can sing the other song in its place. You see, Mark, the bands that you mentioned are actually a system of interchangeable riffs that provide little to no real substance to the world of music.

The fact that you went so far as to capitalize WE THE KINGS makes me think that you're either a) a 13 year old girl or b) that "leave Britney alone" guy.

I'd continue arguing this, but the truth is, I don't care enough to. I think I've made my point clear.

If you would like to write an article mocking me or my taste in music (I like Shoegaze music - have fun tearing the genre apart), I would be more than happy to arrange this.

Love,
Arian

No, my friend sheep stand in a field and chew grass.

Ok now I was typing fast and in a hurry but it's the fucking internet who cares how you spell and if you use correct grammar. Also pointing out that i wasn't using correct grammar is pointless i have to write numerous essays and such for university where I use correct grammar and I just think when I'm commenting on a blog 'Fuck it'. I'm not making a protest against the English language so just fuck off.

Fans do buy the band's merchandise, cds, dvds, concert tickets, etc, etc, etc. That's all because they feel the need to support a band they like.

I'm sorry I can't be clone of a person who listens to everything in the top forty but pop music and R'n'b and Rap are shit, Blink 182 is a subgenre called pop punk pretty much the same as Green Day.

If I'm such a sheep a mere person who follows the crowd why do i listen to other music that i just like?

Answer that you pretentious fuck.

Inspite of all this I've probably punctuated something wrong or misspelled or not double spaced so flame away.

Justin also in regards to your :

'No, my friend, that is what sheep do.'

Well in this giant piece of flawed logic that makes anyone whoever bought a record/concert ticket/band tee/vinyl/cassette tape/other merchandise a sheep.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm well i guess a good percentage of the earth are sheep well over half.

Pfft dumbass.

matt, when you say you would see them just because "thats what fans do" you are implying that, even if the band puts out shit, you would support them like a family member. sure, this would mean that you are a
"loyal fan," but sheep-like in the sense that you are following whateeeverrr they do.

Blink's last album was absolutely brilliant, and will be great to hear live.

i agree that they definitely bred a certain culture with their music, but i'm still listening to blink and i don't wear my "family-of-five" jeans anymore. music can stay relevant, despite changing fads and an aging band. lyrics may become dated, but it makes the song all the better and nostalgic when you hear it years later.

i also think you have to wait and see what they come up with before writing them off.

No I am simply implying fans of the band will buy it if you consider it shit its up to you but someone else might consider it amazing and I never said i would support them like a family member.

I don't follow them in whatever they do either i agree with that most of their last album was crap apart from a few tracks. I also believe that in being a loyal fan doesn't make you a sheep it makes you a fan and Thelonius maybe next time you should read all the comments before commenting.

EDIT: If someone from blink 182 were in trouble like a family member and needed a place to crash what fan wouldn't let them crash on your couch but i wouldn't considered them family.

As Holly said below they bred a generation and even though the fads that came with them are mostly gone the music stayed because that's what was important to the FANS!

Chill the fuck out dude.

My mockery of your writing was not of grammar or punctuation, it was of the fact that I couldn't even understand your point because it was so poorly put together. Congratulations on writing essays for university, I'm sure those are great.

I called you a sheep for blindly going to the concerts and buying the albums before even considering the arguments of the writer-- that the music may now suck. Could it be the other way around, of course. But before your freak out about being called a blind follower, you should consider the point the writer is making.

Also-- yes, most of the world is made up of sheep. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

Hey, Matt – do you know how to read? Honestly, I’m not trying to offend you. Now, before you go off on me defending yourself by saying “Well clearly I can read if I’m responding to this”. But reading, as you may or may have not learned in the first grade, depends on analyzing the material being presented.

I don’t exactly know how things work where you’re from, but clearly they’re doing something wrong. Not only did you completely miss the point of the article but you continue to drab on and on defending something that everyone thinks you’re wrong about. Guess what- people have different opinions. Shocker, right? I mean who knew? It just so happens that you disagreed with the writers.

Now instead of acting like an adult about this and simply stating that your opinion was different (Like Holly Perry) you decided to be an asshole about it; which would lead me to believe you’ve just celebrated your twelfth birthday. Well, that and your horrid use of grammar.

By the way- if you had read absolutely anything else that the writer had written (or used that fantastic tool of analyzing that I mentioned) you would know that he doesn’t listen to “Everything in the top forty”. However, I do believe Boys Like Girls as well as We The Kings have been in that category (http://top40.about.com/od/b/p/boyslikegirls.htm) Look at that last paragraph- they hit number 10 on the pop charts. I guess you do listen to pop after all.

You think you’ve proven a point when really all you’re doing is making yourself into an even bigger asshole. I do hope your University papers contain more thought. Best of luck and happy grazing!

I haven't read any of his other blogs i stumbled on this through google. I'm not blindly buying concert tickets and albums by them i buy them because i like the band or the bands album.

I bet most of the people have been to a concert here and bought a cd so to all of them according to Melissa and Justin graze away..

this article was spot on.
however, i'm thinking the war between green day and blink 182 clearly came to no end, hence the comments on this post?

You my friend, are a weiner.

Dear Arain Murati,

This letter is in response to an article you wrote on February 9, 2009 regarding the reunion of Blink 182 and “Why the Blink 182 Reunion Doesn’t Matter.” I agree with your comment on how Blink 182 was “a staple of childhood/early teen music.” However, you present your opinion of the reunion in a very childish manner. Your reason for disliking the band is naïve. While you are a very educated writer, you let bias opinions dictate your views of the situation.

Your childish reasoning jumped out in the open when you said, “The Blink kids wore skater clothes (without once stepping on a skateboard) and constantly made childish jokes in class. Still, they were the popular kids, and that was reason enough for me to dislike the band. Musically, I thought all their songs sounded the same and Tom sang like a backwoods Canadian immigrant with a speech impediment.” You are entitled to your opinion when it comes to Tom Delonge’s singing and the music, but when you use the example of “kid Blink fans” you turn people off and give them the impression that you don’t have a better reason for disliking the band. I know you could have done without those comments and still have gotten your point across.

Your title of the article screams of hatred towards the band. For many people the reunion does matter. Some people make music their lives. They can’t live without listening to their favorite band. Those people look to their band as an escape from the everyday troubles this crazy world inflicts on us. You fail to look at it from the fan’s perspective. You state that you “had always favored Green Day over Blink.” Ok, well then think of how you would feel if Green Day took the same road as Blink. Your approach to that article might be a little different.

You also fail to realize the impact that Blink 182 has made in the music world. You try to belittle Blink’s impact by stating that they were “single-handedly responsible for the pop-punk/emo explosion of this decade.” While they did inspire this genre of music, they also inspired much more artists that were not limited to this genre. A Day to Remember is a hardcore band that claims they were mainly inspired to write music because of Blink 182. (The We the Kings example was bad I’m sorry) I also don’t understand why you ridicule Blink 182 for their last album. It was the most influential of all. They showed that they could evolve with the music scene. Only people who dislike the band say the last album failed, but if you ask unbiased musicians you see much appreciation and admiration for the album.

Throughout Blink 182’s existence they have touched many people and have inspired many bands to write music. They did create a new genre of music that was rather “emo.” People fail to realize that if it wasn’t for Blink, many of their favorite bands wouldn’t be who they are today.

Though at times this response may seem harsh, it’s more aimed to the lack of appreciation you have for the band. If you had taken a nicer approach, it would have kept Blink fans (such as me) from jumping out of their seats.

Mark,

Thank you for the insightful and intelligent response. At no point did I expect this article to garner so much controversy or criticism, but I fully understand where you and the others are coming from.

As for the childish reasoning you've mentioned, I agree. I kept those statements in for the sake of comedy, not purpose, and I understand the discrepancy. I also tend to overstate my titles to encourage disagreement (and attain more site traffic).

As an active musician, I am very much aware of their impact. This is where I could have compiled concrete reasons as to why I don't like the band or their following, but I chose not to because it limits my audience to musicians. I chose to follow a more topical route with my argument for this reason.

Again, thank you for keeping this argument mature, and I'll keep in mind the views of my audience for future opinion pieces. It's good to know that as this site grows, different opinions come out of the woodwork and onto the pages. When we began, there was little to no backlash on any of my writings, and now I am glad to see that there can be an intelligent discourse between the writers and the commenters.

your right about one thing. They most likely wont be as big as they were in the early 2000's but it DOES matter, maybe you grew out of there music, but Teenagers come and go, once one teenager turns into an adult another child turns into a teenager. so their music will ALWAYs be appreciated. In my opinion your a dumbass who obviously has some excitement towards the blink-182 renuion or you wouldnt have wasted your time writing this bullshit blog.
LONG LIVE BLINK-182

hm, how old are you? just wondering because even your are 18+ your probably a fucking faggot who thinks he can change everyones mibnd about a band that broke up 5 years ago and is still one of the most famous bands out there, even with there "poop" jokes as you like to call them. IDK why everyone thinks blink sang about poop. because there is literally not ONE song about poop so your a fucking dickface. they sing songs about fucking things and dicks. But most of there songs are good and have a catchy tune. there is NO OTHER BAND OUT THERE like them. sooooo many bands try to compare to the immature yet amazing music that just cant be replaced. now is there any other band out there, that cant be copied??? all of the bands now adays sound the same the singers sound the same the lyrics sing about the same things and the instruments sound the same. Blink was all around Original. thats why we need them to bring some sense into this piece of shit music industry.

Ashley - You seem to be a bit late. I've already gone over most of what you've said. Also, I'm not excited about the reunion. Did you even read the article?

Josh - Yes, I am over eighteen. As evidenced by your horrible grammar and dull argument, I'd venture to guess that you are eleven or twelve. This isn't YouTube- we expect some level of intelligence from our readers. I'd also suggest looking a bit deeper into the world of music - perhaps looking at a few music articles on this site would help?

I'm not going to waste my time arguing with idiotic commenters anymore. If you've got something insightful and respectful to say, I'll respond. Otherwise, thank you for bringing traffic to the site and adding to my portfolio.

thank you for the reply. I understand that everyone has different "likes" in the world of music. I too am a musician. I play in the band, Within the Fronts Embrace. check us out on myspace and tell me what you think. (our music is nothing like blink 182) Also thank you again I may not agree with everything you say you are a very intelligent writer. I will be back at this site specifically to give you a hard time. lol jk :)

blink 182 has always been a "children's band." it's mass media bullshit that kids like because they think it's catchy, but seriously, if you like blink 182 over the age of 14, you've obviously got some growing up to do when it comes to music.

it's dumb "hot topic" music that's been brainwashing this nations youth for years and years. Teenagers and young "adults" actually think that this music is moving, thought-provoking? it's terrible!

Seriously, let's look at some lyrics:
"I've been here before a few times
And I'm quite aware we're dying
And your hands they shake with goodbyes
And I'll take you back if you'd have me "

any significant lyricism in mainstream music has been replaced with mindless rhymes and faux-romantic phrases.

i must admit that i did like blink 182 as a child, but their music never spoke to me, maybe because i've always realized that the lyrics were bad.

all of you hot topic brainwashed teens have bought into a faux culture. you've bought into believing that blink 182 and green day is "punk" or that bring me the horizon is "screamo" or that my chemical romance is "emo." Yeah right.

as a teenager myself, i think it makes sense that i at least try to educate the dumb asses of my generation, not that i'm calling anyone here a dumb ass, just in general.

so, you may hate me for this, but i don't care. call me pretentious, call me a "fucktard" if you will. It won't make a difference, it will just add to the fact that you all truly are brainwashed by the media, by our corrupt government, by your daily news team.

seriously. LOL

blink 182 has always been a "children's band." it's mass media bullshit that kids like because they think it's catchy, but seriously, if you like blink 182 over the age of 14, you've obviously got some growing up to do when it comes to music.

it's dumb "hot topic" music that's been brainwashing this nations youth for years and years. Teenagers and young "adults" actually think that this music is moving, thought-provoking? it's terrible!

Seriously, let's look at some lyrics:
"I've been here before a few times
And I'm quite aware we're dying
And your hands they shake with goodbyes
And I'll take you back if you'd have me "

any significant lyricism in mainstream music has been replaced with mindless rhymes and faux-romantic phrases.

i must admit that i did like blink 182 as a child, but their music never spoke to me, maybe because i've always realized that the lyrics were bad.

all of you hot topic brainwashed teens have bought into a faux culture. you've bought into believing that blink 182 and green day is "punk" or that bring me the horizon is "screamo" or that my chemical romance is "emo." Yeah right.

as a teenager myself, i think it makes sense that i at least try to educate the dumb asses of my generation, not that i'm calling anyone here a dumb ass, just in general.

so, you may hate me for this, but i don't care. call me pretentious, call me a "fucktard" if you will. It won't make a difference, it will just add to the fact that you all truly are brainwashed by the media, by our corrupt government, by your daily news team.

seriously. LOL

I am liking the chemistry between musical observation and opinions! People always argue about the music industry and the different genres which micro analyze the industry. This issue I have with some of these arguments is that, ladies and gentlemen, this isn't what music is all about. If you don't like a band, that's perfectly normal as well as understandable. But the music industry is about respect and appreciation for no matter what genre a band is, whether suiting or contradicting ones musical preference. The article itself is allowable for this is was forums or online blogging is all about, BIASED OPINION! However at the same time there are points where the stereotype is thrown on a little TOO thick and the article becomes OVERLY biased at a few points. However again, this is the exact point behind these forums. However, for one to say that these bands have no entity to the music industry I personally view as ridiculous. Every band has something to offer. The issue that I have is that people think one band needs to influence and fuel the music industry in its entirety. This is never the case! No band ever will unless you were The Beatles are other major classic rock power houses which themselves had not changed the entire music industry, but more of opened doorways for new genres to progress and be evolved. Musicians and musical activists need to learn how to appreciate music no matter if it adheres to your personal preference or not. Because if it doesn't adhere to yours, it DOES adhere to others. All in all, a great article and the discussions on this forum are great! I just wanted to touch on the fact the people who follow the music industry, are musicians, or simply listen to music, need to begin to learn how to respect everyone's musical taste, even though you preferences do not agree. :-)

It is true that the cool kids who liked to party and get laid liked Blink, while the drama club fagots liked Green Day.

you see, then you get the fans who never gave up hope, never stopped wearing their blink 182 t's & knew that blink were more than the shit you're naming them as.
how about you put your enema of the state cd away & go out & buy the earlier cds they released that you've obviously never listened to.
the blink 182 reunion does matter, to me.
they grew with their music. & i grew up with them to.
i understand what you're saying but you're making em sound shit!

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Everyone really needs to just get over this. It's over. This argument died a long time ago. Everyone proved their own points. It's just an article, it was one persons opinion. I doubt it was meant as a personal attack on Blink-182 fans like everyone seems to think here. He has his opinions, you have yours. Let that be the end of it.

I LOVE CHEESE

everyone calm down.
blink-182 ftw
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But...you're wrong.

All the blink haters can fuck off , robert smith of the cure ,recorded a song on that cd and said the first 20 minutes alone of their last cd was the best thing that has happened to punk rock within the last 20 years get it right retards

Isn't it funny to look back at what this author wrote considering how successful blink's reunion tour has been?

"Sometimes it's just better to leave bands like Blink 182 to memory. There's a reason I'm not holding my breath for a Soundgarden reunion. It just wouldn't be the same in 2009 as it was in 1995."

Actually, I must say that Blink-182's reunion tour has been just as good as they had performed in the past. I attended four shows on the reunion tour and they all were amazing!

"Teens and young adults don't exactly have much of an attention span, and won't really think too much about the fact that the reunion is taking place less than five years after the split."

I find it interesting that someone who insults their audience like this is still hired....

I kinda agree with the person who wrote this.

Now don't get me wrong, I love blink, got all their albums and used to listen to'em all the time, but I think that 30 year olds singing songs that 16year old kids relate to is kinda... well... pathetic. And let's face it, they're not the best musical band out there, and they're just meant to stay the Blink who did from "dude ranch" to "take off your pants and jacket". Now they've lost my respect because they're sell outs.

I loved Blink, and I still love what they WERE.

I also like stuff like green day. Hell I listen to stuff like Cat Stevens, Meat loaf, ska, reggea, punk, grunge, hardteck, and anything that's worth been listened to. Anyway. I don't know what my point is. Fuck y'all.

... and yet 5 more months on, people are still avidly waiting for some album or tour.

In 1995, I was two years old. I didn't first start listening to Blink until I was arouns 12 or 13 - and this music still achieves new waves of fans all of the time. Blink is for anyone and everyone! Sure, some older fans will enjoy their music now for the nostalgia factor - but there will always be kids... with an immature sense of humour and an eagerness to rebel against the norm. Blink will always be this platform.

Im not a massive fan of Green Day, but I like a couple of tracks. However, most people like myself always seem to agree about Green Day that 'Yeah, Dookie was great'... and thats about it.