I MISS YOU

How did a band that were as good as Blink 182 (yes, I like them and their last album was very good considering they went serious after 4 albums of nob gags) produce two bands so mediocre with 3 good songs between them? I just watched the new Angels & Airwaves video to their song Everything's Magic and, quite frankly, it's rubbish. Their first album was pretty poor too with only The Adventure and the last 30 seconds of Valkyrie Missile being worthwhile. And have you seen the cover to their new album? It would be brilliantly genius if you didn't know that Tom DeLonge is deadly serious in thinking he can take over the world.

So that's them, and Plus 44 are pretty bog standard too. The singles were good straight up rock songs but the rest of the album has not one tune on it.

I'm not saying Blink 182 were the Beatles but there's a certain good together shit apart like Lennon and McCartney thing going on here. I had high hopes for these two, but I've given up. The moral of the story is that if you started playing pop punk, stay playing pop punk (exception Green Day), or just stop. It was a fad, like nu metal, unless you had a serious edge to your sound from the offset like Bad Religion or Pennywise.

Anyway make up your own minds on Tom DeLonge's manifesto.