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Good
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Raw sound
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are there any?
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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Many Blink-182 fans will tell you that this is Blink-182 at their best, and it is very difficult to argue.
A 15 track album with some good fast tracks and also with many humerous unterludes and subjects.
Main tracks from this album are 'Dammit' and 'Josie' - both released in the US and helped to gain Blink-182 the majority of their pre-enema fans.
This Album was done before the band was fully signed up to a major label and so the production is less aimed toward the vocals and give the band a much more raw sound which is very effective and different if you have only heard their latest stuff.
It has joke songs in 'Degenerate' (see title) and 'A New Hope' which is a song about Pricess Leah (star Wars). 'I'm sorry' which is the final track on the album also has a humourous bit on the ending as does 'untitled' which is also a fantastic track.
Blink-182 have some great tracks on this album such as Apple Shampoo, Dick Lip - which despite its title isn't really a joke song, although it seems strange that the first words are 'Please Mum'. A very good track also is 'Lemmings' - a track not about one of the greatest computer games ever, but about not following the crowd..etc.
This was the first Blink-182 album I bought and I was hooked to this band since. I really reccommend this especially if you have any of Blink-182 's earlier or more recent albums.
I dont know if I could say it is their best album but it is very close and should be bought.
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