It seems that anyone over the age of sixteen is unsure whether Fall Out Boy is an acceptable band or not, but only about one percent of the crowd at last week's Madison Square Garden show belonged to this ambivalent demographic, so the atmosphere was decidedly PSYCHED! TO! BE! THERE!
In my pretentious high school days, I'd have never deigned to attend a show at an arena (the horror!), but there was a very special time in my life during which the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, Texas, was the destination for all my concert needs. Which included Blink 182 and... Blink 182. Observing the crazed mayhem last week, I couldn't help but recall the similar, if not identical sentiment of my seventh-grade Blink 182 experience. How do the two concerts compare? Are the kids today getting everything they can out of their exuberant mall-emo/pop-punk life phase?
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Three years ago today Blink 182 officially announced their indefinite hiatus, thus ending a golden era of genuinely fun pop music. Commercial rock has been tragically devoid of dick jokes and scatological humor since their departure, and the new wave of punky pop bands (aka emo aka Those Dudes) just doesn't have the same kind of sarcastic swagger that Blink 182 possessed in such abundance. They were by no means great musicians, but if you were 13 years old in 2000 and too misanthropic for boy bands, yet still immature enough to enjoy sodomy jokes, they were pitch perfect. Let's examine some of their finer moments.
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