At first, there were awkward moments of forking food without making eye contact. It was like dining with the new step-dad. For many, it was the first time seeing Matt Skiba jam with the band instead of DeLonge. It’s a cool music video with lots of energy, incorporating an intimate blink-182 live show with a side story about adolescents bonding over their music.
Read more: Tom DeLonge and blink-182 will play together again when the time is right 20. Hopefully that’s true for the band, as well. “These nights go on and on and on,” Mark Hoppus sings. In actuality, it meshes well with the song, revealing some really genuine moments between the video’s chief characters. It sounds like it could be a Joker– Harley Quinn origin story. Pretty freakin’ sweet! The video’s narrative follows two young lovers escaping from a psych ward for an evening of reckless romance. Our reunited heroes perform in the world’s largest freestanding wooden structure, built in the 1940s. It’s one of blink-182’s best slow jams and reflected where they were at in 2011 better than any other tune. The video’s most memorable moment is the opening montage of music videos past, a reminder of blink-182’s Goliath-sized footprint in the industry around the turn of the century. Including clips from their performance for troops overseas was a nice touch. The music video features clips from blink’s better days-the trio blasting each other in the face with cake, spraying fans with cereal and just being goofballs. It was the lead single on the Greatest Hits album, released after Tom DeLonge first split with the band in the mid-2000s. “Not Now” originally appeared to be blink-182’s swan song. Still, it’s a great representation of the band’s showmanship. There’s no storyline to this video, and it’s pretty basic. Except you don’t have to deal with all the sweat or the token guy on acid.
The edgy tune is matched in intensity by a fitting video, giving viewers a taste of what it’s like to be buried in the pit during a blink-182 show. Tightly edited clips from an Atlanta show make this video pop and rip at breakneck speed like the song itself. Read more: Ice Nine Kills turn “Stacy’s Mom” into a rib-splitting ‘Friday The 13th’ parodyĪnyway, this seems like an appropriate time to chill out with blink-182’s collection of music videos, ranked in order of greatness. There’s something to be said about a group who can split sides with nudity and appropriately address dark topics such as divorce or a worldwide pandemic that doesn’t seem like it’s going to end while some people aren’t taking it seriously and our leaders have their heads up their asses.
But to know blink-182, you have to watch their music videos.įew bands boast a collection that tickles the teenage funny bone with scat humor, then pulls at the heartstrings with art so timely and relatable. We’re sure cashing checks with that many zeroes is fun. Yes, the trio probably like playing in front of sold-out stadiums. The blink-182 story isn’t about the accomplishments and accolades.