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Whatever adjective you wish to apply to Blink-182 — crass, juvenile, obnoxious, scatological — no one can claim the band isn't market savvy. Slashing and burning through trails first laid out by California punk bands such as Green Day and Pennywise, the San Diego-based group has managed to forge a musical identity that's easily packaged and intellectually undemanding. Moreover, the group has elevated the notion of corporate sponsorship to a near art-form. Defying the long-held punk ethic that frowns on easy alliances between music and merchandise, the members of Blink-182 (when they aren't naked) are often walking billboards for companies that furnish the band with sneakers, sunglasses, and other apparel.
On the strength of heavy radio play and incessant touring, Blink-182 soon garnered a stateside following that was comparable to its popularity Down Under. During 1997, "Dammit (Growing Up)," the first single from Dude Ranch, became one of the five most-played songs at key radio stations KROQ (L.A.), KNDD (Seattle), WXRK (New York), KITS (San Francisco), and WBCN (Boston). Moreover, the band began assuming headline status on the annual Warped Tours and undertook lengthy stints overseas with Fellow skate-punkers Unwritten Law and Homegrown (on the "Poo-poo Pee-pee Tour") and with Less Than Jake (on a tour dubbed "Race Around Uranus").
In January of 1999, Blink-182 returned to San Diego and began work on the follow-up to Dude Ranch. By that time, Raynor had left the band (the departure was amicable, according to Hoppus), to be replaced by former Vandals drummer and Steely Dan acolyte Travis Barker. Released in July of 1999, Enema of the State solidified the group's status as punkers to be reckoned with. Evidencing its predilection for silly puns and juvenile obsessions, the band centered the video for the first single from the album, "What's My Age Again?" on a naked romp through the streets of San Diego. Moreover, the group enlisted porn star "Janine" to grace the album cover in a nurse-bondage get-up.
Meanwhile, upcoming activities for Blink-182 include a fall and winter tour with Silverchair. The group was also recently chosen to record a version of the Jan and Dean classic "Dead Man's Curve" for the TV miniseries, The History of Rock 'n' Roll. The band had one of its songs — "Dammit (Growing Up)" — featured in the teen flick Can't Hardly Wait and the trio also made a cameo appearance in the movie American Pie in which the members essentially portrayed themselves. So it would seem that future film and TV work is almost a certainty … consider yourselves warned.
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