Blink 182 has been my favorite band since I started to really appreciate music. I believe it was around 6th grade for me. Total Request Live was the pinnacle of the midday TV ratings and all your favorite artists were chatting with Carson Daly in New York City. Blink was no exception to this fame. It is how I first fell in love with them. I had heard a little bit of their music from a girl at school who was into them, but this is what set them apart for me.
I was never into rap that much, and pop music was too main stream, I had to be different. Mark, Tom, and Travis were the answer to that. Their antics of the late ‘90s and growth into a more serious act in 2003 was something I could identify with as I was a maturing punk/emo kid.
Fast forward 20 years, and I still stop the radio if I hear All The Small Things. People always made fun of my taste in music, but I didn’t care. These guys were trendsetters in their industry, like it or not. My friends and I still jam to them when we are together. We share the memes of how they are better than The Beatles. We talk about our favorite songs. And for me, there is no better written song than Dammit.