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The group is rather scattershot here, hitting the target as often as they miss it.
13y
50
The San Diegoβarea trio slapped together lilting melodies and racing beats in an attempt to connect emo, hardcore's sullen "emotional" branch, and skate punk, a sort of pop hardcore.
7y
Cheshire Cat, debuting album from Pop Punk band blink-182 throws listeners into the world of underproduced and poorly mixed skate punk of the 1990’s.
Taking inspiration from bands such as NOFX and Bad Religion, Cheshire Cat doesn’t break new ground by any means but rather sticks to a formulaic structure throughout a 16-song track list.
Awkwardly, whenever Cheshire Cat does have the occasional moment of instrumental intrigue by straying away from a formulaic approach, such as ... read more
I saw it listed that blink-182 are considered to be a skate punk band. If anyone has ever heard me talk about music in any medium they should have found out by now that my standard bearer for all music is the Tony Hawk video game franchise which, if you weren't aware of until now, has the best soundtracks ever conceived. They have a healthy mix of underground hip hop, old rock, and punk rock. Of course these games would also be the bar to set for what makes an act a skate punk band, so I got ... read more
BLINK-182 | CHAPTER ONE
To break the monotony of listening to forty-something albums by one singular artist, I figured I’d start another dive to concurrently go with that one. I picked this band because they’re one of the more unique bands of their genre and are a load of fun. Anyways, enough babble. Review time.
Blink (later renamed to what we’d know them as today), the three piece SoCal skate punk band, would sign with independent punk label Cargo Records after the ... read more
Cheshire Cat is Blink-182’s first album, and coincidentally also my first album! I listened to this album around 1 year ago, and it’s still in rotation… well, some songs at least.
Cheshire Cat is a mixed bag for me. While yes, there are pop punk masterpieces such as carousel and wasting time present on this album, there are also so many meh songs that it really isn’t worth more than a 60. Of which is sad; i really want to love this album!!! I adore the production, the ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Carousel 3:11 | 80 |
| 2 | M+M's 2:36 | 77 |
| 3 | Fentoozler 2:02 | 67 |
| 4 | Touchdown Boy 3:06 | 64 |
| 5 | Strings 2:24 | 59 |
| 6 | Peggy Sue 2:36 | 65 |
| 7 | Sometimes 1:06 | 58 |
| 8 | Does My Breath Smell? 2:35 | 58 |
| 9 | Cacophony 3:02 | 65 |
| 10 | TV 1:41 | 59 |
| 11 | Toast And Bananas 2:39 | 60 |
| 12 | Wasting Time 2:43 | 69 |
| 13 | Romeo And Rebecca 2:31 | 55 |
| 14 | Ben Wah Balls 3:54 | 47 |
| 15 | Just About Done 2:12 | 29 |
| 16 | Depends 2:49 | 37 |
Total Length: 41 minutes
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