Similar Artists - Blink 182

Similar Artists - Blink 182

Blink 182 are an American pop punk band formed in 1992. The band was formed in the California suberbs, playing in garages for a few years before taking part in Battle Of The Bands and beginning to write.

The band moved to New york when they began playing at local venues and began making music videos and recording albums themselves.

They were signed by Cargo Records in 1994 where they found a manager and gained mainstream success in 1999. 

Their most successful songs are the upbeat, pop punk songs, “What’s My Age Again?” “All The Small Things” that were made so popular for their catchy hooks and accompanying humorous music videos. They also drew plenty of attention after the release of their more serious, artistic, “Adam’s song.” The band won many awards for their innovative and signature music videos.

1. Adam’s Song

• Dark colours or black and white images.
• Zooming in and out of polaroids creates a sense of sombre reflection as we delve into the past memories of the artists.
• The shots of the band performing in front of the polaroids is a popular feature of pop punk music videos which we aim to include in our video.
• The skater influenced dress style is a clear parallel drawn between Car Chase City and Blink 182. 
• Staggered camera movements create a sense of disorientation.
• Filming circles the band as they play live, creating a closed in effect and allowing the audience to become the aggressor. 
• The filming of the various scenes occurs as a series of images. This effect allows the audience to differentiate between the fluidity of the performance footage and the scenes that occur within the photos.
• The use of black and white creates a sense of a painful nostalgia. 
• Dispersing colourful images with pained expressions allows for the audience to associate the images with one another creating an assumption that the popular kids created the pain of the artist.
• The images of the man left alone and the young child establish a theme of isolation. The contrast between jovial youth and troubled teen is a powerful and emotive concept.
• As the frequency of the images increases, the impression of the life flashing before the eyes is created.
• The crushendo of images rapidly passing and the cuts between the band and these images create an influx in discomfort and aggression.
• The final zoom our of the band escapes the polaroid and shows the stage area empty as a play on the imagination of the audience.

Blink-182 is an American rock band formed in Poway, a suburb of San Diego, California in 1992. The trio consists of bassist and vocalist Mark Hoppus, guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker.

They are furthermore considered one of the key bands in the development of pop-punk, the combination of fast paced pop melodies punk rock created more radio friendly music than previous bands. The band can also be considered to be Alternative Rock, while their earlier music was more skate punk styled, their newer music more mainstream styled music became more 'pop' punk styled, while taking influences from indie punk, hip hop and arena punk.

The bands fashion would typically consist of t-shirts, shorts and typical spiked or slicked hair, while more recently it has became more modernised as the band members typically wear darker coloured shirts and jeans as opposed to bright colourful clothing.

They seem to have a lot of contact with their fan-base, often having group interviews, give a ways, and so on, on many social media websites such as Facebook. Many band members often feature on many music channels such as Kerrang as hosts, this further more empahsises their mainstream success and how they interact with their fans.

While the fans of Blink-182 react positively to this many fans from other punk bands would consider them "traitors" or ''sellouts'', to have sold their values, their punk roots for mainstream success.

Blink-182 continued the unexpected 1990s journey of pop-punk into the mainstream. The trio emerged from Southern Californian skate-punk culture with a high-energy stage show heavy with slapstick and fart jokes. But like the slightly older Green Day, closer study revealed hook-filled rock songs obsessed with breakup and loneliness, even occasionally delving into such topics as teen suicide ("Adam's Song")

The band formed in the San Diego suburbs in 1991 when guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge — who'd first picked up a guitar as a teen at church camp — met bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus, who was in a garage-band in high school. Drummer Scott Raynor rounded out the trio, who originally called themselves Blink (they added the '182' when an Irish band with the same name threatened a lawsuit). With indie recordings and frequent performances at festivals and clubs, the band — whose early shows featured wet T-shirt and wet pants contests — slowly built a young, devoted following. Their fan base grew in the mid-1990s, when they toured with punk vets NOFX and Pennywise and appeared on the Vans Warped Tour.

The band attracted major label attention in 1997 with their fast-selling indie release Dude Ranch (Number 67), which went platinum on the strength of the modern-rock hit "Dammit (Growing Up)" (Number 11). Soon after, Raynor was fired from the band and replaced by Travis Barker, who had opened for Blink-182 as a member of Orange County pop-punk group the Aquabats. The band signed to MCA, which released their breakthrough album, Enema of the State (Number 9, 1999). The disc — the band's fourth — went triple platinum and spawned two hits, "All the Small Things" (Number Six pop) and "What's My Age Again" (Number Two on the Modern Rock Chart). Suddenly, Blink-182 was everywhere, from the radio to MTV to the teen comedy American Pie, in which the group made a cameo.

The band's next release was a live album, The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (Number Eight, 2000), which yielded one moderately successful single, "Man Overboard." A year later, the trio returned to its SoCal punk-rock roots with Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. The LP took Blink-182 to the top of the album chart for the first time.

The band's 2003 self-titled LP reinforced their penchant for brooding, but also revealed stormy, more atmospheric music; even the Cure frontman Robert Smith appeared on the album. The album shot to Number Three on the pop chart and spawned four hit singles: "I Miss You," "Always," "Feeling This" and "Down." In February 2005, just when it seemed that Blink-182 couldn't get any bigger, they declared an immediate, indefinite hiatus in order to be closer with their growing families. (A Greatest Hits was released later that year.) Shortly after the band split, Hoppus and Barker formed their own group, +44, while DeLonge started alt-rock group Angels and Airwaves.

In September 19th, 2008, Barker was injured when a plane in which he was a passenger crashed outside of Columbia, South Carolina. Barker — who had performed the night before at an event with former Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, Gavin DeGraw and DJ AM — suffered second and third degree burns. Hoppus and DeLonge visited Barker in the hospital, and in February 2009, the band made their first live appearance since 2005 at the Grammy Awards — and announced they were reforming.