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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1992–2005, 2009–present) Kings of the snotty, toilet-humoured nu-punk genre, Blink-182 – Travis Barker (drums), Tom DeLonge (vocals) and Mark Hoppus (bass) – formed while at school, recording in their then-drummer Scott Raynor’s bedroom. Since then, they have grown older but not matured, with 2001’s ‘Rock Show’ a fine example of the band’s ...

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Good Charlotte – Joel Madden (vocals), Benji Madden (guitar), Billy Martin (keyboards) and Paul Thomas (bass) – exist in much the same sphere as rockers such as Sum 41 and Blink-182, pop rock bands formed startlingly young, signed to majors and then reaping successes normally attributed to older bands. 2002’s The Young And The Hopeless, for example, ...

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consecutive week at No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100, following 12 weeks at the top for ‘Boom Boom Pow’. Styles & Forms | Twenty-First Century | Rock Personalities | Blink-182 | Twenty-First Century | Rock ...

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Buzzcocks made an early switch from scratchy punk to glorious pop love songs sung over a wall of guitars and thus laid the groundwork for every pop-punk act through to Blink-182 and Ash. Irishmen The Boomtown Rats mingled punk scruffiness with Stonesy rhythm and blues, Bowie-esque glam and even Bruce Springsteen-ish rock anthemics, striking paydirt with the power ballad ...

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but loyal fanbase. Despite the appearance of the evergreen single ‘Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)’, the release of compilation album International Superhits! (2001), touring as support to copyists Blink-182 and the subsequent abandonment of Cigarettes And Valentines in 2002 suggested that as a musical engine Green Day were running out of steam. Personalities | Introducing Green Day Personalities | Green ...

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Riddance (Time Of Your Life)’ making inroads to a new demographic, Insomniac and Nimrod only sold around 3.5 million copies each worldwide. With Green Day copyists such as Blink-182 growing in popularity, The Bloodhound Gang finally gaining traction and Britpop and rap ever present on MTV, it was generally felt that Green Day were no longer musically ...

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September ‘American Idiot’ The song that was to revitalize the career of Green Day was a protest against the war in Iraq promulgated by American president George W. Bush. With lines like ‘Don’t want to be an American idiot,’ ‘I’m not part of a redneck agenda’ and ‘now everybody do the propaganda’ was a powerful anti-Bush statement. Musically, ‘American ...

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Spring Pop Disaster Tour Dookie spawned a number of Green Day imitators such as Blink-182, who scored hit singles including ‘What’s My Age Again ?’. Green Day shocked everyone by co-headlining with Blink-182 on the 42-date Pop Disaster Tour in America in April and May 2002. ‘I think we’ve had a broader experience,’ Billie Joe told Alternative Press, ...

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, whilst British groups like The Jam, Buzzcocks and The Undertones can claim to have built on the foundations. The genre came of age in the mid-1990s when both Blink-182 and Green Day enjoyed massive success. Blink-182’s fast-paced teen angst was hugely popular and Green Day’s 1994 debut album Dookie was a crossover smash. Styles & Forms | Introducing Punk ...