blink-182 - The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) (2000)

A guy has blink-182 written (I like to imagine it was carved with a knife) on his head, a (super shmexy :3) nurse is just out of shot, Mark Hoppus is jumping, Travis Barker is doing the boom tsh boom boom tsh, and Tom DeLonge is lipring-ing? Step your game up, conspiracy theorist!!

Alas, the first and currently only blink-182 live album, full of dick jokes, Satan worshipping and some songs! That's like REALLY RAD and I want you to know that!! Anyway, punk rock (and its subgenres) shows aren't typically known for their expert level of showmanship, craft, or whatever else, and this live album is no exception, but I'll be damned if if ain't a fun one.

This live album comes across as a concert (provided that you're a fan of the band, mind you) that you'd sacrifice a few spare goats to see, awkward potty humor stage banter and all. The songs you know and probably have a strong opinion on (one way or the other) are all here, and to my knowledge, even faster than the originals, often customary of live punk rock shows, but even more interesting is the changes done to certain songs, be it additional harmonies (see "Dick Lips" or "Pathetic") or even the great change of having guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge do the chorus of "Dammit" instead of it only being a bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus-centric song. Isn't that neat of them?! Oh, these blink bastards..

You even get a few joke songs like "Family Reunion" and "Blow Job" thrown into the mix as the M&M's in your Dairy Queen Blizzard because they're just nice like that, and to remind you of that childish, immature time you went to Dairy Queen with your best female friend when you were five years old and got the exact same Blizzard I just mentioned! That girl who was like your sister? She just went to another country on a church trip, and what the fuck are you doing with your life? Probably nothing, just like ex-drummer Scott Raynor who actually got a STUDIO track on this album dedicated to him called "Man Overboard", and it's a catchy tune! It took a while to warm up on me but I'm glad it did, even if it is a bit too hectic-sounding when the chorus kicks in.

"But what about the guitar overdubs?! How can Tom DeLonge be playing TWO GUITARS AT ONCE?! IS THIS EVEN A LIVE ALBUM?!" You scream at me despite us being in a Taco Bell dining room, but honestly I really don't give a shit because it's a good album. Isn't going against the written rules of something punk anyway? Like being within ten thousand feet of a school when you're a registered sex offender? Is that punk rock? If it is, break Ian Watkins out of prison because we've got to show those D.C. dickheads what punk is all about!!.. As long as Ian Watkins stays the hell away from my non-existent kids, the fuckin' BOZO!!!

7/10 
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