Bouncy bouncy but blandy blandy

Starts with a bang but then slowly runs out of ideas and falls into standard r'n'b plinky plonk.

It’s sort of big standard metal. Not a great album.

This was good, and a great sound and I can see all the reasons why people revere it. But the two problems are the vocal wasn't distinctive, almost too nice, but too plain. Lyrically it's not great either. So it's good but it's not good enough.

It's as if Radiohead had never read a book. I mean the sound is good, but my word the lyrics are terrible. Which, sadly, makes it totally unlistenable.

I had forgotten how much I liked this album. The 1001 albums project had a lot of this kind of music from a time in the USA when a lot wasn't travelling to the UK, but for some reason Blink 182 did, or at least they did to me. I really do think this is a fantastic piece of work, sure it's got less of the edge of earlier Blink 182 but it's musically better, more interesting and more textured as an album. It surprised me how much I really liked this album, though of course with the bias of really knowing it well.