A History of Blink 182 Part one (1994 to 1996) by Ewan

Now, I thought we explained it fairly clearly in our pitch, or at least, that was our intention. For some reason or other though people were still a little confused about some of the things we said. A lot of people didn't understand our brief explanation of how Blink 182 have changed their image over the years, arguably more than most bands ever have. For this reason I worried it wasn't clear to examiners/markers/whatever, so I decided to put together a post explaining Blink's history and image changes. I won't do it all in one post, because that would be ridiculously long. So here's the first two albums, and I'll put up other parts at some other point.


So, Cheshire Cat was Blink 182's debut album in 1994. This was basically a very rough and ready garage punk rock album, with songs about nothing more mature than grown men soiling themselves. The only video from this album was for a song called M+Ms, which was all performance. At this time, the bands image was simply three stupid teenagers.

Blink 182's second L.P. Dude Ranch continued in the same vein as the first. The songs continued to be immature, reinforcing the bands image as teenagers, albeit outsiders, but happy to be so. Two songs from this album became videos, one being set in a high school (Josie) and one in a movie theatre (Dammit). These videos had more emphasis on narrative, even though the narrative in both were just the boys in the band messing about as teenagers, trying to get the girl.