re: New blink-182 EP "Dogs Eating Dogs" now out

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pretty sure that about 99% of blink fans (at any time in their career) would disagree with you. but to each their own. i think post take off your pants was when they kinda changed. i don't think that necessarily means for the worse. just a change.

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Buddha and Cheshire Cat were essentially the same album with a couple of song changes here and there. Dude Ranch was there last pure punk album.

Enema is when they used more pop punk elements and it was a major success worldwide. Because of that, Take Off Your Pants was a similar album as they were building off of Enema's success.

Between the recording of that album and untitled, Tom went borderline nuts and made Box Car Racer which was more dark than Blink. When he came back to Blink for the self-titled album, they wanted to change everything.

LINK (MTV Album Launch 2003)

In that record you could hear where Tom was going with his spacey elements why Mark was drifting towards more dark punk rock elements. Blink would have gotten to this point in their sound whether split happened or not, it just would have happened earlier.