re: Why doesn't blink 182 catch hate like other groups

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All you need to do is listen to Sum 41 after either and you'll see GD or Blink do it better.

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The difference is that Sum 41 evolved and took a serious turn with the Chuck album (nearly getting murdered during an African Civil War will do that). They took a lot more influence from power metal like Iron Maiden and were one of the few groups of the time to still prominently feature guitar solos. In addition, while Green Day’s political turn with “American Idiot” still kept a little of that juvenile middle finger attitude, Sum 41 tried to become something more serious. They were all jokes and fun with “Fatlip” and “In Too Deep”, but moved towards angsty “Rage Against the Machine” style rebukes of consumerism and the police state.

You can hear No Reason sounds VERY different in style from any Blink 182 track.

This caused them to lose mainstream appeal and fall off the map. They broke up for a while, but have sense reinvented themselves again as a quasi-metal band with that hard political and pop culture critical edge.

The People Vs...

Since they actually started taking themselves seriously, seems they deserve far more ridicule even if their modern music is far more sophisticated and technical.

As far as Nickelback hate, it actually started when their singer, Chad Kroeger, stole the singer of Sum 41’s wife, Avril Lavigne

Deryck Whibley was the sk8r boy, she said see ya later boy, he od’d, almost died, Sum 41 took a hiatus, and Chad and Nickelback became internet’s public enemy number one.

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their fan boys are usually soy boys or people who have no taste in music

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This is false.

The plane crash in 2005 essentially ended Blink 182 (and pop punk and rock in general as mainstream relevant genres in pop culture). When bands are victims of tragedy near their peak rather than a long fade out from relevance, it causes their popularity to surge and have far more staying power than it would have otherwise. That plane crash caused Blink 182 to have crazy staying power in pop culture despite the fact that no new music would come from them for over a decade (because it took so many years for Travis to recover physically). Current blink 182 music sucks, though, because Tom Delonge is too busy chasing aliens and his voice, while terrible, is part of the identity of the band. It just doesn’t sound like Blink 182 without him.

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The plane crash in 2005 essentially ended Blink 182

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Wrong. Delonge left in '05 which broke the band up. Travis's plane crash wasn't until '08.

Tom Delonge discovered aliens, instant cred

You do realize Blink was parodying pop artists right?

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You can call me lame, but I'm not going to apologize for liking Dammit.

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This.

Blink-182 took serious turns throughout most of the career. Adam's Song was on Enema of the State, I believe. Stay Together for the Kids was on a proceeding album, and Miss You was on their even later self-titled album.

Miss You is actually a great song, if you can get past Tom DeLonge's nasal whinging. Even the lyrics in his part are great. We've all been there if we've been in love.

I like Blink still. I guess because that’s my childhood. Songs are solid.

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Blink 182 isn't even worth hating. Fake punk is basically the lowest common denominator in rock music.

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Seriously, this thread is more entertaining than anything Blink 182 ever did. I wouldn’t have even thought to use them in the “Bands with numbers in their names” post.