Original drummer Scott Raynor was replaced by the untouchable Travis Barker in 1998, while guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge was swapped out for Alkaline Trio mainman Matt Skiba for their last two LPs.
Maybe it’s that their stop-start output, numerous side-projects and the changing faces of their line-up have undermined their monumental significance as pop-punk figureheads in some fans’ minds. Perhaps it’s an impression informed by the throwaway façade of their early years (an endless barrage of toilet humour fronting, as it does for so many young men, the well of more complex emotion within) having been mistaken for genuine numbskullery. Even two decades since the undeniable artistic watershed of their Untitled LP, there remains a strange consensus amongst many fans that there’s something insubstantial about blink-182’s body of work.
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