As much as I loved Neighborhoods, the final album from the band to feature DeLonge, testimony from Hoppus and Barker about that album paints the picture of a Tom DeLonge who couldn’t care less about the outcome of the album. (You could literally just call it Blink-183.) That being said, while I don’t believe this new band with only one original member should bear the moniker of “Blink-182,” it’s hard to deny that Matt Skiba is a far better singer, songwriter, and compliment to Mark Hoppus than DeLonge ever was. It was one thing to replace Scott Raynor early in the band’s career as he didn’t write songs or sing, but ultimately I believe that any band that doesn’t have the dual frontmen of Hoppus and DeLonge should be called something other than Blink-182. To begin with, I’m still not crazy about the idea of a Blink-182 without Tom DeLonge because, for better or worse, I truly believe that the name “Blink-182” is the name of the collaboration between Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge. I have developed a deeply unhealthy relationship with this album, and I have reached the point where I love it almost as much as I hate it.
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