The Rise and Fall and Rise of Blink 182 Part 1
b'After grunge blew up in the early 1990s, the walls between mainstream rock and the alternative universe crumbled completely\\u2026what other music had been hiding in the plain sight?...\\n\\nThere was goth and industrial and various forms of electronica\\u2026and there was all this punk rock\\u2026tons of it\\u2026all different flavours, too\\u2026pop punk, punk-funk, hardcore, garage punk, glam punk, queercore, riot grrrl, ska-punk\\u2026\\n\\nPunk had always been there, waiting to be discovered by a whole new generation\\u2026and finally, the time was right\\u2026\\n\\nThere was green day, offspring, rancid\\u2026then there was sublime, no doubt and 311\\u2026NOFX, Pennywise and Bad Religion\\u2026some of these bands were brand new\\u2026others had been doing their thing for a while\\u2026\\n\\nAlot of the big action seemed to be centred in California\\u2026orange county, the bay area\\u2026but down in the skatepark suburbs of San Diego, something began brewing that would end up being responsible for selling 35 million records\\u2026\\n\\nThese guys went from zero to worldwide superstars and then almost back to zero again before clawing back\\u2026\\n\\nThis is part one of the rise and fall and rise of blink 182\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'