My own private Emocide

I still remember the feeling, when I heard Blink 182’s “What’s my age again” for the first time on MTV, in the fall of ‘99. Apart from a couple of compilation tracks, this was the first time I really got in touch with them. When I spent a week in Geneva then, I bought myself “Enema of the State” (along with the “Buried Alive” album… what a mix) and listened to it most of the week when wandering the fancy streets of this lakeside city. In hindsight, the album was something that comes along maybe once every couple of years. Driving to work just now, I heard the current single of a band I know nothing about yet, but it reminded me an awful lot of the feeling I got back then. Maybe it’s, cos the vocals sound much like Tom DeLonge’s to me. Maybe it’s just some fresh air and the modernized version of what Blink used to be back then. Or maybe it’s just a fad and I won’t actually listen to this anymore in a week. I feel differently though. Either way, it’s “Look See Proof” with “Casualty”. Now I need to track down the album to see if that can hold up like “Enema” once did.