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I bought Untitled at KMart, and I wish I could listen to it again the first time. Was hard to wrap your head around it the first listen in the best way

 

No first listen of an album hit me before or really to this day like Untitled did. Got it on release day at Target. It was rainy and I sat in my car between classes and listened to it twice. I simply couldn’t believe how great it was. It was pretty divisive amongst my friends, but my best friend and I both loved it and further bonded because of it.

 

Damn I wish we had those kinds breaks

 

Haha. Yeah, junior college was a joke and my schedule reflected it.

 

I remember somebody handed me burned cd with Untitled after I got obsessed with TOYPAJ.
Down & I miss you videos were all over the czech charts and I wouldn’t listen anything else but Untitled (and Eiffel 65 for some reason lol) the whole summer of 2004.
I loved how different it was and I was obsessed with Tom’s songs.
Still my most favorite album of all the times by any band and I listening to it at least once a week for whole 20 years lol.

 

I remember getting an email from management and them asking me if I’d put a smiley logo on my website. But not tell anyone what it was. They just wanted it to start popping up places. So I agreed. And put it up in the corner just hanging. Then a few weeks later they asked to link it to Blink182.com. That was fun to feel a part of it.

 

Maybe i'm misremembering this but didn't you post a link to an mp3 of an early version of "Go" in a news post? It was hidden in the period of a sentence or something. And I think i remember downloading a radio rip of "Feeling This" from AP.

Anyway, i was actively checking ap in the lead up to Untitled. Also pre-ordered the CD and it came with a shirt featuring the album cover. Wore that thing to pieces over time.

 

That smiley logo is one of the reasons I became a graphic designer. So iconic. I still have trouble convincing clients that simple is the best and most timeless way to go with logo design. I can show them that, Apple, etc. and they’re still so weirdly averse to it.

 

Untitled is my favorite Blink album but for whatever reason I remember next to nothing about its release, which is really strange considering I was definitely HIGHLY anticipating their new album. All I truly remember is being secretly sooo excited when some girl in Spanish class wrote out some of the lyrics to I Miss You on the chalkboard before class began.

 

I remember this and remember being super confused about it at the time lol

 

Travis Barker Crazed Fan Arrested, Crashes Car Through Home's Security Gate

Yeesh

 

She should’ve looked for the blue check - oh, right.

 

alright which one of us was this

 

I skipped an entire day of senior year of high school on release day waiting in a 6+ hour line of what must have been 500+ people to buy the album at Best Buy near my house. That got me a wristband to come back the next night to wait in another multi hour line to get the album signed by the band with my best friend. Still didn’t see them live in concert for the first time until after they broke up and got back together on the Honda civic tour, but that Untitled era and skipping school to get to briefly meet them was the tops.

 

Repost

 

I was going to make a joke about fans getting desperate to hear the new album buuut maybe that’s in bad taste. Haha. Girl seems deranged. Getting catfished typically doesn’t cause normal people to go that far.

 

I can neither confirm or deny this was me trying to get the new album

 

i was cool for a day in 6th grade cuz my dad got me the explicit version of the album

 

I was the cool kid who bought all three versions of TOYPAJ and burned copies with the album and all 6 bonus songs on them.

 

I remember steaming Untitled nonstop for what felt like a full week prior to its actual release date for free on MTV.com

On the release date, my dad came home from work with Untitled, OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, and G-Unit’s debut album. A weird trio of albums, but I was a junior in high school.

Not sure why I didn’t pick it up myself since I got my license and car a little over a month prior. Granted it only had a cassette player. Once I had a CD player installed a couple months later, Untitled was the first album I christened it with.

It’s been a weird tradition of mine ever since where Untitled has become the first thing I listen to upon purchasing a new device that plays music (record player excluded since I didn’t have Untitled on vinyl immediately).

 

Mine is similar to the post above.

I remember downloading Feeling This (action version) on Kazaa. I remember liking it but being very much like “wait…what?”. My initial thought was ‘there’s something wrong with my speakers’ because the flanger effect on the drums sounded like my speakers were going in and out. My second thought was ‘where’s Tom’s signature guitar tone?!’. Song ended and immediately replayed it haha. I never even knew it was used for an NFL game until later.

Then I remember downloading the leaked version of Violence and showing my friends while stating “you’re not going to think this is Blink-182, but it’s them and it’s good. You can tell by the drumming”. That song eventually grew on them.

Before the release, I listened to the stream on MTV.com for days. Then on release day my mom went to Kmart and bought the unedited version for me. I was a junior in High School…. I went to school and cross country practice then came home and the rest was history. It became a HUGE album for me and my friends the following summer. My friend was obsessed with rewinding the part in obvious where it sounds like an airplane flying over. He’d blast that part in his car with the windows down.

 

Having blink on my GBA was amazing lol

 

I totally forgot about the “I wanna take off your clothes” edit

 

Not Untitled related but in that timeframe, I remember the video they posted of their Simpsons recording session. Travis’ repeated takes of “you’ve been saying that since we were blink-12” are cemented in my head and then I remember being disappointed when it didn’t make the final cut.