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February 22, 2005 - blink-182 announces an indefinite hiatus, shocking fans worldwide.
October 31, 2005 - The Greatest Hits album featuring the cover of “Another Girl, Another Planet” is released. Many believed it would be the final release by blink-182.
February 8, 2009 - blink-182 announces their reunion on stage at the Grammy’s.
July 14, 2011 - The wait is over. Listen to “Up All Night” below or at blink182.com/upallnight/!
Here are the lyrics for ‘Up All Night’:
blink-182 - ‘Up All Night’
Everyone wants to call it all around our life with a better name.
Everyone falls and spins and gets up again with a friend who does the same.
Everyone lies and cheats their wants and needs and still believes their heart.
And everyone gets the chills, the kind that kills when the pain begins to start.We’ll get this straight.
Do you want me here?
As I struggle through each and every year.
And all these demons, they keep me up all night…
They keep me up all night…Everyone’s cross to bear’s a crown they wear on endless holiday.
Everyone raises kids in a world that changes life to a bitter game.
Everyone works and fights, stays up all night to celebrate the day.
And everyone lives to tell the tale of how we die alone some day.We’ll get this straight.
Do you want me here?
As I struggle through each and every year.
And all these demons, they keep me up all night…
They keep me up all night…
Thanks to GhostOnTheDancefloor from our forum!
Mark Hoppus was on KROQ’s Kevin and Bean show this morning. He confirmed the album will be finished and turned in by July 31. They will play 3 or 4 new songs on tour. September 27th is the tentative album release date. The big announcement was the album title, ‘Neighborhoods’. Mark said:
What we’ve discovered through the reformation of blink-182 is that the three of us are very different, but put together we do something that we really like. …Kinda like different neighborhoods that make up a city.
From MTV.com:
Sure, there’s already been a reunion tour, but Thursday, Blink-182 officiallyreturned with “Up All Night,” their first proper single in nearly seven years.
And while the song recalls elements of Blink’s past (not to mention all those side projects), it’s by no means nostalgic. With its darkly undulating electronics, churning chords and Barker’s mighty mashing, it also represents a new Blink for a new millennium.
And that’s even more impressive when you consider that the song’s actually been around for more than two years now, ever since Blink-182 first resumed jamming together in early 2009. During that time, it’s undergone some rather drastic changes, but it’s always remained core to what the band hoped to do on their new album, Neighborhoods. How do we know all this? Because Mark Hoppus told us, in an email Friday morning (July 15), just hours after “Up All Night” nearly broke the Internet.
” ‘Up All Night’ was the first song that we started writing when the band got back together,” he wrote. “The foundation of the song remains largely the same as when we first began, but over the past two years, as we’ve been recording others songs, coming back to this one, working on something else, coming back to this song, it’s gotten harder and heavier than its original incarnation.
“Initially the chorus had much more air. It was a lofty, synth-y chorus, but we wanted the first song that people heard to be much more of a rocker. We changed a bunch of the instrumentation, recorded heavier guitars and bass, and Tom [DeLonge] wrote the progression that the guitars take on in the chorus,” he continued. “Then Travis [Barker] took it over and the drumsreally solidified the rock element of the track. The half-time intro of the last section was all him, and I think punctuates the song very well.”
After all that work, you can imagine how thrilled the guys in Blink have been by the song’s initial reception. But that’s just the first part of their return. As Hoppus wrote, the next step is letting fans hear Neighborhoodsitself. He’s beyond excited for that, too.
“I’m so glad to finally have new music out, and cannot believe how well it has been received,” he wrote. “[Our website] crashed out several times, my Google-plus account crashed out twice, and blink-182 was a top trending topic worldwide. Totally amazing. Now, I can’t wait for the album itself to be released.”
You can now buy ‘Up All Night’ on iTunes!
Mark held an impromptu Q&A on Google+ while on a flight back to LA to finish the album and get ready for the tour.
Be sure to add Mark to your circles on Google+ here so you don’t miss the next Q&A.
From KROQ.com:
Mark Hoppus Reveals Name Of New Blink-182 Album And Release Date
On the heels of last night’s KROQ World Premiere of Blink-182′s first single in nearly a decade, Mark Hoppus phoned in to The Kevin & Bean Show to reveal the album’s name and official release date.
According to Mark, “It was incredible that were able to keep the song from leaking and people actually hearing it for the first time in its entirety on KROQ.”
When prompted by Bean, Mark revealed the title: Neighborhoods
”Mark Hoppus “To us, it means… kinda what we discovered through the re-formation of Blink-182 is that the three of us are very different but put together, we do something that we really like. You know, Travis is a very “street,” “urban,” uh, kind of a dirty aesthetic, I’m more of an indie rock guy and Tom’s an outer space… kinda like the different neighborhoods that make up a city. There’s a lot of different sounds and a lot of different parts of Blink-182 in this record and we came from suburban California so it just felt like kinda what the record was. Kinda put together like a city.”
Listen here.
From Spinner:
blink-182 Offer ‘Throwback, Progressive’ Songs on ‘Neighborhoods’
This week, Blink-182 released their new single, ‘Up All Night,’ and revealed that their new album would be called ‘Neighborhoods.’ This means that by the time the trio of Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker start their tour with My Chemical Romance, they should have plenty of new material to showcase for fans.
“One of the things I’m really proud of about this record is a lot of the songs are really built for a big audience,” DeLonge tells Spinner. Stylistically, the record is a mix of the past and future of the band. “I think we’ve done a really great job kind of separating our record into sections, where some stuff is throwback, some stuff is very progressive, and some stuff is just plain different.”
One song he cites as being very different is one that started from Barker. “It’s like a shuffle swing,” Barker says. DeLonge calls it, “A futuristic version of the Adam Ant song [‘Goody Two Shoes’].”
And getting to play the new album is just part of why the band is so excited to tour with My Chemical Romance. “The only time I’ve seen them play is when they played on my TV show and in videos,” Hoppus says. DeLonge has seen them and is an admitted admirer. “I think what’s really cool about what they’re doing is they’ve got a real strong foundation for the punk rock scene, but they took it a level up with all the theatrics and just their artistic acumen,” he says. “I think they have something that really separated them from the pack, but they’re still rough around the edges, which is kind of how we like the bands that we listen to, we like them to have that angst still in there and they have a rabid fan base, so I think it’s really gonna make the tour amazing.”
‘Neighborhoods’ is due out Sept. 27.
For anyone who’s never heard Adam Ant - ‘Goody Two Shoes’:
Mark posted this update to Soundcloud this morning:
