The Best Band in the History of EVER.

You want to know who, in my opinion, is the greatest rock band in history?
It's not The Beatles (HELL-to-the-NO!)
It's not the Rolling Stones (although they totally PWN the Beatles)
It's not The Clash.
It's not the Sex Pistols.
It's not the Ramones.
It's not Green Day (Yes, I'm saying it)
It's not even Fall Out Boy (although they totally own my soul, and i'm not ashamed to admit it)

It's Blink-182.
I'm listening to them right now, and I'm wondering: Just what the hell did we listen to before Enema of the State came out?

I used to listen to Hanson, NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, etc.
I was born in 1988, and if you were born around then, you probably listened to the same people.
But then I heard a band called Blink-182, and my musical tastes changed.
You can look at my musical tastes now and realize that this was a turning point.

If I remember correctly, I asked for two cds for Christmas in 2000: Blink-182's Enema of the State, and New Found Glory's A New Found Glory.
I got those two cd's, and I listened to them nonstop.
After that, I was on to Good Charlotte.
It may not seem like it now, but I was the BIGGEST Good Charlotte fan. Like, EVER.
Then it was Mest. Then The Starting Line. Then Autopilot Off. Then Yellowcard. Then Fall Out Boy, and Senses Fail, and My Chemical Romance, and Red Jumpsuit.

Nowadays, everyone writes off Blink-182 as the immature band that made a bunch of jokes about peeing and farting.
But that was the appeal!
They were fun to listen to. They made people want to listen.
No one knew what the hell "Hurley" was until Blink-182.
Blink-182 revived skateboarding culture.
They made baggy shorts cool.
They made 14 year old kids pick up guitars and start bands.
These are the bands that are popular today.

People can claim that Green Day is the best, but no. I don't think so.
Green Day may have kicked up the dirt out in California, but Blink-182 changed the WORLD.
Admit it, if Blink-182 had never come around, you would never have paid any attention to bands playing this kind of music. The genre would have came and gone.
We could have been stuck with GRUNGE.
They invented pop-punk. Think about it. It wasn't around before them. They created it.
Created it as we know it today.
Do you know how important that is?

And then they had to go and throw it away.
And Tom Delonge turned into a huge asshole.
Angels and Airwaves is a JOKE.
They have two good songs. Maybe three. But as for the rest of their songs, they have excessively long intros that are boring as hell, and I can't NOT hit the skip button.
+44 is alright with me. Nothing mindblowing, but they're alright.
Boxcar Racer was fine and dandy.
The Transplants are A-OK with me.

But these bands do not equal Blink-182.
Someone get Tom Delonge back on this planet, knock him upside the head, and get Blink back together.

I've never seen Blink-182 play live.
I've seen Tom Delonge, and Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker, but I have not seen Blink-182.
I want to see Blink-182 so bad. You have no idea.

There's always rumors of Bamboozle reuniting a band.
I am SO crossing my fingers.
There's hope.

So now, tell me....who do YOU think is the best rock band EVER?
I wanna know : )
XMeganX