Blink-182 - Enema of the State

It’s funny how much I enjoy this album of pop-punk upbeat whininess when I seem to dismiss the same kind of complainy poor-teenage-me music coming out in 2025. Nobody gets me/romantic frustration/general hormonal anger is timeless, in theory, but in execution the music somehow only seems to translate to those going through the exact same thing at the exact same time. My resolution is not to become one of those “my generation had it worse” people and simply enjoy the entertaining fact that every group of kids has to express the same things in a different way, and the fact that I don’t get the new version is the entire point of creating a new version.

From the roundup (Some of) The Greatest Albums of 1999.