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Blink 182: Scott Raynor
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The third blink-182 LP, Dude Ranch, was jointly released in 1997 by Cargo and MCA. Dude Ranch expanded the group's audience and went platinum by the end of 1998, due in part to the popularity of their infectious teen anthem, "Dammit (Growing Up)." The group ... signed officially with MCA, which released the band's fourth album, Enema of the State, in the summer of 1999. The album, produced by Jerry Finn (Green Day, Rancid), also welcomed a new member into the trio's ranks; Travis Barker, formerly with the Aquabats, settled in on drums after Raynor left midway through a 1998 U.S. tour. Enema was greeted with almost immediate success, and helped the band achieve the mainstream status of toilet-humored pop-punk kings that Dude Ranch had only hinted at. Driven by the commercially successful singles "What's My Age Again?," "All The Small Things," and "Adam's Song," music videos for the three songs (whose clips included themes of streaking and boy band spoofs) were MTV smashes as well.
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Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker was recruited at the last minute from his then-current band, The Aquabats, when Raynor left to attend college. Barker was forced to learn all of the band's songs quickly.
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It was with Blink 182’s 1998 release Enema of the State that the band became a worldwide hot commodity. With a slightly altered line-up (drummer Scott Raynor left the band and was replaced by Travis Barker), the band hit the road and amazed crowds with a frenzied, energetic live show that only padded the band’s growing popularity. Success was now theirs, and they achieved this success without altering the music to conform with critic’s cries of corrupt lyrics and needless language. Blink 182 reflected what a whole generation of music fans were feeling and thinking (craziness and masturbation), and only grew larger for it.
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