It perhaps says a lot that there are no joke songs on blink-182’s ninth record. Fans of the dependably juvenile Californians have learned to watch out for the inclusion of these tracks – often über crass and played extra fast – with every release from the trio since the early ‘90s. These were songs with titles like Fuck A Dog, Blow Job and Happy Holidays, You Bastard, and they would somehow manage to lower a tone that was usually already not that high. Even the band’s last record, 2016’s California, featured two joke songs, including Built This Pool, which, clocking in at just 17 seconds, had bassist and last remaining founding member Mark Hoppus sing the one and only line, ‘I want to see some naked dudes, that’s why I built this pool’. But ahead of the release of Nine – so-called bec...
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