Blink 1-ashoooo.

I have a cold. it's rubbish. I've only just shifted the last one. For tea tonight I am going to eat nothing but vegetables to make myself better. Vitamins, yo.

So, Blink 182 are making a comeback. As if that wasn't inevitable, people!! The question was never if they were going to get back together, but surely which Blink 182 was going to appear: the pop-punkers of ten years ago or the more mature band of 2003 who released 'Feeling This'?

There are arguments for and against, I know. Should they return as the latter - a darker, mature version of themselves - I suppose it would be apt, as they ARE a more mature version of themselves; a decade has passed after all - but personally, I'm hoping for the return of toilet humour and bad language.

I'm willing to bet that I'm one of few who think the comeback is a good idea, let alone a comeback as their former selves. I was reading the Punktastic blog and Savage said "The former would be a nice blast of nostalgia, but that’s it. 35 year old men singing naughty songs full of swear words? Purrrlease." However, he also said: "‘Dude Ranch’ and ‘Enema…’ are two classic pop-punk records which influenced an entire generation of kids. Without Blink I’d hazard a guess that NFG and The Starting Line would never have existed." My thought of it is - if they changed the lives of so many people then, and influenced so many musicians and inspired kids to start their own bands, why can't they do it again?

Sure, it can be said that they simply became unfashionable, hence moving in the darker direction they did. But pop-punk is becoming 'fashionable' now. The kids love it. But with shitty bands like Paige about, surely pop-punk needs a proverbial kick up the bum? Perhaps, and maybe I'm being naive here, perhaps Blink could do that?

And yeah, I see the argument that Blink have become older. It won't be as funny when they start a gig off with a tirade of swear words. But there must be a balance. The energetic punk songs of before, with lyrics to get you thinking - that reflect their development and maturity as people? I mean, they were sort of half way there with 'Going Away to College' or 'Adam's Song'. Sure, they were singing about the problems they had as teens, but problems don't go away when you get older - I'm sure there's still plenty of stuff that the old fans could relate to, as well as a new generation.

Then again, I don't know anything about music, really. I'm just being hopeful.