The Mark, Tom, And Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back) (MCA)
Rating: 3 out of 7
By Bob Gulla
It's show time once again for Blink-182, the potty-mouth punks from San Diego. This time the scatological deviants (is that redundant?) take to the stage in San Francisco over two nights and squeeze out a bevy of wacky tuneageΓÇöspliced, of course, with the requisite frat-boy fart jokes and excessive pot-buzz giggling.
The music isn't anything that Green Day et al haven't already tackled, though they do trot out the hits (or "classics," as it's stated in the press release), pleasing the screaming teen throngs to no end. Though its candor might elicit an eyebrow-raising grin, the trio's humor isn't really all that funny. Yet despite these drawbacks, along with a Less-Than-Jake live mix, the album doesn't fall flat. The mixture of decent hooks, ebullient performances, and utter tomfoolery actually makes you wish that, yeah, maybe seeing Blink-182 at one of these gigs wouldn't have been such a bad night out.
All recordings courtesy of MCA Records. All songs written by T. DeLonge, M. Hoppus; courtesy of EMI April Music, Inc./Fun With Goats (ASCAP).
