Blink 182- Part 1- Chesire Cat

Hello everyone. Im curious to see how this whole thing fits in with one of my favorte bands, Blink 182. Most fans of Blink will agree that their success increased with each album until probably the last one they put out, which did not do as well as the previous ones. This seems to coincide with the evolution of their music from a garage punk rock band, to popular punk rock, finally to a new sort of sound which could hardly be considered punk rock. I think it would be cool to see if there are any correlations between the number of hits on each of their albums and the Fibonacci sequence.

So every couple of days I will review an album in the order that they were released. Heres what i found on the first album, Chesire Cat.

This is perhaps the Blink album most appreciated by punk rock purists. As such, few of the tracks on here ever made it to air. However, some of them did become more popular when they were re-released on Blinks' live CD , The Mark, Tom and Travis Show.

There are 16 tracks on this CD but only 15 of them are songs. Out of those only two conformed to Fibonacci: "Carousel" and "Does My Breath Smell" , however, the latter can be disputed as the climax of the song is fairly ambiguous. I find it particularly interesting though, that "Carousel" is one of the two songs that was re-released on the later album. I will definately explore that more when i get to the Mark, Tom and Travis Show.

As for the album as a whole, it is 2530 seconds long, meaning the "Fibonacci climax" would be right around 26 minutes in. I did not find anything special at that point in the album, only a short instrumental which could harldy be confused with the climax of that song or the album.

Ill see everyone in a couple of days with my findings on Dude Ranch.