One More Time (2023) – Blink-182

My son Jesus Mateo (see image inset with his sister Katherine Rose) and I were listening to this magnificent song yesterday morning before we left for football training. We have to wake up before the break of morning to get ready. Typically we play songs (alternate preferences – his song, then mine etc) via the smart Tv from the moment we get up to the moment we have to leave. It is one of my favourite parts of our weekend routine. Anyhows, today’s featured song One More Time is one of my children’s favourites of the ‘modern rock songs’ I like to play on occasion. You did read that correct… yes, modern Rock songs do still exist. Hurray!

I have my blogger-compañero Jeff to thank for bringing One More Time to my attention. This song by Blink-182 was listed in Jeff’s top 10 (#5) of all songs featured in 2023 at his esteemed blog – Eclectic Music Lover which was recently listed as # 20 of the 100 Best Indie Music Blogs by Feedspot.

If you can spare a minute then check out the song’s lyrics below in conjunction with part of the band’s history here:

I am thrilled to see the original line-up back together again and still making music. Formed in Southern California in 1992 by guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus, and drummer Scott Raynor, Rayner was later dismissed from the band in 1998 and replaced by Travis Barker, who remains the drummer to this day. Despite their commercial and popular success, they’ve had more than their fair share of ups and downs over their 30-year history. After releasing five albums, three of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200 Album chart, as well as scoring two # 1 songs on the Modern Rock/Alternative charts, the combination of family commitments (all three guys now had children), the toll of touring and increasing artistic differences caused tension among the band members. Consequently, they decided to go on a hiatus in early 2005 that ended up lasting nearly four years, with the band members not speaking with each other until October 2008, after Barker was involved in a plane crash that killed four people, leaving he and his collaborator Adam Goldstein as the only two survivors. Barker sustained second and third degree burns which ultimately required sixteen surgeries, multiple blood transfusions, and numerous skin grafts, and also resulted in him developing PTSD. Barker’s brush with death prompted him, DeLonge and Hoppus to come together, put aside their differences, and reunite as a band.

– 100 Best Songs of 2023 – Eclectic Music Lover

[Verse 1]
Strangers, from strangers into brothers
From brothers into strangers once again
We saw the whole world, but I couldn’t see the meaning
I couldn’t even recognize my friends

[Verse 2]
Older, but nothing’s any different
Right now feels the same, I wonder why
I wish they told us, it shouldn’t take a sickness
Or airplanes falling out the sky

[Chorus]
Do I have to die to hear you miss me?
Do I have to die to hear you say goodbye?
I don’t wanna act like there’s tomorrow
I don’t wanna wait to do this one more time

Read the remainder here.

The following is ‘cherry-picked’ from the Wikipedia article below:

One More Time is the second single and the title track of their ninth studio album, which marks the return of Tom DeLonge on guitar and vocals after he left the band in 2015…Recorded over a span of seven months, One More Time… lyrically explores familiar territory like relationships and maturation, as well as lyrics inspired by the band’s own history and bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus’ battle with cancer. Barker handled the production, largely tracked at his Woodland Hills compound in the band’s home state California…One More Time became the band’s third number-one album on the Billboard 200 in the U.S., and reached the top five in a dozen other countries. 

References:
1. 100 Best Songs of 2023 – Eclectic Music Lover
2. One More Time (Blink-182 song) – Wikipedia

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