专辑英文名: Box Car Racer
歌手: Box Car Racer
音乐风格: 摇滚
资源格式: MP3
发行时间: 2005年05月30日
地区: 美国
语言: 英语
简介:
音乐风格：pop punk
专辑码率：192k
专辑介绍：05年的老砖，由Blink 182主音结他手Tom DeLonge与鼓手Travis Barker 所组成的Box Car Racer这队四人的side-project。水管做种，朋友们请耐心。
Tom Delonge sure does like a good side project. In between the release of the last two Blink-182 albums, Tom put out an album with his band Box Car Racer. The band consisted of David Kennedy, Anthony Celestino, and Travis Barker. Those of you who are familiar with Tom’s latest project, Angels and Airwaves, might be surprised to hear that this album is excellent. Basically, this is probably what Tom intended Angels and Airwaves to sound like. It’s obvious that what Tom did on this album influenced Blink-182’s self-titled album greatly. It’s very mature; quite the turnaround from Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, which Blink released before this album dropped. Tom wanted to take his music in a new direction, and he did just that on this album. Although the music is certainly great, if the making of this record had something to do with Blink’s breakup, I don’t think it was worth it. Tom should have used the same formula for Angels and Airwaves that he used for this album (i.e., no ego and no pointless experimental stuff). It’s a shame that he got too cocky, because it’s obvious that he can make some good music on his own.
Listening to Tom’s side projects (both this and Angels and Airwaves) makes it obvious just how big of an impact Mark Hoppus had on Blink-182’s music. On his own, Tom certainly does make some mature music, but it lacks the element that was present in all of Blink-182’s records: fun. This could certainly be called a good thing, because it would be pointless for Tom to make a record that sounded exactly like or similar to Blink-182. But sometimes it seems that Tom tried a little too hard to make a serious album. A side project will always be judged by the quality of the original band, but it wouldn’t have hurt to put at least one fun and immature song on here. There is one song that’s immature, but not fun in any sense. "My First Punk Song" is one minute of pure annoyance. Tom yells out some incredibly terrible lyrics over some incredibly terrible music, excluding Travis’ drums, which are always good. The song is somewhat similar to Take Off Your Pants and Jacket’s “Happy Holidays, You Bastard,” in that it is a short song meant as a brief respite from the other songs on the album. Whereas “Happy Holidays” was one of the stronger songs on TOYPAJ, “My First Punk Song” is just unbearable to listen to. Fortunately, it’s the only outright bad song on the album.