ENEMA OF THE STATE

'''Enema of the State''', Blink-182's third, and most successful, studio album, was released June 1, 1999, on MCA Records and features the hits "What's My Age Again?", "Adam's Song" and "All the Small Things", which would later appear on their greatest hits compilation. It was Blink-182's first album recorded with drummer Travis Barker. The album was highly successful selling over 13 million copies worldwide, making it the band's best selling album, despite mediocre reviews.
This album is an Enhanced CD which contains a bonus music video, and web links.

Contents

Production

Cover

Title

Recording & Gear

Track listing

Bonus tracks

Singles from the album

Music videos

Accolades

Personnel

Charting Positions

Notes

Production

Cover

Porn star Janine Lindemulder is the nurse depicted on the cover of this album. She is also featured in the music videos for "What's My Age Again?" and "Man Overboard". An emblem of the Red Cross was depicted on the nurse's cap on early pressings of the album cover. Shortly after, the Red Cross demanded that their symbol be removed from the cover^[1] as it currently is on all printings. Similarly, early printings of the album were not given Parental Advisory stickers (neither on the case or printed on the cover) until shortly after the major success of the record.

Title

The title is a play on ''Enemy of the State'', a film released in 1998.
The CD of this album contains a hidden second title on the internal spine of the CD inlay, in white on a yellow background is the text "Viking Wizard Eyes, Wizard Full of Lies" - there is some debate as to whether this was an intended name for the album which was abandoned, lyrics from an unfinished/abandoned song or a reference to a poem.

Recording & Gear

An Enema of the State Demo was originally recorded as sometime between 1998-1999. It is rumored that Scott Raynor, the previous Blink-182 drummer, may have recorded the drums on ''Mutt'' in this demo^[2].
While recording ''Enema Of The State'', Mark Hoppus used Fender Jazz Basses, Fender Precision Basses, and Ernie Ball Music Man Bass Guitars. Tom Delonge used Gibson Les Paul guitars, and his signature Fender Stratocaster.

Track listing

All songs written by Tom DeLonge/Mark Hoppus.
# "Dumpweed" + – 2:23
# "Don't Leave Me" # – 2:24
# "Aliens Exist" + – 3:13
# "Going Away to College" # – 3:00
# "What's My Age Again?" # – 2:29
# "Dysentery Gary" $ – 2:45
# "Adam's Song" # – 4:09
# "All the Small Things" + – 2:48
# "The Party Song" # – 2:19
# "Mutt" + – 3:23
# "Wendy Clear" # – 2:50
# "Anthem" + – 3:37
'+' = Lead vocals by Tom Delonge

'#' = Lead vocals by Mark Hoppus

'$' = Lead vocals by Tom Delonge, 1 verse Mark Hoppus

Bonus tracks

An Australian tour edition bonus disc was also released with this album in limited supply.

★ Australia:

13. "Pathetic" [Live in LA]
    
    
14. "Untitled" [Live in LA]
    
    
15. "Josie" [Live in LA]
    
    
16. "Aliens Exist" [Live in LA]
    

★ Australia Disc 2:
# "Dumpweed" [Live]
# "What's My Age Again?" [Live]
# "All the Small Things" [Live]
# "Dammit" [Live]

★ Japan:

13. "Dumpweed" [Live]
    
    
14. "What's My Age Again?" [Live]
    
    
15. "All the Small Things" [Live]
    
    
16. "Dammit" [Live]
    
    
17. "Mutt" [Live]
    
    
18. "Aliens Exist" [Live]
    

Singles from the album

★ "What's My Age Again?" was released as a single in April 1999, and was Blink-182's second hit.

★ "All the Small Things" came out in August 1999.

★ "Adam's Song" came out in December 1999.

Music videos

The official music videos made for Enema of the State were What's My Age Again?, All The Small Things and Adam's Song respectively. There have been rumors that there have been videos for Going Away To College, Aliens Exist and Mutt among others. The Going Away To College "music video" is actually the introduction to The Urethra Chronicles and in a recent interview with Mark Hoppus, on the fansite 44Disasters, he stated that a video was never made for Mutt or Aliens Exist. ^[3]

Accolades

★ Third best selling punk rock album of all time (behind Green Day's "Dookie" and "American Idiot".)

★ #66 on Guitar World magazine's reader's choice list of the greatest 100 guitar albums of all time.^[4]

★ Included in Blender magazine's - 500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die^[5]

★ #34 on VH1's Greatest Album Covers of all time ^[6]

Personnel

★ Brian Gardner - Mastering

★ Robert Read - Assistant Engineer

★ Jerry Finn - Producer, Mixing

★ Sean O'Dwyer - Engineer

★ Tom Lord-Alge - Mixing

★ Blink-182 - Arranger

★ Tim Stedman - Art Direction, Design

★ Keith Tamashiro - Design

★ Mike Fasano - Drum Technician

★ Roger Manning - Keyboards

★ John Nelson - Assistant Engineer

★ Gary Ashley - A + R

Charting Positions

'Album'

Year	Chart	Position
1999	The Billboard Top 200	9
1999	Top Internet Albums	3
1999	Top Canadian Albums	7

'Singles'

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1999	"What's My Age Again?"	Billboard Hot 100	58
1999	"What's My Age Again?"	Modern Rock Tracks	2
1999	"What's My Age Again?"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	19
1999	"What's My Age Again?"	Top 40 Mainstream	28
1999	"What's My Age Again?"	Top 40 Tracks	40
1999	"What's My Age Again?"	Adult Top 40	36
1999	"All the Small Things"	Billboard Hot 100	6
1999	"All the Small Things"	Modern Rock Tracks	1
1999	"All the Small Things"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	25
1999	"All the Small Things"	Top 40 Mainstream	8
2000	"All the Small Things"	Top 40 Tracks	17
2000	"All the Small Things"	Adult Top 40	26
2000	"Adam's Song"	Modern Rock Tracks	2
2000	"Adam's Song"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	33

Notes

1. [1]
2. http://xoxoblink182xoxo.tripod.com/id5.html
3. [2]
4. [3]
5. http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=122
6. www.vh1.com