Blink 182 — Cheshire Cat (LP)

Before the arenas and the platinum singles, Blink-182 were three kids from San Diego running on sugar and spite. Cheshire Cat, their 1995 debut, is pure pop-punk in its most unpolished form — short, fast, and completely committed. Tracks like "Carousel" and "Wasting Time" carry the same nervous energy and melodic instinct that connects this lineage back through punk to the raw, repetitive drive of early rock and roll and the Blues underneath it. It's a loud, loveable mess, and it still sounds like nothing else. An essential document of where a genre found its feet.

Tracklist

1. Carousel
2. M+M's
3. Fentoozler
4. Touchdown Boy
5. Strings
6. Peggy Sue
7. Sometimes
8. Does My Breath Smell?
9. Cacophony
10. TV
11. Toast And Bananas
12. Wasting Time
13. Romeo And Rebecca
14. Ben Wah Balls
15. Just About Done
16. Depends