'Back in a simpler time, it felt like everyone I knew enjoyed a bit of Tom, Mark and Travis. If you’re within the bracket we publish here at V-dub, perhaps (hopefully) you have similar memories complete with jumping around and shared laughing fits. My older friends , maybe did so with an element of self-aware amusement while the rest— still too young for the facial piercings we so desired—would rock out regularly and without irony. Objectively we knew there were better bands, and they rotated on playlists too, but Blink captured something fun and rebellious. They built a space of abandon where nothing ever really went all that wrong.'
(Introduction)