We've all dealt with bands reissuing an album with a track or two a year or so later; that feeling of re-purchasing is a familiar pain indeed. But Blink-182 are easing the blow a little bit on a reissue of their latest album, California, offering fans essentially another whole album!
The power-pop-punk trio turned heads with their seventh studio album last year, the first recorded without founding member and singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge after a relatively bizarre public breakup in 2015 (a decade after the group's "indefinite hiatus" from 2005 to 2009). Co-founding singer/bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker soldiered on with singer/guitarist Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio for live dates and clicked enough to record an album that recalled their classic sound while pushing themselves into newer directions. Propelled by the single "Bored to Death," a No. 1 hit on Billboard's Alternative Rock chart, fans welcomed the new Blink with open arms, giving the group their second domestic No. 1 album (and first in England) as well as their first ever Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album.
Now, ahead of the group's summer tour plans, California will be expanded with a 12-track bonus disc, including the new single "Parking Lot" (which you can hear below), a Japanese bonus track ("Hey I'm Sorry") and an acoustic rendition of "Bored to Death." The reissue is out May 19, and the track list and Amazon order links are below. (Color variants are available through the band's official store.)
California: Deluxe Edition (BMG, 2017)
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
Disc 1: Original album (released as BMG 538212682, 2016)
- Cynical
- Bored to Death
- She's Out of Her Mind
- Los Angeles
- Sober
- Built This Pool
- No Future
- Home is Such a Lonely Place
- Kings of the Weekend
- Teenage Satellites
- Left Alone
- Rabbit Hole
- San Diego
- The Only Thing That Matters
- California
- Brohemian Rhapsody
Disc 2: Bonus material
- Parking Lot
- Misery
- Good Old Days
- Doesn't Mean Anything
- Hey I'm Sorry (Japanese bonus track - BMG WPCR-17390, 2016)
- Last Train Home
- Wildfire
- 6/8
- Long Lost Feeling
- Bottom of the Ocean
- Couldn't Get You More Pregnant
- Bored to Death (Acoustic)
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