Blink 182 "Neighborhoods" 2x LP AFI NoFx +44 vinyl Pink /500 Sealed

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Blink 182 "Neighborhoods" Gatefold 2xLP DGC/Interscope Records (US)

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Neighborhoods is the sixth studio album by the American pop punk band Blink-182, released September 27, 2011 through DGC Records and Interscope Records. Their first album of new material in eight years, its recording followed the band's 2009 reunion after a four-year hiatus. Due to conflicts within the trio, the band entered an "indefinite hiatus" in 2005 and the members explored various side-projects. After two separate tragedies regarding the band and their entourage, the members of the band decided to reunite in late 2008, with plans for a new album and tour. It is the first Blink-182 album produced by the band members without the help of an outside record producer.

The band's studio autonomy, tours, managers and personal projects stalled the recording process, which lasted from shortly after the band's February 2009 reunion to July 2011. The band developed Neighborhoods in separate studios and regrouped at various periods to record. The band's numerous delays in the recording process resulted in the band canceling a European tour and the label setting a deadline for the album to be due. The band explored many experimental recording techniques during the sessions but set a goal to maintain a pop sensibility. The trio wrote dark lyrics regarding such subjects as isolation, confusion and death. The band infused inspiration from each member's various musical tastes to form a unique sound that recalled their separate upbringings, leading the trio to compare the album to separate neighborhoods.

The first single from Neighborhoods, "Up All Night", premiered on July 15, 2011, while the second, "After Midnight", followed on September 6, 2011. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 151,000 copies sold in its first week, falling to No. 10 with 31,000 scans in its second week. In its first twelve weeks it sold 259,000 copies, much less than the five times platinum Enema of the State of the band's commercial peak.

Blink-182 announced on February 22, 2005 that they would be going on an "indefinite hiatus". Tensions began to arise in late 2004 between the band members as guitarist Tom DeLonge expressed his desire to cancel an upcoming tour and enter a half-year respite from touring. At a band meeting which coincided with the beginning of Blink-182's final European tour in December, DeLonge expressed his desire to spend more time with his family. He also declined recording a new album. During the band's six-month break, bassist Mark Hoppus expressed his desire for the band to perform at Music for Relief's Concert for South Asia, a benefit show to aid victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.[5] DeLonge agreed to perform, and the band subsequently began rehearsing for the event in February 2005. Further tensions, however, arose between the band members during rehearsals, and they began arguing about a variety of issues, such as the band's "forced" break. Manager Rick DeVoe phoned Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker, who were waiting in the rehearsal space for DeLonge, the following day to tell them that DeLonge had quit the band, stating: "As of today, Tom DeLonge is no longer a member of Blink-182." Jordan Schur, the former president of Geffen Records, reportedly told Barker: "any press you do, make sure you say everything is cool," opting to instead issue a statement calling the band's break-up an 'indefinite hiatus'. During the hiatus, DeLonge formed rock band Angels & Airwaves while Barker and Hoppus continued playing together in +44.

In June 2008, DeLonge told Spinner.com he had "no desire to go back and play in Blink-182 again." In July 2008, former Blink-182 producer Jerry Finn, who had produced every Blink record since Enema of the State (as well as +44's debut, When Your Heart Stops Beating), suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. In August, he was taken off life support and died on August 21. Hoppus took to his blog, HiMyNameisMark, to express his feelings: "I feel blessed to have worked with and learned so much from him. But most of all, I am honored to call him my dear friend. Jerry, I miss you already." On September 19, Barker and collaborator Adam Goldstein (aka DJ AM), were involved in a plane crash that killed four people, leaving Barker and Goldstein the only survivors. The accident resulted in sixteen surgeries, 48-hour blood transfusions and Barker developing post-traumatic stress disorder.

Immediately the two cataclysmic incidents raised rumors of a possible Blink-182 reunion. Hoppus was alerted about Barker's accident by a phone call in the middle of the night and jumped on the next flight to the burn center. DeLonge found out via the TV news at an airport while waiting to board a flight. He landed and mailed a letter and two photographs to Barker: a photo of Blink aboard a submarine in the Middle East and another of himself and his two kids. "One was 'Do you remember who we were?' and the other was 'This is who I am now,' " DeLonge says. "It was a good moment to put the shit aside." DeLonge also commented that, no matter what happened between himself and Barker in the past, "none of it matters when it comes down to somebody getting hurt." Hoppus's web site and MySpace page were not updated since the day before news of the accident broke, but he finally took to his blog on November 18 to express his feelings, saying that he "hadn't had it in him" to post, adding that "these past two months have been the hardest times I can remember." He also revealed that he, DeLonge, and Barker had all spoken in the aftermath. Barker quashed the rumors in December, but noted that they had been getting along.

Talk of a reunion commenced weeks after the trio began speaking again. After a two-hour phone conversation between DeLonge and Hoppus, an arrangement was made for the trio to meet up at Hoppus and Barker's Los Angeles studio in October 2008. DeLonge was the first to approach the subject of reuniting. The trio had, in Hoppus's words, "two gnarly heart-to-hearts," during which the three opened up. "Tom had just kind of come out to Los Angeles for the day," recalled Hoppus, "I remember he said, 'So, what do you guys think? Where are your heads at?' And I said, 'I think we should continue with what we've been doing for the past 17 years. I think we should get back on the road and back in the studio and do what we love doing.'" Hoppus stated in January 2009, in reference to a reunion, that "the future is wide open," although fans were initially skeptical. Eventually, the band appeared for the first time on stage together in nearly five years as presenters at the 51st Grammy Awards on February 8. Barker said, "We used to play music together, and we decided we're going to play music together again," and Hoppus yelled, "Blink-182 is back!" The band's official website was updated with a statement: "To put it simply, We're back. We mean, really back. Picking up where we left off and then some. In the studio writing and recording a new album. Preparing to tour the world yet again. Friendships reformed. 17 years deep in our legacy."

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