Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Australian Crawl
When the album virtually failed to chart, the band was ready to split but had to go out on tour for the next year to pay off the enormous $400,000 cost of producing the album. After completing their national tour of Australia in January, 1986, the band split up. Australian Crawl released a successful live album, The Final Wave, on the Freestyle Record label, towards the end of October, 1986.
On <i>Enema of the State</i>, blink-182 preserve their goofball pop-punk cred but acknowledge there's more to life than juvenile behaviour. Sure, the lurching "What's My Age Again?" cheers on immaturity, and new drummer Travis Barker adds breakneck aggression to the band's chugging riffs. But blink's skepticism toward adulthood is more sophisticated ("Going Away to College"), and their anxiety about romantic relationships (both real and imagined) is palpable. The sombre "Adam's Song", written from a suicidal person's perspective, is wrenching.
