Blink-182 fans know that ‘Man Overboard’ could have been on Enema of the State, the 1999 album that essentially propelled the band to the masses and provided pop-punk anthems like ‘All the Small Things’ and ‘What’s My Age Again?’ It didn’t make it though. The band worked on the song, they made a demo and everything, but couldn’t get the lyrics down so left it on the shelf. A year later, the group released a live album to keep fans happy while they waited for a new studio release, and there ‘Man Overboard’ was in its final form as the ‘last’ track. It precedes a large number of hidden tracks of fart and sex jokes.

The song’s about the band’s original drummer, Scott Raynor, who left/was fired because of his alcoholic tendencies. Well, it hasn’t been confirmed, but it’s more or less what it’s commonly agreed to be about. The song’s title compares the whole departure issue to the moment when a person calls the titular phrase after falling off a ship. Because it doesn’t appear on a ‘true’ Blink album, I think the track is overlooked in a way. Bit of a shame because it’s a really good one. It’s a great show of alternating Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge vocals with Travis Barker going mad on the drums, as was the usual for a long time in the band’s initial run. Fast-paced pop punk with an almost child-like taunting tone to it is how I would describe it in short.

The music video caps off the Enema era humorously. It parodies the videos of that album’s singles, but in the place of the band members are little people. A great way to look at the recent success, and I guess ring in what was then the new millennium.