This is a toughy. Only because I have no reason to gush over this song, I just think it’s very good. ‘M+M’s’ has been a mainstay in my music library for a long time. Some time after Christmas 2007, to be sort of exact ’cause that’s when I got Blink-182’s 2005 Greatest Hits compilation as a gift. ‘M+M’s’ is the second track on that collection. I can’t say it’s been there at major moment of my life, wasn’t the soundtrack to a specific moment in time. It’s just a damn catchy tune.

Like a lot of pop-punk tracks and Blink-182 songs in general, it’s about a boy-girl relationship. Hoppus sings about this girl he’s found that he’s got something good going with, and is determined not to mess things up. It seems that he can’t believe his luck, the way things are going for him, and the only thing now is to really seal the deal and ask her to be his girlfriend. The song contains a memorable riff by Tom DeLonge, thinking about it now he uses the same technique on some parts of ‘Dumpweed’, and the rhythm’s very tight too. Travis Barker may be the better drummer technically, but for his time in the band, original drummer Scott Raynor was a perfect fit for the song’s the band did back then.

‘M+M’s’ was Blink-182’s first ever single, released in 1995 when they were to bring out their debut album Cheshire Cat. They made a music video for it too, which you can see above. That is the censored version. The original had a scene at the end where the bandmembers and their ‘girlfriends’ have a shootout. Fake gunshot wounds and everything. That is below.