10 Rock Collaborations That Made Absolutely No Sense

10. Blink-182/The Cure

Throughout most of pop punk's tenure, you could usually count on artists making songs that are more tame and family friendly than the glory days of punk. No matter how edgy they may have sounded like when we were kids, it's not that easy to divorce the soundtrack of something like Simple Plan and New Found Glory from the pool party you hosted in the 5th grade. So to have one of the stalwarts of the genre actually go down the goth pop route is still mindblowing.

Granted, it's not like getting to this point was a relative cakewalk for Blink-182. Across their untitled record, Tom DeLonge was clearly getting on a different creative page than the rest of the group, wanting to explore more atmospheric sounds apart from songs like All the Small Things. Though there wasn't a lot of common ground, they did have one shared interest in the Cure on All of This.

Segueing perfectly out of Easy Target, this is the kind of plodding rhythm that the golden age of synth pop would have loved, which is made even more heavenly when Robert Smith appears and lays his shaky voice on top of it all. As much as this is a new flavor of Blink that what we expected, it's still smooth all the same.