10 Rock Band Reunions That REALLY Didn't Work

There's a good chance that most millennials lost a bit of their childhood the minute Blink-182 broke up. Coming out of the pop punk scene, these were the kind of bratty teens that were supposed to stay best buds until the end of time, only for Tom DeLonge to cut things off cold in an email to the rest of the band. There was a lot of bad blood there for years, but something changed after tragedy struck.

In the wake of Travis Barker's terrifying plane crash, the band reunited at the Grammys and decided to cut the BS and make a new album. And when you heard the first sounds of Up All Night, it felt like it could work, taking the more hard edged sounds they were working with on their self titled and making something closer to alternative rock than a pop punk record. The chemistry was still there for sure, but the passion behind the project seemed to burn out fairly quickly.

From the sounds of songs like Fighting the Gravity, Tom was still into the more atmospheric sounds he was getting with Angels and Airwaves, and it became impossible for the band to compromise anymore, only putting out the EP Dogs Eating Dogs before Mark and Travis had to ask Tom to leave so they could focus on music. Though the Matt Skiba era of the band has been decisive among Blink fans, take comfort in knowing that the band is at least working and not sitting on their hands while they wait for Tom to get his sh*t together.