Every Blink-182 Album Ranked From Worst To Best

It's not as bad as a lot of you might remember. The pressure-laden comeback record has been in my regular rotation for nearly ten years now, and there are still tracks that can compete with the best Blink has put out. As a front-to-back effort, the production and mastering on the record are streets ahead of Buddha and Cheshire Cat (unsurprising, given Neighborhoods released over a decade later).

There aren't many more songs on here that would make the live setlist, however. Neighborhoods is an album that promised so much, yet flatters to deceive once you get past the opening salvo. None of the tracks are particularly bad, it's just missing that Blink magic; the tongue-in-cheek self-deprecation and the melancholy reflection both absent.

Ghost On The Dancefloor, Wishing Well, After Midnight, and Up All Night give us a glimpse at what could have been - a Blink album blending Delonge's Angels & Airwaves progression with Hoppus and Barker's +44/classic Blink tendencies. Alas, the rest of the album is wrestling with these two perspectives, rather than embracing them, leaving us with a middling, well-produced but ultimately underwhelming return to our ears for one of the great groups of their generation.