“M&M's” by blink-182

"M+M's" was the first single blink-182 ever put out, chosen to lead their 1995 debut album Cheshire Cat once the band had signed to Cargo Music. It's Southern California skate punk stripped to the chassis: power chords, a tempo that never lets up, Tom DeLonge's guitar and Scott Raynor's drums going flat out, and Mark Hoppus, on bass, carrying a melody sweeter than the racket around him. The song daydreams about ditching the everyday for travel and adventure. Otis Barthoulameu produced it, with Steve Kravac engineering.

It became a local hit in San Diego and won the band new ears in the region's punk scene. Darren Doane's video, in which the trio swipe things from their girlfriends and later face them in a gunfight, got little exposure, but skate and surf videos gave it an audience. It later landed on the band's Greatest Hits.

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