“Not Now” by blink-182

"Not Now" was a leftover from blink-182's untitled 2003 album that turned into a parting shot. After a life as a stand-alone download on iTunes, it came out on Geffen in November 2005 as the only single from Greatest Hits, by which point the band had already split. The hiatus ran until 2009, so the video had to be stitched together from old clips and concert and tour footage.

The song itself is a strange, lovely farewell. Tom DeLonge sings from outside his own body, thinking about death and what it does to the people left standing, over the band's trademark power chords and a church organ that lends the whole thing a funeral-parlour hush. All three members share the writing credit, Travis Barker's drums keep it lunging forward, and Jerry Finn produced and mixed it.

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