Always (Blink-182 song)

Infobox Single
Name = Always


Artist = Blink-182
from Album = Blink-182
Released = December 6, 2004
Format = CD
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 4:12
Label = Geffen
Producer = Jerry Finn
Last single = "Down"
(2004)
This single = "Always"
(2004)
Next single = "Not Now"
(2005)

"Always" is the fourth single from Blink-182's 2003 "Blink-182" album. It was released in December 2004. The song, clocking in at 4:12, is Blink-182's longest single. Like much of the album, the song shows the band's 1980s influences, with the multiple-layered, heavily effected guitars and new-wave synthesizers. Blink-182 never played this song live, with the exception of an acoustic version for BBC's Radio 1, because of all the effects on that instruments that were used which would have been unreproducible live.

The music video for the song features Australian pop singer Sophie Monk. The film clip has the screen divided into 3 sections, reminiscent of Weezer's 1997 video for "The Good Life", with each band member taking a level. The video was directed by Joseph Kahn.

The end of the song has 4 different bass guitars playing at once.

This was the last single the band released before taking an "indefinite hiatus." It didn't fare well on the radio, only peaking at #39 on the Billboard Modern Rock Charts, though it received extensive play on music video channels such as FUSE and MTV.

This was the last music video that they shot together as a group before going on "indefinite hiatus". Their final music video was "Not Now", but consisted only of old clips of live performances and their previous music videos.

Track listing

#"Always"
#"I Miss You" (live In Minneapolis)
#"The Rock Show" (live in Minneapolis)

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUDCEzfPxw4 Watch "Always" on Youtube]