Tom DeLonge is no longer a member of Blink-182, but Tom recently announced that he is working on new Angels & Airwaves music.
Angels & Airwaves have released a few albums, but Tom’s other band Box Car Racer only released one. Despite the fact that Box Car Racer only released one album, the legacy of the album is still strong and people talk about it to this day.
Tom recently spoke to Billboard about the album, and he said that creating it was a way for him to push the limits of his songwriting skills, but he also said it was the source of a lot of tension within the band.
“It’s funny because it’s kind of like it was the best and worst thing for [Blink-182]. It was the beginning of a lot of tension in the band but it was also the thing that led us to writing way better songs, so what do you do? Change is hard for fans, for band members, and I never want to change just for the sake of change. I’m pretty strategic about how I do everything and I’m never gonna vary from my definition of what I think is cool.”
Despite the fact that it created tension, Box Car Racer’s influence also helped Blink-182 create what many fans believe to be their best record.
“Oh yeah, it had all the effect. I always tell people that record was [Blink-182’s] best record absolutely because of the Box Car Racer record. It had nothing to do with anything else in my opinion, because there was so much drama around the Box Car Racer record in the band that we all had kind of a coming to Jesus moment saying, “Look, what are the things you’re looking to do musically?” to me, and I said, “This is the kind of stuff I wanna do. It’s much more dynamic, it’s more emotional,” and all those things I described earlier. So we said, “Well, let’s do that here.”
