Blink-182 ‎– Enema Of The State

Rock

Alternative Rock, Pop Rock, Punk

1999

Enema of the State is the third studio album by American pop punk band Blink-182. Recorded at various locations throughout California with producer Jerry Finn, the album was first released on June 1, 1999 in the United States on MCA Records. "What's My Age Again?", "All the Small Things" and "Adam's Song" were released as singles, each highly successful.

The album was originally released on CD and cassette in 1999. Many of these CDs were enhanced CDs, containing extra footage. Many early editions of these releases are now rare, as both the band corrected the artwork to follow the style formatting of the name (blink-182 should never have a capital B) and the Red Cross requested their logo be removed from the nurse's cap in the original cover. An Australian Tour bonus disc edition followed, with an extra disc containing rare live tracks.

There are three different versions of the cover art. The first release has a red cross on the nurse's hat and a capital B in the Blink-182 logo. The band preferred the lower-case b in the band name, and the second version features the red cross and a lower-case b. The American Red Cross then forced the band to remove the red cross from their artwork or they would be in violation of the Geneva Convention, and thus, the third iteration of the album cover features a plain white nurse's hat. This third version is the only version to bear a Parental Advisory label for profane lyrics.

Unlike Blink-182's first two albums, it was not released on vinyl. However, there have been many presses of Enema of the State since 2009. Independent label Mightier Than Sword pressed the record twice on vinyl for its tenth anniversary. In addition, another version was released on vinyl at Hot Topic in December 2009. A third, super limited repressing of the album by MTS occurred in July 2011.

MTS Vinyl Pressing Info:
1st Pressing - December 01, 2009
10 Test Pressings
600 180 Gram Black [10th Anniversary Series #1]
500 Blue Translucent
500 Red Translucent
500 Clear

2nd Pressing - January 12, 2010
500 Green Translucent
500 Orange Translucent
500 White
500 White/Red Split
500 White/Blue Split
500 Orange/Green Split

3rd Pressing - July 29, 2011
182 "skin" peach marble
182 "latex" blue marble

4rd Pressing - March 12, 2012
250 Translucent Purple
250 Opaque Blue

5th Pressing - April 17, 2012
300 Coke Bottle Clear

Universal/Geffen Vinyl Pressing Info:
1st Pressing - December 2009
2000 White

2nd Pressing - May 13, 2014
2700 Red/Blue Splatter on Clear, Hot Topic Exclusive

3rd Pressing - June 2016
500 to 1.000 - Red/ White Split (20th Anniversary Edition)

SRC Vinyl Pressing Info:
1st Pressing - February 23, 2016
2,651 180 Gram Black (hand numbered)

2nd Pressing - June 17, 2016
??? Translucent Blue
??? Clear [FYE Exclusive]

3rd Pressing - September 15, 2017
??? Translucent Red

4th Pressing - November 2nd, 2018
1,500 Baby Blue/White Marble

Geffen/UMe Pressing Info:
1st Pressing - October 7, 2016
180 Gram Black (Back to Black - also available in box set)