We just looked at each other and knew we had this little piece of magic. In popular culture "Once we recorded this song and heard it, it gave us the chills.
The song has accumulated over 500,000 plays on US pop radio as of December 2011. It was one of the top-selling singles in America in 2000, with Nielsen SoundScan estimating its sales at 500,000 copies. The single was certified Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association. In Australia, "All the Small Things" peaked at number eight on the ARIA Singles Chart. "All the Small Things" has since sold 1,200,000 copies in the UK and been certified double Platinum. The song also achieved massive success in other countries, most notably in the United Kingdom, where it entered and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in March 2000, beaten to the top of the chart by " Bag It Up by Geri Halliwell".
The song also reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks. The single debuted at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of Decem and eventually peaked at number six, the highest Blink-182 has received on that chart. It was labeled "a pop punk watershed" by Jonah Weiner of Blender in 2004. Q called the song "one of those power-pop tunes that the Americans get soooo right," joking, " has more hooks than the Fishing Channel." The Rolling Stone Album Guide dubbed it the band's "most subtle song about sex," calling it one of the album's classic singles. But once we put it all together and played it as a band we all looked at each other and said, 'This song's huge!'" Reception "It was one of the last songs we recorded," DeLonge told Kerrang!, "because it was simple it wasn't that much fun to play. The bass guitar stays on C while the guitars move to F, creating a 2nd inversion chord. The texture on the track is due to several overdubs playing various inversions and extensions of the main chords. The guitar riff for the song cycles around chords C major, F and G (I, IV and V in C), a familiar chord progression. The lyrics "She left me roses by the stairs / Surprises let me know she cares" are based on an incident in which Jenkins left roses on the stairs after DeLonge returned home late from recording. ĭeLonge wrote the track about Jennifer Jenkins, his longtime girlfriend since high school who he would eventually marry. Early demos listed it as "Ramones-style song", and the original working title of the track was "Babycakes-Buttermuffin". Additionally, in an interview, DeLonge remarked, "I put 'na na's' in it, because I couldn't think of any words, you know?", to explain this lyrical decision. "It was obvious from the beginning it would fit that format." DeLonge had wanted to write a track including "na na na's" as an ode to one of his favorite bands, the Ramones. By this point, most of the tracks present on Enema of the State had been written, but DeLonge felt the album needed "just one song that was really catchy and basic." "I remember thinking, 'The label's gonna want a song for the radio – so here's one,'" said DeLonge. DeLonge had just bought his first home in San Diego, and bought two to three thousand dollars worth of foam padding to insulate his room. "All the Small Things" can be traced back to when the trio first began writing songs for Enema of the State at DML Studios.
Problems playing this file? See media help. "All the Small Things" was selected by Rolling Stone as one of the "100 Greatest Pop Songs", and is listed in the 2010 book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die. The video was popular in rotation on MTV's Total Request Live, leading to criticism from those who felt their basis for parody was thin. The song charted within the top 20 in ten other countries, and gained greater significance due to its accompanying music video, which parodies and mocks the boy bands Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, and 'N Sync and the pop singers Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. The song remains the band's most successful single to date, being their only song to break the Top 40. The single was released on January 18, 2000, and promptly charted worldwide, becoming a number one hit on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart, and crossing over to pop radio and peaking at number six on the Billboard Hot 100. Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Jerry Finn, the song was created with the intention of shipping it to radio, as the trio felt they needed a single "really catchy and basic." The track was composed primarily by guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge as an ode to his then girlfriend. It was the second single and eighth track released from the band's third album, Enema of the State (1999). " All the Small Things" is a song by American rock band Blink-182.
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