TOYPAJ is probably the most important album I'll ever own. A few other people have said it too, but this album literally helped shape the person I am 25 years later. It will always be the GOAT for me.
100%. I broke out my vinyl last night just to stare at it. I even remember it was raining hard here on release day. I vividly remember sitting in the car listening to Story of a Lonely Guy while my mom went into the grocery store on the way home. haha!
I put Enema of the State and TOYPAJ together on a playlist this morning and hit shuffle. It's been fun!
I remember first seeing the track list on AbsolutePunk, and just losing myself in thought wondering what each song would sound like... Man what great times...
Seeing this tour in the summer of '01 firmly changed my musical tastes--NFG and Alkaline Trio opened the date in Cincy and they're still 2 of my fav bands.
Yeah I saw them in May that year with Alkaline Trio and Sum 41. Infirmary came out the month before, AKNF was coming out in 3 days and TOYPAJ in June. Doesn't get more peak
I went to the Pop Disaster Tour but wasn't able to go to the TOYPAJ tour for some reason. I did have the TOYPAJ tour poster of Mark jumping though.
I would drop everything to go to a TOYPAJ show! I wasn’t getting my hopes up at all until the billboards. Now I’m ready to be disappointed!
TOYPAJ tour was a favorite memory of mine as well. Utah got Midtown and NFG as openers and what a historic lineup of a show. The bittersweet part was somebody stealing my buddy's TOYPAJ hoodie out from under his chair. Still though, being on Tom's side of the stage for that was unreal. And Midtown coming out playing Sweet Child of Mine first and shouting "whats up Salt Lake, we're Guns N Roses!" will be something I'll never forget.
That's my original copy I bought back in '99. That thing has been through all kinds of shit, including sunlight. Hence the discoloration.
The TOYPAJ tour will always be my favorite blink tour. Setlist was awesome, the guys were at their 1st peak in terms of liking each other and putting on a super fun show. Really wish we could have gotten a live CD/DVD from that era.
Definitely don't think it's a world tour, let alone a nationwide tour. I can see 8 shows in the LA area similar to those Untitled Anniversary shows.
I thought the TOYPAJ era was when things were starting to come off the rails given the competitive sessions between Mark and Tom and then the whole Box Car Racer thing but I could be wrong.
Yes I think I remember Mark saying at the end of the Pop Disaster Tour he felt like it was the end of blink however both that tour and the TOYPAJ tour you wouldn’t have known anything was wrong with the band (unlike the Untitled shows where they sounded good but never really acknowledged or interacted with each other).
Saw them on both the Enema Of The State and TOYPAJ tours. Tensions didn't seem any different but they definitely were blown off the stage by Green Day in 2002.