Dammit

In this early blink-182 hit, bassist Mark Hoppus learns that having his heart broken is a part of growing up. "'Dammit' is about when you break up with someone, and then you see them all over town with someone new," he told Billboard in 1998. "It really hurts when you aren't the person feeling the love, but you have to act like it's cool to save face."

When Hoppus broke his silence about blink-182's breakup in his b182.com interview in 2006, he was asked, "What's the most personal song you've written?" Mark's reply: "'Adam's Song,' 'Apple Shampoo,' 'Dammit,' 'Every Time I Look For You,' 'Go,' 'Lemmings,' 'M+Ms,' 'Man Overboard,' 'Stockholm Syndrome,' and 'Wendy Clear' from blink-182."

Peaking at #11 on the Modern Rock chart, this was blink-182's first hit single. MCA Records, which signed the band on the strength of their debut album, Cheshire Cat, timed the single's release with their return from the Vans Warped Tour, where they took the main stage in the summer of 1997. MTV also picked up the music video and put it in heavy rotation (after previously refusing to air the playfully violent clip for "M+M's").