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"All the Small Things" is a song by American pop punk band Blink-182. It was the second single released from the band's third album ''Enema of the State''. The track was composed primarily by guitarist Tom DeLonge as both an ode to his girlfriend (later wife) Jennifer Jenkins and one of his favorite punk groups, the Ramones. 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 single was released in January 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. 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 and 'N Sync. 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. "All the Small Things" was selected by ''Rolling Stone'' as one of the "100 Greatest Pop Songs", and listed in the book ''1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die''. ==Background== "All the Small Things" can be traced back to when the trio first began writing songs for ''Enema of the State'' at DML Studios.〔 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. 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. "It was obvious from the beginning it would fit that format." He wrote the track about Jennifer Jenkins, his longtime girlfriend since high school who he would eventually marry. 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. DeLonge had wanted to write a track including "na na na's" as an ode to one of his favorite bands, the Ramones.〔〔 Early demos listed it as "Ramones-style song". "It was one of the last songs we recorded," DeLonge told ''Kerrang!'', "because it was simple it wasn't that much fun to play. 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!'"〔Shooman, 2010. p. 74-75〕 The guitar riff cycles around chords C, F and G (I, IV and V in C), a familiar chord progression.〔 The texture on the track is due to several overdubs playing various inversions and extensions of the main chords. The bass guitar stays on C while the guitars move to F, creating a 2nd inversion chord. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「All the Small Things」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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