Editing Dude Ranch (album) (section)

== Critical reception ==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite news|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/r281833|title=''Dude Ranch'' - Review|author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|date=|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|access-date=6 March 2011}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[IGN]]
|rev2Score = {{Rating|7|10}}<ref name="ign">{{cite web|last= C.|first= Kody|url= http://music.ign.com/articles/428/428176p1.html|title= ''Dude Ranch'' - Review|publisher= [[IGN]]|date= July 10, 2003|access-date= 16 May 2010|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110622005430/http://music.ign.com/articles/428/428176p1.html|archive-date= 22 June 2011}}</ref>
| rev3 = Sputnikmusic
|rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="sputnikmusic">{{cite news|url=http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/12483/blink-182-Dude-Ranch/|title=''Dude Ranch'' - Review|author=Channing Freeman|date=June 20, 2007|publisher=Sputnikmusic|access-date=6 March 2011}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev4Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite news|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/blink-182/albumguide|title=''Dude Ranch'' - Review|author=|date=|publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=6 March 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307093437/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/blink-182/albumguide|archive-date=7 March 2011}}</ref>
}}
''Dude Ranch'' was released when the band was only achieving moderate success, and very few critical reviews of the record were published in 1997. A ''[[CMJ]]'' write-up commented, "''Dude Ranch'' has the hooks and sonic wallop to rocket Blink-182 into stadiums throughout the nation."<ref name="p43"/> British rock magazine ''Kerrang!'' published a negative early review: the reviewer laments the disc's "little depth, passion, soul and even vaguely memorable hooks."<ref name=shooman52>Shooman, 2010. p. 52</ref> Later reviews were subsequently more positive. ''[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]'' regarded ''Dude Ranch'' as the moment "the trio focused and refined their [[pop-punk]] sound," summarizing the record's themes: "bassist Mark Hoppus plays the straight man, singing sturdily and deadpan, while the squeakier-voiced guitarist Tom DeLonge bleats urgently about romance gone wrong."<ref name="newrs"/> The website [[AbsolutePunk]] placed the album on their "Absolute Classics" list in February 2009, calling it a "classic mix" that was successful due to timing.<ref>[http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?p=36822722 Absolute Classics (Feb. 2009) - Article - AbsolutePunk.net]</ref> In 2011, a writer for ''[[Total Guitar]]'' referred to the record as "a genuine modern punk classic,"<ref name="totalguitar"/> while Scott Heisel of ''[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' called it a "quantum leap in sonic quality and songwriting."<ref name="altpress09">{{cite magazine|title=Back Together for the Kids|author=Scott Heisel|pages=110–118|date=July 2009 |magazine=[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]] }}</ref> [[Guitar.com]] writer Huw Baines writes that the band on ''Dude Ranch'' "[settle] into a songwriting mode that was more focused, lean and representative of what they were trying to achieve."<ref name="Guitar.com">{{cite web | title=The Genius Of… Dude Ranch by Blink-182 | website=Guitar.com | date=June 15, 2022 | url=https://guitar.com/review/album/the-genius-of-dude-ranch-by-blink-182/ | access-date=May 19, 2023}}</ref> In 2000, Gavin Edwards at ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' called the record a "vast improvement" on its predecessor;<ref name="Edwards 2000">{{cite magazine | last=Edwards | first=Gavin | title=Blink-182: The Half-Naked Truth | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=August 3, 2000 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/blink-182-the-half-naked-truth-87106/ | access-date=May 19, 2023}}</ref> in 2017, Maria Sherman for the same magazine praised "the album's disarming combo of humor and raw pop smarts" and opined that "the record's juvenile overtones often conceal real poignancy."<ref name="Weingarten Galil Shteamer Spanos 2017"/>

===Accolades===
''Dude Ranch'' was awarded Best Punk Album at the 1998 California Music Awards.<ref name="SFGATE 2012">{{cite web | title=BAMMIE WINNERS | website=SFGATE | date=February 7, 2012 | url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bammie-winners-3101763.php | access-date=May 19, 2023}}</ref>
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|-
! Publication
! Country
! Accolade
! Year
! Rank
|-
| ''[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]''
| United States
| Class of 1997: 10 Albums That Shaped the Punk of Today<ref name="AP07"/>
| 2007
| style="text-align:center;"| *
|-
| ''[[Kerrang!]]''
| United Kingdom
| 51 Greatest Pop Punk Albums Ever<ref name="kerrang15">{{cite journal|title=51 Greatest Pop Punk Albums Ever|pages=18–25|date=September 16, 2015|journal=[[Kerrang!]]|issue=1586}}</ref>
| 2015
| style="text-align:center;"| 15
|-
| rowspan="2"| ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rowspan="2"| United States
| Readers’ Poll: The 10 Best Pop-Punk Albums of All Time<ref name="Spanos 2016">{{cite magazine | last=Spanos | first=Brittany | title=Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Pop-Punk Albums of All Time | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=July 6, 2016 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-pop-punk-albums-of-all-time-16315/ | access-date=May 19, 2023}}</ref>
| 2016
| style="text-align:center;"| *
|-
| The 50 Greatest Pop-Punk Albums<ref name="Weingarten Galil Shteamer Spanos 2017">{{cite magazine | last1=Weingarten | first1=Christopher R. | last2=Galil | first2=Leor | last3=Shteamer | first3=Hank | last4=Spanos | first4=Brittany | last5=Exposito | first5=Suzy | last6=Sherman | first6=Maria | last7=Grow | first7=Kory | last8=Epstein | first8=Dan | last9=Diamond | first9=Jason | last10=Viruet | first10=Pilot | title=The 50 Greatest Pop-Punk Albums | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=November 15, 2017 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-greatest-pop-punk-albums-122677/ | access-date=May 19, 2023}}</ref>
| 2017
| style="text-align:center;"| 8
|}
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