Editing Adam's Song (section)

==Legacy==
The band retired the song in 2009 after the death of Adam Goldstein, best known as [[DJ AM]], a close personal friend of Barker and of the band. Hoppus noted that he could not bring himself to perform the tune, believing it to be "too hard".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/everything-we-learned-from-blink-182s-ama-on-reddit |title=Everything We Learned From Blink-182's AMA On Reddit |magazine=[[NME]] |author =Jordan Bassett |date=November 26, 2015}}</ref> However, the band brought the song back after nine years, playing it again during their ''Kings of the Weekend'' [[Las Vegas]] residency in 2018. When asked about its revival, Hoppus said he found new meaning in the song: "I think of it more, now, as almost a celebration, of hardships gone through and friends lost."<ref name="npr">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/653632962/blink-182-adam-song-american-anthem-darkness-loss-recovery|last=Limbong|first=Andrew|title=The Legacy Of 'Adam's Song,' An Anthem To Darkness, Loss — And Recovery|website=[[NPR]]|access-date=October 6, 2018|date=October 4, 2018}}</ref> The band brought the song back again in 2023, with Hoppus noting that the song helped him through his battle with cancer.<ref>{{cite web|work=setlist |url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/blink182/2023/ao-arena-manchester-england-ba0bdee.html|title=blink-182 Setlist}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|magazine=Rolling Stone|url= https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/blink-182-london-o2-live-review-tom-delonge-mark-hoppus-travis-barker-33436/|title=Blink-182 live in London: the Mark, Tom and Travis show is back with a bang|date= October 12, 2023}}</ref>

For a 2018 broadcast of [[NPR]]'s ''[[All Things Considered]]'', reporter Andrew Limbong chose "Adam's Song" as part of their series of "American Anthems"—"music that challenges, unites, and celebrates". In describing his selection, he wrote:

{{cquote|You don't need subtlety to write an anthem; even the ones that are subversively tongue-in-cheek are pretty obvious about it. Most of the songs covered in this NPR series are huge: [[war song]]s, [[protest song]]s, songs that grace [[Super Bowl]] stages and national rallies. But there is room for the anthemic in small moments, too—when you're alone in your room and a song is the only thing that's there for you. [... "Adam's Song"] is a celebration that means a lot to a lot of people: Not an anthem in the usual sense of the word, more of a reminder.<ref name="npr"/>}}