Take off Your Pants and Jacket
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| Studio album by Blink-182 | |||||
| Released |  June 13, 2001 July 23, 2001 |
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| Recorded | November 2000–February 2001 at Signature Sound, Larrabee Studios West, Cello Studios | ||||
| Genre | Punk rock, pop punk | ||||
| Length | 46:38 | ||||
| Label | MCA Records | ||||
| Producer | Jerry Finn | ||||
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Take off Your Pants and Jacket is Blink-182's fourth studio album. It was released on June 12, 2001 by MCA Records, and contained the hit singles "The Rock Show", "First Date", "Stay Together for the Kids" and "Anthem Part Two". The album sold over twelve million records worldwide while going double platinum in the US. It was originally printed with three different editions, each with different colored discs and different colored covers. Each different type of CD had a separate duo of hidden tracks, one serious, the other a joke song. The bonus tracks were only available on the original pressings of the three variations. The album's title is a tongue-in-cheek pun on male masturbation ("take off your pants and jack-it").
The album was a huge success debuting at #1 and selling more than 350,000 copies in its first week on the Billboard 200 becoming the band's first and only album to do so, and is Blink-182's 2nd best selling album. It was recorded in just 10 days.
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[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Blink-182.
- "Anthem Part Two" † – 3:48
- "Online Songs" ‡ – 2:25
- "First Date" † – 2:51
- "Happy Holidays, You Bastard" ‡ – 0:42
- "Story of a Lonely Guy" † – 3:39
- "The Rock Show" ‡ – 2:51
- "Stay Together for the Kids" § – 3:59
- "Roller Coaster" ‡ – 2:47
- "Reckless Abandon" † – 3:06
- "Everytime I Look for You" ‡ – 3:05
- "Give Me One Good Reason" † – 3:18
- "Shut Up" ‡ – 3:20
- "Please Take Me Home" § – 3:05
† = Lead vocals by Tom DeLonge
‡ = Lead vocals by Mark Hoppus
§ = Lead vocals by both Hoppus and DeLonge
On the clean version of the album the track "Happy Holidays, You Bastard" is listed as just "Happy Holidays", and is an instrumental with the exception of the last line "I'll never talk to you again".
[edit] Other Album Title
Around 2002, Tom DeLonge stated in an interview that the band toyed with the idea of the album being called "Vasectomy, Vasecto-you" (Pronouced Vasecto-me, Vasecto-you), which was along the same lines as the "Take off Your Pants and Jacket" a pun of male masturbation. The idea was scrapped though, thus 'Take off Your Pants and Jacket' making the final title.
[edit] Take Off version: red
- "Time to Break Up" – 3:05
- "Mother's Day" – 1:37
[edit] Pants version: yellow
- "What Went Wrong" – 3:13
- "Fuck A Dog" –1:25
[edit] Jacket version: green
- "Don't Tell Me It's Over" – 2:34
- "When You Fucked Grandpa" – 1:39
[edit] Charting Positions
Album
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 2001 | The Billboard Top 200 | 1 |
| 2001 | Top Internet Albums | 1 |
| 2001 | Top Canadian Albums | 1 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 2001 | "The Rock Show" | Billboard Hot 100 | 71 |
| 2001 | "The Rock Show" | Modern Rock Tracks | 2 |
| 2001 | "The Rock Show" | Top 40 Mainstream | 33 |
| 2001 | "First Date" | Modern Rock Tracks | 6 |
| 2002 | "Stay Together for the Kids" | Modern Rock Tracks | 7 |
| 2002 | "Anthem Part Two" | Modern Rock Tracks | 9 |
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Line-up during recording
- Tom DeLonge — vocals/guitar
- Mark Hoppus — vocals/bass
- Travis Barker — drums
[edit] Additional musicians
- Robert Joseph Manning Jr. — keyboards
[edit] Promotion
Blink-182 made a commercial to promote this album, where Mark Hoppus was a doctor who used Take off Your Pants and Jacket as a medicine. Tom DeLonge explained how Blink-182 now has 50% better songs and to listen to it 14 times daily, the number of tracks on the edited Red Plane, Yellow Pants, and Green Jacket versions of the CD. Travis only made a short appearance for a second as Mark gave him a prostate exam. At the end, Mark exclaims "Fuck Yeah!" The commercial never made an appearance on television, but it is available on YouTube here: [1].
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| Preceded by Break the Cycle by Staind |
Billboard 200 number-one album June 30, 2001 - July 6, 2001 |
Succeeded by Devil's Night by D12 |
