The Rock Show
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| Single by Blink-182 from the album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket |
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| Released | June 26, 2001 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | 2001 | ||||
| Genre | Pop punk | ||||
| Length | 3:08 (single version) | ||||
| Label | Universal International | ||||
| Producer | Jerry Finn | ||||
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"The Rock Show" is the first single from Blink-182's 2001 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. It was released in July 2001. The song was a success, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart and #71 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by Mark Hoppus after the producer for TOYPAJ told them they needed some "feel-good" songs on their record. Mark went home that night and wrote "The Rock Show", and Tom wrote "First Date" that same night.[citation needed]
Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker have covered the song in their new band, +44. Craig Fairbaugh, guitarist and background vocalist of +44, sings Tom's lines in the chorus.[citation needed]
This was the last single with its A-Side sung entirely by Mark Hoppus.
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[edit] Track listing
- "The Rock Show"
- "Time to Break Up"
- "Man Overboard" (Tom Lord Alge Remix)
- "The Rock Show" (Video)
[edit] Alternate single CD track listing:
- "The Rock Show"
- "Aliens Exist" (Live from The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show)
- "Adam's Song" (Enhanced Video)
[edit] Music video
The video, directed by The Malloys and released in 2001, involves the band taking a check from their production company for $500,000 and making the video themselves. Driving around town in their van, the video features the following:
- giving a homeless man a hair cut and new suit
- purchasing some doves and releasing them
- purchasing some cars and destroying them (specifically dropping a car from a crane)
- destroying someone's TV and reimbursing him for it
- paying for a plane to carry a banner with the text "take off your pants and jacket"
- distributing money to people around the town (some street workers, placing under window wipers, throwing it off the roof of a record store)
- paying for people to shave their heads
- paying for a group of strippers to mow a lawn, and clean a car
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