Product Description

'Take Off Your Pants And Jacket' is the fourth studio albumfrom Blink 182. Following on from the hugely successful 1999 album 'Enema Of The State', Blink 182 deliver another collection of three minute punk pop workouts, including the single 'The Rock Show'.

Track Listing

1. Anthem Part Two
2. Online Songs
3. First Date
4. Happy Holidays, You Bastard
5. Story Of A Lonely Guy
6. The Rock Show
7. Stay Together For The Kids
8. Roller Coaster
9. Reckless Abandon
10. Every Time I Look For You
11. Give Me One Good Reason
12. Shut Up
13. Please Take Me Home
14. Time To Break Up
15. Man Overboard

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10028 in Music
• Released on: 2001-07-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
• Running time: 45 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
By their fifth album, most bands have grown up, but not American brat-punks Blink 182. Take Off Your Pants And Jacket is more of the same three-minute bursts of immaturity and deliberate stupidity that made their previous album, Enema of the State, an international hit. It's just that now the band too often cross the line from adolescent angst to annoying whingeing. The album opener "Anthem Part Two" is an us-versus-them call to arms against the "adults" of the world--"Kids are victims in this story/Drown the youth with useless warnings"--which seems to overlook the fact that by now, Blink 182 are probably closer in age to their A&R man than their average fan; "Happy Holidays You Bastard" and "F**k A Dog" resort to cheap mom-and-dad jokes and obvious shock tactics. Even the more sentimental moments are ruined by clumsy and overly simplistic lyrics ("Stay Together for the Kids", a tale about divorce from the child's perspective, whines, "I see them every day/We get along so why can't they?"). It's not all bad news, though: first single "Rock Show", "Reckless Abandon" and "Give Me One Good Reason" are as catchy as anything they've ever done, while "Story of a Lonely Guy" and "Roller Coaster" hint at what this trio are capable of as songwriters when they put their minds to it. --Robert Burrow

Customer Reviews

Blink's Best
'Take off Your Pants and Jacket' was the first album when Blink started to write more mature songs. Earlier albums were more for humour and had funny songs. This album has those, and is still classic Blink 182, but shows a more mature side to the boys. In my opinion, this is a good thing, as they have come out with their best album. Tracks:

'Anthem Part 2': Good opener to the album. A classic Blink song with humour and a great one to sing along to. 4/5

'Online Songs': Another sorn with 'Josie' in it. Great song. Quick and to the point, its funny but slightly serious at the same time. 4/5

'First Date': Classic Blink track. Funny but you can hear how true it is aswell. One of Blink's best songs. 5/5

'Happy Holidays, You Bastard': A 42 second fast paced song with no real meaning, but it is hilarious. 5/5

'Story of a Lonely Guy': Great song. One of Blink's more mature songs that has real meaning to it and is very true. 5/5

'The Rock Show': What a brilliant song this is. One of Blink's best ever. Everyone knows this. Its short, but fast paced and addictive. A song that has to be sung along with. 5/5

'Stay Together For The Kids': Beautiful track that really shows how much Blink have matured. Really goes to the hard and you can hear the angst in the lyrics. 5/5

'Roller Coasters': Obvious Blink track that is simple but heartfelt. 4/5

'Recless Abandon': One of the weakest tracks on the album in my opinion. Its ok, but its nothing different. 3/5

'Every Time I Look For You': Ok track with a good chorus but is pretty weak apart from that. 3/5

'Give Me One Good Reason': Not one of Blink's best known songs but I think this is really great. It just shows everything that teenagers deal with and will realate to any teen. Great track. 5/5

'Shut Up': Another more mature song with teen angst. Great track about being annoyed at home and again, every teen can relate. 4/5

'Please Take Me Home': Good, simple track with a chorus that will stay in your head. 4/5

'What Went Wrong': Bonus track (on my cd anyway). Very good, a classic Blink song showing that they haven't matured completely. :) Good end to the album. 5/5

As I said in the title, I think this is Blink's best album. It has the perfect mix of classic Blink songs that are funny, but also mixed with more mature tracks that really get their point across. A must buy for any Blink fan and I think if you are just getting into Blink, this is a good album to start with. Definately worth the cash!

Take Off Your Hat To This Album...Wow
i think that blink 182 are one of the greatest punk bands of all time. they can produce very funny songs like Happy Holidays, You Bastard...then write a very down to earth and serious ballad like song Stay Together For The Kids.

My Favourite song on the album is Shut Up basically because its straight to the point and its very funny and also catchy.

One song really got me into this band and that song was the ballad known as Stay Together For The Kids. its a song which connects to anyone who has to or has dealt with divorce.

I can hardly call myself a blink 182 fan cause i only own this album and the greatest hits but this band are super class...just a shame they went their seperate ways but this album is a must buy to add to your music collection. Rock on travis, tom and mark

The middling stopgap between their two classics.
In their fairly long career, blink-182 created two brilliant punk albums, one that defined them - 1999's pop masterpiece Enema Of The State - and one that redefined and destroyed them - 2003's eclectic, untitled, final album - and in between came Take Off Your Pants And Jacket.

Ending up between the towering figures of those two albums does it a disservice. Without doubt, this album is crammed with great singles; 'First Date,' a wilfully dumb but loveable canter that's the pop-punk equivalent of 'Could Well Be In' by the Streets; the entertaining sugar-rush of 'The Rock Show'; and by far the standout track and signpost for the future, the divorce-themed heartbreaker that is 'Stay Together For The Kids,' one of their most mature songs.

There's also a couple of decent album tracks, like 'Anthem (Part II),' following on from its namesake, albeit in an inferior form; and admittedly, 'Happy Holidays, You Bastard' is hilarious, though it shouldn't be. However, the rest of this album is relentless filler at the best of times. This is the kind of material that blink-182 can write standing on their head, and it's unsurprising that they thought it a dead end, leading to Tom Delonge's side project 'Boxcar Racer' the next year and then the next blink album.

If you're a real blink fan, then you should add this to your collection, be it for completism's sake or simply to soak up the better moments. If you're only passing by, then all the songs you need from this album are available on the flawless Greatest Hits collection.