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: #2748 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

Excellent - lots of excellent songs
This album is excellent. There are only two boring/bland tracks on the entire CD. I bought this CD expecting just an average album, but NO! It's amazing. Almost every song is catchy. The lyrics are also very good. Most of the songs deal with Teen Angst but some of them take a look at other things. Nothing too deep here.

The best song is "Stay Together For The Kids", with its powerful - mind bending chorus. "Please Take Me Home" is excellent as well for the hard-hitting chorus and the use of drums make the song very powerful. "First Date" and "The Rock Show" can also be found on this CD so WooHoo!! All is good. :)

The only downside to the CD is that some of the songs sound the same. With a few of them, it is hard to distinguish between. But once you have listened to the CD a couple of times this is no longer a problem. You must buy this album if you like punk pop/punk rock!!! e.g. if you like Green Day, you must buy this album!!! Or just check out some of Blink 182's songs on Youtube.com - but whatever you do, BUY THIS ALBUM!!!

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.

worthy follow up to enema of the state in every way
this is another fine blink 182 album,of course it cant compete with classics like metallicas master of puppets or machine heads burn my eyes and so on,but in terms of how it makes you feel this is a great release,blink 182 stick again with the formula of cracking three minute pop punk numbers that are as infectious as a song can get,the twin vocals of mark and tom blend together with ease as usual,and travis is more than capable of giving the drums a good hiding,blink 182 dont produce intricate songs with technical brilliance,they just deliver good fun songs.
songs that shine on here include anthem,first date,stay together for the kids,which could be deemed a more serious song,reckless abandon and roller coaster but in truth they are all catchy little nuggets that wont bore you.