Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

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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 gold 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 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 2 months.

Track listing

All songs written by Travis Barker, Tom DeLonge, and Mark Hoppus.

1. "Anthem Part Two" † – 3:48
2. "Online Songs" ‡ – 2:25
3. "First Date" † – 2:51
4. "Happy Holidays, You Bastard" ‡ – 0:42
5. "Story of a Lonely Guy" † – 3:39
6. "The Rock Show" ‡ – 2:51
7. "Stay Together for the Kids" § – 3:59
8. "Roller Coaster" ‡ – 2:47
9. "Reckless Abandon" † – 3:06
10. "Everytime I Look for You" ‡ – 3:05
11. "Give Me One Good Reason" † – 3:18
12. "Shut Up" ‡ – 3:20
13. "Please Take Me Home" † – 3:05

† = Lead vocals by Tom Delonge
‡ = Lead vocals by Mark Hoppus
§ = Lead vocals by both

Note: on the clean version, 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."

Take Off version:

• "Time to Break Up" – 3:05
• "Mother's Day" – 1:37

Pants version:

• "What Went Wrong" – 3:13
• "Fuck A Dog" –1:25

Jacket version:

• "Hold On" – 2:34
• "When You Fucked Grandpa" – 1:39

Charting Positions

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2001	The Billboard Top 200	1
2001	Top Internet Albums	1
2001	Top Canadian Albums	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
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

Personnel

Line-up during recording

• Tom DeLonge — vocals/guitar
• Mark Hoppus — vocals/bass
• Travis Barker — drums

Additional musicians

• Robert Joseph Manning Jr. — keyboards

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].