#BLINK 182 TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS AND JACKET ALBUM ZIP FULL#
It’s easy to write off the second half of the album as full of teenage issues, but the songs feel as if they’re written with distance. They dip into the melodramatic with ‘Story of a Lonely Guy’ but then as the album hits the halfway point with ‘Stay Together For The Kids’ it gets more serious. Also making sure you’re prepared for Tom Delonge’s ‘abit of missing off the letter ‘h’ in songs.īut what of the songs in between? The first few songs are still in the days of youth, with ‘Online Songs’ being a bittersweet story of unrequited love, leading to the nervousness of the first date in a song called… ‘First Date’. So by the time you get to ‘Please Take Me Home’, you have the verge of maturity where you click on that what’s just happened was “the best time we ever ‘ad”. They question what’s happened to them and their authority figures, which inadvertently creates an arc of maturity for the band. With opener ‘Anthem Part Two’ following from the closer of the previous album, they establish a slightly more mature look at the life they’ve had so far. What we have in this album, is one in which three young men are beginning to reach that age where they need to take things seriously. READ MORE: Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend – Album Review Their next album is completely serious, and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket is an album that suggests that the change in tone was not as instant as first seen. ‘Adam’s Song’ from the previous album showcases their ability to be sad. Blink-182 have always had a knack for being serious and poignant. This is something that you may not realise until you revisit this album years later. Yes, there’s ‘Happy Holidays, You Bastard’ in the tracklisting amongst songs about first dates and talking to people on AIM or MSN Messenger, but around that the songs are surprisingly mature. But Take Off Your Pants and Jacket feels like a misleading album, one that has aged surprisingly well. They would eventually grow up with 2003’s untitled album but here they would still have that image. But a couple of years further removed from the age their songs are aimed at, they can be written off as a group that could do with growing up. Thus their 2001 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, with its not-so-subtle masturbation pun of a title, can easily be written off as an extension of this immaturity. READ MORE: Elemental & Mr Frisbee – The Good Dad Club – Album Review But as they grew older and ‘All The Small Things’ and ‘What’s My Age Again’ kept being played, they gained a reputation of never growing up. Breakthrough album Enema of the State fully latched onto the early-twenties-reflecting-back nature that appealed to a generation of teenagers.
Chesire Cat and Dude Ranch nestled into the songs about teenage problems that spoke to a generation. It’s not the most incorrect assumption to make, especially if you take the early albums they wrote when they were literally teenagers. Yet there are millions of fans worldwide that they’ve managed to speak to despite the stereotype of being “immature dude-rock”.
They’ve always represented a stereotype for bands that have gone mainstream with a certain sound that is either too pop for die-hard punk fans, or too punk for pop fans. Blink-182 have always been the poster-child for pop-punk.
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