Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

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From the sound of the title you'd assume that the San Diego pop punk trio hasn't matured much from their last album: you'd be right. On this, their fifth album, the band pretty much sticks to the sound that got them on TRL. At times the band does delve into serious issues like on the lead off track "Anthem Part Two" guitarist Tom DeLonge sings about "his" generation and how if their fucked then your to blame, the you being the previous generation. "Story of a Lonely Guy" is the bastard child of previous blink songs "Adams Song" and "All The Small Things." "Stay Together for the Kids" is a nice departure for the band. The intro and verse features an acoustic guitar, a light drum beat, along with some keyboard while bassist Mark Hoppus wonders how to get his broken home back together, for the chorus the power chords and distortion blares as DeLonge takes over the lead vocals blasting the parents for breaking up. It is probably the best song on the whole cd and shows that if this band wanted to get serious they could.

"The Rock Show" details falling in love, at of all places the warped tour, and was getting played all over MTV (at least till the Sum 41 kids came along and stole all of the 14 year old trl watchers hearts). The rest of the cd is pretty much your standard Blink 182; three chords and lots of humor. Like the 40 second long "Happy Holidays" which celebrates the joys of spending holidays with family members, or the hidden track which consists of the verse "suckin and fuckin and touching" before revealing the chorus of "it's mothers day." Overall the album is decent and catchy anything these boy bands are churning out, chances are a few of the songs will bore them self into you head and stay there until the most inappropriate time, like when your with "hardcore" friends, to come out and for no reason you will start singing them, and probably be shunned for liking such a "sell out" band. Don't say I didn't warn you.


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