Regarding lyrics, the album has been referred to as a concept album chronicling adolescence, with songs dedicated to first dates, fighting authority and teenage parties. As such, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket continues the pop punk sound the group honed and made famous, albeit with a heavier tone inspired by groups such as Fugazi and Refused. During recording sessions, MCA executives pressured the band to retain the sound that helped their previous effort sell millions. The record was primarily recorded over four months at San Diego's Signature Sound. The title is a tongue-in-cheek pun on male masturbation ("take off your pants and jack it"). Previously, the band spent much of the new millennium traveling and supporting previous effort Enema of the State, which launched the band's mainstream career. Produced by Jerry Finn, the album was released on Jthrough MCA Records. In 2011, The New York Times asserted, "no punk band of the 1990s has been more influential than Blink-182", and even as the band receded after its 2005 split, "its sound and style could be heard in the muscular pop punk of Fall Out Boy or in the current wave of high-gloss Warped Tour punk bands, like All Time Low and The Maine.Take Off Your Pants and Jacket is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Blink-182. The trio has sold over thirteen million albums in the United States, and over 50 million albums worldwide. Their most recent effort titled Nine, was released on September 20, 2019.Īccording to Alternative Press magazine, Blink-182 is considered a key group in the development of pop punk the band's combination of pop music melodies with fast-paced punk rock featured a more radio-friendly accessibility than prior bands. In 2015, DeLonge again exited and was replaced by Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba, with their resulting seventh studio album, California, being released on July 1, 2016. They reunited in 2009, producing the trio's sixth album, Neighborhoods (2011). DeLonge quit in 2005, sending the band into what was termed an "indefinite hiatus". Blink-182 followed in 2003 and marked a stylistic shift for the group. The group's next two releases, Enema of the State (1999) and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001), were enormous successes on the strength of radio and MTV airplay. Raynor was fired midway through a 1998 tour and replaced by Barker. The group signed with major label MCA Records to co-distribute its second album, Dude Ranch (1997). In its early years, Blink-182 toured heavily behind the band's debut, Cheshire Cat (1995). Founded by Hoppus, guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Scott Raynor, the band emerged from the Southern California punk scene of the early 1990s and first gained notoriety for high-energy live shows and irreverent lyrical toilet humor. Since 2015, the lineup of the band has consisted of bass guitarist and vocalist Mark Hoppus, drummer Travis Barker, and guitarist and vocalist Matt Skiba.
Wikipedia (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:īlink-182 (sometimes written as Blink 182 often stylized in all lowercase as blink-182) is an American rock band formed in Poway, California in 1992.
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