![]() ![]() During the sessions, MCA executives pressured the band to retain the sound that helped their previous album sell millions. ![]() The album was recorded over three months at Signature Sound in San Diego with producer Jerry Finn. It is the band's final release through MCA. ![]() The album's title is a tongue-in-cheek pun on masturbation ("take off your pants and jack it"), and its cover art has icons for each member of the trio: an airplane ("take off"), a pair of pants, and a jacket. The band had spent much of the previous year traveling and supporting their previous album Enema of the State (1999), which launched their mainstream career. ![]() You can hear them all below.Take Off Your Pants and Jacket is the fourth studio album by American rock band Blink-182, released on June 12, 2001, by MCA Records. A whole bunch of other people have a whole bunch of other takes on the song. Slow Magic transform it into tranced-out Spotify-core. “Teen Daze” do it as twinkling, Auto-Tuned insular dance music. Jenny Owen Youngs and Charlatan turn the song into a florid piano lament. It’s nuts.Īntarctigo Vespucci, the duo of Jeff Rosenstock and Chris Farren, have done a doomy, dreamy version of “Dammit.” Lisa Prank, who was also on the Dude Ranch compilation, has done “Dammit” as warm, engaging DIY synthpop. It’s seriously just 28 different covers of “Dammit” from former podcast guests. (That’s where Phil Elverum talked about loving Blink.) Today, Blink-155 hosts Josiah Hughes and Sam Sutherland have released the new compilation Been Here For Too Long. We may now have reached the peak of this phenomenon - a new compilation consisting of nothing but covers of Blink’s breakout hit “ Dammit.”įor a long time now, indie types have been showing up on the Blink-155 podcast, a song-by-song look at the Blink discography. And then, of course, there was Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker steering Machine Gun Kelly toward unlikely pop-punk stardom. There was the moment in March that a bunch of indie stars parodied the Gal Gadot “Imagine” video by singing Blink’s “I Miss You.” There was Christian Lee Hutson covering “Going Away To College.” There was August’s Dude Ranch tribute compilation - 18 different DIY artists covering the songs from Blink-182’s sophomore album. 2020 has been a big year for Blink-182 fandom, especially among indie-rock types. ![]()
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