Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
...in which Blink 182 finds the perfect blend of maturity and the humor that brought their style to the forefront of the
Warped Tour generation. It's really sort of summed up by the album artwork. There's overt sophomoric humor in an otherwise more mature graphic, and Blink was one of the first bands of their era to use the more green-friendly recycled cardboard packaging with this album, so maybe that meant something too. There was really only one ridiculously immature song on this album called "Happy Holidays, You Bastard," but it was only :42 in length. Much of the rest was that blend of maturity and their tried and true pop punk formula. For example, here's a song called "Stay Together for the Kids" that isn't meant to be funny at all:
They also get a bit political (by their standards, anyway) on "Anthem Pt.II":
And then they just get vulgar and angry, which was different for them at the time.
...in which Blink 182 finds the perfect blend of maturity and the humor that brought their style to the forefront of the Warped Tour generation. It's really sort of summed up by the album artwork. There's overt sophomoric humor in an otherwise more mature graphic, and Blink was one of the first bands of their era to use the more green-friendly recycled cardboard packaging with this album, so maybe that meant something too. There was really only one ridiculously immature song on this album called "Happy Holidays, You Bastard," but it was only :42 in length. Much of the rest was that blend of maturity and their tried and true pop punk formula. For example, here's a song called "Stay Together for the Kids" that isn't meant to be funny at all: 
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