Take Off Your Pants is Blink-182’s fifth studio album, and like all the others, it improves on the last one.
When they meet girls tougher than they are, which is usually, they’re not threatened - just terrified and attracted and amused and, if they’re lucky, quick-witted enough to sing “Please Take Me Home” before she moves on to someone else. Too funny for even the most uptight ideologue to dismiss as simps, these guys feel free to sing about their girl troubles without hiding behind either hipster irony or macho hostility. It sums up Blink-182’s wiseass brat-punk ethos almost as well as their recent live album, The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back), which featured the butt-stupidest stage banter since Kiss’ Alive! (Mark: “You can leave now and beat the traffic!” Tom: “Or you can stay and beat your meat!” - and they get paid for this, ladies and gentlemen.) But this is rock & roll, where cartoons can get away with exposing emotional truths blocked to more portentous characters, and behind their doofy grins Blink-182 have plenty to say about the secret life of boys. They even call their new album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket: Say it out loud, let your inner eighth-grader savor the cadence of the phrase. You can dismiss Blink-182 as cartoons if you like.
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