Blink-182 Celebrates 25 Years of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket With Deluxe Reissue

Blink-182 is taking fans back to the early 2000s, announcing a deluxe 25th anniversary edition of their iconic album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.

The expanded release arrives on Friday, exactly 25 years after the record first landed on June 12th, 2001. Alongside the original tracklist, the anniversary package includes six bonus songs, or as the band jokingly described them on social media, “boner tracks.”

The announcement follows several days of speculation from fans after Blink-182 began teasing something connected to the album’s milestone anniversary, the band even revived its old Myspace page, sparking nostalgia among longtime followers and fuelling rumours that a special release was on the way.

25 years on

Originally released in 2001, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket became a defining moment in Blink-182’s career, it served as the band’s fourth studio album and the highly anticipated follow up to 1999’s breakthrough smash, Enema of the State.

The record helped cement Blink-182 as one of the biggest bands in pop-punk, delivering a string of hit singles that remain fan favourites more than two decades later. Tracks including “First Date,” “The Rock Show” and “Stay Together for the Kids” became staples of the band’s live shows and helped introduce a new generation to their energetic blend of punk rock, humour and heartfelt songwriting.

Blink-182 ‘The Rock Show’

Commercially, the album was a landmark success. It became the first Blink-182 release to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, further elevating the band’s global profile during the peak of the pop-punk boom.

Twenty five years later, the album continues to hold a special place in the genre’s history, influencing countless artists while remaining a nostalgic favourite for fans who grew up with its soundtrack.

The deluxe reissue offers listeners a fresh reason to revisit one of the most important pop-punk albums of the early 2000s, and gives longtime fans a chance to hear previously unreleased material tied to a record that helped define an era.

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