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''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' is the fourth studio album by the American pop punk band Blink-182. Produced by Jerry Finn, the album was released on June 12, 2001, through MCA Records. The band had spent much of the previous year traveling and supporting the album ''Enema of the State'' (1999), which launched the band's mainstream career. The title is a tongue-in-cheek pun on male masturbation ("take off your pants and jack it"). The cover art has icons for each member of the trio: an airplane ("take off"), a pair of pants and a jacket. Several different editions were released with additional bonus tracks. The album was primarily recorded over three months at Signature Sound in San Diego. During the sessions, MCA executives pressured the band to retain the sound that helped their previous album sell millions. As such, ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' continues the pop punk sound that the group honed and made famous, albeit with a heavier tone inspired by groups such as Fugazi and Refused. 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. Due to differing opinions on direction, the trio worked in opposition to one another for the first time, and the sessions sometimes became contentious. The album had near-immediate success, becoming the first punk rock-identified record to debut at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 and being certified double platinum within three weeks. The album produced three hit singles — "The Rock Show", "First Date" and "Stay Together for the Kids" — that were top ten hits on modern rock charts. Critical impressions of the record were generally positive, commending the record's expansion on teenage themes; others viewed this as its weakness. To support the record, the band co-headlined the Pop Disaster Tour with Green Day. A European tour was canceled in the wake of the September 11 attacks. ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' has sold over 14 million copies worldwide.〔 ==Background== After a long series of performances at clubs and festivals and several indie recordings during the 1990s,〔Patricia Romanowski. Holly George-Warren. Jon Pareles. (2001). ''The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Revised and Updated for the 21st Century)''. New York: Touchstone, 1136 pp. First edition, 2001.〕 Blink-182 finally achieved mainstream success with the release of ''Enema of the State'' in 1999, which launched the band "into the stratosphere of pop music" and catapulted them to become the most popular pop punk act of the era. The glossy production set Blink-182 apart from the other crossover punk acts of the era, such as Green Day.〔 Three singles were released from the record — "What's My Age Again?", "All the Small Things", and "Adam's Song" — that crossed over into Top 40 radio format and experienced major commercial success.〔Hoppus, 2001. p. 96〕 The album sold over 15 million copies worldwide and had a considerable impact on pop punk music. The band spent most of 2000 touring in support of ''Enema of the State'', where they headlined arenas for the first time.〔Hoppus, 2001. p. 99〕 The band played to sold-out audiences and performed worldwide during the summer of 2000 on the Mark, Tom and Travis Show Tour. The period following ''Enema of the State'' saw the band experience great transition. "We had gone from playing small clubs and sleeping on peoples' floors to headlining amphitheaters and staying in five-star hotels," recalled Hoppus in 2013. "After years of hard work, promotion, and nonstop touring, people knew who we were, and listened to what we were saying ... it scared the shit out of us." The band was rushed into recording the follow-up, as according to DeLonge, "the president of MCA was penalizing us an obscene amount of money because our record wasn't going to be out in time for them to make their quarterly revenue statements. () And we were saying, 'Hey, we can't do this right now, we need to reorganize ourselves and really think about what we want to do and write the best record we can.' They didn't agree with us." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Take Off Your Pants and Jacket」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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