Blink-182 Finally Brings Those Missing Bonus Tracks to Streaming This Friday

If you were a Blink-182 fan in 2001, you probably remember the trick. Three different CD versions of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, each with two exclusive bonus tracks you couldn't get anywhere else. Red version, yellow version, green version. If you wanted all six songs, you had to buy the album three times. It was either the greatest marketing move or the most annoying thing ever, depending on how much allowance money you had.

Well, 25 years later, those six tracks are finally hitting streaming. The deluxe 25th anniversary edition of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket drops this Friday, June 12, exactly a quarter century after the original release date. And the real story here isn't the 13 tracks you already know. It's the six that have been locked in a physical media vault since the Bush administration.

Six Tracks, 25 Years in the Vault

Here's a quick breakdown for anyone who wasn't hunting down every version at Best Buy back in the day. The Red "Take Off" edition had Time To Break Up and Mother's Day. The Yellow "Pants" edition had What Went Wrong and Fuck A Dog. And the Green "Jacket" edition had Don't Tell Me It's Over and When You Fucked Grandpa. To this day, none of these have been available on Spotify or Apple Music. If you didn't have the CDs or know where to find them online, you just didn't have them. That changes Friday.

The full deluxe tracklist runs 19 songs deep. All 13 original album tracks plus those six bonus cuts. What Went Wrong is honestly one of the best blink deep cuts, period. It's this raw, stripped-back song that feels completely different from the rest of the album. If you've only ever heard First Date and The Rock Show, you're about to discover a whole other side of that era.

The Rollout Has Been Peak Blink

The band has been teasing this all week in the most blink way possible. They resurrected their old Myspace page. They posted lyrics from What Went Wrong, threw up a clip of their Stay Together for the Kids performance on Jay Leno, and uploaded three of the bonus tracks to SoundCloud. Billboards started popping up around Los Angeles. Their Instagram post was just the album cover with the caption "6.12.2001." If you know, you know.

Blink also referred to the bonus tracks as "boner tracks" in their Facebook announcement, which, honestly, is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect from the guys who named their tracks Fuck A Dog and When You Fucked Grandpa. Twenty-five years later, the humor hasn't changed. That's kind of the beauty of this band.

Why This Album Still Matters

Take Off Your Pants and Jacket was the record that proved blink-182 wasn't a fluke. After Enema of the State broke them wide open in 1999, there was real pressure on this follow-up. It delivered. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with over 350,000 copies sold in its first week, making it the first punk rock album to open at the top of the chart. The Rock Show, First Date, and Stay Together for the Kids all became massive singles, and the Pop Disaster Tour with Green Day cemented it as one of the defining pop-punk records of the early 2000s.

It's worth remembering that the Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker lineup that made this album went through a lot after it. Tom left the band in 2015, and it was Mark's lymphoma diagnosis in 2021 that ultimately brought them back together. Their 2023 reunion album, One More Time…, also debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, their first chart-topper since Take Off Your Pants and Jacket more than two decades earlier. So this anniversary hits a little different.

A Big Week for Blink

This isn't the only blink-related news this week. Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear, a documentary exploring Travis's life, career, and the devastating 2008 plane crash, has its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on Saturday, June 13, with a special conversation with Travis following the screening. The film will debut on August 13 on Hulu and Disney+ internationally. Back-to-back blink content dropping this weekend.

As for live shows, blink doesn't have a dedicated anniversary tour announced at this time, but they've been far from quiet. Last year's Missionary Impossible Tour with Alkaline Trio saw them dusting off Take Off Your Pants and Jacket deep cuts like Roller Coaster and Online Songs for the first time in over 20 years. They also played Innings Festival in Tempe and headlined Coachella earlier this year. Looking ahead, they're confirmed for Rock am Ring and Rock im Park in Germany in June 2027, their first time playing those festivals.

Given that the band did a full album anniversary tour for Enema of the State's 20th in 2019, performing it front to back, I wouldn't be shocked if a Take Off Your Pants and Jacket run gets announced down the line. Nothing confirmed yet, but the precedent is there.

The deluxe edition of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket arrives Friday, June 12. If you've never heard these bonus tracks, you're in for a treat. If you have, you finally don't have to dig out the old CDs. Check blink-182's official site for any updates on future tour dates.

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