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3 Underrated Bonus Tracks to Celebrate 25 Years of Blink-182’s ‘Take Off Your Pants and Jacket’

25 years sure does fly by when you’re writing songs about having sex with a dog.

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Blink-182 released their fourth album, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, on June 12, 2001. With 25 years behind us all, the band has finally graced us with a complete version of the album. The anniversary edition of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket includes all six bonus tracks, and they’re also available on streaming platforms for the first time. To celebrate these beloved, offbeat tracks finally being released together, here are three underrated picks.

“Don’t Tell Me It’s Over”

On the surface, “Don’t Tell Me It’s Over” is a bit of a whiny boy sob story. Guy who’s probably an a**hole is sad when his girlfriend gets fed up and dumps him, yadda yadda. That’s a familiar through-line for Blink-182, feeling betrayed and emasculated by breakups.

But hiding behind the emo complaining is a blunt-force vulnerability. “Girls always cry, guys never admit they........

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