blink-182 Take Off Your Pants Anniversary Edition Surfaces Six Hidden Tracks

There is something almost conceptually apt about a blink-182 record that hid its secrets inside its own packaging. The blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket anniversary edition, released on 12 June 2026 via Geffen Records, marks 25 years since the original arrived and finally gathers, on a single release, the six vault tracks that the 2001 pressing deliberately scattered across three separate first-run configurations.

Those early editions were keyed to the three emblems printed on the album cover: the red airplane, the yellow pants, the green jacket. Each version carried its own pair of hidden tracks, meaning that to hear everything the album contained you needed to track down all three pressings. It was a collector’s puzzle dressed as a pop-punk record, and for a quarter of a century those six songs have remained split across formats. The anniversary edition collects them alongside the original 13-track sequence, making the complete picture available to stream for the first time as a unified whole.

A No. 1 Album That Earned Its Certification

Take Off Your Pants and Jacket debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 on its original release, also reaching the top position in Canada and Germany and topping the UK’s Official Rock & Metal Albums chart. Billboard reports the album is now certified 5x Platinum, a figure that reflects not just the initial commercial surge but a sustained hold on listeners across the two and a half decades since. The singles that drove that run (‘The Rock Show’, ‘Stay Together for the Kids’, and ‘First Date’) are all revisited in this expanded release, as familiar now as they were in the summer of 2001.

The album was produced by Jerry Finn, working with material written by Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge, and Travis Barker. Finn’s production gave the record a clean, punchy brightness that sat a little apart from the murkier end of late-nineties punk, and it has dated more gracefully than many of its contemporaries precisely because of that clarity. Listening back now, the arrangements feel considered in ways the genre’s detractors never quite acknowledged.

blink-182 Take Off Your Pants Arrives on Vinyl

Alongside the streaming release, the anniversary edition is available to pre-order as a 2-LP set pressed on black vinyl. The packaging carries its own collector’s element: Side D of each set features one randomly selected etching drawn from the album’s three cover emblems, the airplane, the pants, the jacket, echoing the original’s format-specific conceit in physical form. It is a neat piece of continuity design, acknowledging that the album’s identity was always partly about the object itself as much as the music inside it.

The release arrives in a period when blink-182 have re-established themselves as an active concern rather than a nostalgia circuit. Their 2023 album ONE MORE TIME… gave the band its third No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200, a chart position that places them in genuinely rare company among acts working across a catalogue that stretches back through Dude Ranch, Enema of the State, and the self-titled 2003 record. That kind of long-arc commercial consistency is less common than anniversary press cycles tend to suggest.

For a record that once required three separate purchases to hear in full, being able to stream all 19 tracks in sequence is, at minimum, a practical improvement on what 2001 allowed. Whether the hidden tracks reward the wait is now, at last, a question anyone can answer for themselves. The blink-182 25th anniversary edition of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket is out now.