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The bands popularity has only grewn since they got together in 1993. They began building momentum with a string of popular 7"s, and in 1994 they released their first full-length album Cheshire Cat on Grilled Cheese a division of Cargo Music. In 1996 they signed a jointventure record deal with Cargo Music and MCA Records with their first MCA release Dude Ranch 1997 setting the stage for their current success. By the end of 1998 they had emerged as one of the most popular pop-punk bands of the year the album went platinum in the U.S. and the year end Billboard Airplay Monitor Report BDS stats indicated that "Dammit (Growing Up)" from Dude Ranch earned top spins at many key radio stations.
By every indication Take Off Your Pants and Jacket is turning out to be an evolutionary hybrid for blink-182 as hooky as 1999s multi-platinum Enema of the State but with all the punk spirit of their MCA debut allbum Dude Ranch. "This is the hardest fastest record that we've done" says blinks Tom DeLonge of the upcoming album. "Its way more punk-rock than our previous records and were excited about it." Take Off Your Pants and Jacket was released 6/12/01 and follows Enema of the State and 2000s smash live album The Tom Mark and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back).
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