Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, right now! Actually leave them on. After almost two years without a full-length album of new material I expected Blink 182’s chief song writers (Mark Hoppus and Tom Delonge) to return to their roots with solid pop-punk songs. My expectations were obviously too high. This album is plagued by over-production and it is amazingly lyrically insufficient. After listening to the cd all the way through more than once, I came way feeling the lyrics were written in a last minute attempt to slap words into music. The lyrics are remarkably childish, even for this band. Blink continues the sound they established on Enema of The State. Every track has potential, but it seems cut short or arranged just for a “certain” audience. Original sounding arrangements (for this band) are almost inexistent, but there is a strong departure from their trademark sound on “Stay Together For The Kids”. The dual vocals seem to battle each other while a backdrop of equally as interesting soft and driving guitar parts matches the aural bloodshed. Tracks one, seven, and thirteen, are worth hearing once. There is not a real difference between this album and EOTS. The band has not matured at all. These guys are almost 30 and they still sing about high school, dating (married), and kids. “It’s all about the benjamins,” now. Haunted by “success” the band has nowhere to go. I guess they feel they have to stay on the path that lead them there. Eventually their sound will become stale and even their current audience will abandon them.