No Jacket Required
"The group's fourth studio LP, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, just hit stores, and as Hoppus told Roger Coletti, the album shows as much of the band's growth as lyricists and songwriters as it lacks in maturity. Still, buried beneath stories about grandpa messing his pants, the band continues to console its teenage fans with "we've all been there" songs about family issues, relationships and the general confusion of growing up. Just don't call that maturity, dumbass."
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"I want the melody to be the best thing ever, so a lot of times a chord progression will change and then it will work its way down and I'll end up changing the main guitar riff. Sometimes I'll go up and down throughout a song and it will take a few months to get it to where I want it."
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"A favorite game of mine is called poo dollar, where you actually put your own poop in a dollar bill and throw it on the ground and watch people pick it up."
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"There are a lot of punk bands I'm inspired by. The Descendents by far, but there are all these other bands that have come up with great riffs -- Screeching Weasel, Propaghandi, NOFX. Lately I've also been inspired by Jimmy Eat World and Far."
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