The Rock Show

Infobox Single
Name = The Rock Show


Artist = Blink-182
from Album = Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Released = June 26, 2001
Format = CD
Recorded = 2001
Genre = Pop punk
Length = 3:08 (single version)
Label = Universal International
Producer = Jerry Finn
Chart position =
* #2 (US Modern Rock)
* #14 (UK)
* #71 (US)
Last single = "Dumpweed"
(2000)
This single = "The Rock Show"
(2001)
Next single = "First Date"
(2001)

"The Rock Show" is the first single from Blink-182's 2001 album "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket". It was released in July 2001. The song was a success, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart and #71 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by Mark Hoppus after the producer for "TOYPAJ" told them they needed some "feel-good" songs on their record. Mark went home that night and wrote "The Rock Show", and Tom wrote "First Date" that same night.Fact|date=August 2007

Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker have covered the song in their new band, +44. Craig Fairbaugh, guitarist and background vocalist of +44, sings Tom's lines in the chorus.Fact|date=August 2007

Track listing

#"The Rock Show"
#"Time to Break Up"
#"Man Overboard" (Tom Lord Alge Remix)
#"The Rock Show" (Video)

Alternate single CD track listing:

# "The Rock Show"
# "Aliens Exist" (Live from The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show)
# "Adam's Song" (Enhanced Video)

Music video

The video, directed by The Malloys and released in 2001, involves the band taking a check from their production company for $500,000 and making the video themselves. Driving around town in their van, the video features the following:
*giving a homeless man a hair cut and new suit
*purchasing some doves and releasing them
*purchasing some cars and destroying them (specifically dropping a car from a crane)
*destroying someone's TV and reimbursing him for it
*paying for a plane to carry a banner with the text "take off your pants and jacket"
*distributing money to people around the town (some street workers, placing under window wipers, throwing it off the roof of a record store)
*paying for people to shave their heads
*paying for a group of strippers to mow a lawn, and clean a car
*giving away skateboarding gear to young skaters, some of which then try to jump over the band's van

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxhl-xV0UOs Watch "The Rock Show" on Youtube]