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Cover of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket by blink-182
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“First Date” by blink-182

From the album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001)

“First Date” by blink-182 appears on 24 radio countdowns from 22 stations between 2002 and 2026. It was first released in 2001 on the album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. Its best result is #4 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #24 alternative song of 2002, #3,402 alternative song of all time and #242 of the '00s.

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blink-182 - First Date (Official Video)

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"First Date" came out in September 2001 as the second single from blink-182's Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, and it exists because their manager, Rick DeVoe, thought the album needed a catchy, feel-good number. Tom DeLonge answered with this, drawing on memories of an early romance to capture the fumbling nerves of meeting someone for the first time, with Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker sharing the credit.

Jerry Finn produced, Tom Lord-Alge mixed, and Roger Joseph Manning Jr. added keyboards to the sugar rush. Critics shrugged, and many called it unimaginative, but it camped out on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart for nearly half a year, peaking at No. 6, and made the top five of the UK rock chart. The video dressed the trio as '70s hippies cruising the suburbs in a Volkswagen van and hitting a water park.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2002 60 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2002 107
2002 24 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2002 91
2002 7 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002 106
2002 4 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2002 101
2002 51 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2002 100
2002 48 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2002 92
2002 41 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 2002 107
2002 19 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2002 89
2002 98 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2002 101
2002 36 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2002 100
2002 26 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2002 99
2002 70 Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2002 105
2002 19 Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 2002 104
2002 17 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2002 103
2002 83 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2002 224
2002 74 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002 103
2002 21 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2002 99

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2005 535 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2009 479 Live 105 Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009) 500
2010 64 CFNY 102.1 The Edge 102.1 The Edge Top 200 New Rock Songs of the Millennium 200
2020 172 DC101 The DC101 Top 500 500
2022 480 X96 X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time 500
2022 452 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498
2026 327 101X 101X 500 (2026) 500

Charting alongside it in 2002

Best songs of 2002 →
  1. 1By the WayRed Hot Chili Peppers
  2. 2AerialsSystem of a Down
  3. 3ToxicitySystem of a Down
  4. 4You Know You're RightNirvana
  5. 5All My LifeFoo Fighters
  6. 6SweetnessJimmy Eat World

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