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“Stay Together for the Kids” by blink-182

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

“Stay Together for the Kids” by blink-182 appears on 27 radio countdowns from 20 stations between 2001 and 2026. It was first released in 2001 on the album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. Its best result is #16 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #22 alternative song of 2001, #3,906 alternative song of all time and #209 of the '00s.

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20stations
#16best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
2001–2026years charted

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"Stay Together for the Kids" is the dark heart of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, blink-182's fourth album from 2001, and it went out as the record's third and final single in February 2002. Tom DeLonge did most of the writing, sharing credit with Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker, and all three drew on the divorces they had lived through.

It's sung from the view of a kid trapped in a household coming apart, and the band trade their usual pop-punk goofing for something rawer: hushed verses that crack open into a post-hardcore roar, DeLonge and Hoppus splitting the vocals, Jerry Finn producing and Tom Lord-Alge mixing. Samuel Bayer's first video had a wrecking ball demolishing a suburban house around the band; after 9/11, the band and MCA judged it too close to the fall of the World Trade Center, and it was shot again.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2001 22 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2001 107
2001 16 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2001 91
2001 26 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2001 106
2001 23 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 101
2001 25 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2001 100
2001 55 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2001 93
2001 59 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2001 100
2001 24 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 2001 107
2001 36 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001 89
2001 40 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 101
2001 20 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001 99
2001 29 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 97X Top 97 Songs of 2001 97
2001 55 99X Atlanta, GA 99X Top 99 Songs of 2001 99
2001 31 WBCN Boston, MA WBCN Top 41 Songs of 2001 40
2001 80 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2001 191
2001 56 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001 103
2001 62 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2001 100
2002 59 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2002 92
2002 68 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2002 101
2002 51 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2002 103
2002 60 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2002 99

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2002 71 The Buzz The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) 144
2005 421 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2006 80 107.7 The End The End Top 107 Songs of the Millennium (December 2006) 107
2008 476 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) 500
2022 247 X96 X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time 500
2026 491 101X 101X 500 (2026) 500

Also listed as: Stay Together For The Kids; Stay Together For the Kids.

Charting alongside it in 2001

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  1. 1Hash PipeWeezer
  2. 2SchismTool
  3. 3How You Remind MeNickelback
  4. 4Smooth CriminalAlien Ant Farm
  5. 5It's Been AwhileStaind
  6. 6Fat LipSum 41

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