Stay Together for the Kids
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| “Stay Together for the Kids” | |||||
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| Single by Blink-182 from the album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket |
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| Released | February 19, 2002 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | July 7, 2001 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock, punk rock | ||||
| Length | 3:50 | ||||
| Label | Universal International | ||||
| Producer | Jerry Finn | ||||
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"Stay Together for the Kids" is the third single from pop punk band Blink-182's record Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. Although Mark Hoppus sings the majority of the song, Tom DeLonge wrote this song about his parents' divorce during his teen years. The bridge of the song "Ben Wah Balls" on the Cheshire Cat album contains a riff very similar to the intro of "Stay Together for the Kids", possibly an early incarnation of the riff.
[edit] Video
The band originally started shooting the video for the song on Monday September 10, 2001, and originally featured the band playing in a derelict house - a literal broken home - which was hit by a wrecking ball and fell apart during the song's progression. The next day when they went to finish the video, the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City occurred, and both the band and director Samuel Bayer opted to re-shoot the video, as they felt the images of the house coming down were too similar to the images of the attacks in New York.
They re-shot the video several weeks later, with a similar theme although this time the house used wasn't on the verge of falling down (intense winds instead swept through the band's performance during the song's chorus), and didn't come down during the video. They used the same extras in both versions of the videos. The original version of the video is only available on a few of the band's DVD releases. The scene where the house is hit by the wrecking ball can be also seen in the video for "Not Now".
[edit] Track listing
- "Stay Together for the Kids"
- "The Rock Show" (Live In Chicago)
- "Anthem Part Two" (Live In Chicago)
- "First Date" (Live In Chicago)
- "Carousel" (Live)
- Video: "First Date"
- Video: "Stay Together for the Kids"
- All live tracks recorded at The Tweeter Centre, Chicago on June 6, 2001.
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