Tom DeLonge Reveals Old blink-182 Album Title That Never Made The Cut

The titles of blink-182's classic albums are so iconic at this point that it's hard to imagine not referring to names like Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, Enema Of The State and Dude Ranch. But former frontman Tom DeLonge has revealed that it was almost not the case, taking to Twitter to state that one record almost had a very different title…

"True Story," he wrote. "Vasectomy Vasecta-you was once a title option for a blink-182 album." Though the vocalist/guitarist didn't reveal which album almost had this, um, interesting name, a 2003 Billboard interview reveals that it was an option for the pop-punks' brilliant Untitled album (which, considering its much darker material, is pretty damn surprising).

Tom had previously told the publication that as well as Vasectomy Vasecta-you, blink had also come up with the (rejected) titles Diarrhea de Janeiro and Our Pet Sounds. Hmm, we think you opted for the right one in the end, guys…

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While folks on Reddit speculated which record Tom was referring to with Vasectomy Vasecta-you, user @CBobRobison pondered that it might have been Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, given that a previous option for that record was Sodomy, Sodom-you. There's definitely a theme running here.

In the post-Tom iteration of the band, meanwhile, the likes of Nude Erection (New Direction), No Hard Feelings and OBGYN-Kenobi were alternative titles for what became 2016's California. Lovely.

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