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"gotta get away" came on today. i realized that i've never disliked an offspring song. especially with their older singles, their melodies are always unpredictable and compelling. they can maintain a good rushing feel. i like the way the singer's voice strains over the music. how are the albums, anyone who has them? are they consistently good? more varied than the singles?

― sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know from the albums, but I like the singles plenty. "Gotta Get Away" came on the radio today and I was sorta trying to sing along until my throat started to hurt. That guy's voice is more synthetic sounding than Britney's, and the production's always got that icy Def Leppard thing going. Even the early, generic skatepunk stuff is pretty good. "The Kids Aren't Alright" rocks like Milo Goes To Oslo.

― Kris, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can take or leave the Offspring. I don't actively search out their music, but I tend not to turn the channel, leave the room or say something sarcastic when any of their songs come on. They're hardly the worst group out there, they can put out a good tune and they can write funny lyrics (unlike too many groups who think that snarky = funny).

"Gotta Get Away" has a great intro. And for some odd reason I always liked the video (esp. the photography).

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I liked Smash and Ixnay when I listened to them, but that hasn't been for years. I heard Smash on a car trip a year or two ago and it got a little tiresome, though it was nice to hear it again. Ixnay was not as good but I listened to it incessantly when it came out, hiding in my headphones from the failure that I was sure was inevitable during that spring semester. Neither album was a whole lot more varied than the singles - though they were mostly consistent.

― Josh, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never bothered to investigate the older stuff, and their recent singles have annoyed me to the point of switching off the TV or radio in the background when an Offspring song comes one.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one=on. It really does.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some songs are really catchy, but Pretty Fly for a White Guy should be DESTROYED. It has no redeeming qualities.

― Jeff, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"pretty fly" is among the best songs to go #1 in the past 5-10 years.

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Though I think the Offspring are a decent enough band, there is one thing that has always bothered me about them and that is their juvenile lyrics. It's not that I think their lyrics are BAD, but it just seems weird that a bunch of guys in their mid/late 30's seem to have little problem relating VERY WELL to 14 year old boys. It's almost as if since that is the majority of their audience they write songs just for them in mind, which I find disengenuous. I can see a bunch of snide, drunken teenagers writing songs like "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" and "Original Prankster" and thinking they're cool, but doesn't there come a point in life when these songs sound ridiculously stupid after 2 or 3 listens? The Offspring's antithesis is Samiam, a band similiar in age and genre (mostly) that seem to write profound, thoughtful lyrical matter while still rocking. Of course they don't sell many records.....

― Mark M, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

OK I don't like post-grunge radio rock as a rule but "Gone Away" is fucking awesome. It sounds vaguely like the Cult or something; I can't quite put my finger on it.

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

i like the singles from "Smash" a lot

― latebloomer, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

Agree that "Gone Away" is very much like a Cult song. I once nearly wrecked my voice permanently trying to sing along to those "woo hoo" parts.

― Lostandfound, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

their later stuff is really lame though. "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" is a trite, obnoxious abortion of a song that rips off their earlier hit "Come Out and Play" and turns into the most cloying piece of shit imaginable.

― latebloomer, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

i am...not fond of that song

― latebloomer, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, they had their moments, but not really all that many when you think about it.

― Lostandfound, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

Although Ixnay On The Hombre is a great album title. A phrase you can just interject at random and pretty much guarantee some odd looks.

― Lostandfound, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

I dig all of their first four records and I'm not ashamed in any way whatsoever. I think 'Smash' was the first contemporary album I ever wanted to get on CD (we didn't have a CD player yet).

― chris.steffen, Sunday, 20 May 2007 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

headlining this year's Download festival @ Donington!?

http://www.offspring.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Offspring.woa/wa/news?newsID=435024

― StanM, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

My Spin cover story on them, from 2005:

http://books.google.com/books?id=f7SFGOzAxGQC&pg=PA9&dq=offspring+'chuck+eddy'+dexter+holland&rview=1&cd=4#v=onepage&q=offspring%20'chuck%20eddy'%20dexter%20holland&f=false

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

(Well, switch the page # to 44 and it's there, anyway.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:52 (sixteen years ago)

As long as this is revived, great OC Weekly piece the other week about Dexter's hot sauce. The sauce is excellent, BTW.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 19:03 (sixteen years ago)

he's the Billy Mitchell of rock

― /no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 19:07 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah but is it better than Too Slim and the Tail Draggers' South American sauce?

http://www.tooslim.org/webspecial.htm

Pretty sure Joe Perry (and maybe Sammy Hagar) have sauces, too.

And that cover story was 1995, not 2005, obviously - duh.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 19:24 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah but is it better than Too Slim and the Tail Draggers' South American sauce?

If there hasn't been a SXSW panel on the virtue of musicians' hot sauces before, I think there's room for one next year if not this. (Gustavo Arellano, who wrote the Weekly piece, is no slouch on the food front!)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 19:26 (sixteen years ago)

wow he's pretty fat now

― noted schloar (dyao), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:05 (sixteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

I’m not a trendy asshole

― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 21:58 (one year ago)

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