THE OFFSPRING SINGLES POLL

Not a huge Offspring fan although I do really like Smash (and still need to hear the s/t and Ignition). Ixnay on the Hombre was "eh" and now they are more interested in creating novelty songs than actually writing good material.

No single post-Ixnay should get a SINGLE VOTE.

Oh and I vote "Meaning of Life" mostly because I find that most of the Smash singles were actually inferior to the non-singles ("Nitro", "Bad Habit", "Smash" "It'll be a Long time").

"Kick HIm When He's Down" was good.

Smash it up

Come Out And Play = impressively shameless bite of Agent Orange

"Hit That"!

mainly cuz "Come Out And Play" SHOULD be the across-the-board winner and "Hit That" deserves some votes too.

No single post-Ixnay should get a SINGLE VOTE.

Bullshit not just because they had some great singles after, but why the hell would you pick POST-Ixnay as the line in the sand.

because Ixnay was the last album that had any level of quality to it. Most of the novelty post-Ixnay singles really don't have great replay value (seriously, you know how irritating "Pretty Fly" got after like, 3 listens?) and the ones that werne't novelty (like "Want You Bad") weren't all 'terrible' songs but none of them were great either.

*waits for the "you don't know what you're talking about" card despite having heard all of the songs in question

ironically Ixnay had better singles, imo, than Smash (which still had good ones, no doubt), but was a worse album!

Come Out And Play.

"Self Esteem," natch.

All I want.

Because I can't make it through an entire listen of Americana -- ugh

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"Self Esteem," natch.

-- JN$OT, Sunday, 9 December 2007 17:38 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^this. I think "Self Esteem" is probably the best punk single ever recorded.

I voted for "Self Esteem", for the bass but not the lyric

"Get a Job" is different, catchy and surely great.

I remember Self Esteem getting reviewed in NME (when they zinged anything of that ilk pretty much as a rule) and the reviewer saying it was misogynistic, which is reaching a bit to say the least

"Gone Away" because I like "Gone Away"

pretty much all of these songs made me miserable at the time they were out. I'll vote for "All I Want" though, partly because making the first single from their major label debut/follow-up-to-breakthrough a fast as hell 2-minute punk song was kind of ballsy, even if they sold out in the most ridiculous ways possible almost immediately afterwards.

"Come Out And Play," though they were more consistent than people give them credit for. I like lots of songs up there way better than "Hit That," though (one of them even sounds a lot like .38 Special, though I'm not going to say which one.)

I've never been convinced Agent Orange were better, by the way.

Ha ha, ok:

http://off38.ytmnd.com/

"self-esteem" by like 10 miles.

Self Esteem

Self Esteem x3

it's so obviously Self Esteem

"Come Out and Play", fuckin' OBVIOUSLY.

Between "Self-Esteem," "Gotta Get Away," and "Gone Away." I'll go listen and get back to you.

bassline on "Self-Esteem" is so fucking killer, I'm amazed it hasn't been sampled yet. although if anyone did it, it would probably be fucking Slug or something

self-esteem is definitely a pretty fun grunge single. it reminds me of nirvana in a big way, but happier. like most grunge and pop-punk songs of that era it goes on about 2 minutes too long.

the bassline on "Self Esteem" is dope but it's kind of ruined by how awful the drumming is.

i remember seeing the video for "gone away" and it reminded me of the cult! and not even hard rock cult, like, love-era cult. and it also has a little bit of "mad world" in it.

wtf with all the "Self Esteem" love. It's just a goddamn chord progression that's been used in like 500000 pop-punk songs.

(including "The Kids Aren't Alright," which is way better)

(but mostly because it sounds like "Electricity" by OMD)

I wrote her off for the tenth time today
And practice all the things I would say
But she came over
I lost my nerve
I took her back and made her dessert

I think I was super pissed about "Gone Away" in seventh or eighth-grade. It was a sell-out move! Assholes!

come out and play

"Self Esteem" sounds kinda Nirvana-ish.

Actually that's not quite right, it sounds like "Little Things" by Bush. Or maybe "Little Things" sounds like "Self Esteem". Either way, LOL 90s!

"I've never been convinced Agent Orange were better, by the way."

they were though.

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anything after that Smash album is abominable

or maybe i'm just being an 80's snob or something. but i'll always love angent orange and i've never loved the offspring (though i admired their goofiness in a Bush-filled 90's).

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VnHO164o0CA

Offspring never wrote anything as good as the original version of "Bloodstains", that's for sure!

i remember seeing the video for "gone away" and it reminded me of the cult! and not even hard rock cult, like, love-era cult. and it also has a little bit of "mad world" in it.

-- scott seward, Sunday, December 9, 2007 4:19 PM (18 minutes ago)

I thought the exact same thing when that song came out, "when the fuck did The Offspring turn into The Cult?"

that's why that song is so great

"Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" just because that's the only one anyone has ever heard of.

"Gone Away" - Curt1s and scott OTM

"All I Want" totally. Agreed with BJO that the Smash album cuts would be competitive, esp. "Something To Believe In."

Also, I am stunned at how many post-Americana singles there are here. "Original Prankster" was the last one I noticed in any capacity.

this is obviously Self-Esteem vs. Come Out & Play vs. Pretty Fly

voted Self-Esteem, which was my favorite back in middle school when i actually liked this stuff.

I can think of so many fake Nirvana songs I'll take over "Self Esteem." Like at least half of the Local H songbook.

"Self Esteem" probably does satisfy a lot of young men's fantasies of a girl treating them like shit AND regularly fucking them.

is "I Choose" awesome, or did I have really poor taste in middle school? I barely remember that song honestly, except that it was one of my favorites Back Then.

Is "The Kids Aren't Alright" the one that has the same riff as "String Bean Jean"?

Yeah, the "dumb not a dweeb" line (and the soaring chorus in "Gone Away") totally sells it for "Gone Away." (I've been trying to figure out for years who "Gone Away" reminds me of - Journey? Def Leppard? The Cult might work. I was thinking the "Mad World" thing today too. I'm not insane.)

(milo must be way younger than I realized.)

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The winner of this poll OTM

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WTF. How could "Come Out and Play" get beat by some plodding, irritating bullshit?

Purely driven by spite, I just voted for SE as worst single in the Green Day / Offspring poll.

AND IT FEEEEELS
AND IT FEEEEELS LIKE
HEAVEN IS SO FAR AWAY

What the fuck is "Hit That"? Never heard of that.

I'm happy that "Gotta Get Away" and all their songs I can't even remember enough to hum a few bars from got zero votes.

saw them last night. I was really there for Bad Religion so this was more a victory lap set but I stayed as I had a vested interest in hearing "Smash" in its entirety as it was kinda a time capsule for me. First cassette I bought where the word "fuck" appeared repeatedly (to the chagrin of my mother who heard the infamous a capella part of "Bad Habit" while doing laundry one day and yelled at me).

was surprised at how although I haven't played the album but like twice in the last 18-20 years or so I still knew most all of the words. the material still holds up, and then when pared w/ their encore set, really shows the sharp divide of the crap they turned into later. I peaced out after "Get a Job", thankfully escaping before they got to "Pretty Fly" (which I heard from the parking lot).

I forgot how dope "So Alone" and "Genocide" are.

The Cult thing with "Gone Away" is it sounds a little, groove-wise, like "Rain".

meaning of life is really good

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surely by now we have reached a moratorium on ppl telling other ppl that dexter holland has a phD

SURELY

Gotta keep him separated

*snorts*