Deffinately.
My first Offspring album was Ignition, and i didnt really latch onto it, as id bought Smash by then and loved it.
Ignition is one of my favourite Offspring albums now.
The Offspring New album
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Deffinately.
My first Offspring album was Ignition, and i didnt really latch onto it, as id bought Smash by then and loved it.
Ignition is one of my favourite Offspring albums now.
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mann i havnt listened to this band for yearsss haha i thought they had given up
Don
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce Dexter Holland of the OFFSPRING..white rapping LOL
Jesus, that sounds like Friday by Rebecca Black.
I'll reserve judgement until I've heard the whole album
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce Dexter Holland of the OFFSPRING..white rapping LOL
That song is sickening....Considering they used to be my favourite band this song is just plain offensive for being this bad.
Still ****ed they haven't done a gig in Scotland for years. Two nights in London, yeah thanks!
This album will have a couple of good tracks and a few crud songs. Yes people even smash and Ixnay have some bad songs. A band that is as old as the offspring will always have to adpt and change. People change, times change etc. tobe doing this for 20 years and still enjoy it as much to put out albums is a great achievement. I think we are lucky as fans to have bands like the offspring and the too fighters etc to still be producing music.
Bands like this will only have one amazing record and that's your custom playlist.
This album will have a couple of good tracks and a few crud songs. Yes people even smash and Ixnay have some bad songs. A band that is as old as the offspring will always have to adpt and change. People change, times change etc. tobe doing this for 20 years and still enjoy it as much to put out albums is a great achievement. I think we are lucky as fans to have bands like the offspring and the too fighters etc to still be producing music.
Bands like this will only have one amazing record and that's your custom playlist.
Caporegime
Ignition is an absolute classic album. Complete, raw energy from start to finish.
Right up there with Smash as their best work in my eyes.
Associate
The Offspring have been (and still are) my favourite band for years.
People go on about Smash. A LOT (just look above
). Smash is Smash. It is amazing but it's 18 years old. The Offspring have moved on yet a lot of people can't. They just want them to dish out Smash II & Smash III and be creatively stale.
They do "weird" songs (Pretty Fly (For A White Guy), Original Prankster, Hit That, When You're In Prison) and a lot of their commercial success is from them. Cruising California is a new extreme to that
So I'm looking forward to the new album because it's the only band that can go from The Future Is Now to Days Go By to Cruising California and get away with it.
FYI: Songs off Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace were incredibly popular in the USA...
People go on about Smash. A LOT (just look above
). Smash is Smash. It is amazing but it's 18 years old. The Offspring have moved on yet a lot of people can't. They just want them to dish out Smash II & Smash III and be creatively stale.They do "weird" songs (Pretty Fly (For A White Guy), Original Prankster, Hit That, When You're In Prison) and a lot of their commercial success is from them. Cruising California is a new extreme to that
So I'm looking forward to the new album because it's the only band that can go from The Future Is Now to Days Go By to Cruising California and get away with it.
FYI: Songs off Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace were incredibly popular in the USA...
Associate
It's time to relax...
And you know what that means...
Glass of wine... your favourite easy chair; and of course, this compact disc playing on your home stereo.
Yes, they've been going downhill since Smash, but Smash is simply an amazing album. Rise, Fall had a couple of good songs but no real substance.
Even if it's another album mostly of filler content, I'll still go to see them live as their live performances remain brilliant.
And you know what that means...
Glass of wine... your favourite easy chair; and of course, this compact disc playing on your home stereo.
Yes, they've been going downhill since Smash, but Smash is simply an amazing album. Rise, Fall had a couple of good songs but no real substance.
Even if it's another album mostly of filler content, I'll still go to see them live as their live performances remain brilliant.
The Offspring have been (and still are) my favourite band for years.
People go on about Smash. A LOT (just look above
They do "weird" songs (Pretty Fly (For A White Guy), Original Prankster, Hit That, When You're In Prison) and a lot of their commercial success is from them. Cruising California is a new extreme to that
The problem is the two songs linked to above sound just like any other of a number of bland Yank Soft Rock, dare I say even the Jonas Brothers.
The Offspring stood out back in the late 80s/early 90s even as a 'punk' band, whereas now they just blend in to the soft middle. Whilst I fully respect Dexter's opinion on the matter (and why not be successful?), I won't buy their new album until I think it's what I want to hear (irrespective of whether it's the Offspring or not).
Just like Metallica with St. Anger (Load and Reload were actually quite enjoyable for me), and their recent dalliance with the Duke of Droning, it's just not my bag.
Soldato
The Offspring have indeed moved on. And I can accept that; I love it when bands evolve and change. It's part of the natural process of being a band and some bands do it well like Brand New or Thrice.
The Offspring, however, haven't. Fundamentally, they haven't changed a great deal. They float between half arsed punk rock songs (see half of 'Rise and Fall...' for the low down on that) and rubbish commercial throw away songs (er, the other half of 'Rise and Fall...').
The issue with The Offspring isn't that they've changed. The reality of it is that they haven't when their contemporaries in Green Day and Blink 182 have changed.
It's simply that their songwriting has only become worse as time's went on. One gets the sense that they just dunno where to go and that they're happy to try and re-live past glories.
TL;DR - they are creatively stale and have been for quite some time.
The Offspring, however, haven't. Fundamentally, they haven't changed a great deal. They float between half arsed punk rock songs (see half of 'Rise and Fall...' for the low down on that) and rubbish commercial throw away songs (er, the other half of 'Rise and Fall...').
The issue with The Offspring isn't that they've changed. The reality of it is that they haven't when their contemporaries in Green Day and Blink 182 have changed.
It's simply that their songwriting has only become worse as time's went on. One gets the sense that they just dunno where to go and that they're happy to try and re-live past glories.
TL;DR - they are creatively stale and have been for quite some time.
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Very well put.
The thing is The Offspring don't have to prove anything to anyone and this shows, they play what they WANT to, hell Dexter is the guy that wrote Ignition, Smash, etc.... They have some novelty songs yes, but that just how they diverse they are, to write a fast punk song like "The Future Is Now" to a **** take song like "Cruising California (Bumpin' In My Trunk) takes some serious talent!
lifes changes you, just because he wrote some amazing songs coming up to 15/20 years ago doesnt mean anything now. i seriously dont think that the current stuff is what they were wanting to play or has any connection to past efforts.
its just painful to watch, they have gone from "kill the president" to "stuff is messed up".
its just painful to watch, they have gone from "kill the president" to "stuff is messed up".
Soldato
Nah, it's more a case of trying to connect with an audience half of which don't care anymore and half of which simply dunno who you are anymore.
Soldato
Offspring have always been on the verge of the pop-punk that is American Idiot Green Day and Good Charlotte, yet Offspring started out as a Bad Religion/Pennywise-esq punk band.
After hearing Rise, Fall, Rage, Grace, I think they've finally lost their original early 90's ****-take punk style that bands like NOFX and Bowling For Soup still maintain.
I remember reading that they were going to call one of their albums Chinese Democracy, in Dexter's words "He stole my dreadlocks, we stole his album name"
I just don't see that side to the Offspring anymore, thankfully though, I can't see them following in Green Day or Good Charlotte's success, nobody under 18 even knows who the Offspring are anyway
After hearing Rise, Fall, Rage, Grace, I think they've finally lost their original early 90's ****-take punk style that bands like NOFX and Bowling For Soup still maintain.
I remember reading that they were going to call one of their albums Chinese Democracy, in Dexter's words "He stole my dreadlocks, we stole his album name"
I just don't see that side to the Offspring anymore, thankfully though, I can't see them following in Green Day or Good Charlotte's success, nobody under 18 even knows who the Offspring are anyway
Album cover:
I quite like it, looks dark, interesting but not very Offspringy at all as they have never used real photos on any of their albums and also no famous 'skull 'on this one!
I quite like it, looks dark, interesting but not very Offspringy at all as they have never used real photos on any of their albums and also no famous 'skull 'on this one!
This song is amazing from the new album!!! "The Future Is Now" 
Much more like it!!
Much more like it!!
Associate
The Future is Now sounds good, bit like Savior by Rise against but that's not a bad thing.
Can't wait for this album should be good!
Can't wait for this album should be good!