All Your Anger, All Your Hurt (Bumpin' In My Ear)

Catchy as shit, but nothing more than your average generic stadium poprock song (which is actually kind of an alternative thing on the air nowadays). That's The Offspring's Days Go By, the first radio friendly single from the new record with the very same title. It debuted this weekend on KROQ, with reworked - still a tad too Foo Fighterish - sound and brand new lyrics. It's actually the third public version since that little video snippet from two years back.

As I said earlier, it definitely won't be a long-time favorite of mine, but that nice offspringish artwo taste we all dig is definitely there, although the overall tone and the lyrics (basically a huge, romantic fuck you to all those 'oh-god-why' moments from one's past, but that's just my interpretation) are still surprisingly positive for this band. Just compare it to Hammerhead, RAFRAG's debut single, deeply influenced by both the trench coat mafia and some serious military angst. Bang-bang.

Aaaaand... ready for the saddest/funniest thing? Australians got => this <= as a single. It's supposed to be a joke song like Why Don't You Get A Job or When You're In Prison, but as a track sent out to radio stations, well. Something just died inside me. I hope to Good Ol' Life, Fate, God Or Whatever that it won't suck itself to the top charts (otherwiese it's a guaranteed number one), so Offspring fans and the rest of the world can forget about it. They call it the new Pretty Fly. I call it crap irritating poppy shi oh fuck you autotune and Bob R easily the worst song I've heard from them so far. Not much shall be said about it right now.

Anyway, Days Go By, the full album comes out in June, and the full tracklist was released too. Not that it gives us too much to work with now, but the last entry, Slim Pickens Does the Right Thing and Rides the Bomb to Hell is actually a reference to Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, which is way cool. I love obscure long titles anyway.

The one called Dirty Magic is a classic piece from Ignition, freshly polished and re-recorded (that's something they've been teasing us with for yeas now), which ignites - ba-dum-whoah - mixed feelings in me. First, this song is fine as it is right now, being arguably the best track from its era, and it comes off as somewhat a cheap filler among the new stuff. But if its reappearance serves as a harbinger of live Offspring shows with Dirty Magic on the setlist again, well, hell yeah.

Here's the single's cover. Like the song itself, it's filled with sunshine, something I miss from my life. Summer, hurry up, yo bastah'

It makes a cool wallpaper, too.