Offspring Month: Days Go By (2012)

"Part of why I chose 'Days Go By' as the single and the title of the album is because it really kind of shows – not only with me – that the world has been through a shitty few years and it's been really tough on a lot of people," Holland says. "People have really gotten hurt and, at the end of the day, no one's gonna pick you up. You've gotta pick yourself up and figure out how to move on. So I guess acknowledging that it's been tough, but also having a message of hope, is what I really wanted people to take away from this record." [rs]

Offspring Month: Happy Hour! (2010)

This one's a Japanese exclusive compilation, featuring some B-sider stuff, live versions, covers and a few remixes. Some rarities included, so it's worth a trip to Japan, on a ship. If you know what I mean.

Offspring Month: Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008)

Good evening, my fellow Americans. 

It has come to my attention in recent weeks, that the state of our union is deteriorating. Every day our friends and neighbors are losing their jobs, their homes - their jet skis! 

And their girlfriends. 

To put it mildly: Shit is Fucked Up.

President Holland's tour announcement

Offspring Month: Greatest Hits (2005)

Compilation album including the highest charting singles from the Smash to Splinter era. Far from being complete (no S/T or Ignition stuff at all), but it comes with a few new goodies. Definitely worth a listen.

Offspring Month: Splinter (2003)

In its own time, Splinter was the band's most diverse, fan-splitting, experimenting album. I starts out with a great punch, but it's over even before you could say "Wait, where the hell is Pass Me By?"...

Offspring Month: Conspiracy of One (2000)

Ah, the good old days:  

Two men, from opposite sides, bond together by a siamese ripcord tethered to their souls. Who will pull first, knowing that it will destroy them both? 

Nowadays: 

One man, from opposite sides, struggles to keep the dangling ripcord from the reach of a little man who does not hesitate to pull, knowing that the falling carcass will destroy them both.

CO1 booklet Conspiracy of One's illustration page

Offspring Month: Americana (1998)

'The songs on Americana aren't condemnations, they're short stories about the state of things and what we see going on around us. We want to expose the darker side of our culture. It may look like an episode of Happy Days out there in America, but it feels more like Twin Peaks.'

Dexter Holland, SFGate.com

Offspring Month: Ixnay on the Hombre (1997)

... lyrics which might actually make you think, and will also insult your intelligence at the same time.

Disclaimer guy knows what he's talking about. From Hail Maries to doggie doo, Ixnay has everything.

Offspring Month: Smash (1994)

Nomen est stupid dumbsh*t godd*mn motherf*cking omen, this record contains some of the band's biggest smash hits to date, and - with 12 million sold copies worldwide - currently recognized as the best-selling independent label album of all time. 

For the tru punx crowd this meant the beginning of their sell-out era, for everyone else, Smash is the definitive sound of one-nine-nine-four, the unforgettable year in which mainstream air got completely taken over by punk, grunge, alternative & popular rock and rocking pop songs.

And The Offspring ('xcuse me, I meant simply Offspring, as all Smash-era artwork dropped the "the") had all of the above.

Dividing By Zero & Slim Pickens

A little intermission (heh) among the great Offspring reviews, here's something to subside (double heh) all the pain Cruising California has caused. Introducing the two closing tracks of DGB, played in a live show yesterday:

And there's something streaming down @ Rolling Stone's...

Offspring Month: Ignition (1992)

Ignition, they call it an obsession, I think it's kinda bitchen, 

I think it's kinda neeeeeeeeeeeeat!

Offspring Month: Baghdad (1991)

"HEEEEEEEEYYEEEEEEEE-EEEEEEEEYEEAAAEEEEEEY!" 

Lyrics from The Blurb 

Offspring Month: Self-Titled (1989)

A simple message released through Nemesis Records in 1989, and two more times via Epitaph and Dexter's own Nitro Records: War, politics and untrustworthy people suck, all hail Aliens, Fender and bloody axes. Let the carnage begin. 

Offspring Month: Early Years

Among Offspring fans who spend most of their time online, chatting about their songs, watching, ripping and sharing  music and live videos or say, writing blogs with titles heavily inspired by the band (how could someone be so unoriginal?) there's an ongoing meme/joke/obsession/thing about bassist Greg K. - or, as we like to call him, The Badass Motherfucker or more simply, The Man. Among other names.

This usually calm, silent, least exposed member of the band posseses an almost mystical presence of power and otherworldly coolness, and not too surprisingly, a bag of Chuck Norris facts type legends are known about him...

Launching Offspring Month

Skull lifted from marpli.

Okay, Offspring Month? Who am I kidding here? I mean, this band and their upcoming record have been my most resilient topic in the last three months or so anyway.

But now shit is about to get real: June is finally here, summer officially begins, Days Go By comes out on the 26th, so quoting the 25-sec classic, it's time to relax. And you know what that means: glass of coke, your favorite browser, and of course, this weblog shining on you computer screen.

So go on, indulge yourself! That's right, open YouTube or another video site, put on your headphones! Lean back, and just enjoy the melodies - which I'm going to review song-by-song in the following weeks.

Yup, you got it, this is what you can expect from this month: with my little to none musical knowledge, I'm going to give my two cents about every important piece of The Offspring's discography, starting from their early Manic Subsidal days, closing the whole thing with a review of the new album, not long after it hits the digital and IRL shelves. I've never did anything like this before, hopefully it turns out to be a neat little project...

After all, music soothes even the savage beast.