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