Smash

I used to absolutely love the offspring when I was a teenager. First gig I ever went to....Bought an offspring hoodie which was about 10 sizes too big and wore it religiously! When I saw this come up I was a bit worried it wouldn't hold up to how I remembered it. It does though and it's massively nostalgic. Still think nearly every song is great. My favourites are probably smash, nitro, killboy powerhead, come out and play and gotta get away. Dexter dropped out of his PhD when they got big and only recently went back and finished it, which is fair play. I actually think Ignition and ixnay are slightly better albums than this, but it's close....I hope there are more on the list, but having this album was surprising enough. 6 out 5!

Overall a fun listen.

I remember how big this album was when it came out. The album cover was so cool, their sound was different (annoying, but in a good way), it was fun to sing along to. The intro to Come Out and Play was one of the first things I taught myself on my first drum set. I think like half of these songs made their way to the airwaves. Nostalgia aside, it's okay. Come Out and Play and Self Esteem still hold up, but the rest of the tracks lack the dynamics that these two songs have. Most of the rest of the album is just Noodle screaming and it wears on me a little now.

same offspring, boring

Klassischer 90s Skate/Poppunk. Mix ist nicht der beste passt aber gut zum Album. Einfach nur Fun :)

That didn't do it for me.

Highlights: "Self Esteem," "Come Out and Play" It's easy to accept this as the inception of 90s pop punk along with Dookie. It's harder to accept this as the best selling indie album ever. It's not because it's a fresh outside voice though. It's easy to understand its success as a use of popular influences. "Self Esteem" is very Nirvana, but it was surprising at how much Metallica is in here -- not so much harmonically, but in the rhythms and timbres, from the guitars to the quasi-Hetfield vocals. They always have little dashes of Latin in their stuff, seemingly as a bad gag, so I was trying gauge their relationship to it here. I'd never read/understood the lyrics to "CoaP" before, so thinking about a bunch of seemingly white guys talk about putting away the colors and doing a exotica snake dancer riff for some reason seemed very Clintonite "superpredators" liberal for a punk album. Same goes for the penultimate song talking about how they weren't responsible for polluting the air when the album's first two songs are about souping up cars and road rage. Much like the jarring MIDI-like mixing of backup vocals on "Bad Habit," it's so bad it's funny. Mainstream punk is a nice metonym for the feckless liberalism of this decade, and this album is a nice metonym for mainstream punk.

Lots of classic Offspring on this album, but boy this album really wears your ears out listening to it start to finish. This might be the first album we've listened to that has a "secret" track at the end of the last track on the album which is definitely a relic of the medium, but it's got a fun little play on the riff from Come out and Play. * Bad Habit * Gotta Get Away * Genocide * Come out and Play * Self Esteem

Spännande lyssning

Good. Upbeat. Fun. Party style.

Yea

His singing sounds like he is pushing a poop out. As a whole album there isn’t much variety. However it some good songs.

Needs more trumpets

Very unremarkable 90s alternative.

i’ve been very underwhelmed with this type of album recently. not really sure why it made the list, i feel basically nothing about it

Some classic rock band nonsense

So much fun! I saw them at the start when they toured this album. The venue got so hot it was raining sweat.

Govno

Not my style!!

First listen this probably started out as a 4 but as I tried to get to the end of the album I lost interest and everything started blending into one track. Loads of energy and a fair amount of invention and skill but just not the genre for me.

Quite a fun punk recording, especially at the beginning: Fundamentally solid stuff. Then a stretch of narrative, then experimentation cut short. Cut short with a waste of potentially interesting runtime.

I was pleasantly surprised for the most part. Liked their energy and sound but it was repetitive.

Makes me feel like an angry 90s teenager again. Fun, with some bangers, but gets a bit repetitive. Still boggles my mind that the screaming lead singer now has a PhD in molecular biology. Some people have layers I guess.

Good experience.

So many memories that this album brings up. I'd give a 3.5. A fun album and notable for it's impact in the mid 90s, but far from great/a masterpiece.

No lo escuché entero, pero es ese rock de sonidos demasiado estridentes que parecen más actitud que música. Igual, tampoco es que la música y la actitud se puedan separar tan fácil. Nirvana no sería lo mismo sin cierta actitud de Kurt. Pero si él no gritaba siempre, vos por qué sí? Si gritas solo por el rock, capaz que después terminas tipo Dave Grohl.

Disco recontra famoso y con canciones divertidas, me gustó especialmente "Come Out and Play" y "What Happened to You?". Dicho esto, no me atrae para nada la voz del cantante, y hasta me parece molesta a veces. Prefiero lejos otros discos y otras bandas punk antes que esta, y no lo escucharía en mi tiempo libre a excepción de algunas canciones selectas. Si diera el rating por cuan bueno es el disco intentando ser lo más objetivo posible le daría más, pero estoy dando por cuánto me gusta a mí. 4/10

Lo escuché cuando cocinaba así que me gustó. Pero lo que me pasa con the offspring es que hay un momento donde me harta, es muy lo mismo siempre. Por eso me gusta para cocinar u ordenar como que me da energía. No lo escucharía frecuentemente tho.

nunca lo habia escuchado entero m gusto mucho m da para como para musicalizar el cagarme a patadas en un bar

lo escuche una sola vez asi que no puedo opinar mucho tema por tema. me gusto mucho, se entiende porque es una banda tan importante para el pop punk. me hizo acordar a jere xd

Brought back awesome memories despite only remembering a couple of songs. Must have heard in full at some point, but this felt new to me. Great record.

Cool af

no. hate it

Not a fan.

Very much of it's time

Feels more rock than punk A bit tedious

I could never get past the dudes voice. Lyrically decent and humorous but a little too on the nose for some songs. Not a fan of the garage band instrumentation.

un poco pesado y muy uniforme

Interesting that this is on the list. I listened to this a lot when I was younger, but I don’t think it’s that fantastic. 3.5 stars when I first heard it in my youth and when I listened again today.

First time. A good one :)

manche lieder sind ganz nice, aber so insgesamt würd ichs nicht super oft hören

An earlier version of me approves of this album.

Un disco icónico de aquellos años. Tiene dos inmensos singles y un tercero que igual me gusta. No comulgo con el resto del disco eso sí.

A little silly. I like "Come Out and Play," but it definitely feels like a riff on "Love Buzz" by Nirvana (and whoever did that song originally).

It was fine.

Decent. But samey.

Pretty solid album. Forgot how much I listened to this in HS. Great songs from start to finish. Then they stared making songs for 12 year olds. Too bad.

Such solid music.

Older brother gave me this on a cassette in '95. Listening on couch, head bobbing the whole way. Still holds up well. Dexter in his prime

OK, resonable punk

sooo sick of these types of albums. I don’t want to take all my anger out on just this one, but if we get another one within the week i’m going to lose it.

With having to revisit so many faux-angsty 90s loud no dynamics super high tempo distortion drenched power chords shouty vocal albums of late, I'm no longer wondering why mainstream guitar rock died. File under: boring (see also: awful). 2/10 1 star

i love punk and i love california but i don’t love this

Why does anyone need to hear this before he or she dies?

What a great album. I know these guys are more mainstream, pop-punk than a legit punk band but I don't care. This one is fun from beginning to end.

There’s the kernel of something good here - can see what it’s influenced by, and possibly what it influences in turn.

bah... 3

Great pop punk album and also definitely one of the best projects by this very cool band.

całkiem spoko, nie spodziewałem się

Decent album

The landscape was about to change rapidly in 1994 and I bet that no one had counted The Offspring to be a part of it. As one door closed, they had burst the other one open with this ceaselessly fun breakthrough album, thus cementing themselves (however briefly) as the vanguard of pop punk. Favorites: Nitro (Youth Energy), Bad Habit, Something to Believe In, Come Out and Play, Self Esteem, Killjoy Powerhead, What Happened to You?, Smash w/hidden track

first listen like the energy but didn't interest me

Goes incredibly hard. The best 90s punk album - Dookie can eat a dick. Too bad it's the only good Offspring album. I have to give this a 5/5 or else "The Skeleton" shall deem me unworthy of my skin.

Extremely fun, even though I can't quite get into this the same way I did when I was 12.

Hard to beat this one in the Offspring discography. Almost all bangers, reminds me of my youth.

unrefined, as punk music should be, catchy tunes with a lot of vocalizations (yeah-hah!) making them easy to sing along with. Fun to revisit the beginnings of mainstream pop-punk.

Really boring 2 Ok I actually hate this 1

So yeah the Nineties and Epitaph Records equals Bad Religion to me. I was into Bad Religion in particular and punk in general enough to buy other releases from Epitaph around this time, but I never got into OFFSPRING. The track Come Out and Play meant you couldn't really escape them at the time. It just wasn't for me then. A little too pop and a little too slick but this was a time (teenage years) when you'd cut a band from your listen list for even a sliver of deviation from your personal aesthetics and ideals. Saying OFFSPRING wasn't for me then just means they were one of many bands who had some serviceable songs and reasonable records that I just rejected outright. Listening again, the vocals are overstrained and mixed a little too high for my taste but at least I can acknowledge it's not a terrible record. (Let's not overstate the case for this being a good album though, there are some clunkers on here.) Honestly, I wouldn't have gone in for a project like 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die back then. I couldn't suffer it. What does it say about me now that I can? Expanded my appreciation of music or gone soft?

3.2 - I like hearing "Self Esteem" on the radio once in a while but the rest of this album is mediocre - nasally vocals, loud power chords, sophomoric lyrics.

the offspring works within a genre that i didn't pay much attention to as a teenager, much to my adult self's disappointment. i can recognize now this album is great! i didn't realize how many songs i already knew. smash is definitely punk, but not as punk as other groups in the previous decade. i almost want to call this "fun punk"? it feels more commercial than other weird punk from the eighties. ska's also evident in this album; multiple aspects reminded me of no doubt. dexter holland's vocals aren't the clearest, enough to provide some gritty, punk feeling. if you take away the vocals, the guitar absolutely wails and is more of the rock genre.

I still remember being a pre-teen and discovering my first Offspring song. I felt like I had reached the pinnacle of rebellion. Time has obviously reshaped that opinion, but into college and and even now, I still find this music incredibly fun to listen to. It's fast, energetic, and the riffs are just downright catchy. There is something about this band's somewhat dissonant harmonies and wailing that grabs you in, too. At times, The Offspring can border on thrashing ska music, which is my least favorite Offspring "form", but at their best, I feel like The Offspring is a top tier artist in the pop punk/skate punk genres, with many well known songs. Many of said songs are off of this album, so my opinion that this album is among the best of their offerings is likely not controversial. I never knew this album was released by an independent label, but it does not surprise me that it is the best selling album from an independent label of all time.

It's alright, pretty decent energy but a lot of the songs ended up kind of too same-y for me, but the songs I liked were really damn great. I also enjoyed 8 minutes of dead air on the last track, that was a cool waste of time!

Great album, solid throughout with practically no filler. Every song is a banger

It's pretty good, a lot f fun tbh

A classic formative pop punk album for sure. I think there are better albums in the genre and era and even from the band. The top tracks for me were; "Gotta Get Away" (which sounds like it should be a Nirvana song at the start), "Come Out and Play", and "Self Esteem". I think for me it gets the nostalgia boost to a 4 star rating, but I do think there are some much better albums from that year that are missing from the list.

Weer een band die ik wel van naam ken maar nooit bewust heb geluisterd. Goeie punky rock

Kinda of cool to see the connective tissue between hair metal and more modern metal represented by the offspring here.

Leiðinlegt

I liked this more than I thought I would. It's not my style, but I think it's good music.

nope

Fresh and energetic when it came out.. dated today

Fun grunge punk ska stuff. Holds a place in my heart from when I was a kid.

It’s been nearly 30 years since I listened to this album. I remember sitting on the bus down to Washington DC for my 8th Grade class trip and playing this on my Walkman. As an angsty 14 year old, this album was the shit. In my 40’s it just reminds me of being an angsty teenager. Musically, it’s aggressive pop-punk of its time, and more enjoyable than the music The Offspring would later have hits with - they still had a bit of indie cred on this one, if you will. Damn you, generator, for reminding me of the unstoppable passage of time. I still can’t believe 1994 was almost 30 years ago. Oooh…and it’s got a secret song. How 90’s is that?

I had a blast with this one. Made me wanna drive fast. And play Tony Hawk. High energy, quick tempo skate rock

It was alright

An important album from the early to mid-90s west coast punk scene. Many nostalgic tracks on this record. 4/5

I really wasn't enjoying this at all, and was ready to give it my first 1 star rating. Then two pretty good songs which I remember from indie discos but didn't realise we're The Offspring came along to save the record: self esteem and the best song, Come out and Play.

4.5 stars. Fantastic album. Could do with fewer "ooohhoohhh's and yeaaaheeaaahhs" but this is just a great punk rock album. Lots of energy, catchy choruses. Takes a little edge off of some of the rawer punk, but not overly pop-y. Standouts are "Bad Habit", "Gotta Get Away", and "Self Esteem".

This album was super important to getting punk back on the cultural map, which is certainly a double edged sword in itself. The album is pretty solid. It's nice to be reminded of when the band wasn't a half-baked act putting out novelty singles. I could give this album a 5 based on its importance to my discovery of the genre alone. However, I just don't think it's that good. It is definitely worth a 4 though.

Love “Self-Esteem”

Listened to this a ton as a young paperboy on my Walkman so I definitely have a soft spot for this album. I can’t say I’m gonna regularly return to it but it was still a fun revisit, wiseass snark vocals, sharp riffs and clean drums. Probably a 3/3.5 but it gets a bump to 4 for the memories of slinging news and cutting across lawns of stupid dumb shit god damned mother fuckers.

It was good, but the vocals weren't the best

Quin fenomen místic o planetari va passar en les vides dels components de Green Day i Offspring al 1994 no el sabrem mai, però per la raó que sigui totes dues bandes van donar aquell any llum dos dels discos més importants de la década, van donar fi als anys del grunge i van encetar una nova etapa en la vida social i musical dels '90. Tot el que van fer abans i després està molt lluny del que van aconseguir aquell any. Això és més clar en el cas d'Offspring, els discos dels quals precedents i posteriors a 'Smash' queden tan per sota d'aquest que un es pregunta si realment pertanyen a la mateixa banda. 'Smash', però, és una obra perfecta del punk hardcore, ram de singles contundents i vibrants que van donar vida i èxit a tota una generació de bandes que vivien de la repetició del patró, de vegades amb certa gràcia, la majoria copiant amb insistència una mateixa idea. Aquest, però, és EL disc del génere i una obra per ser disfrutada sempre

I wonder how Corey is doing

Absolute classic. Top to bottom inspired, politically biting, aggressive, scream-along, and funny too.

I don't think I have ever listened to an entire Offspring album before and I really have no desire to listen to an entire one again. This album had a couple of songs that are very well known and songs that I will probably listen to again, but I have no desire to listen to the album again. Thankfully it is relatively short. It is not a 3 but I will round up mainly because of the well.known songs.

A classic

I like this album

Blegh. I don't really like the offspring. I think it's the guys voice. They're very close to things that I do like, but there's something I can't get on board with.

Super energetic songs all the way through, and even though there feels like a lot of repetition of the general sound, there were a number of points where the feel changed and you just got a sense that the band was having fun. Three tracks are notable gems that I still love hearing after all these years. The rest was fun but I don’t need to hear this entire album again.

Fun and a great paced album. It was a great Friday pump up.

not my style, I do remember their music from years back though

A pretty solid, fun listen although I confess I am not always the biggest fan of Dexter's vocals. Loved the little spoken snippets! The Offspring doesn't take itself too seriously which I see as a very refreshing trait. Genocide and Come Out And Play were the highlights for me (I actually don't like Self Esteem that much...). The rest of the album does feel a bit forgetful apart from those tracks.

Got through half, really wanted to like it. I can see how a lot of stuff I like is influenced by stuff like this but it's just a smidge too much. Need to find that perfect balance between loud and annoying and singer/songwriter i guess

kyllä minä tykkään! tahti on hyvällä tavalla kova

Gotta get away on biisi, jonka takia alun perin kiinnostuin rockista, ja melkein itkin kuullessani sen taas. Mutta tällä levyllä ei ollut yhtään kuulemisen arvoista biisiä, joka ei olisi ollut jo teini-iässä omistamallani Greatest Hits -kokoelmalla. Sääli sinänsä, koska Offspringilla on kiistämättömän hyvä käsitys melodiasta - sen kanavointi vain tuppaa kaatumaan tyylilajilliseen mauttomuuteen.

Always liked these guys though I never had any of their CDs as a teenager. Really enjoyed this one. Just a great example of raw early 90s pop punk.

4, Its picking up speed, quite good at times.

67/100: Another group I’ve never heard of before. They definitely had a fun time making this album, or at least it sounds like they did, and that’s always something I appreciate—so props to them. With that being said “fun” only Carrie’s an album so far. The lead singer is having a great time delivering each line, I love that about this album. But therein also lies the principle fault I’ve found in this album. Every single line is delivered with the same excited energy. A song doesn’t become energetic by constantly being energetic. This album is an argument against plugging yourself into an “experience machine.” Let me explain. Things feel good because they’re relatively better than bad things you’ve experienced. A night in the penthouse suite of the Mandalay Bay is a boring Wednesday for a billionaire, whereas for me, it would be the highlight of my year and possibly life. That’s because a billionaire has few experiences “worse” than the penthouse suite of the Mandalay Bay, while I have few better. On this album, every song is packed full of energy, but with nothing to compare that energy “high” to, it’s monotonous. It loses its energy. You could listen to this album all day, or you could just do coke for 24 straight hours. You’d probably have a pretty similar experience. Lastly, I want to passionately complain about the last song on this album. I had to listen to it three times to make sure I wasn’t going crazy. The song “Smash” is nearly 11 minutes long. Or at least that’s what it’s listed as on Spotify. In reality, it’s really a 4 minute long song. I don’t mean the last 7 minutes are awful and can’t justifiably be called a “song.” No, the last 7 minutes is literally just silence. It’s literally not a song. What the hell?? I’m flabbergasted.

punks just a bit repetative

Yeah, straight down the middle offspring. exactly what was expected, if not slightly better.

My Offspring are much worse than this. They are amongst the worst people I know. A hive of cunts. In contrast, this record is very charming and gives me hope that one day my bastard children will die horrible deaths.

Pretty fly

Smashing

Boy were we angry in the 90s. Smash comes in that sweet spot where grunge and alternative have pushed hair metal to the side and themselves are over saturating the music scene with a sound that isn't as great as the sound that got them here. This music was all over the radio and to a certain degree, still is. The upcoming latin music revival would push alt-rock to the side as the popular genre and The Offspring and their compatriots bear the brunt. 3/5.

I know what to expect here, speed guitars and layered male voices. It’s derivative. This would not be a thing without Nirvana. Very simple but it’s energetic teenage music. Very American. Lots of shouting & woahs & yeahs. ‘Come Out & Play’ & ‘Self Esteem’ work though, great sing a long singles. ‘Pop punk’ is a great description. After a while this relentless samey trebley energy stresses and grates my middle aged bones though, like music for kids who have eaten loads of sugary food and energy drinks, makes me feel a bit sick.

Yikes

Not a fan.

The overall sound gets a bit grating at times, but that’s just the 90s for you. Great songs that prepare you for more great songwriting to come from these guys!

I always enjoy this group, and yet...never bought a single thing they put out. In hindsight that is really bizarre...thought by Americana I would have at least had jumped on the bandwagon and bought that one...so maybe I am a closeted fan?

[12/09/2022] Good vibing Somewhere between 4 and 4.5 stars The day was stressful and my head hurts but this album made it all kinda better

i actually rly liked this, i shall be listening again !! - been watching tons of halloween movies and chillin in bed. right now i ate a chicken salad sandwich which was actually pretty good. my appetite’s been a little off and everything seems unappetizing to me lately so i was kinda surprised i finished that tbh

09/11/2022 Got better as I kept listening. Not all of the songs are bangers, but overall it gets the job done. Probably won't listen again, but it wasn't a pain to get through. -- Last day in San Antonio, heading back to Houston tomorrow. It's been a very chill sunday so far.

This is really really good. As someone who was raised on punk and continues to love it into my 20’s, I was surprisingly late to The Offspring so to finally hear a full album is really exciting. The performances and energy are so passionate, and the instrumentation is straight up awesome; so glad I was given this so early into the challenge.

my mum use to listen to the offspring. i think she still does every now and then. I will always have this memory of when i was maybe 13 and was listening to You're gonna go far kid, and my mum said she liked the song. I looked at her with utter shock going 'you know The Offspring?' and she gave me this incredulous look and said 'Hazel I've been listening to them before you were even born'. I was born in 1998, I like to believe she was talking about this album.

Fun album but definitely more geared towards angry teenagers. Still some good tunes and fun to listen to even if not my cup of tea.

Little recognizable but not completely my thing

not my thing

Not bad. A lot of these songs sound the same, which isn’t necessarily bad but it’s not great either. And the singer’s voice is a bit annoying. Listened 2x

Energetic raw and pop enough to be easily to digest. Super fun Intro and Outro.

I saw them in concert around 1998 and it was pretty good. They even played pretty fly for a white guy before it was released. I owned this and used to love it, but not so much now. My favorites were come out n play, gotta get away and self esteem; which were all played to death on modern rock radio over the past 20 years.

I thought I would like this album more, but maybe it's because I've heard self-esteem so much and his voice sounds similar in most of the songs. Definitely cherished this band during my angsty skateboarding days.

Never cared for them lol

It’s such a high energy album laden with full blown snotty 90s punk attitude. There’s no real danger here though, it all feels very put on, an act played up for the cameras and promptly dropped the very second the director yells “cut!” These guys were so gimmicky in the way they served punk to the masses. They presented such an outlandish caricature of a punk rock band. The music is fun though, don’t get me wrong! Some core memories unlocked, a staple of my misguided youth and all that. It’s easy to see why The Offspring made a splash, they did all the right things and hit their marks, but then their fad came to an end and the world moved on to the next musical trend that kids could form their whole high school identities out of: I’m looking at you here early aughts emo kids.

I do like Dexter Holland’s voice. And his name. And The Offspring’s blend of the angsty/angry and the funny/silly. IMO they perfected the formula on Americana but I’m biased because that’s the one I grew up with. Good album though, and one that clearly helped shape the 90s/00s pop-punk movement.

Lekkere muziek. Stem licht schreeuwerig, niet altijd even fijn. Maar er staan zeker wat klassiekers op.

Hadn't really listened to the album but had heard Come Out and Play / Self Esteem (the two big singles off the album) a fair few times over the years. It's very much the 90s skate-punk style, imo. Was expecting All I Want to be on there before checking the tracklist, since it's the track I associate most with 90s-era Offspring.

skateboards, shopping carts, women. Nothing is safe while this is blasting

Very nostalgic sound, love it a lot. this, Ixnay On The Hombre and Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace are great albums. the others have some good tracks but also a lot more complete misses (like Pretty Fly (For A White Guy))

I didn't enjoy this that much. Its just alright. Maybe if the vocals and drums were better.

why is this in 1001 albums you need to hear to before you die??

It's the offspring, you get what you get I guess. Maybe I've listened a bit too much to their popular songs before to still really enjoy them. Still overall solid, almost a bit nostalgic.

One of my favorites growing up.

Bello, gasa

Mostly yelling. I enjoyed hearing the songs from The Offspring I remember from the 90s, but others were not substantially different as to be interesting.

I loved this album as a kid but listening now it is kind of cheesy. Along with Green Day’s Dookie, this album is considered largely responsible for bringing punk mainstream but to me, I can hear a lot of influence from grunge, mainly Nirvana.

Not 100% convinced that this album is noteworthy enough to deserve a spot on this list, but I won't lie it's very nostalgic for me and has some absolute rippers. Can't help but move around to it.

Sounds like Sonic Adventure music with The Offspring vocals

So fucking good.

Didn't listen.

THPS vibes, good memories, 2/10 not my style

Ya lo tengo bastante escuchado. Bueno

Decent but if I'm in the mood for pop-punk then Blink-182 are ahead of Offspring every time.

Ich mag diese College-Film-Mucke einfach nicht

This is some dumb*ss sh*t.

The melodies were half decent. I'd forgotten about Come Out and Play. It's a fun tune that passed a pleasant three minutes or so. But there wasn't anything life changing about this album. An unplugged album with a little more soul might have been more appealing to me. The sound grated after a while. Pop punk shouldn't exist. The only authority is yourself, etc.

I like the Offspring and you should too

Good and fun but never as good or as fun as Pretty Fly for a Rabbi, the Weird Al Offspring Parody

Considering how bad this band got pretty quickly after this album, I would put it in the guilty pleasure category (alongside White Zombie before Rob went solo and turned himself into a meme). It's a decent album for mainstream punk - better than Green Day's Dookie, which was its even more accessible contemporary - but I don't want to admit liking it.

ya ya ya ya ya

I don't know if it's a feeling I get at the end of a long and stressful work week, but this really matched my energy. I wish I had been born when this was released. That would have been rad to experience listening to this during that time.

Very enjoyable, great album and brought back some memories

I dunno, fun enough pop punk

3.4/5 decent punk rock

The soundtrack to my early teenage years..

One of my favorite Offspring albums. Nostalgic for me, but it's not exactly perfect. There are moments I don't care for, but overall it's a solid album that deserves to be on this list.

Meh not impressed

Man, I used to love it. I guess it's aged ok...

Lots of great songs.

The Offspring is a fantastic band with lots of memorable jams. I really enjoy this album and it invokes fond memories from my child hood and young adolescence growing up in the 90s.

It’s just bad.

Entertaining enough but ultimately disposable.

This is a good and fun album even if Offspring sounds like a bunch of frat boys decided to yell song lyrics in unison. The music is aggressive and most of all the album is fun, reminiscent of home team chants at a game. However, the songs resolve well and the album is a fairly well done complete experience. The album to sound this young and collegiate and pull it off indicates a measurable talent, and for that the album deserves a lot of respect along with the aforementioned. Notable exceptions, the weird narrator and 10+ minute encore track.

First heard on the California beach with a 6 or 7 month pregnant Lisa. Extra half star for nostalgia!

More of a 3.5 for me, but since that’s not an option and I enjoyed the later tracks more than the earlier ones, I’m rounding up. Overall had fun listening to it.

Great collection of songs! This one brings me back a ways!

This was surprisingly better than I thought it would be. Really enjoyed it.

Great way to nudge punk a little to the radio. It gets a little samey all at once, but that's the only knock. All trax are pretty good!

'Come Out and Play' and 'Self Esteem' stand out musically and lyrically. The majority of the rest of the album is fairly uninteresting thrashy skate punk. Great energy and commitment, but a bit samey. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Come Out and Play Date listened: 22/07/22

SMASH! I particularly enjoyed that one, lets see what's next...

Not a huge fan of the offspring but my dad's band would play this. Reminds me of my childhood

Great album 10/10

PSA: This. Is. Not. Punk. It's Frat-Boy metal. It's also very bad. Cargo Shorts spring to mind.

Classic album. Lots of bangers on this one.

Classic songs were good, the rest were pretty bland

I had this album for a time and got rid of it. I honestly think I did not "get it" at the time. This is not an album to be taken seriously, but I was taking it too seriously. It's a "punk" album but the band is a bunch of punks. Listening to it years later, I have remorse for getting rid of the album. This is a lot better than I gave it credit. The stuff you hear on some of their later hits is really all here: "Why Don't You Just Get A Job?" is just like "What Happened To You?". "The Kids Aren't Alright" is like a few of the songs, probably a cross between "Bad Habit" and something else. So it's interesting to see that they haven't really evolved. Going to have to find this one again.

Love this album - a lot of pump up songs on this one including Bad Habit and Come Out and Play. Gotta Get Away is so good and Self Esteem is an all-time classic (I will never get sick of hearing it). Not quite as good as the other big punk revivalist album of 1994 (Dookie) but the non-hits are still solid. Best are Genocide, Something to Believe In, and What Happened to You? (probably could have been hits). Great energy, grungy punk sound, and satirical lyrics.

Sounded like high school. Self esteem still bangs.

Same sounding. Punk energy with better playing and uninteresting songs. Maybe one sorta catchy one.

love it! bestselling independently released album of all time for a reason :)

Not my fave Offspring album but an absolute banger

Timanttia tai ainakin puhdasta kultaa. Tätä tuli jo penskana luukutettua 24/7 ja eipä ole mihinkään kulunut. Toimii edelleenkin.

Ehkä eniten kuuntelemani levy kautta aikojen. No brainer

Short. Fast. Loud. Offspring were part of the fabric of the mid 90s. It was fun being taken back there for a moment. They're still making music but it's the 90s they are associated with in my mind. Who doesn't love a bit of punk now and then.

Really enjoyed it

Better than I expected, but not my thing.

Það þótti ekki kúl í minni kreðsu á sínum tíma að fíla Offspring svo ég laumaðist bara með mitt fíl. Drulluskemmtileg plata. Stundum þarf bara að öskursyngja.

Loved this album at the time

Honestly surprised on how well this album holds up. This was one of the first CDs I ever purchased, and although I liked it quite a bit, I didn't think it was as good end to end as the other CD I bought at the time (Nirvana Unplugged). Happy to relieve it today though. 4/5

love self-esteem, an all time fave. the rest of the album is pretty mediocre to me

Wasn’t familiar w band name but knew a couple songs. Good history. Didn’t finish entire album.

17 year old me is screaming right now. Nitro still kicks ass, Bad Habit is still morbid fun. I find a lot of the albums brightest songs are the non-singles. Something To Believe In, Killboy Powerhead, So Alone are all fun songs. The singles on the album I feel are pretty dusty and tired but there is still a lot of nostalgia driven love for this album.

I am not the target market. Exuberant mediocrity.

A long-standing favorite of mine, particularly my favorite pop-punk album. Just a great blast of energy, attitude, and catchiness.

Offspring is like Taco Bell for Punk. If someone said "I want Mexican food" it isn't my recommendation, but it deserves it own category for just how tasty it can be, ya dig?

There's the two hits, and then there is a lot of songs with the same tempo. I enjoyed it at first but then the repetitive tempo bored me. I had a lot of friends in the 80s into skate/pop punk, and it as a genre never gelled with me.

Similar to dookie, this album influenced the music of my youth. A good nostalgic listen, but not music I’d listen to as a proper grown up…

Absolute classic!!!

Listening to ‘Smash’ with fresh ears 30 years after it was released, I’m struck by how well it stands up. The Offspring may have ended up becoming something of a novelty act later on, but in 1994 they were hungry and had something to prove. ‘Smash’ does what it says on the tin, striking the right balance between anger and apathy, but with humour and urgent, catchy power punk riffs, all whilst extending a middle finger and a big fuck you to the world.

Yikes 90s American skate punk is not really me. Bit like Green Day. Bit angry and sweary and shouty. Gonna try my best bit may not last tbe whole album. Ok got to track 8 then gave up because I'm not enjoying it and lm a bit tired tbh..Hard to compare i know but I prefer it to that Slice in Chains album..

sonzeira, curto das antiga já

Would be nostalgic if I had listened to it in my youth.

Die Mitgröhl-Melodien bewegen sich auf dem musikalischen Niveau von Kinderliedern, um auch noch das schlichteste Gemüt anzusprechen. Eine Unart, die ich im Punk und anderswo als ausgesprochen einfallslos und verachtenswert empfinde. Nicht gut, aber auch nicht ganz schlecht.

Ekki hægt ad gefa null stjörnur.

A few classic sons surrounded by typical Offspring rock. All and All, pretty good. 3.5/5 Standouts: Self Esteem, Come Out and Play, Gotta Get Away, Genocide, Bad Habit

Best Song: What Happened to You? I like the ska-style rhythm. It feels like it channels the band's rambunctious energy into a more productive direction. Worst Song: Bad Habit. Odd choice to focus so heavily on the voice of a guy who can't sing. Also, the whole lyrical schtick of being a badass Overall: It feels as though I've heard all the big songs on this album hundreds of times on the radio, and still I struggle to see the broad appeal. Is it because it has a certain everyman quality? Listening to this, you can imagine that, with minimal effort, you could probably make some kind of generic music that would be on par with what's available here. So you sing along and, as your caterwauling mixes with the sounds from the radio, you are able to vicariously live your rock star life.

Listened to on 5/4/22 2.5/5 Favorite song: self esteem This album is: chaotic. The intro was hilarious and every song was overly aggressive and I don’t love being yelled at BUT self esteem was phenomenal and took it from a 2 to a 2.5

Even though the album suffers overall from multiple songs that sound like each other (not a massive surprise with this band), this album has two loved hits in Come Out and Play and Self Esteem. That brought my total from 3 to 4.

Not good

3.5/5. Schmid tier as far as pop-punk goes. There are def good cuts, and it might be the Offsprings’ best, but there are too many “way-ohs

Great album. The melodies don't sound tired; the guitar parts are interesting, and the lyrics fit the vibe of the music.

Rowdy and spiky, and decidedly American. A decent listen

Punk Rick normally lands up aggravating me but the Offspring has a special place in my late teenage bones

been liked

I’m having sensory overload

Good, some songs blend together. Very noticeable voice, nice music to sing along to. Maybe a 7/10? Self Esteem is on it and is still a favorite. Second half is amazing. What happened to you and come out and play are :*

Turns out I’ve heard a few of these songs but never really heard of Offspring or this album. I missed a lot of the 90s due to drinking a lot and living in a trailer. This album was hot. Quality punk sound fast clean dirty rock really solid album I loved it.

Not bad this band but I prefer something more quiet.

Classical grunge, punk album.

Argh.

Quite a classic 90s rock sound, not for me

Self Esteem offers much to identify with, yes, but the rest of the album? A collection of bland noise tracks, all uncannily similar to one another.

This is a high 3 album - liked the singing, the pace and the fact it has some good tunes. Although I can understand why some people wouldn’t like it.

Vocals are painful to listen to.

Quite enjoyable. Gets an extra star for being the only decent album this week

Smash and drab

At first was a bit unhappy with this album being my listen for the day - but it turns out to still hold up well - with surprisingly lucid lyrics and some classic tunes which might have lost a little luster with being overplayed back in the day yet are still great tracks. Almost every song is a banger. Unfortunately it went downhill for the band after this but don’t fault this album for that.

A good choice of 90s skater punk. For what it is, it's fun. Favourites: "Bad Habit", "Gotta Get Away", "Self Esteem"

I didnt like it on the radio back in the day. The other tracks are better but it is just passable.

I almost bought this album so many times, but the singles off this thing were unavoidable in the mid-late 90s. I just wasn't sure I was alternative to this degree. I liked Nirvana and Green Day, but these guys were something else - like fake punk instead of real? Anyway, songs were catchy, but there was something artificial about them to me. Just doesn't grab me even though it was supposed to!

Alvum se punk rock assez generique. Seulement entendu 2 classiqir de offspring.je m'attendias a mieix 3.05

Discazo de punk-rock con temas melódicos, guitarreros y muy bien producido.

A dirtbag masterpiece The Offspring being one of the only groups to come out clean after that Woodstock 99 documentary

Good album, not my favorite Offspring album, still pretty good

Man, this guy has such a distinct voice. I hadn't listened to much Offspring aside from the big hits that came when we were in middle school (I was more of a Green Day guy) and I really enjoyed this. On this album, they're hardcore but also playful, and the songwriting is pretty tight and focused. A lot of the songs are pretty poppy too (the classic "Self Esteem" is so catchy). Punk is the driving energy here but there's a little grunge on the early tracks and they even dip into ska a bit ("What Happened to You?"). I also have a soft spot for "CD albums" - the intro track invites you to enjoy this "compact disc" and there's a hidden track! P.S.: Dreena yelled at me for playing this album too loud so that's how you know it's good.

Such a throwback! For never listening to the album full through, I definitely knew a lot of the tracks, which goes to show they had a lot of hits! Very up beat and good music for driving and getting pumped up for the day.

Pros: - Really brings me back to being a kid in the 90s. I was 4 when this album came out so I probably heard it on the radio. - YOU GOTTA KEEP EM SEPARATED Cons: Misc:

Not my cup of tea, but my favorite track was What Happened To You?

wtf, this should not be on this list

Re-listening after years I have to be honest that it has lost quite a bit of its appeal. Now this came out when I was discovering punk and even in those days was not my favourite. Some songs still stand up fiercely over time, like Genocide, Come Out and Play and the title track, but the other half have lost something over time, like It'll Be a Long Time, Self Esteem and Killboy Powerhead. 3,5*

goð plata i like

That voice is almost unlistenable for me. Very poppy simple melodies… should this album be in this list? Nope!

Not terribly memorable

Okay

I had a passing familiarity with The Offspring as I do enjoy a few of their songs but have never listened to a full album. It really reminded me of playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games. It was fun although you aren't going to get a huge variety in terms of music as the songs do sound very similar. Yet, oddly it had this weird charm that just hit me in the right way although I don't think I'll be revisiting it soon though.

I saw The Offspring at a festival in the mid-90s. At that point, it was all about waiting for them to play "Come Out and Play". Listening to this album was a bit like that too, but at the same time there are plenty of good tunes before and after. It's very much the soundtrack of teen boys in the mid 90s - and kudos to The Offspring for capturing that vibe.

Stellar album. Almost all the songs are excellent. Sound is unique, but fun and immersive. Only critique is maybe that some songs sound a bit too much like another.

I'm not sure what more you can expect from pop-punk-rock. The hooks are catchy, the harmonies are solid, the energy is great and it absolute carries a dose of snarkiness and humor. Really enjoyed

Flashbacks to cruising around in Ralph's Volvo and blasting this with the windows down. It may have been a cassette tape!! Album's still great.

There's nothing wrong with this album. Fun, fast, punk pop. I just really dislike his voice, and still remember Pretty Fly For A White Guy which was awful.

It was no Americana - but still a good sound

Sounds and riffs are good at times. But it doesn't engage me. I am probably not the demographic they were thinking of. To my ears it feels vacuous and staged emotion. it has no relation to punk for me. Cover art 2/5 corny

Look, this is going to probably be an unfair review as this is not really my kind of music. I do however like the irony of the opening track saying to 'relax' and then the first song begins with drums and guitar. It’s almost Pink Floyd esq…

vocalist sounds like they just learned all the bad words and barre chords. enjoyable but probably won't revisit soon.

Made for the mosh pit, high octane fast grunge punk metal, lots to enjoy.

Sono già gasato, probabilmente perché li conosco da tempo. Sonorità caratteristiche e note, ma le canzoni non le conosco perfettamente. Bellissima 'Self Esteem', ma all'album manca quel quid in più: 4 stelle onestissime.

Great album, the best in Offspring's career. It is the best-selling album of all time by an independent record label, and that's something. Come out and play introduced me to Offspring's universe and I am thankful for it.

Much nostalgia. Great album

D'après ce que m'a confié Robert, cet album a été sélectionné dans le but de tester les fidèles du générateur. Le dernier morceau contient en effet un morceau caché absolument sans intérêt, intervenant après plusieurs minutes de silence. Les personnes qui ne l'auront pas écouté dans son intégralité et auront quitté leur plateforme de streaming avant la fin devront recommencer le générateur depuis le début.

Etant un habitué des albums de musique, j'avais avant même de lancer l'album reperé le derneir son de 10mn, et savait déjà que l'objectif était de cacher une chanson, comme de nombreux illustres groupes l'ont fait par le passé. Cette pratique extrêmement chiante il faut bien le dire, permet toujours au groupe l'utilisant de caler un sample egyptien de pyramide dans la plus grande discrétion. Ici, The Offspring vont plus loin, se déguisant absolument tous en sphynx, et restant immobiles a quates pattes pendant de longues minutes. L'un des membres va même jusqu'a se couper le nez. Un spectacle original, se déroulant donc dans l'intimité la plus totale d'une fin d'album des plus secrètes. Un délice.

Was hoping for so much more. Loved the intro tracks though can imagine that would've been a massive gee up to hear on first play in the stereo after purchase from Sanity.

too angsty 4 me

Arga pojkar. Klassisk album. Come out and play, Self esteem är klassiska punkhits. Likt Green Day.

really liked this album, but not as much as when i was in middle school

I had forgot about albums with silences at the end of them! Definitely a nostalgia hit for me, went in very sceptical that is required listening, but it is an album that knows what it is.

I believe that all these albums that remember me of my teenage years turn on some nostalgic critical sense that gives me much less independence. I know that I don't have any idea if these songs are really good, but they were good for younger me and when I listen to them, I respect that opinion.

Great rrrecorrd 4

Starts off strong, had lost me by the end. Definitely good angry kid music, pretty listenable.

Didn't age well for me.

Student times are the best

Heerlijk album van Offspring maar zeker niet mn favoriet

Very fast rock - like Motorhead with a different vocalist. They got through a lot of drummers and I'm not surprised.

Great 90s punk rock

This is great for what it is though honestly I would go with Bad Religion for largely the same sound with smarter lyrics and more interesting vocals (I watched Green Day OPEN for Bad Religion in the First Avenue main room in Minneapolis in the early 90s if you want to approximately date my old ass)

Just a regular Offspring album, in other words, horrible

Lekkere punkrock! Yeah!! Ik houd wel van die lekker snelle muziek, waarbij de overkoepelende melodie niet eens zo heel snel gaat. Ik kan niet zeggen dat dit het beste punk-album is wat ik ooit gehoord heb, maar het klinkt wel cool. Favorieten zijn "Bad Habit", "Genocide", "She" of eigenlijk alles behalve "Self Esteem" :-) *****

Catchy and energetic. Some huge hits off this album that everyone has heard and have held up well for 30 years. You can't help but to like these songs, but I am not a fan of most of the other pop punk they ushered in, so I will hold onto that grudge.

meh

Much more adherent to the classic punk motif than I had anticipated from hearing only their single output. A bit of an homage to nirvana vocally

Fun, shouty punk rock.

Nostalgic.

HELL YEAH

A little all over the place, but that’s part of its charm. Every song wallops you from the very beginning! This has aged fairly well (and fortunately it didn’t make me want to break out some JNCOs) and still made me boo around my office….until my principal came by and caught me 🤦🏾‍♂️

Story time. This album came out my junior year of high school. My first boyfriend (Jeremy) and I listened to it incessantly. Listening to it now brought back all these fun memories of screaming the lyrics at the top of our lungs as we drove around or hung out with friends. After high school Jeremy got addicted to heroine. It was a long slow decline. He OD a few years ago and he’s dead now. RIP Jeremy. I can’t see or hear anybody but you when I listen to this album. And when I do, it’s nothing but joy.

I never got on with Offspring although I should have been target demo. I remember being aggrieved that they called themselves punk when they sounded nothing like the Sex Pistols. Besides this, I still don't really enjoy the sound. Next.

-”Nitro (Youth Energy)” is nice and fast and catchy with great drums -”Bad Habit” totally rips -The chorus in “Genocide” is very catchy. “Dog eat dog/Every day/On our fellow man we prey/Dog eat dog/To get by/Hope you like my genocide” -I’ve definitely heard “Come Out and Play,” specifically that “You gotta keep ‘em separated” line -Literally just a silent gap from 4:04 until 9:04 on “Smash.” The song is 10:40 and 5 entire minutes are just silent. -This has some seriously catchy and great stuff, I think it has a decent likelihood of getting a good number of listens from me. I’m going to give it 5 stars because I think it has some serious potential to get me much more into punk.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Nitro, Gotta get away, Genocide, What happened to you?

Oh the memories this album brings. I listened to it on repeat while playing Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Gamegear. I didn't bother listening again, but I'll give the album 4 stars.

Everything sounds the same to me.

Gun in the glovebox <3