Of course I really should be doing school work right now
but I'd say you folks here at CRF and The Offspring are a bit more interesting than finding the zeros of functions....
The Offspring Official Website
Albums:
The Offspring (1989)
Ignition (1992)
Smash (1994)
Ixnay on the Hombre (1997)
Americana (1998)
Conspiracy of One (2000)
Splinter (2003)
Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008)
Days Go By (2012)
I have a great number of memories listening to Offspring, I have been listening to them since 5th grade when I really found rock music for the first time, AC/DC was the first band, and Offspring was soon to follow, I found out about them from Fuse on tv when they used to play good stuff after school, and instantly loved it, they played "Pretty Fly(For A White Guy)" and the video was hilarioius, but even more so something with their sound just caught my attention... late on in middle school I found myself venturing into the punk scene of the school and well, most of my classes were spent listening to an ipod that I wired the headphones through my sleeves, when my hair was long enough I could just use ear buds and go up my shirt, but when it wasn't I'd put the headphone through my sleeve and lean my head on my hand, anyways, I don't think a class went by I didn't listen to "Why Don't You Get A Job" or "The Kids Aren't Alright" On that note, time for some history,
They are a great straight forward rock n roll, punk rock band, unbelievably catchy songs, driving energy without being too fast or brutal, they even slow it down sometimes and whip out the acoustics, but damn it, they keep the energy running high!
They started in 1984 in southern California. their original name was Manic Subsidal, Dexter Holland(guitarist) and Greg Kreisel(bassist) decided to form the band after being kicked out of a Social Distortion**Another one of my favorite
** concert. Those two aforementioned members went to highschool together, and asked their school janitor to join the band. Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman the janitor was welcomed mostly(according to wikipedia) because he was old enough to buy them beer. The band used Thompson's friend, Jim Benton, as their drummer. Thompson was eventually forced out of the band, while Benton left. This led to Holland taking over on vocals, and James Lilja joining as the drummer. The band changed their name to "The Offspring" in 1985.n 1986, the band released their first single; the 7" "I'll Be Waiting/Blackball". They released the single on their self-made Black Label record company, which was named after the brand of beer named Black Label. Lilja quit shortly after the release to pursue a medical career in gynecology--Ron Welty replaced him, he was 16 at the time.
The Offspring signed a record deal with a small-time label, Nemesis Records. Then in March 1989, the band teamed up with producer Thom Wilson (of Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion and The Vandals fame) to record their first self titled album.
They released most of their material and did their most successful touring from 1991 to 2005, during that time they released
Ignition (1992)
Smash (1994)
Ixnay on the Hombre (1997)
Americana (1998)
Conspiracy of One (2000)
Splinter (2003)
They released their latest album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace in 2008
Americana is my favorite album, I think that really epitomized The Offspring's sound. I'm not 100% on this, but I have heard rumours of a new album some time this year(2010) don't quote my on that though....
*In 2005, the band released a Greatest Hits album in both DualDisc and regular CD editions. Greatest Hits contains 14 of the band's hits between Smash and Splinter, and two previously unreleased songs, "Can't Repeat" and "Next to You" (a cover of The Police) (a hidden track). The compilation does not contain any material from the first album and Ignition. The DualDisc contains video of Dexter and Noodles discussing the band's history and a bonus acoustic version of the song "Dirty Magic." About a month later, the band released a video DVD with all of their music videos, and some videos from a live show.
During the summer of 2005, the band played the Vans Warped Tour for the first time, and followed that with a tour of Europe and Japan. After the "Greatest Hits" world tour the band took a break from writing, recording and touring. During the hiatus, Willard was recruited by Tom DeLonge for his band Angels & Airwaves and released an album, We Don't Need to Whisper, in 2006.*
*from wikipedia*
time for some music
The Kids Aren't Alright
Self Esteem
Want You Bad
discuss and hopefully enjoy
