The OffspringSmash (1994)Epitaph Records Reviewer Rating: User Rating: Contributed by: Jocky Fa (others by this writer | submit your own) Published on April 5th 2001
I know it's not very punk to review an album with such an abundant radio-play history, but this album is important. "Ignition" laid down the trend, and "Smash" solidified the mould. Like it or not, Offspring brought the So. Cal. punk scene to the world, along with that near swear word - Green Day. They opened the door so kids around the world could climb into Bad Religion and NOFX without having to stumble across it by fluke. You can thank "Smash" for the punk section in your local record store... and you could also just listen to it, and enjoy the simple, straight-ahead, punk-rock mastery of it.
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What near swear word - Green Day? "feel old and quit, be ashamed for everything released after Smash...." Really awesome album...and although I'm the only one to say it in here...they're still doing awesome. Splinter isn't my favorite or anything...but they're still who they are. its a good album, not my favorite but it feels like it is when im listening to it. i forget about it here and there. but when i do listen to its good stuff. iI like this fucking album!!! This is one of my firsts... Too bad they haven't done anything good since... That's as good as mainstream music gets. What they did afterwards is the definition of 'selling out' itself. Not a great record, but quite good for its time. A few songs on this deserve to be called punk. Then this band went downhill all the way This record deserves a lot of credit for not disgracing punk and still make loads of people listen to the more "underground", I'd better say "not mainstream" punk. Unlike the Blinks, sums and other crappy fuckers. They really were the kings of cartoon-punk. Used to love 'em, but now i'd just like to kill 'em. The suck big time! Great memories though! | Features
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