The Offspring

Decepticon · Jun 21, 2005

Am I the only one that hates this fucking band?

I really thought they were gone for good and now I can't not see them on TV again or hear them on the radio....they started out great with Come out and Play but then turned into a pop band with shit like Pretty Fly for a white guy and Why Don't You Get a Job.

Their 15 minutes ended almost a decade ago...why are they still around?

punkGuyta · Jun 21, 2005

although the americana cd did suck they still have like 6 other cds that are still good

Orpheus · Jun 21, 2005

Your the only one.

Great band, I need to pick up more of thier records.

Lets Gekiga In · Jun 21, 2005

Ignition, Smash and Ixnay On The Hombre are their best and only albums I suggest getting.

punkGuyta · Jun 21, 2005

Lets Gekiga In said:
Ignition, Smash and Ixnay On The Hombre are their best and only albums I suggest getting.

they have a self titled from way back when with jennifer lost the war that was a good cd too

Ely13 · Jun 21, 2005

I heard they'll stop playing at concerts if people start moshing... which makes sense, I guess, given their younger audience.

Smash and Ixnay on the Hombre are classic. Not as classic as Pearl Jam's Ten, Nirvana's Nevermind, or Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill, but classic nonetheless.

Gameoz · Jun 21, 2005

Are they the band on the Crazy Taxi sound track? If so, I do not like them.

Lets Gekiga In · Jun 21, 2005

punkGuyta said:
they have a self titled from way back when with jennifer lost the war that was a good cd too

Yeah, I own that too, but it isn't that great of an album. It doesn't really compare to Ignition, Smash or Ixnay.

On the S/T album all the songs are pretty sucktacular. Elders, Out on Patrol and Beheaded are pretty good examples of crap.

punkGuyta · Jun 21, 2005

Lets Gekiga In said:
Yeah, I own that too, but it isn't that great of an album. It doesn't really compare to Ignition, Smash or Ixnay.

On the S/T album all the songs are pretty sucktacular. Elders, Out on Patrol and Beheaded are pretty good examples of crap.

the cd came out in 1989 it wasnt no opperation ivy or anything like that but for the age of it i didnt think it was all that bad

Lets Gekiga In · Jun 21, 2005

punkGuyta said:
the cd came out in 1989 it wasnt no opperation ivy or anything like that but for the age of it i didnt think it was all that bad

Songs like Session, L.A.P.D., Nitro, Gotta Get Away, Genocide, Self-Esteem, The Meaning of Life, and Gone Away just totally outshine anything on that S/T. The S/T was originally produced in limited numbers and hard to get a hold of until it was re-released. It should've stayed in small numbers.

GoSpits · Jun 21, 2005

Gameoz said:
Are they the band on the Crazy Taxi sound track? If so, I do not like them.

Yes and no. Bad Religion also contributed to the soundtrack, so there's a chance that you either disliked one or both of them.

punkGuyta · Jun 21, 2005

Lets Gekiga In said:
. It should've stayed in small numbers.

i agree with you there when it first came out it was for ppl in the fan club only i think. that kinda makes it special

fatal fury fan #2 · Jun 21, 2005

Ely13 said:
I heard they'll stop playing at concerts if people start moshing... which makes sense, I guess, given their younger audience.

No fucking way :eek:

I am going to see them at the warped tour this saturday and they better not pull this kind of shit :oh_no:

Gameoz · Jun 21, 2005

The song I am thinking of is played a lot through out the game.
It starts...yeah,yeah yeah yeah, yeah.

My ears usually begin bleeding about the third time it comes on.

Lets Gekiga In · Jun 21, 2005

Gameoz said:
The song I am thinking of is played a lot through out the game.
It starts...yeah,yeah yeah yeah, yeah.

My ears usually begin bleeding about the third time it comes on.

That's The Offspring.

Edit: If the song is All I Want (which is probably the one you're referring to), yes it is a pretty annoying song.

punkGuyta · Jun 22, 2005

fatal fury fan #2 said:
No fucking way I am going to see them at the warped tour this saturday and they better not pull this kind of shit

while your there you should check out no use for a name there playing the north stage ( same as offspring and dropkick murphys

)

toy_brain · Jun 22, 2005

I like The Offspring, I dont care what other people say - they make some fun songs, not too angsty, not too shouty - good stuff to listen to on the way to work.
I guess they have melowed out a lot since their S/T album days (and boy was that album fucking awful), so their later stuff is a bit softer and less 'against the system'.
I agree that Ixnay was one of their best, but Americana and Conspiracy of One are still fun to listen to.... assuming you arnt one of those annoying angsty teenage pricks that go around saying "no way dude, they like totally sold out to 'the man' and everything".

Its called growing up.
Everyone grows up. Everyone mellows. It happens. Deal with it.

Mike Shagohod · Jun 22, 2005

You're not alone Decepticon, I'm not that Big on them either. I did like a few songs early on, but that was about it. And WTF is up with no moshing at a concert? The music I remember by them incited moshing. If you're not going to get in the pit then what's the point? Oh and most of us were in our teens moshing, crowd surfing and throwing chairs through windows back in '91 to (unrelated) NIRVANA's "Teen Spirit" and all the way up through OFF SPRING's early sets. So I guess today's youth can't handle it?

Hearing that about their anti-moshing makes me about as sick to my stomach as hearing what Green Day was and what it's become.

MERCENARY X99

Ely13 · Jun 22, 2005

I could be wrong about the moshing, but that's what I remember hearing in High School from friends who would attend concerts regularly... they were pretty bitter about it, talking about how weak it was. Maybe they've changed their image over the years? =/

Mike Shagohod · Jun 22, 2005

Ely13 said:
I could be wrong about the moshing, but that's what I remember hearing in High School from friends who would attend concerts regularly... they were pretty bitter about it, talking about how weak it was. Maybe they've changed their image over the years? =/

PROBABLY... which is just lame.

I can't stand these bands that come out of left feild full of the fire within, get up in ppl's faces and make the world notice them... then 3 albums later (if that) or at some point just because they're older they want to go from HARDCORE to something tamer. It's like, fuck man end it on a good note not degenerate into some fluffy sound. But whatever. It's not like I give a fig anymore overall anyhow, most of the stuff I like was up till about 2000, the music today all sounds the same and even the bands of the past that had something to say, or were fun to be angry along with have turned into castrated pieces of shit.

MERCENARY X99

Decepticon · Jun 22, 2005

Mercenary X99 said:
PROBABLY... which is just lame.

I can't stand these bands that come out of left feild full of the fire within, get up in ppl's faces and make the world notice them... then 3 albums later (if that) or at some point just because they're older they want to go from HARDCORE to something tamer. It's like, fuck man end it on a good note not degenerate into some fluffy sound. But whatever. It's not like I give a fig anymore overall anyhow, most of the stuff I like was up till about 2000, the music today all sounds the same and even the bands of the past that had something to say, or were fun to be angry along with have turned into castrated pieces of shit.

MERCENARY X99

You know, usually I don't agree with you but that has more to do with the fact I get 2 lines into your posts and ADD sets in and I move along but this time you hit it right on the head.

Kinda makes you think what would have happened if some of the bands from the 90's had stuck together or if members wouldn't have died....would we still love them as much as we do today?

Ely13 · Jun 22, 2005

Decepticon said:
Kinda makes you think what would have happened if some of the bands from the 90's had stuck together or if members wouldn't have died....would we still love them as much as we do today?

Alice in Chains, definitely

I don't listen to too much rock anymore other than various obscure hard rock and rapcore bands. I tried giving that new Foo Fighters a listen but even that seemed a bit, I dunno, uninteresting. I don't want to say everything sounds commercial now, but a lot of rock/alternative that comes out (especially those pimped by MTV) lack that special something bands in the early 90s had.

Hell, I don't even agree with Rage Against the Machine's political views, but the first time I heard their self-titled was a revelation.

GoSpits · Jun 22, 2005

Ely13 said:
Alice in Chains, definitely

I don't listen to too much rock anymore other than various obscure hard rock and rapcore bands. I tried giving that new Foo Fighters a listen but even that seemed a bit, I dunno, uninteresting. I don't want to say everything sounds commercial now, but a lot of rock/alternative that comes out (especially those pimped by MTV) lack that special something bands in the early 90s had.

Hell, I don't even agree with Rage Against the Machine's political views, but the first time I heard their self-titled was a revelation.

Definitely AIC for me as well. I'm always listening to their albums as well as Mad Season.
By the way, I didn't throw my two cents in earlier so I may as well now: I digged The Offspring for quite a few years but the last couple of albums just didn't do it for me, musically and lyrically.

Decepticon · Jun 22, 2005

toy_brain said:
I like The Offspring, I dont care what other people say - they make some fun songs, not too angsty, not too shouty - good stuff to listen to on the way to work.
I guess they have melowed out a lot since their S/T album days (and boy was that album fucking awful), so their later stuff is a bit softer and less 'against the system'.
I agree that Ixnay was one of their best, but Americana and Conspiracy of One are still fun to listen to.... assuming you arnt one of those annoying angsty teenage pricks that go around saying "no way dude, they like totally sold out to 'the man' and everything".

Its called growing up.
Everyone grows up. Everyone mellows. It happens. Deal with it.

My taste in music has a broad range, in fact the only shit I don't listen to is the "Bling Bling" era of rap and pop music.

On my iPod right now I have albums from people like the Beatles, Bob Marley, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Eric Clapton, Wu-Tang, The Eagles, Dead Kennedy's, and Garth Brooks....I don't say "they sold out" I say they went to shit.

They grew up...that doesn't mean they have to make shit....Lennon grew up and made some of his best music after that IMO.

It just seems that the bands I grew up listening to don't have the ability to grow with the music and change their style to fit the era rather than make the music they want to make.

It all sounds like the same shit now put in a blender and forced down our throats...when you do have a band that comes out that sounds different it gets no airtime and no support from the label.

(The previous statements do not pertain to the new System of a Down, Audioslave, Gorilliaz, or NIN)

Decepticon · Jun 22, 2005

Ely13 said:
Alice in Chains, definitely

I don't listen to too much rock anymore other than various obscure hard rock and rapcore bands. I tried giving that new Foo Fighters a listen but even that seemed a bit, I dunno, uninteresting. I don't want to say everything sounds commercial now, but a lot of rock/alternative that comes out (especially those pimped by MTV) lack that special something bands in the early 90s had.

Hell, I don't even agree with Rage Against the Machine's political views, but the first time I heard their self-titled was a revelation.

Man AIC unplugged is still the greatest CD ever released, RATM self titled still gets a good percentage of my listening time when playing games or driving.

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