The Offspring - Let The Bad Times Roll (April 16, 2021) • Page 3

It's most definitely meant sarcasticly. They have done it in the past too. Take a look at Noodles Twitter account, he has been critical of all things Republican and making fun of them for quite some time.

 

Definitely making fun. Their political views, especially Noodles on twitter, are quite clear.

 

Beat me to it.

 

I'm not sure anybody on Chorus.FM actually likes music. Every single thread I go into is all about this bands sucks, this song sucks, this album is bad.

 

Pretty catchy single, nice.

 

Not sure if it's just me but all I got from that video was something something social media something something pandemic

 

Well, the last video they made had strippers, monkeys and John Stamos, so I think this is actually a step up from that, having some semblance of a theme...

The actually made onto the cover of one of Germany's longest running and most widely read music magazines this months.
Complete with band retrospective and interview over 8 pages and a really rather positive review of the new album. First time this magazine gave them a good review since CoO.

Apparently full of hits and a pretty sappy version of Gone Away.

I translated the review below for anyone interested.

 

The new version of Gone Away is the piano one they've been playing live for the last decade or so.

 

Yup. But apparently a really cheesy one when recorded. Or the reviewer was emotionally crippled. Which is quite plausible, he was German after after all.

 

Not a fan of the new song

 

Whoa, not into that one. The horns are cool though.

 

Pretty obvious it's a cut from like 20 years ago haha, the premise would've been a hit on Americana

 

Honestly not nearly as bad of a song as I was expecting when I first saw the tracklist.

 

Honestly I like this more than many of the joke songs they've released

Dexter thought the world had to hear the genius of "Cruisin California" but this one was stuck in the vault?

 

I much prefer Cruisin' California to this hahaha. Although I will say this song is better than whatever OC Guns is.

 

Oh god, yes, I agree on that much.

 

Read in an Interview with Dexter in a German magazine that someone in their former management hated We Never Have Sex Anymore and they kept it in the vault due to that.

And that they apparently working on a French version too.

 

Oof this new song is so bad. Wonder which album if was supposed to go on...probably Splinter.

 

I think Greg mentioned once that the song was written during the Americana years

 

So how much of this album is just really old songs that never made the cut till now

 

Think they said in the run-up to Days Go By that some of the songs on that album started life as Splinter demos (I would guess "Hurting as One" is definitely one of those)

EDIT: I honestly don't mind the new song with the caveat that Dexter really straining to hit some of those high notes is distracting.

 

Guess 3 songs have been released in some form already. And Hassan Chop apparently has a guitar riff that pre-dates the band itself.

 

They played Coming For You live and I remember that being pretty good