The Offspring Band • Page 6

I liked Days Go By a lot aside from a few songs.

 

Respect to the band for band for having the freedom to do whatever they please since at least 1998, but their albums from this century generally seem to lack focus because of it. It’s just a drag because they’ve shown they’re still very capable.

 

Fully agreed

 

This was pretty much THE punk band for me until high school. Loved loved loved pretty much everything they'd released.

Now I'd say Smash is probably my favorite, or maybe Ignition. Ixnay is like 900 different things at once, but it's a ton of fun. Splinter has some damn jams on it.

Really the only one that no longer does anything for me is Conspiracy of One. Outside of 2-3 songs, it kinda feels like a wet noodle of a record

 

re-visiting their albums again recently, Days Go By is far and away their worst release. I remembered Bumpin In My Truck being bad, but mostly a joke, but jesus christ I forgot about OC Guns... absolutely embarrassing song

 

OC Guns is atrocious. Cruising Cali is aight as a joke song, I agree. Kind of a bummer because there's some decent tunes on there. I've always enjoyed Dividing By Zero and Slim Pickens.

I think Ixnay has aged kinda badly too

 

Ixnay absolutely sounds like a product of 1997 lol

 

Some of the songs are super legit, but then they'll bust into Don't Pick It Up or Me and My Old Lady. The songs on there are so weird! Like I LOVED the album as a kid and now I'm like wtf is I Choose

 

Days Go By certainly isn’t anywhere near their best, but there’s 5 or 6 songs on there I really love.

 

I'm almost gonna say I like Splinter less than Days Go By, but the highs on Splinter are pretty good

 

Yeah, Splinter has some pretty bad shit too but there's more highs there that I can get behind

 

How can you not love I Wanna Secret Family With You

 

Man I loved Ixnay back in the day. I used to listen to it all the time playing THPS2 once I'd gotten tired of the game soundtrack.

I haven't listened to it in probably close to a decade but I thought I Choose was a jam.

 

I also love I Choose

 

Ixnay is still my second favorite album, after Smash. Classic. Love the entire album!

 

I still enjoy putting on Ixnay when I'm in the mood for some Offspring. I'd only listen to maybe half of the songs on their own (including "I Choose"), but the whole thing works really well as an album, and the tracks I don't enjoy so much aren't bad like half of Splinter is.

 

It does work really well as an album!

 

Americana > Smash > Conspiracy of One > Ixnay > Rise & Fall > Splinter > Days Go By

 

Yo Steve, gotta get on Ignition

 

Not really into that album, it's too dirty and garagey

 

Smash > Americana > Ignition > Ixnay > Rise & Fall > Conspiracy > Splinter > The Offspring > Days Go By

 

Smash > Ixnay > Ignition > Rise and Fall > Americana = Conspiracy of One > The Offspring > Days Go By > Splinter

 

:(

 

I've really soured on Conspiracy of One over the years. It just seems really like cheesy or something? IDK

 

I guess I should talk about what I love from this band. My dad introduced me to Americana at a very young age and I was hooked. Rise & Fall was a very influential album for me too. My high school rock band played Come Out and Play at our talent show, etc.