★★★★★
The first thing to note about Smash is that everyone in the 90s had this album, I mean it's the highest selling independent album of all time for crying out loud. So it comes as no surprise that my parents had this record, and I heard it in passing a lot in my childhood. I eventually ransacked my parents' record collection and decided to give it a proper spin when I got tired of listening to nothing but pop-punk and Linkin Park...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2013-06-27
★★★★★
Release Date: November 17, 1998 After the unprecedented and unexpected success of their third album, Smash way back in 1994, the Offspring were faced with a major problem: Where do you go from there? Where their contemporaries, the even more successful Green Day just went on to chuck out carbon copy of their breakout album Dookie one year after its release, The Offspring waited three years to release the follow up Ixnay on the Hombre, while it was even better than the already amazing...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-06-21
★★★★★
Release Date: June 26, 2012 The 00s have not been the best decade for the Offspring, musically speaking. Yes, the records still sell, despite a significant drop in sales in the entire industry. The shows are still sold out. Somewhere along the way however they lost that spark, that spark that made records like Ignition, Smash, Ixnay and even Conspiracy of One and Americana to a certain extent, the great (Pop-)Punk they are. Starting with the mediocre Splinter in 2003 things changed...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-07-19
★★★★★
The Offspring became popular with their breakthrough album Smash and their major 1998 hit "The Kids Aren't Alright," and that is what many believe to be what the Offspring sound like. Most people I know think that is all that Offspring have to offer. The people that think that are very wrong. The Offspring were a much more amazing band in the past and by far their most spectacular album is the first...
- www.punknews.org
2012-07-12
★★★★★
There's been a lot of negative criticism for Days Go By, The Offspring's ninth studio album. My gut feeling is that it's probably due to the poor nature of the two singles, 'Days Go By' and 'Cruising California (Bumpin' in the Trunk),' which are The Offspring's weakest radio tracks in forever. I'm not going to lie to you; those 2 tracks are dreadful and wouldn't entice me to buy the album, either. Refusing to judge an album by singles, I still decide to investigate this release...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2012-07-12
★★★★★
You hear that? That's the sound of rock radio programmers and bleached-blonde Vans Warped Tour attendees around the world breathing a collective sigh of relief. So Cal's most successful punk band ever is back, and they'd like people to know that they don't intend to rest on their laurels when it comes to their ninth studio album...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-07-02
★★★★★
So here come the Offspring once again, with their ninth studio album. How much have they changed since the previous effort? How much (more) have they "sold out?" How many good, mediocre and terrible songs do we have now? OK, OK, one question at a time please. Nothing much has changed, anyway...
- www.punknews.org
2012-06-28
★★★★★
Like Britpop and so many other musical crazes, the pop-punk boom of the 1990s was a surprisingly diverse movement. Green Day goofed around for the cameras but their lyrics spoke of suburban alienation and angst, Bad Religion never went into the studio without a thesaurus to hand, and Rancid reached out to the British punk template for inspiration. The Offspring, meanwhile, were cut from a more conventional cloth; always appearing more comfortable with mainstream success than their peers...
- www.musicomh.com
2012-06-28
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