Offspring-Smash
I listen to Offspring with a bit a sadness, though this is a decent album. This is good Offspring-an album where the songs had an edge and intensity. It deals with aggression, self loathing, anger, manipulative relationships-the lyrical content fits in perfectly with it's sound, which is a punk/grunge/alternative mix. It stops short of being a great album, and Offspring is not a legendary punk band. To me, this album is like the movie Planet of the Apes (the original). It deals with deeper issues than what people think, it's enjoyable and entertaining-but it's does have flaws.
One of the flaws is what Offspring would become. At one point, they had talent and they could have become a much more influential and popular band than what they were. Instead, they started writing comedy songs that weren't funny or entertaining. Why they changed, I'll never know. It was the biggest suicide of a band that I've ever seen. The taint of what they became is over this album, but for a time, this showed what they could have been.
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