🎸Nineties Friday Album Spotlight! 32 Years Of The Offspring’s Smash 1994 Record! 💿
I Bring you my nineties Friday post a day early to match to the anniversary of when this 1994 classic album was released! Making it 32 years ago today! Im talking about The Offsprings 1994 release Smash! The bands third release and first with mainstream attention and unlike Green Day who went to a big major record label to get that 1994 mainstream pop, the Offspring Smash album was on an indie label. It was beyond unexpected to become a rock radio & MTV huge hit!
So today I bring you my favorite four “deep cuts” aka just songs that weren’t radio singles. I’ll also post the three radio hits from the album first, than scroll down for my favorite lesser known tracks!
Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)
Self Esteem
Gotta Get Away
Nitro (Youth Energy)
Genocide
Smash
Bad Habit
Enjoy the tunes? Let me know below! 🎶
The post-Nirvana '90s saw all manner of freaks crop up from the underground and make a bid for MTV glory, but no one could ve predicted that the biggest-selling independent album of the era would come from these skate-punk pranksters. Originally formed by frontman Dexter Holland and bassist Greg K. in Orange County circa 1984, The Offspring (né Manic Subsidal) spent nearly a decade in the SoCal hardcore trenches before blindsiding the alterna-nation with "Come Out and Play," a muscular rocker about gangland violence that nonetheless boasted a quirky, cheeky appeal thanks to guitarist Noodles' snake-charming lick and a shout-it-out catchphrase delivered in a faux-Latino accent. That song served as the centerpiece of the group's third album, Smash, whose equally potent follow-up singles "Gotta Get Away" and "Self Esteem" further mined the middle ground between circle-pit punk and hooky hard rock. Released in the spring of 1994, Smash blasted through the mainstream pop-punk portal that had been pried open by fellow Californians Green Day, and went on to sell a historic 11 million copies for indie label Epitaph Records.
