The Offspring discography
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 The Offspring in concert in 2001. |
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| Releases | ||
|---|---|---|
| ↙Studio albums | 8 | |
| ↙Compilation albums | 2 | |
| ↙Extended plays | 3 | |
| ↙Singles | 26 | |
| ↙B-sides | 7 | |
| ↙Video albums | 3 | |
| ↙Music videos | 19 | |
| ↙Soundtracks | 7 | |
| ↙Cover tracks | 25 | |
| ↙Manic Subsidal songs | 13 | |
This is a comprehensive discography of The Offspring, a Southern California-based punk rock band. The band has released seven studio albums, three extended plays (EP), one compilation album, seventeen music videos and twenty-two singles. This list is not intended to include material performed by members or former members of The Offspring that was recorded with Angels & Airwaves, Face to Face, Saves the Day, or Steady Ground.
The Offspring were formed in 1984 under the name Manic Subsidal by singer/guitarist Dexter Holland and bassist Greg K., who later recruited Noodles as their guitarist. After Manic Subsidal changed its name to The Offspring in 1985, drummer Ron Welty finally joined in 1987, then the band recorded a demo a year later. The Offspring signed a record deal with the short-lived label Nemesis Records, and released their first album, The Offspring, in 1989 on vinyl-only. That album would not be released on CD until 1995. Two years later, after the release of the Baghdad EP, the band signed to Epitaph Records (a label owned by then-former and now-current Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz), who released their second album, Ignition, in 1992.
In April 1994, The Offspring released Smash. The critically-acclaimed album, also the band's most successful, debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 and number one on Heatseekers, and produced four hit singles: "Come Out and Play", "Self Esteem", "Gotta Get Away" and the radio-only single "Bad Habit". The album was certified 6x Platinum. With sales continuing fourteen years after its release, Smash also became Epitaph's best-selling album since the release of Bad Religion's Suffer.
After the release of the Smash album, The Offspring parted ways with Epitaph and signed a record deal with Columbia Records. 1997 saw the release of their major-label debut, Ixnay on the Hombre. Although not as successful as Smash, Ixnay sold 4 million units. In the following year, the band released their next album, Americana, which debuted at number two of the U.S charts, and produced two of the biggest hits: "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)," and "Why Don't You Get a Job?," both charting in the ARC Top 40[1] and making the album the peak of The Offspring's mainstream popularity.
2000 saw the band release their sixth album, Conspiracy of One. The band intended to release the entire album online through their official website, to show their support for downloading music on the internet.[2] However, under threat of legal action by Columbia through their parent company Sony, only the first single "Original Prankster" was released on their official website (the rest of the record was leaked to fan sites).[3]
While working on a follow-up to Conspiracy of One, longtime drummer Ron Welty left the band in early 2003 to concentrate on his new project Steady Ground. Soon after, the band released their next album Splinter. Uncomfortable with the idea of finding an immediate replacement for Welty, The Offspring opted to have session musician Josh Freese to record the drums for Splinter, and later announced that Atom Willard would be the official replacement for Ron Welty. The album's original title was to be Chinese Democracy, the name of the long-delayed album by Guns N' Roses. As a result, Axl Rose filed a cease and desist order against The Offspring, and to avoid delaying the release, the band chose to simply rename the album.
2005 saw the release of the band's first compiatlion album, Greatest Hits. It contains 14 of the band's hits between Smash and Splinter, and two previously never released songs "Can't Repeat" and "Next to You" (a cover of The Police) (a hidden track). The compilation does not contain any material from the first album and Ignition. In support of the Greatest Hits album, the band played the Vans Warped Tour for the first time, and a tour in Europe and Japan followed.
After the Greatest Hits tour, The Offspring took an extended hiatus and Willard left the band in July 2007 to concentrate on his current project Angels & Airwaves. He was replaced by former Face to Face drummer Pete Parada. The band will return with a new album, entitled Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, which is due June 17, 2008.
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[edit] Studio albums
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| 1989 | The Offspring | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 85 | — | — | — | — | None | Unknown | 500,000 |
| 1992 | Ignition | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Gold | Unknown | 1 million |
| 1994 | Smash | 4 | 21 | 1 | 6 | — | 4 | 108 | 2 | 3 | — | 5 | — | 9 | 3 | 2 | 6x Platinum | Unknown | 14 million |
| 1997 | Ixnay on the Hombre | 9 | 17 | ? | 2 | — | 15 | 3 | 3 | 10 | — | 8 | — | 9 | 4 | 2 | Platinum | Unknown | 6 million |
| 1998 | Americana | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5 | — | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5x Platinum | Unknown | 10 million |
| 2000 | Conspiracy of One | 9 | 12 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 32 | — | 11 | 8 | 4 | Platinum | Unknown | 5 million |
| 2003 | Splinter | 30 | 27 | 12 | 27 | — | 31 | 19 | 10 | 13 | — | 98 | — | — | 56 | 33 | Gold | 581,000 | 1.5 million |
| 2008 | Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | TBD | TBD | TBD |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.
[edit] Trivia
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- There are two covers for The Offspring's debut album The Offspring. The re-release of the album had a different cover, due to the increasing popularity of The Offspring as well as the number of expensive, poor-quality bootlegs that were being sold to fans. Another reason why the re-release had a different cover is because the original version was thought too violent by Nitro Records, who refused to print the original cover, as it shows a picture of an alien skeleton bursting out of a man's stomach clutching a Stratocaster.
- Almost all of The Offspring's albums have special intros, outros or hidden tracks:
- The first track for Ignition, "Session", starts with Ron screaming, "Aah! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! FUCK!"
- Smash starts with the spoken intro "Time to Relax". The last track is followed by the short spoken outro, the demo for "Change the World", and ends with the secret track "Come Out and Play (Reprise)".
- Ixnay on the Hombre starts with "Disclaimer" by Jello Biafra and ends with "Kiss My Ass", a spoken-word offering by Calvert DeForest. In the middle of the album, there is a comic intermission aptly titled "Intermission".
- Americana starts with an IVR-sounding "Welcome" and ends with the 'secret' track "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) (Reprise)".
- Conspiracy of One starts with the short spoken "Intro" by Mike Love of The Beach Boys (Taken from a Beach Boys live concert). Some versions of the album contain "Huck It" as track 14, some have "Staring at the Sun (Live)" as track 14 and "All I Want (Live)" as track 15, but most only contain tracks 1-13.
- The single "Tokyo I'm on My Way!" by Puffy AmiYumi was written by Dexter Holland.
- The album Smash is the highest-selling record of all time on an independent record label.
- The main character in the "She's Got Issues" music video is played by Zooey Deschanel, the sister of Emily Deschanel and has also appeared in films such as Almost Famous, Elf, Failure to Launch and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
[edit] Compilations
| Date of release | Title | Label | Chart positions | U.S. sales |
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| June 20, 2005 | Greatest Hits | Columbia Records | #8 (U.S.) #14 (UK) #2 (Australia) |
Gold (500,000+) |
| July 19, 2005 | Complete Music Video Collection | Columbia Records | None. | Gold (50,000+) |
Note: Greatest Hits also includes two new tracks, which were both released as singles. The first one is track one and is titled "Can't Repeat". The second one is a hidden track, and it is a cover of "Next to You" by The Police.
[edit] EPs
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1991 | Baghdad |
| 1997 | Club Me |
| 1998 | A Piece of Americana |
[edit] Singles
| Year | Song | U.S. Hot 100 | U.S. Mod | U.S. Main | UK Singles Chart | Germany | Sweden | Austria | Norway | Australia | New Zealand | U.S. Hot 100 Airplay | Album |
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| 1987 | "Blackball" / "I'll Be Waiting" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | The Offspring |
| 1994 | "Come Out and Play" | - | 1 | 10 | - | - | 23 | - | - | 8 | - | 38 | Smash |
| "Self Esteem" | - | 4 | 7 | 37 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 39 | 45 | ||
| "Bad Habit" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1995 | "Gotta Get Away" | - | 6 | 15 | 43 | - | 26 | 36 | 18 | - | - | - | |
| "Kick Him When He's Down" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Ignition | |
| "Smash It Up" (The Damned cover) | - | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 47 | Batman Forever (Soundtrack) | |
| 1997 | "All I Want" | - | 13 | - | 31 | - | 36 | 25 | 6 | 15 | 27 | 65 | Ixnay on the Hombre |
| "Gone Away" | - | 4 | 1 | - | 93 | - | - | - | 16 | 35 | 50 | ||
| "The Meaning of Life" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 74 | - | - | ||
| 1998 | "I Choose" | - | 24 | 5 | 42 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" | 53 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 43 | Americana | |
| 1999 | "Why Don't You Get a Job?" | 74 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 2 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 62 | |
| "The Kids Aren't Alright" | 105 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 45 | 16 | - | - | - | 39 | - | ||
| "She's Got Issues" | - | 11 | 19 | 41 | - | 59 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2000 | "Totalimmortal" (AFI cover) | - | 36 | 27 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Me, Myself & Irene (Soundtrack) |
| "Original Prankster" | 70 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 46 | 5 | - | 7 | 5 | 34 | 66 | Conspiracy of One | |
| 2001 | "Want You Bad" | - | 10 | 23 | 15 | - | 46 | 67 | - | 35 | - | - | |
| "Million Miles Away" | - | - | - | 21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2002 | "Defy You" | 77 | 8 | 8 | - | 62 | - | 54 | - | 42 | - | 72 | Orange County (Soundtrack) |
| 2003 | "Hit That" | 64 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 31 | - | 21 | - | 13 | 24 | 62 | Splinter |
| 2004 | "(Can't Get My) Head Around You" | 121 | 6 | 16 | 48 | - | - | - | - | 47 | - | - | |
| "Spare Me the Details" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31 | - | ||
| 2005 | "Can't Repeat" | 110 | 9 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Greatest Hits |
| "Next to You" (The Police cover) | - | 37 | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2008 | "Hammerhead" | 122 | 2 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace |
[edit] B-sides
| Year | Title | Released on |
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| 1991 | "Baghdad" | The Baghdad EP |
| 1991 | "The Blurb" | The Baghdad EP |
| 1997 | "D.U.I." | The I Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack and the Club Me EP and the "Gone Away" single |
| 1999 | "Beheaded 1999" | The Idle Hands soundtrack and the "Why Don't You Get a Job?" single |
| 1999 | "Hand Grenades" | The Short Music for Short People compilation album |
| 2002 | "Defy You" | The Orange County soundtrack and their compilation album |
| 2005 | "Mission From God" | The Punk-O-Rama Vol. 10 compilation album |
[edit] Videos
| Year | Title |
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| 1999 | Americana |
| 2000 | Huck It |
| 2005 | Complete Music Video Collection |
[edit] Music videos
| Year | Title | Album |
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| 1994 | "Come Out and Play" | Smash |
| 1994 | "Self Esteem" | Smash |
| 1995 | "Gotta Get Away" | Smash |
| 1997 | "All I Want" | Ixnay on the Hombre |
| 1997 | "The Meaning of Life" | Ixnay on the Hombre |
| 1997 | "I Choose" | Ixnay on the Hombre |
| 1997 | "Gone Away" | Ixnay on the Hombre |
| 1997 | "Cool to Hate" | Ixnay on the Hombre |
| 1998 | "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" | Americana |
| 1999 | "Why Don't You Get a Job?" | Americana |
| 1999 | "The Kids Aren't Alright" | Americana |
| 1999 | "She's Got Issues" | Americana |
| 2001 | "Original Prankster" | Conspiracy of One |
| 2001 | "Want You Bad" | Conspiracy of One |
| 2001 | "Defy You" | Orange County |
| 2003 | "Hit That" | Splinter |
| 2003 | "Da Hui" | Splinter |
| 2004 | "(Can't Get My) Head Around You" | Splinter |
| 2005 | "Can't Repeat" | Greatest Hits |
| 2008 | "Hammerhead" | Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace |
[edit] Soundtracks
| Year | Title | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | "Smash It Up" | Batman Forever |
| 1997 | "D.U.I." | I Know What You Did Last Summer |
| 1999 | "Beheaded 1999" | Idle Hands |
| 1999 | "I Wanna Be Sedated" | Idle Hands |
| 2000 | "Bloodstains" | Ready to Rumble |
| 2000 | "Totalimmortal" | Me, Myself & Irene |
| 2002 | "Defy You" | Orange County |
"Americana" In "Bowling For Columbine"
"Want You Bad" In "American Pie 2" and "Tomcats"
[edit] Cover tracks
| Song title | Released on | Original artist |
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| 52 Girls |
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The B-52's |
| 80 Times | TSOL | |
| Autonomy | Buzzcocks | |
| Ballroom Blitz | Only played live as Manic Subsidal | The Sweet |
| Basket Case | Only played live | Green Day |
| Blitzkrieg Bop | Only played live | Ramones |
| Bloodstains | Agent Orange | |
| Feelings | Morris Albert | |
| Hey Joe |
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Billy Roberts |
| Hit Me Baby (One More Time) | Only played live (MTV Cover in the Park) | Britney Spears |
| I Got A Right | Iggy Pop and the Stooges | |
| I Wanna Be Sedated | Ramones | |
| Killboy Powerhead | The Didjits | |
| My Favourite Game | Only played live (MTV Cover in the Park) | The Cardigans |
| Next To You | The Police | |
| One Hundred Punks | Generation X | |
| Sin City | AC/DC | |
| Smash It Up | The Damned | |
| Smells Like Teen Spirit | Only played live | Nirvana |
| Stand By Me | Only played live (Dexter together with Pennywise) | Ben E. King |
| The Beautiful People | Only played live (MTV Cover in the Park) | Marilyn Manson |
| Territorial Pissings | Only played live | Nirvana |
| Totalimmortal | AFI | |
| Undone (The Sweater Song) | Only played live | Weezer |
| When You Say Nothing At All | Only played live (MTV Cover in the Park) | Ronan Keating |
[edit] Manic Subsidal songs
| Title | Info |
|---|---|
| Cogs | According to bands Complete Music Video Collection DVD, this song partly became the song Gotta Get Away. |
| Hopeless | This is the only (known) studio recorded Manic Subsidal song. |
| Religion | |
| Revelations | Later became the song Out on Patrol on The Offsprings first record. |
| Sorority Bitch | |
| That Day | Later became the song I'll Be Waiting on their first record. |
| The New Disease | Later became the song Blackball on their first record. |
| Tonight I Do | |
| What Are We Heading For? | Later became the song Jennifer Lost the War on their first record. |
[edit] References
- ^ The Offspring at Rockonthenet.com, obtained February 17, 2008.
- ^ The Offspring to Release New Album Free Online By Robert Menta of MP3 Newswire, posted September 18, 2000
- ^ Sony Forces The Offspring to Cancel MP3 Giveaway By Robert Menta of MP3 Newswire, posted September 26, 2000
- ^ RIAA (type in "Offspring" in the artist box)
- ^ HITS Daily Double: Upcoming Releases
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