Offspring - Smash (Reis)
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Artist: OffspringEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Music Label: Epitaph / Ada
Soundtracks:
- Time To Relax
- Nitro (Youth Energy)
- Bad Habit
- Gotta Get Away
- Genocide
- Something To Believe In
- Come And Out And Play (Keep 'Em Seperated)
- Self Esteem
- It'll Be A Long Time
- Killboy Powerhead
- What Happened To You?
- So Alone
- Not The One
- Smash
Music reviews of Smash (Reis)
Music Review: Great album ... avoid the remaster though
Rating: 5 Stars
If you know anything about sound and like good sound... avoid the 2008 remaster of this classic album at all costs and buy the 1994 issue instead. Especially if you're new to the Offspring, before the 2008 remaster ends up superseding the original 1994 master and this new master is all you are able to purchase. Why you ask? Because the 2008 remaster is a casualty of the loudness war... and if those words ring a bell to you it's because 2008 is the year the loudness war finally broke through into the mainstream thanks to the horrible mastering on Metallica's million selling disc "Death Magnetic". If you still don't know what the hell i am talking about visit Wikipedia and search "loudness war" and that should fill you in.
The 2008 remaster fixes some issues up with the original 1994 master and generally makes everything sound more crisp and nice like late 90's Offspring albums but the songs are brick walled and all the dynamics are completely gone thanks to over compression. Epitaph may be known as a punk label but they definitely aren't when it comes to conforming to todays accepted standard of mastering. This remaster is an insult. Great for your poor quality iPod headphones... terrible for your high fidelity stereo system.
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Description of Smash (Reis)
1.Time to Relax2.Nitro (Youth Energy)
3.Bad Habit
4.Gotta Get Away
5.Genocide
6.Something to Believe In
7.Come Out and Play
8.Self-Esteem
9.It'll Be a Long Time
10.Killboy Powerhead
11.What Happened to You?
12.So Alone
13.Not the One
14.Smash
Call them the Nine Inch Nails of punk. Like NIN, the Offspring preserve the essential ingredients of their chosen genre--guitars grinding out three chords, shouted vocals, and plenty of vitriol--and layer them over a melodic base that packs considerable popular appeal. The singles from Smash, the Offspring's breakthrough album, still receive considerable radio airplay: "Gotta Get Away," "Come Out and Play," and "Self Esteem." With these and Smash's 11 other tracks, the band chronicles the adolescent experience with clarity and surprisingly incisive wit. That pretty much describes all of their albums, but this is the one to get. It's got more shape than their earlier material and isn't as disturbingly poppy as their more recent recordings; it's the perfect blend of riffs and rage. --Genevieve Williams
Yes, they (along with Green Day) finally brought skate-rock into the world of John Q. Mallrat, but the Offspring were hardly spring chickens at the time of this breakthrough album's release. They'd been slogging away since 1987, a span that allowed them to amass all the clever tricks showcased here, most notably the Latino-rap/moshpit-riff mega-hit "Come Out and Play." Just about every track on the disc (the band's third, if you were counting) keeps that careful balance between aggression and accessibility, from the surf-punk self- help rant of "Self-Esteem" to the airy ska-pop of "What Happened to You?" If Green Day are the '90s punk equivalent of the Beatles, and Rancid its Rolling Stones, the Offspring might be its Monkees--remembered for nothing more important than simple, indelible pop. --David Sprague
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