The Offspring
Smash LP vinyl

Smash, originally released in 1994, is a power-driven and explosive album with a palpable sense of urgency. It features the singles "Come Out and Play," "Self Esteem," and "Gotta Get Away." 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.

Smash is the best-selling independent album of all time with over 20 million sold worldwide. Alongside Rancid's And Out Come the Wolves and Green Day's Dookie, Smash signaled the arrival of punk rock as a commercial force upon its initial release in 1994.

NEW / Released in 1994 / Reissue 2017

Tracklist:

A1 Time To Relax

A2 Nitro (Youth Energy)

A3 Bad Habit

A4 Gotta Get Away

A5 Genocide

A6 Something To Believe In

A7 Come Out & Play

B1 Self Esteem

B2 It'll Be A Long Time

B3 Killboy Powerhead

B4 What Happened To You?

B5 So Alone

B6 Not The One

B7 Smash