Offspring
Smash

Epitaph    86432-2  (1994)

Rock/Pop
CD, 14   Tracks, 46:37  Length
01 Time To Relax Offspring 00:25
02 Nitro (Youth Energy) Offspring 02:26
03 Bad Habit Offspring 03:43
04 Gotta Get Away Offspring 03:52
05 Genocide Offspring 03:32
06 Something To Believe In Offspring 03:17
07 Come Out And Play Offspring 03:17
08 Self Esteem Offspring 04:17
09 It'll Be A Long Time Offspring 02:43
10 Killboy Powerhead The Didjits 02:02
11 What Happened To You? Offspring 02:12
12 So Alone Offspring 01:17
13 Not The One Offspring 02:54
14 Smash Offspring 10:40
Music Details
Product Details
Packaging Jewel Case
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
Musicians  &  Credits
Bass Greg Kriesel
Drums Ron Welty
Guitar Dexter Holland
Musician Offspring
Producer Thom Wilson
Engineer Thom Wilson
Personal Details
Index # 2364
Owner Dave
Tags Punk, Alternative Rock
User Defined
Purchased New
Notes
Track 14 (10 mins, 40 secs) consists of 4 parts; first is the listed track "Smash", followed by an afterword by the album's narrator and an 'Acoustic Jam'-version of "Come Out And Play". This is followed by five full minutes of silence before reaching the hidden bonus track, which is a simple guitar/drum riff taken from "Baghdad" (original title of the track "Tehran", which featured on their self-titled debut album).

The Offspring's second album for Epitaph did the impossible: it landed in the Top Five, unheard of for independent records. The Offspring crossed over due to the raucous, Eastern-tinged single "Come Out and Play," which stopped and started just like Nirvana, only without the Seattle trio's recklessness. The record stayed in the charts because the Offspring sounded relentlessly heavy, no matter how much the band claimed to be punk. Their tempos are slower than traditional hardcore, and their attack is as heavy as Metallica. But they acted like they were punk, with odes to no "Self Esteem" and singing about fighting in school. Nothing on the album matches the incessant catchiness of the singles, but Smash is a solid record, filled with enough heavy riffs to keep most teenagers happy. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine (allmusic.com)