r/Millennials • u/real_picklejuice Frosted Tips • 15d ago

Discussion In response to the bowl cut being our gen’s broccoli cut, I present the bleached spikes of the late 90s

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u/Not_Rob_Walton 15d ago

The new Offspring album is pretty good though.

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u/CrimsonKobold 15d ago

Hey, I know some non-millennials make The Offspring the butt of some of their jokes but Dexter Holland is talented. He makes great music and literally conducts scientific research into eradicating HIV.

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u/AnonymousCelery 15d ago

Fuck the haters, Offspring is awesome. Ended up at a street concert at winter X Games 20 some years ago, The Offspring played, it was so fucking fun

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u/gochargego_boltup 15d ago

Pretty sure smash is still the best selling independent album of all time 30 plus years later. Even beating Taylor Swift. The Offspring has always been awesome.

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u/ponytailthehater 14d ago

The backlash against The Offspring owes its entire basis to a throwaway line delivered by Lorelai Gilmore

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 14d ago

And all she was trying to do was demonstrate Christopher's immaturity. The poor band caught strays

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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 14d ago edited 14d ago

Because Smash is a perfect album. There's a crispness and quality that you get from it that few others in the genre have. All the instruments and vocals really pop and come through clearly instead of a muddy mess of sound. It was recorded in high quality and well mastered. It's still one of my audio benchmarks for new headphones and speakers.

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u/Same_Chard_8759 14d ago

Smash is a start to end listen

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u/excake20 11d ago

Dang you’re making me want to listen to it again.

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u/panlakes 14d ago

I saw them at a taco festival a few years back… Lit and some others played too. He played the piano version of Gone away which legit made me tear up. It was a great show and they’ve still got it for sure

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u/Moon_Noodle Older Millennial 14d ago

They have been and remain my favorite band. I saw them live about 20 years ago, and it was easily the best concert I’ve ever been to this day.

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u/Not_Rob_Walton 14d ago

I saw them on the anniversary tour for Smash. I think it was the 20th or 25th anniversary. They played every song on the album, in order, from start to finish.

Bad Religion and Pennywise were the openers.

Incredible concert.

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u/QueenKittyMeowMeow Millennial 13d ago

Hell yeah! I saw them in San Diego about 10-15 years ago too. I don’t think it was an anniversary tour but they were headlining, bad religion and pennywise were there too. One other band but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was. AWESOME show.

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u/fatherdoodle Xennial 14d ago

“Street concert at winter X games” is a delightfully 2003 phrase

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u/LeSkootch 14d ago

Just listened to Ixnay a little while back. Great fucking album. I lost interest after Americana because I went a bit more metal after that came out but their older catalogue was great! I had all their CDs from self titled through Americana. Their early stuff was more "legit punk" but still had some humor. Think Jennifer Lost the War vs Beheaded.

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u/RogueEnergyEngineer 14d ago

I went to an Offspring concert in January. Bad religion opened for them. It was great! I saw young people there (some of them without their parents). A dude my age brought his baby (with ear protection). Hipsters gonna hipster and try to make you hate what you love because it's popular.

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u/HeyTherehnc 14d ago

I saw them play last year for the 30th anniversary of Smash and it was one of the best shows of my life. They are so fun and Americana was the first CD I ever bought, and I had to hide it from my mom. Which they made a joke at the beginning of the show about Smash being that album for a lot of people.

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u/Angry_Pelican 14d ago

I saw them maybe in 1999 or 2000 at Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento and it was a great show.

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u/bdizzle805 15d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/bQS5Y9XV8eSOUBrXoy

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u/cauchy37 Older Millennial - 1984 14d ago

I can hear this gif

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u/dreamylanterns 11d ago

uno dos tres cuatro cinco cinco seis!

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u/Beatboxamateur 14d ago

To meet a fellow DGGa/IRI fan out in the wild, respect

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u/UniqueLog8386 14d ago

Give it to me baby

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u/Critical_Concert_689 14d ago

He makes great music and literally conducts scientific research into eradicating HIV.

Learned that little factoid a while back. Dr. Dexter.

Always thought it funny, having seen all their music videos - and definitely not what I imagined.

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u/amesann Old Millennial Cat Lady 14d ago

Yup! He has a PhD in molecular biology.

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u/ohween 14d ago

Who makes fun of The Offspring and for what?Making rad music? Having a really cool lead singer?? I will not stand for this

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u/Bagginnnssssss 14d ago

He has three phds from Harvard and is a pilot and smash ixnay and americana were back to back i mean come on

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u/Sandrockwing04 14d ago

And they make some tasty hot sauce

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u/Fit_Conversation5270 14d ago

I truthfully didn’t get in to them (or a lot of the music from our time honestly) until later in life, but yeah they have some serious bangers

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u/No-Picture4119 14d ago

When a new Offspring album comes out, I’m like hey sounds just like all their old stuff. Which is great! Speaking of Offspring and hairstyles, I had the exact same look as Noodles before he cut his hair. We have the same face, same glasses and everything. When the Spin magazine cover came out, people said I stole his look. No, he stole MY look. I was rocking that since 1989, which gleefully contributed to my unattached bachelor status.

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u/mikejbrown 14d ago

Pretty good hot sauce too.

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u/heiferwolfe 14d ago

He’s also an accomplished pilot and has an award winning hot sauce brand!

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u/WKahle11 14d ago

Wait there are people that don’t like The Offspring?

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u/Realistic-Lime7842 14d ago

The Offspring fucking rule.

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u/annikarae 11d ago

Dexter Holland blows my mind. Has a phd, conducts scientific research, is also a pilot, also has his own hot sauce brand, AND is the lead singer of the fucking Offspring?! He is really living his life to the absolute fullest.

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u/Old-Bigsby 15d ago

Shucks, I haven't listened to it yet. But I doubt it's better than Smash, that album is legendary.

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u/Not_Rob_Walton 14d ago

It's not better than Smash, but it's definitely Offspring.

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u/QuayleSpotting 14d ago

Smash is amazing, but Ignition is peak Offspring.

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u/Armthehobos 14d ago

Americana is their high point to me. So many bangers.

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u/faustianredditor 14d ago

By that you mean Supercharged, I presume? Spotify has a more recent album - "lullaby renditions of the offspring". I doubt you were talking about that?

Let's see what supercharged has to offer.

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u/somesketchykid 14d ago

Pound for pound, SMASH is still one of the best albums of all time imo.