The Offspring celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the album that changed Punk
Rock! Smash.
Remastered on 180 gram vinyl in a deluxe die-cut box, this anniversary edition
features a 24-page booklet with never-before-seen images from the Smash era, and
the story of the making of Smash.
- The Offspring's 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 signalled the arrival of punk rock as a commercial force.
- LP contains full CD of the album
Review:
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.
All Music Guide – Stephen Thomas Erlewine