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RedLion:
--- Quote from: You Are Brahman! on 21 Jan 2009, 17:40 ---The Offspring - Americana
Perhaps it had something to do with the number of times I listened to this album in my youth, but this belongs in everyone's collection, even if you're not big into punk. I have come to appreciate the songs I used to hate (Pay The Man) as I got older.
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Americana is a fun record to listen to, but it's by no means the Offspring's best, quality-wise. I would say that would be Smash.
Then again, I haven't listened to that band since the end of my teenage rage days, so maybe my opinion isn't well-founded enough.
spoon_of_grimbo:
--- Quote from: RedLion on 22 Jan 2009, 08:55 ---
--- Quote from: You Are Brahman! on 21 Jan 2009, 17:40 ---The Offspring - Americana
Perhaps it had something to do with the number of times I listened to this album in my youth, but this belongs in everyone's collection, even if you're not big into punk. I have come to appreciate the songs I used to hate (Pay The Man) as I got older.
--- End quote ---
Americana is a fun record to listen to, but it's by no means the Offspring's best, quality-wise. I would say that would be Smash.
Then again, I haven't listened to that band since the end of my teenage rage days, so maybe my opinion isn't well-founded enough.
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Ixnay on the Hombre's probably their best overall, but I'd agree with him on Americana simply because it was the record that got me into music.
RedLion:
Okay, but see, this isn't about "I prefer this album." It's what is the most representative of the band's work as a whole? Americana was a red herring. They didn't do many songs like Pretty Fly or Why Don't You Get a Job on their other albums.
spoon_of_grimbo:
--- Quote from: RedLion on 22 Jan 2009, 09:12 ---Okay, but see, this isn't about "I prefer this album." It's what is the most representative of the band's work as a whole? Americana was a red herring. They didn't do many songs like Pretty Fly or Why Don't You Get a Job on their other albums.
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they did, just not as well. i still maintain that Pretty Fly is a pretty damning and spot-on satire of it's subject matter. but yeah, as far as "most representative," that'd still be Ixnay. There's hints on the first album of what they'd acheive with Ixnay, and there's several songs that came after it which reference it sonically.
imapiratearg:
The thing to remember about the Offspring is they are boring as all hell.
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