2 languages
Americana
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work
Americana is the fifth studio album by The Offspring and was released on 17 November 1998 on Columbia Records. After a world tour for Ixnay on the Hombre, the band started on new work in July 1998. Recording lasted about two months and took place with Dave Jerden, for the second and last time. Singer Dexter Holland did not want to make a radically different record. When a few songs about the America of 1998 were ready, the band saw a theme: a commentary on American culture, inspired by, among other things, the Jerry Springer Show.
The album entered at number two on the Billboard 200, the band's highest position, and produced the hits Pretty Fly (For a White Guy), Why Don't You Get a Job and The Kids Aren't Alright. Pretty Fly has a Latin flavour and Pay the Man is psychedelic, built without repeating sections. It had been left off the previous record because it sounded too different.
Listening
Track list
- 1Welcome0:10Apple Music ↗
- 2Have You Ever3:57Apple Music ↗
- 3Staring at the Sun2:14Apple Music ↗
- 4Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)3:09Apple Music ↗
- 5The Kids Aren't Alright3:00Apple Music ↗
- 6Feelings2:52Apple Music ↗
- 7She's Got Issues3:49Apple Music ↗
- 8Walla Walla2:57Apple Music ↗
- 9The End of the Line3:02Apple Music ↗
- 10No Brakes2:04Apple Music ↗
- 11Why Don't You Get a Job2:52Apple Music ↗
- 12Americana3:15Apple Music ↗
- 13Pay the Man8:10Apple Music ↗
- 14Pretty Fly (Reprise)1:03Apple Music ↗
30-second previews via Apple Music. Listen to the whole album on Apple Music ↗