Smash

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Smash · For their third album The Offspring went to Track Record in North Hollywood in January 1994. They recorded it in twenty days, with producer Thom Wilson. The budget was small: twenty thousand dollars. The band kept looking for an empty studio to slip into cheaply, and the last four songs came about in two nights. The previous album Ignition had not brought the big breakthrough, and nobody expected radio success.

Yet Smash became exactly that. Thanks to the rise of grunge, punk rock gained a wider audience. Come Out and Play reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, and Self Esteem and Gotta Get Away also became hits. Together with Green Day's Dookie the record brought punk into the mainstream and paved the way for the pop punk of the 1990s. The album mostly received positive reviews and became the best-selling album ever released by an independent label.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Time to Relax0:25Apple Music ↗
2. 2Nitro (Youth Energy)2:27Apple Music ↗
3. 3Bad Habit3:44Apple Music ↗
4. 4Gotta Get Away3:52Apple Music ↗
5. 5Genocide3:33Apple Music ↗
6. 6Something to Believe In3:18Apple Music ↗
7. 7Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)3:18Apple Music ↗
8. 8Self Esteem4:18Apple Music ↗
9. 9It'll Be a Long Time2:43Apple Music ↗
10. 10Killboy Powerhead2:03Apple Music ↗
11. 11What Happened to You?2:12Apple Music ↗
12. 12So Alone1:17Apple Music ↗
13. 13Not the One2:54Apple Music ↗
14. 14Smash10:40Apple Music ↗

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