{"id":80525,"date":"2024-03-05T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/the-offspring-say-smash-album-still-sounds-real-30-years-later\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:00:17","slug":"the-offspring-say-smash-album-still-sounds-real-30-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/the-offspring-say-smash-album-still-sounds-real-30-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"The Offspring Say ‘Smash’ Album Still Sounds \u2018Real\u2019 30 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\u201cYou gotta keep \u2018em separated.\u201d With five words, The Offspring<\/a><\/strong> created one of the most memorable moments of the 1990s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome Out and Play,\u201d the lead single from the band\u2019s 1994 album, Smash<\/em>, helped usher in a golden age of punk rock. Smash<\/em> also took this group of punk rock misfits from Orange County, California, and skyrocketed them into levels of success they had not dreamed of.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were taking guesses at how much this record [Smash<\/em>] would sell worldwide,\u201d said guitarist Noodles<\/strong> (Kevin Wasserman<\/strong>) when he and vocalist Dexter Holland<\/strong> spoke exclusively with Us Weekly<\/em> ahead of their takeover of The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas from April 12 to 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Ignition<\/em>\u2019s [sales] was at about 40,000? Is that right?\u201d pondered Noodles, referring to the band\u2019s 1992 record. \u201cStill, that was punk rock standards. We weren\u2019t thinking about mainstream success at all when we went in to make Smash<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tGetty Images (3) 1994 was a transcendent year for music, and the number of now-classic albums celebrating their 30th anniversary this year is staggering. The mid-\u201990s saw hip-hop transform, regaining some of its edge and danger. The West Coast had already made a claim as king of the genre in the early \u201990s, prompting New [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Holland agreed. \u201cYeah, we really jumped a lot [in numbers],\u201d he told Us<\/em>. \u201cSo we felt like we had some momentum, which was exciting. We thought there was really a ceiling, which was, at that time, Bad Religion. They sold whatever it was, maybe 100,000, maybe 200,000 even? And that was just insane. But nothing even close to what might be considered a punk band or a pop-punk band had broken at that point. So we really thought that that was as high as it could go.\u201d<\/p>\n