Smash

So I’m hopping around the book a little, I didn’t want to go through it page by page, album by album. What I’m doing is opening the book at random and picking one of the albums there.

Today’s album was a real blast from the past. I remember buying this back when it came out, when I was in my mid-teens. I loved it back then, and still enjoy it now. Offspring are one of my favourite bands. I’ve only seen them live once, but that doesn’t matter, the memory still sticks with me.

I used to really enjoy the punky feel of this, with it’s pogo rhythms, punchy guitars and Dexter’s voice over the top of the tune. It doesn’t feel dated to me, but that’s probably because it’s my sort of music. It stands up well against their other albums and although it doesn’t feel as fresh and new any more, it does still really work as a whole album. Right from the intro opening through the more well known songs like Self-Esteem, to the last track.

It’s a great album, but it was a nice surprise for me to see it in the book, it’s not one that I was expecting there.