The Offspring (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Offspring
Type = Studio album
Artist = The Offspring


Released = Original: June 15, 1989
Re-release: November 21, 1995
Recorded = March 1989 [ [http://www.full-albums.net/biography-OFFSPRING-763543 OFFSPRING Biography Free] ] at South Coast Recording, Santa Ana, California
Length = 31:27
Label = Nemesis (1989)
Epitaph/Nitro (1995)
Producer = Thom Wilson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qkjw7i6jg76r link]
Last album = "Tehran demo tape"
(1988)
This album = "The Offspring"
(1989)
Next album = "Baghdad"
(1991)
Misc =Extra album cover 2
Type = album
Upper caption = Reissue cover


Lower caption =
Singles
Name = The Offspring
Type = studio
single 1 = I'll Be Waiting/Blackball
single 1 date = 1986 (7")

"The Offspring" is the debut studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring. It was released on 15 June 1989 [ [http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=The+Offspring&Search_Code=TALL&PID=27687&SEQ=20071113125722&CNT=25&HIST=1 http://cocatalog.loc.gov/] ] (though their [http://www.offspring.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Offspring.woa/wa/albums?releaseName=The+Offspring official website] erroneously states 1990) on Nemesis Records as vinyl-only, but was not released on CD until 21 November 1995 on Nitro/Epitaph Records, with a new album cover but otherwise identical. Both the re-releases on the two respective labels are identical as well. In the post 9/11 world, Nitro records will not provide all 11 original tracks of the album, having removed the 11th track "Kill the President" from the play list.

Album information

The album was originally released in 1989 in limited numbers by Nemesis Records, only in a 12" vinyl format. Only 1000 copies of this vinyl were made at the time and it took the band two and a half years to sell them all.fact|date=May 2008 Ironically this vinyl is now the most expensive piece of The Offspring's work as it is also the rarest.fact|date=May 2008

The band also re-recorded the tracks "Blackball" and "I'll Be Waiting," which were originally released on a 7" double A-side vinyl record which was distributed by the band itself under the fictitious Black Label Records. The tracks were added to the album, so that it would not just be a 20+ minute mini-album.fact|date=May 2008

In 1995, a year after the band released the highly successful "Smash", The Offspring decided to reissue the album (with a different cover) in order to fulfill contractual obligations with Epitaph Records. This would be the first time a proper CD release would occur. Compact cassettes and vinyl represses were also produced but they are hard to find. In 2001, the album was re-issued again on Nitro Records, a label which frontman Dexter Holland founded seven years earlier.

Album pressings after June 26, 2001 (July 16 in the UK) do not feature the closing track "Kill the President;" Dexter Holland claims it was removed to prevent legal pressure falling upon the band and Nitro.fact|date=May 2008

As of 2008, the 1995 Nitro/Epitaph re-issue is now out of print.fact|date=July 2008

Album covers

The original version of the album has been banned in many places due to its front cover.fact|date=May 2008 The artwork features an image of a man's body exploding as a creature holding a Fender Stratocaster guitar emerges from his chest. On the 1995 re-release it was replaced with a different image, based on the cover of The Damned's debut album "Damned Damned Damned".fact|date=May 2008

The back cover of the CD features the cover of the "I'll Be Waiting/Blackball" single.

Track listing

All song written by The Offspring except "Beheaded" which was co-written by James Lilja.

Track #11, "Kill the President", was removed from album printings after June 2001. No official reason has been given.

# "Jennifer Lost the War" – 2:35
# "Elders" – 2:11
# "Out on Patrol" – 2:32
# "Crossroads" – 2:48
# "Demons (A Mexican Fiesta)" – 3:10
# "Beheaded" – 2:52
# "Tehran" – 3:06
# "A Thousand Days" – 2:11
# "Blackball" – 3:24
# "I'll Be Waiting" – 3:12
# "Kill the President" – 3:22

Personnel

* Bryan Holland (Listed as Dexter Holland on the CD version) - Vocals, Guitar
* Noodles - Guitar, Backing Vocals on "Blackball"
* Greg K. - Bass, Backing Vocals on "Blackball"
* Ron Welty - Drums

The song "Beheaded" was written by The Offspring and (former member) James Lilja.

References

General references

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