All I Want (The Offspring song)

Infobox Single
Name = All I Want


Caption =
Artist = The Offspring
from Album = Ixnay on the Hombre
A-side =
B-side =
Released = December 31, 1996
Format = Vinyl and CD
Recorded = 1996
Genre = Skate punk Punk rock Melodic hardcore
Length = 01:54
Label = Columbia
Writer = Dexter Holland
Producer = Dave Jerden
Certification =
Last single = "Smash It Up" (1995)
This single = "All I Want" (1996)
Next single = "Gone Away" (1997)
Misc ="All I Want" was the first single off of The Offspring's 1997 album "Ixnay On The Hombre". It reached #31 in the UK and #15 in Australia. The song was also featured in the video game Crazy Taxi as well as the computer game Jugular Street Luge Racing.

The song was originally written by Dexter Holland as part of a (perhaps tongue-in-cheek) Bad Religion songwriting competition at Epitaph Records, under the title "Protocol". The song's lyrics had a rather complicated vocabulary like many Bad Religion songs. However, when Dexter offered to play it for Epitaph owner and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, he was told to "play it on acoustic later or something." Dexter felt rejected and rewrote the song's lyrics to sound more like an Offspring song. [The Offspring - Greatest Hits Bonus DVD (2005).]

Track listing

#"All I Want" - 1:55
#"Way Down the Line" - 2:37
#"Smash It Up" - 3:25

Music Video

The band made a video for the song, which was directed by David Yow of The Jesus Lizard.

The video consisted of shots of the band playing and singing the song mixed with a young man seemingly rebelling against society. While the band is shown the video is often in psychedelic colours. The man takes his clothes off down to his jeans while running through his town. At the end of the video he arrives in a field, and falls in a puddle of mud.

Charts

Appearances in Media

This song was used in the video game "Crazy Taxi" by Sega in both the Arcade version, and console ports for the "Sega Dreamcast", "Nintendo Gamecube", and "Sony Playstation 2".

References