I'm going to be 51 in a couple of weeks and this song is like an anthem of my life. Growing up in the 80's on my street we had a great group of kids. At some point we all went our different ways and well, two of us OD'd and died, one died from Covid, two others are in prison, and I had a stroke one year ago and going through a divorce. Yeah, the kids are NOT alright....
With Offspring there is no bull..... They tell it straight to your face, like it or not. I was 34 when this song was released and I thought to myself "Wow, these guys are so raw and so true". Now at 59, these older songs are even more relevant. And for the younger generations, even more.
@@thaeros You're right! The 70's were a kind of a wake up call pretty much for everyone. I was never into punk music, but nobody can deny they addressed the problems face to face. That's why bands like Sex Pistols and The Clash (just to name two of them) were so important. Edit: Spelling.
OFFSPRING is the band that discovered the world of heavy rock music for me back in '97. Their contribution is difficult to overestimate. The Great Ones
The Offspring had a lot of "bangers" from the early 90's and onward. "Self Esteem" brings to mind college basement party memories (Honorable mention to Soul Asylum's "Somebody To Shove" which also came out around that time). "Gone Away" is very emotional, "Pretty Fly (for a white guy)" is very humorous. Can't really go wrong with picking a popular Offspring song.
This band was the very blood of my childhood music. I still know every song by heart. I know the drum beats, the guitars everything. But this also hits home. My grandmother's street there were 20 kids that played together. Playing football, tag, hide and seek. And we always thought we would stay this forever. I know that 10 of those 20 kids are dead from overdose. 3 are still in jail. 3 more are homeless. And the remaining 4 had decent lives. I'm one of them. My friends Matt, Jason and Johnathan have done well. But I cannot believe how one street took 16 lives. In all different ways. I remember hearing this song when I turned 40 and just thinking "F*CK!!" I was graduating high school so maybe 17-18 years old when this came out. I'm now 43. Imagine what would be. But I heard something years ago that hurt. "One day you woke up and it was the last time you played with some of your friends and you don't even remember it." 😢 That street now has several drug houses and most avoid the area. Take it from the Offsprings biggest fan. Do NOT react to "come out and play" or "genocide" or any other massive hit. React to "Bad Habit." It's about road rage and super fun. Or another song called "what happened to you?" Or do both. Not mainstream songs but they are super fun.
They play this song and lots of other Offspring songs on rock radio all the time. Punk rock in general tends to have shorter songs. "All I Want" by Offspring for example is only 2 minutes long, but it's a banger
nobody reacts to the Offspring. Maybe bc they are not considered "serious" only a entry band for normies getting into Punk Rock?? I don't really like that. Their first albums up to Americana are very punky and I love them, bc they remind me of my teenager years
Their songs are mostly under three minutes because their style of music is a subgenre of punk rock. On that note, check out "All I Want" (the official music video is pretty intense!). It's only 1'52" long but packs surprisingly lot in it!
I was a teenager in the 90's and heard this song when it first came out. Offspring was more well-known and listened to by the punk-rock and ska scenes. We all read and knew the lyrics to the music we listened to, and a ton of 90's punk was like this. A high energy, hard driving sound with dark or sad messages about life falling apart. Our generation was pervaded with this overwhelming sense that something wasn't right. That society was going to take a dark turn, and swallow many of us in the process. Rest in Peace Ben, JD, Chris, Brad, Chester, and Chris D.; at least you guys don't have to deal with the current day.
Years ago at a club I’d try to get the DJ to play You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid and he never would. Finally I told him to do it when the club had drink specials. You know, do it as a palate cleanser. He did. He was shocked to see the floor fill back up. From then on he’d ask me what to play randomly
The Offspring started in the 80's as an indie punk rock band... They broke big in the 90's when their (3rd?) album 'Smash' became an MTV hit in 1994 and spawned the 'pop-punk' genre w/ the likes of Green Day, Blink 182, Bad Religion, etc... The Offspring had both serious songs (like this one from 1998) and comedic songs as well 😂 The classic Offspring was: Dexter Holland (vocals), Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman (guitar), Greg K (bass) and Ron Welty (drums)... Currently, only Holland and Noodles are in the Offspring w/ session members... After a series of demos, The Offspring released their debut album in 1989... followed by 2nd album 'Ignition' in 1992, which sold well in the wake of the 90's grunge rock era. 3rd album 'Smash' was released on a punk label Epitaph and became a surprise hit in 1994, eventually selling 6x platinum in the US and were also a huge hit in Europe as a punk rock band. Offers came from major labels to sign The Offspring and they finally signed w/ major label Columbia in 1997 for their 4th album 'Ixnay on the hombre'... despite heavy promotion, it only sold platinum. The Offspring quickly made the 'Americana' album in 1998 and it broke big again, selling 5x platinum in the US ...another hit record worldwide. Next album 'Conspiracy of one' went platinum in 2000 as the 90's ended and The Offspring still persisted, despite declining record sales. After drummer Ron Welty left the band, The Offspring released 'Splinter' in 2003 and toured successfully over the next 2 decades w/ albums like 'Rise and fall, rage and grace' (2008)... 'Days go by' (2012) ... still staying popular and relevant. After the departure of bassist Greg K, The Offspring released their latest album 'Let the bad times roll' (2021) and r still actively touring. Suggestions for the Offspring - "Pretty fly (for a white guy)" ... 'Self-esteem' ... 'Gone away' ... 'Hit that' ... "Why don't you get a job?" ... 'Gotta get away' ... 'Original prankster' ... 'I choose'... 'Come out and play' ... 'All I want'... 🔥🔥🤘🤘
My favorite Offspring song is 'Gone Away'. The song KICKS ASS, and the lyrics are about death and loss. The song came out around the time my dad died, and I would go into my room, crank it up, violently play air guitar and drums, and sing/yell the lyrics. The song actually helped get me through those days.
@@plasticsurgerydisaster6180 Yeah, I probably didn't sound too good, I'm not a singer lol. And by the time I sang/yelled it once, my voice was basically shot.
The song title is a reference to the 1965 song "The Kids Are Alright" by The Who (in fact one of many songs and other pop cultural media to reference it)
I was 27 when this song (album) came out. :D They were very raw and straight shooters. Anyone who listened to punk, ska or hard rock, liked them and they were very popular for a while. They were singing about our generation problems, fears and 'hopes'. And after 25 years we can still see that young people still can identify with same problems as previous generation. Socially wise we are standing still or even backtracking. Which is very bad for whole humanity.
I was like 10 when this came out and was already in love with The Offspring, was way into pop punk and alternative music. It was just a fun, upbeat song we loved and played it to Tony hawk's Pro Skater 1&2. Through college it became more real and sadly revelant as you say.
Really, this song is a reality for much people, our childhood is the best part of our lives, and sometimes, wrong decisions causes bad consequences entire all the rest of life. I listened so much when younger and the message persists. Great song and great reaction Biss.
They do tell stories. Listen to every word. They sound shallow they aren’t. The dream to be amazing big loved. This song talks about those that didn’t. Love
heard this first in my teens, and thought the song absolutely rocked. it hits very different in your 20s, almost like a warning. I'm now 36 and it hits very different again. The anger and sorrow at the singer's unfufilled promises of how life was supposed to be is something i think many of our generatrion take to heart; after hearing throughout our childhood that we 'could be anything we wanted to be,' nobody told us back then that there was always the chance that might not happen either or that there's a massive difference beween what you wanted as a child and what you got as an adult.
I bought this album when it was new in 1998, I was 15. This was my favorite song on the album, but I never imagined it was about me and my friends or classmates. We were gonna make it big and not be beat. It just hits harder and harder as I get older and see what has become of all our dreams. The ones who are still around that is.
I was around 19-20 when I first heard this. I listened to the lyrics as welling as rocking out to it as well. One about this song is true: The more things change, the more they remain the same". Other songs to consider from them are **GONE AWAY** and **COME OUT AND PLAY** Cheers Biss!
I was 12 when this came out, and it was on the first album I ever bought Americana. I bought it after having seen the band perform the single pretty fly for a white guy on top of the pops using a drum kit made from decapitated doll heads. I got very familiar with this song as it followed that song on the album. At the time I thought it was fine, however 25 years life experiences make this hit much different, as such this is maybe one of my favourite songs by any band ever
I grew up in Romania as well... i used to love the offspring... i was a kid... maybe 12-13 years old when i was jumping in the house on their music... also on metallica, guns n roses, nirvana (when kurt cobain was alive)... nice memories... now i'm jumping on slaughter to prevail concerts, arch enemy, butcher babies, epica etc
@@WolfHreda Doing your best requires thinking and discernment. Or hell and consequences, then realizing your ideas and way you treated everybody was wrong.
I was a Brazilian teenager when Americana was released, I was studying in high school and instantly everyone was hooked on their music. the kids arent alright are THE CLASSIC.
Yea this is totally a song when I heard it back in high school it was just an awesome song, now years later.......it takes on a whole different vibe and really speaks to you about life. Especially things you thought you would do or become, then you realize most of it never happened.
This is one of the first attempts at CG photography and video recording. The very first ones were in the Matrix when Trinity took off and froze in the air. Then this effect surprised everyone. Today this does not surprise anyone and any camera seller can remove it. You need about 20-25 cameras that shoot separately frames with a delay of 0-25 frames per second and then connect them.
I was 17 when I first heard this song, and you're pretty right in how you're perceiving it. At first, it was a fun boppy song to play at a party, but as you get older and listen to the lyrics it fills you with a sense of regret and longing. It's a well composed song
Dexter Holland is an amazing Individual. Apart from several charitable ventures, he's a pilot that completed a 10 day around the world solo trip back in 2004. He pilots his band to most all of thier concerts while on tour in his own jet. lol
The Offspring 🤘 Re-recommending "Garbage" for a female led 90s rock band. Only happy when it rains, Stupid Girl, I think I'm paranoid will be a good intro to the band. Hope you get to them at some point 😊
I was 12 when this released. Having lost a friend to suicide and OD both in their late 20's kinda makes this song spooky as hell now. Luckily it's not because the environment went bad but still a lot of materialized prophecies in it 😬
Grew up on this band. So many days skateboarding to these guys. Good times. For anyone learning guitar out there this is a great song to learn. It's not that complicated and is always super fun to jam along too no matter how far or early you are on your journey.
I've loved these guys since the first time I heard them. I believe Smash was their second album, the album before cold like 15,000 copies. Smash had a budget of like $20,000 and was expected to sell a max of 75,000 copies and it blew up on the backs of Self Esteem, and Come out and Play, though I feel those weren't the best songs on that album. This song has always been one of my favorite from them, though. My daughter is 22 and has a play list of upbeat songs that have truly sad and depressing lyrics. This song is on that play list. They were a breath of fresh air to the punk genre.
Dexter (the lead singer) is on the list for most interesting people in the world, pretty big rock star they were big in the 90's/00's, then got a PHD in something microbiology or something wrote a paper that helped AIDS or something, then made his own hot sauce brand that is like the best selling on Amazon or something.
this band is punk-rock one of the multiple style of punk the punk style is that "screaming what is wrong!" they do that with a "punchy" music (in 2 times) and very straigthforward lyric! there is hardy hidden messages it's " all in your face"!
I used to listen to Offspring, Greenday and all the other punk/rock bands in the early 2000s. These days I still enjoy them whenever they play on the radio, but my music taste has evolved. :)
When I heard it for the first time I was 9 years old. When I was 15 years old, my brother listened to The Offsprings and he instilled it in me. Nowadays it is my favorite band, I went to all the concerts I could in Argentina. Before I only listened to it because of how it sounded, today I am more immersed in all its lyrics and if you hear and feel differently, it is a reflection of life itself. Recommendations: The Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid / (Can't Get My) Head Around You / Million Miles Away / Dammit, I Changed Again.
The Offspring are iconic, definitely a huge name in the 90s & 2000s with so many hits. Their music really ties the Crazy Taxi soundtrack together! You gotta hear Come Out And Play, probably their most famous serious song. For comedy value, check out Pretty Fly (For A White Guy).
I am 34 now. Have not heard this song in forever. Think at least 20 years or something. Completely forgot it really. But hearing it now, I remembered it instantly. So, if nothing else, that means the song had an impact.
As you said, especially when you are not a native english speaker it's easy to listen to it as a nice "banger", just sounds like a funny song. But one day i listened to (and read) the lyrics and oh damn that hit in the stomach....
first time i listened was 1998 when it came out, i was 22, and by the way those were awesome CG at the time, and yup it was a banger that just played in the background, but now, i am 47 and have had a family and lost it, had the dream job and lost it, the song does have a nostalgic feeling to it but mostly it is a reminder of those things i have lost. I am in a good place in my life, have an even better job, but at the time when i thought what i had was the best i would ever have i paid no attention to this song, now i do not listen to it unless i hear it by chance,.. but it is the only song from The Offspring i listen to.
Late 90s / early 2000s punk rock is just my favorite music, so I'm really happy to see it on your channel! I hope there will be more of it in the future! 👍
I have 34 and I'm from Brazil, when I First listened to this song I thought that was a agressive song about rebeldy or something like that, today that I understand the lyrics I feel Sad about, but steel a great song, perhaps I like It more now
Well Biss growing up I really was never into this kind of music cause I was more pop or rap music but I would hear this song from time to time on the radio and I would jam out but now I listen to all kinds of music whenever I'm in the mood to listen to ill listen to hit.
So I have a different take on this band! I heard "Ya Wanna Come Out & Play", with the line, 'ya gotta keep 'em separated', for years, in the late 90's & into the early 00's, with my kids growing up, & being teenagers during this time. I stumbled onto a Guitar Centers Sessions show with The Offspring, which had them playing around 6 songs, with interviews with Dexter & Noodles, between songs. Great way to learn about the history of the band & hear some of their more popular songs in a small studio with great sound! Love the punkish, hard driving, yet melodic songs they played! Love the band!
When I was well into adulthood, I tried being friends (and tried not to be lovers) with a 20-year-old female (I want to say “woman” but try not to say “girl”). The gulf between our views of life was so vast. She’d never even known anyone who had died. Closer to 30, one grasps some gravity and insight. There is so much promise and joy to life, but also so much tragedy and disappointment. As for things’ getting worse and worse, they have been for the past 60 years, and it is by design, so that those in power can remain so.
When the singer go back to his old neighborhood he saw his old place when he was young every Change for bad, the song is about that his old home neighborhood
Still can't believe a guy who's almost literally a rocket scientist could make this music and make it so good. Punk Rock and Higher Education doesn't feel like it'd mix well.
The Offspring is one of the most popular punk rock band all over the world, the can even be considered a classic now because they formed in 1984 but their most succesfull era was at mid 90´s until mid 2000´s. They have great hits like this one in reaction, other songs can be "Why Don´t You Get A Job", "Come Out And Play", "Self Esteem" , "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)", "Original Prankster", "Want You Bad", each one is nice. Great reaction. Kisses...!!!
Most importantly...... Like half the cast of Breaking Bad is in this music video. Initially you will probably only spot one but there are 2 others. The one that everybody's gonna notice is Kristen Ritter who played Jane Jessie's girlfriend. And the Asian girl that Jesse was trying to pedal drugs to at the gas station, The one that Hank comes and interrogates later. She's the cupcake girl in this video. Aaaaaand No the skinny guy is NOT Skinny Pete..... I thought that too. But he IS the methhead that Jesse tricks into digging a hole in the yard. This band is one that changed their sound so much from album to album that if it wasn't for such a unique lead singing voice, you would almost not even know it was the same band. When I was growing up in maybe eighth grade, That was when Pretty Fly for a White Guy and Get A Job were their popular songs. And at the time they were wonderful nobody had ever heard anything like it. But I can honestly say that the newer music they make is a 100 times better they really grew as a band. And the old stuff is still awesome to me so that just shows you how great of a band they are now.
This song was released when I was 14 years, and now even I'm not a kid yet and I'm not alright. I love this song since It what released, and I'm still loving It now, even hurting so much because it's very real.
This was the first band that I listened to and I got the album Americana when I was about 7 which was my first album from them and I litens to every track all the time. I even played some of the songs when I was a teenager and in school for school plays with y friends, those were good times.
I was 10 years old when this song came out and I think I first started to 'really' listen to it when I turned 13. That was about the time my life started to really change and life started getting serious. I'd lost 2 friends to suicide by the end of HS, lost my fiancee at 22 in a car accident and kind of limped through the remainder of my 20's as a living train wreck. Things are better now, but you never really shake off the scars and ghosts. If anything this song has even more sentimental value to me now.
its also interesting because you talk about over time, if you've followed offspring since the beginning, the first song on their first album was "jennifer lost the war" a similar message from years before both are still relevant today.
I was in my early 20s when this song came out, and listening to it now, it's accurate alright, even today, Ironically my little sister is named Jamie, thankfully she didn't go the same way as the one in the song but is now a rock band singer herself for which I am extremely proud of her for. :)
When you're kid you have so much hope and ideals and you paint your future in bright colors. But as you get older you see it was not meant for everyone and you can see it in your group of people - neighborhood or class... Someone becomes drug addict or alcoholic, another one dies in car accident or gets a terrible disease or thousand other ways that can ruin your life. No matter if it's by your own bad decisions or just bad luck.
I am still sure Dexter is singing "The Chicken Man committed suicide" and not "and Jay committed suicide" like the cd sleeve says... ...think I am right and that it's a nod to Bruce Springsteen's song Atlantic City which kicks off with the lyrics: "Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night And they blew up his house, too"
This is one of my favourite bands. They have alot of good songs. I was a bit younger than you when I heard this song first time ( I think). Now I am 48. I think it you were quite right. Great reaction.
Love your reaction, all you said is true.... that was a hit when I was younger 'cause the sound of music, bit now its better, as an adult, its so powerfull and says clearly what is life, there were some good bands in those times... so thumbs up for you.
