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“Tell me how do I reach you when all I see is a stare. He also appears in the video for a split second when doing that line. Well, The Offspring got the same guy back to sing the “Fuck it, fuck it” line in ‘Come Out and Play’. Remember the song ‘ Come Out and Play’ from their 1994 album ‘ Smash’? There is this part where a guy named Blackball does the line “You gotta keep em separated”. ‘’If you can’t change the things, you might as well dance to it’’. A lot of people say ‘Bring it on’ instead of ‘Let’s solve this’. ‘’When we have problems, we are supposed to solve them. Dexter said that this song has a similar viewpoint as ‘ This is Not Utopia’. A different, catchy rock song with classic sounding rock verses. Next we get title track ‘ Let the Bad Times Roll’. A song about all the trouble we see in the world right now and all the injustice in the world in general. Noodles said that ‘ This is Not Utopia’ is his favorite song. This, I like much better compared to the previous album where they used this technique a lot, to the point where it didn’t sound natural anymore. This song does it at certain points in the song. Maybe it’s best describable as a kind of echo that’s added to his voice. Since the ‘ Days Go By’ album, they seem to have a different way of recording vocals. Fast, short strums on the guitar with Dexter’s iconic voice on top. A classic Offspring song with clear lyrics that get stuck in your head right away. ‘ Let the Bad Times Roll’ starts off with ‘ This is Not Utopia’. Let’s not waste anymore time and start digging into it. Then the day finally is there… Nine years of long waiting, and man, what a solid album this is. For me, this version just has a special place in my heart. I can’t wait to hear how it sounds recorded. Dexter and Noodles did a live Q&A on YouTube where they confirmed that this was indeed the piano version of ‘ Gone Away’, recorded for the first time. I remember recording a bit of it on my flip phone, a memory quite valuable to me. I remember seeing The Offspring for the first time in 2009, which was one of the first times we got to hear this version. The rumor goes that this is the piano version of it.
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The Offspring has already a song named ‘ Gone Away‘ on their Ixnay on the Hombre album. Something else that jumps out is the song ‘ Gone Away’.
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One tougher, more punk album and one softer, more acoustic album. We know that the in 2015 released track ‘ Coming For You‘ is a classic Offspring song with a drum lick quite similar to ‘ Stuff is Messed Up’ from their Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace album. They’ve talked about the fact that it could maybe be two albums. The Offspring said multiple things about this album. Let’s talk about the expected sound of this release. The current line-up consists, form left to right, of bass player (former live rhythm guitar player) Todd Morse, lead singer Dexter Holland, drummer Pete Parada and lead guitarist Noodles. But yeah, people change and friendships do too, so maybe there isn’t a lot more to share about this topic. And I thought: wait what? Greg K has been there from the very beginning. NOFX was playing the slot before them and I remember lead singer Fat Mike saying: yeah, later The Offspring will get on stage with their new bass player. I remember being at their show at the Lokerse Feesten in Belgium in 2019. The Offspring never said much about the topic, only that Greg K would have a different opinion about the direction of the music. And then there’s the story about bass player Greg K. There’s COVID-19 of course, that pushed the release date. So they did have an album, but no label to release it on. There’s the fact that their contract with their previous label Columbia Records ended. Yes, the singer of this band is a doctor now. There’s Dexter getting his PHD in microbiology. But why did they wait so long? Well, I think there were simply just a lot of things going on if I can state it like that. Now, we finally have the new release ‘Let the Bad Times Roll’. But they were never able to give any specific information like an album name or release date. And lead singer Dexter Holland and lead guitarist Noodles, would speculate in interviews on working on a new album.
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Here and there there would turn up a video of The Offspring playing a possibly new song. Then in 2015, we got the single ‘ Coming For You‘. The last album we got by The Offspring was the 2012 release ‘ Days Go By‘. Ok, one word all Offspringfans will have in mind is: finally.