He was replaced by former Face to Face drummer Pete Parada. In support of the Greatest Hits album, the band played the Vans Warped Tour for the first time, and a tour in Europe and Japan followed.Īfter the Greatest Hits tour, The Offspring took an extended hiatus and Willard left the band in July 2007 to concentrate on his current project Angels & Airwaves. The compilation does not contain any material from the first album or Ignition. It contains 13 of the band's hits between Smash and Splinter and two previously unreleased songs: lead single "Can't Repeat" and a hidden track, "Next to You" (originally by the Police). The year 2005 saw the release of the band's first compilation album, Greatest Hits. However, the order was dropped when it was realized that the announcement of the album's name came on April 1 ( April Fools' Day). As a result, Axl Rose filed a cease and desist order against The Offspring. The album's original title was to be Chinese Democrazy, a name used to mock the name of the long-delayed album by Guns N' Roses. Uncomfortable with the idea of finding an immediate replacement for Welty, The Offspring opted to have session musician Josh Freese record the drums for Splinter, and later announced that Atom Willard would be the official replacement for Ron Welty. Soon after, the band released its next album, Splinter, which spawned the band's second number one on Alternative Songs. While working on a followup to Conspiracy of One, longtime drummer Ron Welty left the band in early 2003 to concentrate on his new project Steady Ground. However, under threat of legal action by Columbia through its parent company, Sony, only the first single, " Original Prankster", was released on the website (the rest of the record was leaked to fan sites). They intended to release the entire album online through the band's official website, to show support for downloading music on the Internet. In 2000, the band released its sixth album, Conspiracy of One. In the following year, the band released its next album, Americana, which debuted at number two of the U.S charts, and produced three of the band's biggest hits: " Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)", " Why Don't You Get a Job?" and " The Kids Aren't Alright" making the album the peak of The Offspring's mainstream popularity. Although not as successful as Smash, Ixnay sold over three million copies. The year 1997 saw the release of The Offspring's major-label debut, Ixnay on the Hombre. "Come Out and Play" was the band's breakthrough single, topping the US Modern Rock Tracks chart, and it became the band's biggest hit from the album in the US, while "Self Esteem" was the biggest hit from the album outside of the US.Īfter the release of Smash, The Offspring left Epitaph and signed a record deal with Columbia Records. With sales continuing 28 years after its release, Smash has become Epitaph's best-selling album of all time and the highest-selling independent album of all time. The album was certified 6 times platinum and sold over eleven million worldwide. Debuting at number four on the Billboard 200, Smash produced three hit singles: " Come Out and Play", " Self Esteem" and " Gotta Get Away". Smash was a critically acclaimed album, also the band's most successful yet. At the time, Ignition had sold only 15,000 copies. In April 1994, The Offspring released Smash. Two years later, after the release of the Baghdad EP and another demo, the band signed to Epitaph Records (a label owned by then-former and now-current Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz), who released the band's second album, Ignition, in 1992. That album would not be released on CD until 1995. The Offspring signed a record deal with short-lived label Nemesis Records, and released its first album, The Offspring, in 1989 on vinyl only. After Manic Subsidal changed its name to The Offspring in 1986, drummer Ron Welty finally joined in 1987, then the band recorded a demo a year later. The Offspring were formed in 1983 under the name Manic Subsidal by singer/guitarist Dexter Holland and bassist Greg K., who later recruited Noodles as their guitarist. The Offspring, a Southern California-based punk rock band, has released 10 studio albums, four extended plays (EP), two compilation albums, five demos, three video albums, and over 30 singles.
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The Offspring at Download Festival in 2008
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