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The Offspring, a Southern California-based punk rock band, has released 11 studio albums, three extended plays (EP), three compilation albums, five demos, three video albums, and over 30 singles.
| The Offspring discography | |
|---|---|
The Offspring performing in 2016 | |
| Studio albums | 11 |
| EPs | 5 |
| Soundtrack albums | 9 |
| Compilation albums | 2 |
| Singles | 37 |
| Video albums | 3 |
| Music videos | 27 |
| Demos | 5 |
| Other appearances | 1 |
| Non-album songs | 12 |
| Cover tracks | 29 |
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. After Manic Subsidal changed its name to The Offspring in 1986,[1] drummer Ron Welty finally joined in 1987, then the band recorded a demo a year later. The Offspring signed a record deal with short-lived label Nemesis Records, and released its first album, The Offspring, in 1989 on vinyl only. That album would not be released on CD until 1995. 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.
In April 1994, The Offspring released Smash. At the time, Ignition had sold only 15,000 copies. Smash was a critically acclaimed album, also the band's most successful yet. Debuting at number four on the Billboard 200, Smash produced three hit singles: "Come Out and Play", "Self Esteem" and "Gotta Get Away". The album was certified 6 times platinum and sold over eleven million worldwide. With sales continuing 30 years after its release, Smash has become Epitaph's best-selling album of all time and the highest-selling independent album of all time. "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.
After the release of Smash, The Offspring left Epitaph and signed a record deal with Columbia Records. The year 1997 saw the release of The Offspring's major-label debut, Ixnay on the Hombre. Although not as successful as Smash, Ixnay sold over three million copies. 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.
In 2000, the band released its sixth album, Conspiracy of One. They intended to release the entire album online through the band's official website, to show support for downloading music on the Internet.[2] 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).[3]
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. Soon after, the band released its next album, Splinter, which spawned the band's second number one on Alternative Songs. 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. 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. As a result, Axl Rose filed a cease and desist order against The Offspring. However, the order was dropped when it was realized that the announcement of the album's name came on April 1 (April Fools' Day).
The year 2005 saw the release of the band's first compilation album, Greatest Hits. 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 compilation does not contain any material from the first album or Ignition. 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.
After 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. He was replaced by former Face to Face drummer Pete Parada. The band's eighth studio album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, was released on June 17, 2008, but Parada did not record it due to contract issues. The band tapped Freese again to record the drum tracks. Second single "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" went Gold in the US and became their third number one on Billboard Alternative Songs. The next album, Days Go By, was released four years later; this time, the drum tracks were handled by both Freese and Parada, making this his first recording with the band. After touring and playing festivals in support of the album and twenty years of Smash, single "Coming for You" was released in 2015 and became the band's second Billboard Mainstream Rock number one. The single would later appear on the band's tenth studio album, Let the Bad Times Roll, which was released nine years after Days Go By. The drum tracks were once again handled by both Freese and Parada, while Holland took bass duties after Greg K. was fired from the group in 2018. Let the Bad Times Roll would be the last album with Parada, who was later fired from the band in August 2021 for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination, due to suffering from Guillain–Barré syndrome. Parada was replaced on tour by Freese and was officially replaced in 2023 by Brandon Pertzborn. The band's eleventh studio album, Supercharged was released on October 11, 2024. The drum tracks were handled by both Freese and Pertzborn, while Holland and new bassist Todd Morse took bass duties.
As of 2015, The Offspring has sold over 40 million albums worldwide.[4] According to Nielsen SoundScan, they have sold almost 17 million albums in the United States and 4.2 million tracks,[5] of which 15 million are certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] |
AUS [7] |
AUT [8] |
CAN [9] |
GER [10] |
NLD [11] |
NZ [12] |
SWE [13] |
SWI [14] |
UK [15] | ||||
| The Offspring |
|
— | 84 | — | — | — | 85 | — | — | — | — |
|
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| Ignition |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
|
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| Smash |
|
4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 21 | ||
| Ixnay on the Hombre |
|
9 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 9 |
|
|
| Americana |
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
|
|
| Conspiracy of One |
|
9 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 32 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
|
|
| Splinter |
|
30 | 12 | 10 | 26 | 31 | 98 | 27 | 56 | 13 | 27 |
|
|
| Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace |
|
10 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 73 | 9 | 52 | 5 | 39 |
|
|
| Days Go By |
|
12 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 56 | 17 | 57 | 8 | 43 |
|
|
| Let the Bad Times Roll |
|
27 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 38 | — | —[A] | 4 | 3 |
|
|
| Supercharged |
|
—[B] | 4 | 3 | — | 6 | — | — | —[C] | 5 | 44 | ||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] |
AUS [37] |
AUT [38] |
CAN [9] |
FIN [39] |
GER [40] |
JPN [41] |
NLD [42] |
NZL [43] |
SWE [44] |
SWI [45] |
UK [46] | |||
| 2005 | Greatest Hits | 8 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 23 | 6 | 38 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 14 | |
| 2010 | Happy Hour!
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2024 | Puck Punks: The Offspring Powerplay Hits
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart. | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Demo details | Track listing |
|---|---|---|
| 1984/1985 | First Manic Subsidal Demo[48]
|
Included "Hopeless" and snippets from Garage Days (Americana video) |
| 1986 | 5 Songs
|
|
| 1986 | 6 Songs[49]
|
A-side[50]
B-side[50]
|
| 1988 | Tehran[51]
|
A-side[52]
B-side[52]
|
| 1991 | (No Title)
|
|
| 1993 | Smash Demo Tape[54]
|
A-side
B-side
|
| Year | Details | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Go Ahead Punk... Make My Day[55] |
|
| Year | Song | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [56] |
US Alt. [57] |
US Main. [58] |
AUS [7] |
CAN [59][60] |
FIN [61] |
GER [62] |
NLD [63] |
NZL [64] |
SWE [65] |
UK [66] | ||||
| 1986 | "I'll Be Waiting" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Offspring | |
| 1994 | "Come Out and Play" | 38 [A] |
1 | 10 | 8 | 43 | — | — | 32 | — | 23 | 98 | Smash | |
| "Self Esteem" | 45 [A] |
4 | 7 | 6 | 34 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 39 | 1 | 37 | |||
| 1995 | "Gotta Get Away" | 58 [A] |
6 | 15 | 53 | 32 | 6 | 38 | 33 | — | 26 | 43 | ||
| "Smash It Up" | 47 [A] |
16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Batman Forever Soundtrack | ||
| 1997 | "All I Want" | 65 [A] |
13 | 18 | 15 | — | 6 | — | 51 | 27 | 36 | 31 | Ixnay on the Hombre | |
| "Gone Away" | 50 [A] |
4 | 1 | 16 | 28 | — | 93 | 93 | 35 | — | 42 |
| ||
| "The Meaning of Life" | — | — | — | 90 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "I Choose" | — | 24 | 5 | 79 | 66 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1998 | "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" | 53 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Americana | |
| 1999 | "Why Don't You Get a Job?" | 74 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 19 | — | 16 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||
| "The Kids Aren't Alright" | — [B] |
6 | 11 | 69 | —[D] | — | 45 | 29 | 39 | 16 | 11 | |||
| "She's Got Issues" | — | 11 | 19 | — | — | — | — | 89 | — | 59 | 41 | |||
| 2000 | "Original Prankster" | 70 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 46 | 44 | 34 | 5 | 6 | Conspiracy of One | |
| "Want You Bad" | — | 10 | 23 | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | 46 | 15 |
| ||
| 2001 | "Million Miles Away" | — | — | — | 69 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 21 | ||
| "Defy You" | 77 | 8 | 8 | 54 | — | — | 62 | — | — | — | — | Orange County Soundtrack | ||
| 2003 | "Hit That" | 64 | 1 | 6 | 13 | — | 13 | 31 | 60 | 24 | — | 11 |
|
Splinter |
| 2004 | "(Can't Get My) Head Around You" | — [C] |
6 | 16 | 53 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 48 | ||
| "Spare Me the Details" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 31 | — | — | |||
| 2005 | "Can't Repeat" | — [D] |
9 | 10 | — | — | — | — | —[E] | — | — | — | Greatest Hits | |
| 2008 | "Hammerhead" | — [E] |
2 | 8 | 91 | 53 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | |
| "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" | 63 | 1 | 10 | 54 | 25 | — | 67 | — | 28 | — | — | |||
| "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" | — [F] |
7 | 38 | — | —[F] | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2009 | "Half-Truism" | — | 21 | 30 | — | —[G] | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2012 | "Days Go By" | — [G] |
7 | 2 | — | 88 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Days Go By | |
| "Cruising California (Bumpin' in My Trunk)" | — | — | — | 70 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Turning into You" | — | 39 | 24 | — | —[H] | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2015 | "Coming for You" | — | 16 | 1 | — | —[I] | — | — | — | — | — | — | Let the Bad Times Roll | |
| 2018 | "Down" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| 2020 | "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2021 | "Let the Bad Times Roll" | — | 10 | 1 | — | —[J] | — | — | — | — | — | — | Let the Bad Times Roll | |
| "We Never Have Sex Anymore" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Gone Away" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2022 | "Behind Your Walls" | — | 19 | 17 | — | —[K] | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Bells Will Be Ringing (Please Come Home for Christmas)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| 2024 | "Make It All Right" | — | 2 | 2 | — | —[L] | — | 39[M] | — | — | — | — | Supercharged | |
| "Light It Up" | — | — | — | — | — | — | 64[N] | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Come to Brazil" | — | — | — | — | — | — | —[O] | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Ok, But This Is The Last Time" | — | 16 | 33 | — | — [P] | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Song | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | "Smash It Up" (The Damned cover) | Batman Forever |
| 1997 | "D.U.I." | I Know What You Did Last Summer |
| 1998 | "The Kids Aren't Alright" | The Faculty |
| "The Meaning of Life" | Tekken: The Motion Picture | |
| 1999 | "Beheaded (1999)" | Idle Hands |
| "I Wanna Be Sedated" (Ramones cover) | ||
| 2000 | "Bloodstains" (Agent Orange cover) | Ready to Rumble |
| "Totalimmortal" (AFI cover) | Me, Myself & Irene | |
| 2002 | "Defy You" | Orange County |
| 2006 | "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)" | Click |
| 2016 | "Sharknado" | Sharknado: The 4th Awakens |
| Year | Song | Released on |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | "Sorority Bitch" | Unreleased |
| 1985 | "Hopeless" | We Got Power II - Party Animal compilation[87] |
| 1986 | "Tonight I Do" | The 6 Songs demo |
| "Call It Religion" | The 6 Songs demo and the Subject to Blackout compilation[88] | |
| "Halloween" | ||
| 1991 | "Baghdad" | The Baghdad EP |
| "The Blurb" | ||
| 1997 | "D.U.I." | The Club Me EP, the "Gone Away" single, the I Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack, The Thought Remains the Same compilation, and the Happy Hour! compilation |
| 1999 | "Beheaded (1999)" | The "Why Don't You Get a Job?" single and the Idle Hands soundtrack |
| "Hand Grenades" | The Short Music for Short People compilation | |
| 2001 | "Defy You" | The Orange County soundtrack and the Greatest Hits compilation |
| 2005 | "Mission from God" | The Punk-O-Rama 10 compilation |
| Year | Video album details | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Americana | |
| 2000 | Huck It
|
|
| 2005 | Complete Music Video Collection
|
|
| Year | Song | Director / designer |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | "Jennifer Lost the War"[107] | |
| 1992 | "Beheaded" | |
| "Get It Right" | ||
| 1994 | "Come Out and Play" | Darren Lavett[108] |
| "Self Esteem" | ||
| 1995 | "Gotta Get Away" | Samuel Bayer[109] |
| 1997 | "All I Want" | David Yow[110] |
| "The Meaning of Life" | Kevin Kerslake[111] | |
| "I Choose" | Dexter Holland[112] | |
| 1998 | "Gone Away" | Nigel Dick[113] |
| "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" | McG[114] | |
| 1999 | "Why Don't You Get a Job?" | |
| "The Kids Aren't Alright" | Yariv Gaber[115] | |
| "She's Got Issues" | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris[116] | |
| 2000 | "Original Prankster" (featuring Redman) | David Meyers[117] |
| 2001 | "Want You Bad" | Spencer Susser[118] |
| "Million Miles Away" | Jennifer Lebeau[119] | |
| "Defy You" | David Meyers[120] | |
| 2003 | "Da Hui" | Paul Cobb[121] |
| 2004 | "Hit That" | John Williams and David Lea[122][123] |
| "(Can't Get My) Head Around You" | Joseph Kahn[124] | |
| 2005 | "Can't Repeat" | Ramon & Pedro[125] |
| 2008 | "Hammerhead" | Teqtonik |
| "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" | Chris Hopewell[126] | |
| 2009 | "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" | Lex Halaby[127] |
| "Stuff Is Messed Up" | F. Scott Schafer and Sean Evans[128] | |
| 2012 | "Days Go By" | Lex Halaby[129] |
| "Cruising California (Bumpin' in My Trunk)" | Mickey Finnegan[130] | |
| 2014 | "Dividing By Zero / Slim Pickens Does The Right Thing And Rides The Bomb To Hell" | Anthony F Schepperd[131] |
| 2015 | "Coming for You" | Josh Forbes[132] |
| 2020 | "Here Kitty Kitty" | The Offspring |
| "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" | ||
| 2021 | "Let the Bad Times Roll" | Marc Klasfeld |
| "We Never Have Sex Anymore" | F. Scott Schafer[133] | |
| "This is Not Utopia" | Samuel Bayer[134] | |
| "The Opioid Diaries" | Daveed Benito[135] | |
| "Gone Away (Live 2021)" | The Offspring[136] | |
| 2022 | "Behind Your Walls" | Jeb Hardwick |
| "Bells Will Be Ringing (Please Come Home For Christmas)" | The Offspring | |
| 2024 | "Make It All Right" | Margaret Bialis |
| "Ok, But This Is The Last Time" | Daveed Benito |
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