Rise, Fall has some good tracks.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Most people are shitting on Come to Brazil, but it definitely hits the so-bad-its-good territory for me. I would much rather take that over the lifeless filler that pollutes the rest of the album.

They better have no dates in Brazil for their next tour, it'd be hilarious.

Album Rating: 1.5

Yeah the brazil track was probably the best track on this because of how ridiculous it was lol. I genuinely thought it was gonna be a bad Sad but True rip-off when I heard the intro tho

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

think i like this better than conspiracy of one

would bump to 3.5 if dexter weren't huffing helium and if the stems weren't drunkenly assembled in audacity

Album Rating: 2.0

You force yourself through this album trying to find a decent song. You here a couple of faster paced songs and think ok there might be promise. In reality these songs aren't good. The production of the vocals is worse than a modern whiny pop metalcore band. A song from Ixnay comes on after the album finishes and you think fuck there are never going to get back to this kind of quality. So long as they're having fun, good on em. Plenty of back catalog to keep the people happy when the tour.

This is mildly terrible lol

Honestly, Truth in Fiction is a jam, I'll give them that, and Come to Brazil... it was ok til the chorus.

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They haven't had a great album since the 90s whereas a lot of their peers have at least managed to limp along at a decent level (Blink-182, LagWagon, Bad Religion, Rise Against, Yellowcard etc). They leaned too heavily on the gimmicks after "Come Out on Play" hit it big.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

but their second best album came out in 2008

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

Rise and Fall is a solid three for me. For me it's Ignition > Smash = Americana

Smash
Ignition
Ixnay
...

Pfffffffffft

Album Rating: 3.0

I have similar feelings to this as I do Let The Bad Times Roll. I'm kinda used to the production and Dexter's higher-pitched vocals now. There's a few decent tracks in here mixed in with a few duds - again, probably an EP's worth of good material but no more.



I don't listen to very much punk rock but I like The Offspring. Even if this is little more than re-hashed call-backs to earlier works at times, it's comfortable & familiar and I like that.

Rise and Fall being their second best album is certainly a take

OMG I have to play more songs. Truth in Fiction is beat for beat basically Recipe for Hate with a couple gang vox sounding inserts. Also I was on the Offspring's side back then with that whole Epitaph dispute. I felt like they were pushing them around a lot, of course they went to Columbia. And this is the Come to Brazil song. Sounds like a Weird Al parody of Metallica.

I think album sucks so far. It's not like I think The Offspring is a terrible band, and they can have their fun. I just remember my older brother saying you'll never listen to the Offspring when you got older. And well I don't really but I certainly still listen to their old stuff on occasion and stuff like "Can't Get my Head Around You" is fucking great or even "Defy You" is fine in it's moody slower Staind influence haha

Album Rating: 3.0

The guitars are on strike on this album, I can only hear the vocals and the drums in the mix, pretty good job Bob though for a first produced album...

Album Rating: 1.5

The vocals are so fucking bad, painfully annoying really

Album Rating: 3.0

50% of the only things that u can hear are bad XD, I might drop it to a 2...

"Light It Up" is very classic The Offspring a la "Stare At The Sun." They call it out themselves: "It's the same old song we've heard all along"...but it's a good song, so I dig it.

"Truth In Fiction" bothers me in that it's a rip off of "Recipe For Hate" when "Stranger Than Fiction" was, like, right there.

I honestly think it's a decent record. Completely unnecessary, but definitely better than the last album and far better than I thought the band could ever produce in this day and age.

Wow, the vocals on this are terrible. I see Bob Rock still sucks. You Can't Get There From Here is also a ripoff of 21st Century (Digital Boy).

Awful band. Saw them briefly at a festival this summer. The onstage banter was so obviously contrived and the whole experience was utterly cringeworthy.