The Offspring - Supercharged (October 11, 2024) • Page 4

Is Bob Rock mixing their records too? Can't figure out how, what I assume are professional mixers, botch their stuff up so bad? Or is Rock handing in terrible source material to mix?

 

Pretty Fly is far sillier than those if you ask me.

 

Halfway through and so far my favorite is Ok, This Is The Last Time. Catchy AF.

 

Love the riffage on Get Some The YEAH!s are lifted straight out of Bad Habit though haha

 

Brandon's drumming really shines on You Can't Get There From Here.

 

I'd be surprised if they didn't go back to Josh Freese again on drums in the studio. He's basically done them all forever.

 

Brandon is credited for tracks 2, 3, 6, and 10. Josh did the rest.

 

Surprised Jonah nor Todd played on the album though, even though Brandon did. In regards to Todd not playing bass on the album, maybe some legal agreement between the band and Greg K?

 

probably just Dexter being Dexter

 

Wow you weren’t kidding, the verses are exactly Recipe For Hate haha

 

Wish I could find enjoyment in this but I do not like the production and most of it sounds like it was written by AI.

 

I really like this! Last album had a few more highs but this seemed pretty consistent throughout. Actually excited to keep listening more.

 

Interesting they continue to have Josh Freese do studio drums on 6 of the 10 songs. Don’t mind at all haha

 

Agreed. No home runs here, but I’ll take an album of doubles.

Not to mention, it’s an actual album. There are more “real” songs here than we’ve gotten on an Offspring album since 2008.

 

"OK, But This Is The Last Time" is super great but damn the chorus is so clunky percussion-wise. Kind of ruins the song for me.

 

Really enjoyed this. “An album of doubles” is the perfect summary and I don’t think that’s a knock on it.

It’s not a no skips album (I just don’t like “Come to Brazil”), but I could pleasantly listen to the other 9 tracks without any issue. Some really fantastic hooks on OK, Fall Guy, Truth In Fiction as a Smash-level rager, and You Can’t Get There with a very 90’s rock chorus, plus Make It Alright and Light It Up. That’s a 6/10.

 

I unapologetically liked their last album.

I also really like this on first listen. It's fun.

 

Had my second listen during my morning run. This thing has a little of everything....Offspring, NOFX, Bad Religion, Cheese Ball....No skips from me.

Come To Brazil is ridiculous and fun. Genius of them since they can literally change the song live to suit whatever city they're playing in haha.

 

And I’m a Days Go By defender; only 2 songs I actually hate on there.

and OC Guns is way worse than the other one

 

The songs were good! The problem was there was like...literal filler (Gone Away piano AND lullaby version, etc)

 

This is basically exactly what I want from this band in 2024. Fun, high energy stuff that I can throw on in the car or on a jog

 

I actually love Cruising California. It's super catchy and not meant to be taken seriously haha

 

Days Go By is very solid - the last album felt like a glorified B-Sides album to me - that they barely stretched to 30 minutes

hopeful about this one though

 

There’s a few cool tracks on the last album, but this is much better. Feels like a solid, fast paced, no frills Offspring record.

 

We got relatively solid albums from both Eve 6 and The Offspring in 2024. I'm a happy camper.

*edit: You can probably throw Green Day into that mix too.