![the offspring splinter the offspring splinter](https://images.our-assets.com/fullcover/2000x/9786138597698.jpg)
Spare Me The Details is an extremely catchy track and actually not bad, but the lyrics about someone cheating on Holland are of course plenty cheesy. Also, there’s Spare Me The Details which uses an acoustic guitar, very rare for The Offspring. It’s played in a 1930’s style complete with authentic crackles which makes it sound like its coming from a radio. Now this track is actually a bit creative and not as bad as Worst Hangover Ever, but its still rather stupid. I had a blast / Well now the morning light has come and kicked my ass.” Another silly song is When You’re in Prison. Dexter sings, “Went out drinking late last night. You can probably guess from the title how stupid the lyrics are as well as what the song’s about. Its supposed to be a more relaxing, reggae/ska type song with silly lyrics in the same vein as Why Don’t You Get A Job complete with a brass section.
![the offspring splinter the offspring splinter](https://www.smartartistsmemorabilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/The-Offspring-Australian-Tour-Poster-2004.jpg)
Most notably of these is Worst Hangover Ever. Though, it’s the remaining, less aggressive tunes where Splinter seems to fail.Īlthough The Offspring ditched the pop-punky songs, one’s that were supposed to be serious, from their last two albums, they still create an annoying amount of silly tracks. On Splinter, The Offspring do a very nice job in creating heavy, punky songs and creating a denser sound that they’ve never created before, resulting in an awesome listen. Dexter manages to not go too high on his vocals, where he often sounds annoying, and keeps the energy flowing. It’s as heavy as any of the other songs but is slower and more emotional. Race Against Myself is a major highlight. As well as The Noose, The Offspring create another classic, heavy song on Splinter. Dexter’s vocals are plenty energetic and Noodle’s fast riffage is fairly impressive. These fast, heavy punk songs are all really nice and manage to create some awesome moments which include small guitar and even drum solos. Long Way Home along with Lightning Rod and Never Gonna Find Me follows in this pattern nicely with a rumbling base and relentless drumming. Furthermore, the chunky bass keeps the song moving at a steady pace. Shouts and woh ohs bring this song to life in a burst of energy. The Noose has a classic, killer riff and fast in your face vocals from Dexter. What’s so great about them is their aggressive edge most notably on The Noose. Singer Dexter Holland’s vocals are deeply serious and emotional throughout. These tracks consist of heavy riffs and fast, pounding drum work. Among these are Race Against Myself, Never Gonna Find Me, and Lightning Rod. On Splinter, The Offspring scratch their super pop-punk tracks, seen on their last two releases, and replace them with heavy and punkier songs. Splinter is much heavier than any other Offspring release and mainly less poppier and more punkier. Thankfully, (for the most part), on 2003’s Splinter they manage to accomplish those things. After Conspiracy, they desperately needed to do something fresh, something interesting, and let the pop-punky attitude in their music sieze to exist. Now its frightening to imagine The Offspring being able to plummet further down hill on Conspiracy of One’s follow up, for the music could only get so much worse. Two years later and after much success, they released Americana part two, better known as Conspiracy of One, which forces me to state a very one sided opinion in saying its was overall pure pop-punk trash. Nine years after their first album came out and with the release of 1998’s Americana, The Offspring’s music turned significantly poppier. This also struck their contemporaries, The Offspring.
![the offspring splinter the offspring splinter](https://images.genius.com/ecc707c804bb7b4ef6436e4ec857c7fa.300x300x1.png)
Though gradually, their music became more and more appealing until by 2006’s Decemberunderground it turned into basically souly pop-punk rather than just strait up punk. Their 1999 album, Black Sails in the Sunset, and everything before that were extraordinarily aggressive and raw works. Commonly, what tends to happen in the music scene as bands become more and more mainstream or popular is that their music turns catchier and overall less raw and more polished.