The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland recently talked to Australia’s Herald Sun about the making of the band’s iconic album Smash, which gave them worldwide fame and success and is considered by many to be an all-time favorite punk album. On the songwriting process, Dexter recalls:
“We were very excited about the songs it felt like we were becoming a better band. When I was trying to write the songs for Smash I was driving a really old, beat-up pick-up truck and it was so old and dilapidated that the radio didn’t work but because it didn’t work it gave me time to drive around and think about the songs.”
Smash was originally released on April 8, 1994 (which happened to be the same day Kurt Cobain died) on Epitaph Records. Thanks to their biggest hit “Come Out and Play“, the album has managed to sell over 12 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling independent label records of all time.
Yesterday, the band released their new album Days Go By on Columbia Records.
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