History Music / TheOffspring

* EpicRocking: "Pay the Man", which runs 8 minutes and 9 seconds ([[ProlonguedPrologue most of whom]] are a Middle-Eastern EpicInstrumentalOpener), and then has some silence and a hidden track.

In 2018, Holland and Noodles allegedly decided to ban Greg K. from the band, causing him to file a lawsuit against them. He is now replaced by Todd Morse.

* GriefSong: "Gone Away"

* TitleTrack: "Smash", "Americana", "Conspiracy of One", "Rise and Fall" (Rage and Grace comes from a line in "Fix You"), "Days Go By".

* AGodAmI: The narrator of "Bad Habit" is so AxCrazy he says this in the bridge ("Something's odd, I feel like I'm God"), right before the famous PrecisionFStrike.

--> So don't blame me, I just... work here but I want to FUCK YOOOOOOU!!!!!!

* TeenPregnancy: "Hit That", with lyrics specifically mentioning "baby daddy" and "baby mama".

-->[[spoiler: '''AND YOU CAN ALL HIDE BEHIND YOUR DESKS NOW!'''
--> '''AND YOU CAN CRY "TEACHER, COME HELP ME"!'''
--> '''THROUGH YOU ALL MY AIM IS TRUE!''']]

--> '''AND YOU CAN ALL HIDE BEHIND YOUR DESKS NOW!'''

--> '''THROUGH YOU ALL MY AIM IS TRUE!'''

* ProducePelting: Given the Woodstock 99 crowd was angry at how things were [[TroubledProduction/{{Music}} going wrong in that festival]], the band's concert was marked by flying water bottles. And yet [[NervesOfSteel Dexter remained cool]] even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbCYKY8W5dc#t=180s being hit in his face]]!

* AlbumTitleDrop: Present in several albums, but {{inverted|Trope}} in ''Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace'' - the title was taken from the title of one song and the second line of another ("Fix You").

** "Self Esteem" is more upbeat than the somber first single "Come Out and Play", and it has lyrics about an extreme LoveMartyr.

-->''[[TheStinger Now that's something everyone can enjoy!]]''

* ''Smash'' (1994)

-->''[[TheStinger You stupid dumbshit goddamn MOTHERFUCKER!]]''

* YourCheatingHeart: "Spare Me the Details". It actually goes into details as to exactly what happened during that one sexual encounter...
--> Now I don't need to hear 'bout the sounds they were makin'
--> And I don't need to hear 'bout how long it was takin'
--> Or how the walls, they were shaking, [[TheImmodestOrgasm yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah...oh!]]
--> ...
--> And it drives me insane sittin' with that vision
--> Stuck with that image burned into my brain
--> And I feel so dumb, that I could ever trust her!
--> When someone else [[PrecisionFStrike fucked]] her, then he walked away!

* EpicRocking: "Pay the Man", which runs 8 minutes and 9 seconds, and then has some silence and a hidden track.

-->I took her back and made her dessert (EpicRiff)
Admit it, you too heard [[{{Mondegreen}} "deserve"]] first...(Plus "free"/"dreams" on "The Kids Aren't Alright, et al.)

* QuestioningTitle: "Why Don't You Get a Job?" (along with "She's Got Issues", parodying the {{crawl}}s seen in many a TalkShowWithFists) and "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?"

* TomatoSurprise: "Hammerhead" [[spoiler: The lyrics make it sound like a Cop or a Soldier, but the last verse reveals it is a [[AxesAtSchool school shooter]].]] The song and video suggest that the shooter is delusional and believes himself to be a soldier.

-->I took her back and made her des(EpicRiff)

* CrushKillDestroy: On the original version of their 1989 debut album, the final track was called ''Kill the President''. It has been removed on reissues of the album post-9/11 due to the band being threatened with legal action by the US government if they didn't. Luckily, copies of the album with this track are widely available second hand due to the band's massive popularity in TheNineties.
** Three years later, in 1992, the band made one of their first television appearances on KDOC-TV's ''Hot Seat with Wally George'', hosted by the ultra Conservative radio and television personality himself. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToERzTM-FNU Wally proceeded to call the band "TOTALLY disgraceful", and their album "ludicrous", and then proceeded to destroy it, making only 4,999 vinyl copies left. He then ended the segment, by kicking the band out of his show, hardly giving them any chance to talk. It was one of THE shortest segments in the history of the show.]]

The band's constant members have been Bryan "Dexter" Holland (vocals, guitar), Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman (guitar, backing vocals, NerdGlasses) and Gregory "Greg K." Kriesel (bass, backing vocals). Their best-known drummer was Ron Welty, who was in the band from 1987 to 2003. Afterwards they cycled through a few extra drummers (Josh Freese, Atom Willard of Rocket from the Crypt and Music/AngelsAndAirwaves) before settling on Pete Parada (formerly of Saves the Day and Face to Face), who has been in the band since 2007. Amusingly, Wasserman was the janitor at Holland and Kriesel's high school, and he was initially brought into the band because he was 21 years old and could buy everybody else beer.