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"Offspring - Conspiracy of One review"

Hailing from the same roots as Green Day, The Offspring have only recently been recognised in the UK as a great rock band. Their current album, Conspiracy of One can only help matters, as it contains some wonderful tracks which seem to relay a wide range of musical influences.

The song Come Out Swinging starts the album off and really gets you into the right mood pretty fast, the fast beat and unmistakable style of the band shines out in this track.

Next up, Original Prankster plays on the band's more comical element, seen both in the infamous Get a Job and Pretty Fly (for a white guy) it's a great song for getting back at the crap that life throws at you.

Want You Bad, the current hit, is another great song that has a great play on words. The Offspring are great for coming up with intelligent lyrics, despite the general feeling about this type of music not needing such 'nonsense' I'm sure it echos many men's fantasies as well!

Million Miles Away seems more like the aforementioned Green Day's territory, it has that thoughtful style, while still keeping the tempo to the max. Dammit, I changed Again follows on as a heavier number and then Special Delivery is almost like a thrashy version of a Terrorvision song that works really well and is incredibly catchy.

One Fine Day is the beer induced happy song that has deeper, more troubled roots and all along reinforces this with a deep brooding tune. Denial Revisited seems almost like Nirvana at times and has a lot of throaty singing then both Vultures and the title track Conspiricy of One finish the album off with a dark, but ultimately satisfying tone. The bonus track, Huck It is included almost as an advert for the Offspring 'movie' of the same name.

It's nice to see that this disc is well thought out and contains some great PC extras too. Put the disc in your computer and you get 4 videos (including the excellent Pretty Fly video) and also a great little sing along section where the words appear on screen, bizzarre!

The music on offer shouldn't dissapoint any Offspring fan and it's more mainstream feel to this album may mean that many more people add this to their collections as well. Good stuff.

Cheers for the comments. Yeah, Offspring's earlier stuff is very good too.

There are hardly any decent live bands around down here in Devon. Exeter does have a few visits, but mostly from bands like the Corrs etc.

hm!

Ok, I'm confused.

Their websites says their playing Nottingham on the 26th?

Dude, how did you find out about Chelmsford?
Seriously, I am amped if they're playing that close to me.

A tiny little pub (played there twice myself) with Clutch in?

Fan-f****g-tastic.

They're at The Camden Underworld June 15th, already got my tickets for that.

Army and Navy...Hurrah Hurrah Hurrah

Non-Zero Possibility wrote:
> Gonna be seeing Clutch @ Army & Navy in Chelmsford on June 26th.
>

It's gonna be BIG!

/Stj
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CHELMSFORD>??>???????

HOLY SH**!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's 20 mins from me.

YAY!!!!!!!!

That's good! I learnt the violin at secondary school, but now I can't read music or play anything. Such a wasted youth!

I am a big fan of Green Day but The Offspring do nothing special for me!

I can play 'Orignial Prankster' on my guuitar though :D

Gonna be seeing Clutch @ Army & Navy in Chelmsford on June 26th.

It's gonna be BIG!

/Stj

'Clutch' 'clutch' I'll remember! Yes it was an excellent review 'pb' well done, you should be a CD reviewer.

Good review.

I prefer their earlier stuff to be honest, "Keep 'em Seperated" and "Come out to play" were rollicking tunes.

However, you must all get into Clutch.

I have decided to get on a mission to convert you all to CLUTCH.

And they're playing in June in Camden.

Remember the name.

CLUTCH

Pretty Fly for a white guy is a very good song, I remember!!!

A very well written review and an entertaining read, I read yesterday and forgot to reply - they're not bad are they!