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Template:Otheruses2 The Offspring is the debut studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring. It was released on June 15, 1989 on Nemesis Records as vinyl-only, and was not released on CD until November 21, 1995 on Nitro/Epitaph Records, with a new album cover but otherwise identical. Both the re-releases on the two respective labels are identical as well.

Album information

The album was originally released in 1989 in limited numbers by Nemesis Records, only in a 12" vinyl format. Only 1000 copies of this vinyl were made at the time and it took the band two and a half years to sell them all. Ironically this vinyl is now the most expensive piece of The Offspring's work as it is also the rarest.

The band also re-recorded the tracks "Blackball" and "I'll Be Waiting," which were originally released on a 7" double A-side vinyl record which was distributed by the band itself under the fictitious Black Label Records. The tracks were added to the album, so that it would not just be a 20+ minute mini-album.

In 1995, a year after the band released the highly successful Smash, The Offspring decided to reissue the album (with a different cover) in order to fulfill contractual obligations with Epitaph Records. This would be the first time a proper CD release would occur. Compact cassettes and vinyl represses were also produced but they are hard to find. In 2001, the album was re-issued again on Nitro Records, a label which frontman Dexter Holland founded seven years earlier.

Album pressings after June 26, 2001 (July 16 in the UK) do not feature the closing track "Kill the President;" Dexter Holland claims it was removed to prevent legal pressure falling upon the band and Nitro.

As of 2008, the 1995 Nitro/Epitaph re-issue is now out of print.

Album covers

Two covers of this album exist. The original version has been banned because of its artwork, which features an image of a man's body exploding as a creature resembling the xenomorph from the Alien franchise holding a Stratocaster guitar emerges from his chest. On the 1995 re-release, the original cover was replaced with a different image, based on the cover of The Damned's 1977 debut album Damned Damned Damned.

The back cover of the CD features the cover of the "I'll Be Waiting/Blackball" single.

Track listing

CD issue

All tracks are written by The Offspring

Original vinyl issue

Side 1

All tracks are written by The Offspring

Side 2

• Track 11 was removed from album printings after June 2001. On the official Offspring website, "Kill the President" is not mentioned in the track list.

Track notes

• Track 1, "Jennifer Lost the War", is featured on Punk-O-Rama Volume 1.
• Track 6, "Beheaded", was later re-recorded as "Beheaded 1999" for the movie Idle Hands.
• Track 7, "Tehran", was later re-recorded as "Baghdad", which appears on their long-out of print EP Baghdad.

Personnel

• Bryan Holland (Listed as Dexter Holland on the CD version) - Vocals (Holland did not play guitar on this album)
• Noodles - Guitar, Backing Vocals on "Blackball"
• Greg K. - Bass, Backing Vocals on "Blackball"
• Ron Welty - Drums

The song "Beheaded" was co-written by The Offspring and (original drummer) James Lilja.

References

General references

• The Offspring (Media notes). Nemesis/Epitaph/Nitro Records. 1989. {{cite AV media notes}}: |format= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |publisherid= and |notestitle= (help); Unknown parameter |albumlink= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |bandname= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |mbid= ignored (help)

Notes

1. OFFSPRING Biography Free
2. http://cocatalog.loc.gov/

External Links

• Official page for the album

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• Debut albums
• The Offspring albums
• 1989 albums
• Epitaph Records albums
• Albums produced by Thom Wilson