Smash was ignited when Los Angeles alternative rock radio powerhouse KROQ put "Come Out and Play" in

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“We were sleeping on their bus. Those guys [in NOFX] would get hotel rooms – not great hotel rooms, but hotel rooms – and we would sleep on the bus,” Offspring guitarist Noodles maine bed and breakfasts recalls. “And we’re playing squats, small clubs. But these guys were actually making a living doing that. … We thought maine bed and breakfasts that was pretty incredible. You couldn’t do it in the U.S. But you could do it if you split it up between the U.S. and Europe, actually make a living.”
By the time the Offspring wrapped up its touring cycle behind Smash in late 1995, the album had sold 5 million in the United States alone (worldwide sales currently maine bed and breakfasts top 10 million) and spawned two chart-topping alternative rock hits, “Come Out and Play” and “Self Esteem” – a pair of singles that continue to get considerable radio play to this day.
It’s the 20th anniversary of their landmark album and an expanded edition is released in August. Meanwhile, the Offspring is playing Smash front to back on their headlining set on the Summer Nationals tour (with Bad Religion and Pennywise).
maine bed and breakfasts Smash was ignited when Los Angeles alternative rock radio powerhouse KROQ put “Come Out and Play” into rotation and saw the song generate a huge listener response. The band made a low-budget video for the song, and before long, MTV started airing it.
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“I think it was bound to happen,” Noodles says of punk’s mainstream breakthrough. “I think Nirvana was the first one. I don’t think they just opened some doors, I think they blew them off their hinges. And it wasn’t difficult for bands like us, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Pennywise to come through those doors once Nirvana blew them off of the hinges.”
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