They want so badly to be the Dead Kennedy's and in spite of their shocking lack of ambition, they fail to come remotely close to their objectives. On the opening track 'Come out Swinging' they show their utterly confounding inadequacy at being unirriating and doing something that NOFX weren't doing when they were merely a twinkle in Jello Biafra's eye. In fact, if you've got the big shorts, spikey hair and a skateboard you probably think this "rocks" or it "kicks-ass!" Three powerchords and churlish, sluggish cliched lead guitar parts. 'Conspiracy of One' gives you everything you'd expect and nothing more. Throw in the odd brass section here and there and call it ska but it's still true to it's U.S punk roots and that means bad.
#THE OFFSPRING CONSPIRACY OF ONE FOR FREE#
Every record shop in Britain currently have a special offer that runs thus : Whenever you buy any album by Blink 182, The Vandals, Less than Jake, Greenday, Offspring or the Mighty Mighty Bosstones you get - for free - every other album recorded by all of the other artists. You see, value for money is an overrated concept. Anything to save us from this and I mean anything! In fact Noah ought to strap on his guitar, immerse himself in the Godspeed back catalogue and give us a nice post-rock "concept" album.
The Offspring really are a bit rubbish - and apparently it's gonna rain alot and some guy called Noah is taking things onto an ark two by two. The Offspring really are just too old - and Free Nelson Mandela while your at it. I think their songs are a bit samey - _get back in the knife drawer. I, though probably putting my life on the line by doing so, hereby decree that the Offspring's songs are tailor made for MTV - Oh my god, shock horror. The album also features some smart lyrics, though the Offspring do have some sophomoric fun on the party anthem "One Fine Day." Conspiracy of One is a solid and well-crafted recording and offers a fine progression from a band that has no qualms about doing what they do best.The Offspring conspiracy is, after endless months of late nights finally unearthed. Each song features Dexter Holland's lead vocals and Noodles and Holland's crafty guitar playing, the group's two defining factors.
They also inject elements of hip-hop, rap-metal, and Nirvana-like grunge into a few songs, giving Conspiracy of One some musical diversity, but it's subtle the album remains firmly planted in the world of punk. The band departs from its SoCal punk roots at times - a ballad called "Denial, Revisited" provides one of the album's slower instances. The tight arrangements, vocal interplay and refined guitar work on "Original Prankster," "Want You Bad," and "Million Miles Away" sound like Offspring songs, but don't all sound the same. What's wrong with sounding the same if you get better and better at it with each album? On Conspiracy of One, the Offspring do just that, resulting in their most musically mature collection to date. There are many layers to any given genre of music, and growing into it is just as much of an accomplishment as, say, experimenting with several different categories. Contrary to the popular belief of music critics, listeners and artists alike, a band that doesn't deviate from its genre on its albums isn't musically limited.