Americana

Album · Released 17 November 1998

Americana

The Offspring

There are two good reasons to look beyond Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) on Americana. One is that The Offspring have sharper songs here. The other is that the album eventually travels somewhere much stranger than its most famous joke suggests. The route is uneven, but it gives the record a personality that a collection of singles would lack. Have You Ever and Staring at the Sun establish the fast side of the band early. The playing is direct and…

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