My overwhelming feeling is that I like this well enough, I guess? Like, that’s the feeling: “I like this well enough, I guess?” Question mark included as part of the feeling. It’s so much stuff that I mostly like, but that blends together to the point that I just lose my patience with it. It started out more rough and punk, and got progressively more cleaned up and pop. I’ve got some mixed feelings about that, because in a lot of ways I think the cleaning up is just an improvement which allows me to hear more of what’s going on and enjoy more details and decisions in the music, but I also think a lot of personality is lost.
I think I’d probably say that Americana is my favorite of the albums that still feel somewhat punk, and Supercharged (their most recent, at time of writing) is my favorite album that just feels like pop. I rather like Supercharged, actually.
I’m a little bummed that I don’t like them more, if only because “Come Out And Play” is one of my and my siblings’ all time favorite songs to dance to in the kitchen. It is a song that… I don’t even know if I have a lot of feelings about it, so much as it just feels so much a part of the way things are. It’s a part of me; it’s a part of the world to me in a way that not everything is. But other than that slight hope for something I’d like more, I don’t think there was all that much to make me want to like the band all that much. They’re fine. They’re pretty repetitive, they sound pretty samey to me. I definitely was losing my patience with listening to them by the end.
I was almost going to make them a C, but I don’t think I like them enough for that. They aren’t interesting enough to me, there’s just not enough going on. I kinda like them, but don’t love them. I get tired of them, but not because I don’t like them. There’s not really a noteworthy reason that I don’t like them, and there’s not really a noteworthy reason I would want to like them more than I do. All (or most?) of my Cs are artists who mean something to me, who are something more even if that something more isn’t really something I jive with. The Offspring isn’t like that. They’re definitely on the “like” side of like/don’t like/dislike, so for sure no D rank, but I don’t care about them or think they’re cool enough for the C. Giving them a low B- is what’s left.
The Offspring complete, now listening to: The Long Winters
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