WORST Single By Green Day or the Offspring

man apparently i missed some really terrible offspring singles after "white guy."

Huh, always took it as a little more like "We, the Offspring and our fans (born largely after 1980 and well-accustomed to hip-hop) look down on this character as an outsider faker trying to pull it off." Not really better, mind you, but it never seemed like Holland and co looked down on black culture, just that they thought they were hipper to it than they probably were.

Then again, it's a reflection of the attitude a lot of rock kids had around that time anyway - people throwing bottles of pish whenever a rapper or pop act dared to grace the stage at Reading etc..

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i mean, also, in 1978 with DISCO SUCKS, and 1988 with RAP IS CRAP and 2003 with whatever shitty Victory Records band was trying to TAKE THE ROCK BACK

I mean, race politics aside, "Pretty Fly" was basically a rant against "posers," which is understandable, but it's not like their own scene wasn't just brimming with posers of all stripes.

Could have done the JNCO-era version of this if they wanted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pKkOOQR7_o

2003 with whatever shitty Victory Records band was trying to TAKE THE ROCK BACK

This was a thing?

it was actually 2005/6, if i remember correctly, but there was a concerted effort by victory's pr people to get hawthorne heights to beat ne-yo to the number one spot.

yeah, i didn't remember the details, but thats what i was talking abt.

i can't remember if that was the same year pretty rickey spanked the shins, but it was a good time for pop r&b acts slapping down the dreams of indie bands.

The Kids Aren't Alright is a kool song

who the fuck voted basket case

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Man, it didn't get any votes or hate above, but man am I glad that "Gone Away" has basically disappeared from the radio landscape etc. If one good thing came out of the demise of alt-rock it was the purging of that particular kind of late-90s gritty loud dirge. In its moment it was played I think once every fifteen to twenty minutes and one could have easily believed that it would never ... go away.

I saw a commercial this weekend for some televised concert series which featured the Offspring performing 'Come Out And Play'. And I felt some deep existential empathy for those dudes, still plugging earnestly away twenty years later on a number that probably induces more 'hey, remember this stupid song?'-s among the general populace than it does genuine enjoyment.

while the ultimate winner would probably be the same this is a poll that would definitely be worth a re-do!

Terrible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00ikilDxW4

You can pretty much take your pick from any of the Offspring tracks here for the worst.