WORST Single By Green Day or the Offspring

Offspring blows this one away with 49 votes of hatred spread over eight songs, Green Day 19 votes over seven songs. The message is clear. My only question is, who voted for "Warning" and why? It's a pleasant little ditty with a nice hook that was barely ever played - so I'm curious what aspect of it could have aroused such loathing.

49 for Offspring and 18 for Green Day. My vote for the Saints was really a vote for U2. I didn't find Green Day's participation as bothersome.

Now he's getting a tattoo
Yeah he's getting ink done

truly the

Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down

of its time

ughhhhhhhhhhhh "yeah, he's Gettin' Ink Done" some of the worst delivery ever in a ubiquitous novelty hit

always heard it as "getting it done", although that's no better. song's pretty racist really.

yeah, it always had this vague air of "KNOW YOUR PLACE, WHITEY" that rubbed me the wrong way. Probably the cracker version of Ice Cube's "Stay True To The Game"

GD: Wake Me Up When September Ends

This is the worst one though.

Even though I'd take Green Day over Offspring any day of the week.

It's not just "know your place, Whitey" it's also "look at you trying to be all LOLblack and stuff. Why do you want to associate yourself with that stuff when you should be listening to rubbish pop punk music?".

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..

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..

― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Friday, July 22, 2011 10:06 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.