![]() ![]() ![]() As actual songs they're somewhat gimmicky, but in a greatest-hits context they're noteworthy snapshots. pop culture's slide into reality TV madness and unsafe I Want a Famous Face-style obsessions - they have the shouty sheen of a daytime talk show and revel in empty trends and opportunism. "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" and "Why Don't You Get a Job?" get points for anticipating U.S. The breakthrough Smash hits start it out: the surf guitar wrangle "Come Out and Play," the Nirvana-baiting of "Self Esteem," and "Gotta Get Away." "All I Want" from 1997's Ixnay on the Hombre is next, and then it's the sluggish, echoing arena punk of "Gone Away." ("And it FEELS! And it FEELS LIKE! Heaven's so far away!") With that comes the switch, when Offspring tailed away from punk relativism into hyper, referential snark. It also tacks on a new song called "Can't Repeat," which despite its name is a repeat of the 1998 single "Kids Aren't Alright." After the new opener the set moves chronologically, so its songs are like bullet points on a time line of radio and MTV in the 1990s. Greatest Hits gathers every one of the band's modern rock radio warhorses into one place. Apparently the Offspring could keep 'em separated no longer. ![]()
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