Legendary Rock Songs: COME OUT AND PLAY: THE OFFSPRING.
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Theme: COME OUT AND PLAY
Disc: SMASH.
Year: 1994.
Shortly after Green Day had made pop-punk the reigning style in the charts, “Come Out And Play” began to be played insatiably on the radio without even being released as a single. Thus, soon after, Offspring were already the second in discord at the head of the new punk, more incisive, aggressive and metallic in their sound without renouncing in any way to the melodies of easy and fast assimilation.The fashion of the melodic punk would bring tail, with many groups wanting to take advantage of the moment to take a piece of the cake, but none would have the repercussion of “Smash” of Offspring and Green Day.
With an initial rhythmic tinkling, this sarcastic “invitation to the game” began. Then a riff of three simple chords, hard and full of distortion, gave way to a sensual guitar of Arabic airs that could have been used for belly dancing and Dexter Holland began to sing with his piercing and screaming voice. For the pre-chorus he saved a good portion of melody and a few “heys!” to sing along with the title with his fist raised high and his throat to the limit.
The lyrics were not as funny as those of Green Day's “Basket Case”, although they were also treated with a certain cynical humor, Offspring talked about the young teenagers involved in the fashion of neighborhood gangs and urban tribes and the violent street fights between them without having reached the age of majority. Who would have thought that child violence would reach such disproportionate levels in the United States in later years. But the festive air of the song ended up obscuring the interesting dissertation of its lyrics, and “Come Out And Play” remained as a huge hit of the summer of '94, a catchy and fun song that those same teenagers I was talking about chanted happily on the porch of their homes or at the bowling alley while playing with their friends of the “clan”.
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