We, The Infected

Ready for some serious wall-shaking wild rocking? Here we go.

So, last night I had a conversation with FernandoAlonso7 about how much I love the music of the band called The Offspring. I'm sure even if you aren't familiar with the name or their genre you've already heard Pretty Fly or one of their more popular songs.

Now, at this point I'd ask everyone who couldn't add anything else besides "How can you listen to this kind of sh!t? Grow up, kid!", to leave. Even as a huge Offspring fan, I do respect your opinion, so just move to the next topic, and leave me be. Thank you.

For those who stay, I want to tell you that after I've become infected, I started to catch a lot of things in their lyrics, just one or two lines per song I haven't paid much attention for in pre-LTROI times. But sometimes it's so hard to imagine that they were written by someone who hasn't seen the film. Although they were all released long before even the book came out, I can't help to feel that somehow they were inspired by the story.

A few examples:

Dammit, I Changed Again

Just check out the first two lines:

Hey, come inside
While I stand here acting bold

I think we all saw something like that, next one.

(Can't Get My) Head Around You

Every single day, what you say
Makes no sense to me
Letting you inside isn‘t right
(Cause) you‘ll mess with me

And that wouldn't be good. But letting you inside isn't right is definitely a nice choice of words.

And later in the some song:

All your feeding
Shows you‘re bleeding

I mean what the hell does that mean anyway? Maybe it's just because of my poor English, but I've never had any idea, what does he wants to say with those lines until I saw a certain film where someone was feeding and bleeding.

Amazed

The next one is depression at it's finest:

And when you know you can‘t relate
To one more shiny face
Your heart breaks
No one cares
And when you know you can‘t go on
Cause everything is wrong
Your heart breaks
But no one‘s there

I believe If Eli didn't return to make a Kubrickesque massacre at the poolhouse, Oskar would've end up as a half-eyed alcoholic punkrocker, who writes these kind of stuff all day long.

Dirty Magic

Hell, yeah, with this song we are there. Really. Read the whole lyrics at the link. Basic clichés from the early nineties, but I would swear any day that it was written by friggin' Håkan and is about Eli. Creepy.

And finally:

Me and My Old Lady

I don't like this song that much (although its bass intro sounds like it was fell down from a supernatural world above us), but I have to admit, during the "bli mig lite" scene, seeing the old-Eli face the first thing that came to my mind was this:

Me and my old lady
Suck each other dry

Of course during a vampire movie I wasn't thinking about that kind of sucking. Please don't kill me, guys.

I never thought that Pretty Fly was very typical of them, but then I guess I'm not familiar enough with them. It never occurred to me to wonder what their genre was. How would you characterize their genre?

I've never had the opportunity to see them live, but DUI has always been on my "Favorites" play list.

I believe If Eli didn't return to make a Kubrickesque massacre at the poolhouse, Oskar would've end up as a half-eyed alcoholic punkrocker, who writes these kind of stuff all day long.

You have such a way with words. Too funny!

And yeah, you're right about some of those lyrics. The do seem to fit in an almost eerie way.

Wolfchild wrote: How would you characterize their genre?

Most critics call them a standard Californian punk band and I think it is true for their first two albums (except for Dirty Magic on the second one, it's like the darker side of Nirvana), but after Smash their music became kinda variable. They started to make a lot of songs that would fit into the genre of rock, hip-hop and ska, for example. From the third album it's pretty hard to define their music.

Amd I don't think that Pretty Fly is typical of them, but it was a really popular song that almost everyone knows.

a_contemplative_life wrote:You have such a way with words. Too funny!

Hah, I'm trying to figure out since yesterday if this is a compliment or it means that I'm just making stupid mistakes with my English. Either way, it will get (even) better, thanks for letting me know about it.

I love The Offspring.

"She ain't no ball and chain, she ain't no ball and chain, she ain't no ball and chain..." Great, now I've got that song in my head! I know you said you didn't really like it, but it's one of my favorites of theirs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujKtUlDtAk8

Theres nothing wrong with Offspring. Bad Habit is the ultimate driving song!