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Smash!
- Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
A group biography of '90s punk rock told through the prism of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and more.
Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and changed the genre forever. While the punk originators remained underground favorites and were slow burns commercially, their heirs shattered commercial expectations for the genre. In 1994, Green Day and The Offspring each released their third albums, and the results were astounding. Green Day's Dookie went on to sell more than 15 million copies and The Offspring's Smash remains the all-time best-selling album released on an independent label. The times had changed, and so had the music.
While many books, articles, and documentaries focus on the rise of punk in the '70s, few spend any substantial time on its resurgence in the '90s. Smash! will be the first to do so, detailing the circumstances surrounding the shift in '90s music culture away from grunge and legitimizing what many first-generation punks regard as post-punk, new wave, and generally anything but true punk music.
With astounding access to all the key players of the time, including members of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and many others, renowned music writer Ian Winwood at last gives this significant, substantive, and compelling story its due. Punk rock bands were never truly successful or indeed truly famous, and that was that - until it wasn't. Smash! is the story of how the underdogs finally won and forever altered the landscape of mainstream music.
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- Ross
- 26-03-19
Zzzz
It’s like listening to a robot.
Shame as I really wanted to like it as it’s my era.
It’s how it goes with audio books, so much is in the narration.
Hey-go, on to the next.
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- Eoin H
- 19-01-23
90s punk fan must
If you grew up with 90’s punk like I did, then this is the book for you.
Easy listen & great insight into the biggest bands in their genre
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- Mr. Farren K. Perkins
- 06-04-19
Punkalicious!
As much a biography on Westbeach Recorders in Hollywood as the bands mentioned in the title, this look at the 90s mainstream punk explosion is truly addictive. If you have even a little interest and working knowledge of the bands included, this exploration provides a great insight and chronology of their collective journeys to the big time.
Interestingly, it turns out I pretty much went to Westbeach Recorders without realising it as part of my honeymoon in 2018. The building now houses the Museum of Death and another recording studio on Hollywood Boulevard.
I honestly did not want this to end. It really spoke to the nostalgic music geek in me, and my love for this genre. Any chance of a sequel covering the pop-punk and emo explosion of the early to mid 2000s?
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- Heather
- 22-02-19
I just loved this!
Loved! Great to hear the hardwork and dedication which created great music, and the party which went along with it!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-01-24
Interesting
There was lots of information about Green Day that I have not heard of before.
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- MR
- 19-02-19
You're not punk and I'm telling everyone.
Fantastic book. It could have been twice the length and I still would have been left wanting more. Punk rock was the soundtrack to my youth and continues to be the soundtrack of my mid-to-late thirties. There could not have been a better group of bands to be exposed to as a fed up and isolated youth in the mid 90s. Up the punks.
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- Steven Hessey
- 22-12-18
If you think you’ll like it... you will!
I don’t think I could be more a perfect member of the desired target audience for this collection of stories. I have a playlist of about 10 or 12 band, I’ve had this same playlist since I was 18. It hasn’t changed and it won’t change. This book gives fascinating insight into the lives of the people who were there and who shaped the lives of 4 of the bands from my playlist. Not as in deep on the history of NOFX but we have their own book for that, this is really the story of green day, Bad Religion the offspring and Epitaph records. Well worth your time if you as invested in to any or all of these 3 bands. Of your not, I’d say it was still worth a go, but I’m guessing it was my love for the above that got me through the 12 hours or so in a little under 5 days.
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- Richard S
- 20-09-20
Mind knumbingly boring
Its really very boring. Written like a university report dryly citing all the references and listing out song titles and lyrics with the writers name. With a heavy bias towards Green Day in that regard listing pretty much all the songs on dookie, insomniac and American idiot. I ended up skipping through sections as it's just mind knumbingly boring.
Its very focused on bad religion, the offspring, green day, lookout and epitaph records so don't get this if you want to know about the scene at the time (or to hear interesting anecdotes or stories as there aren't many).
Also contrary to the style of citations and dry facts it's interspersed with random opinions- bosstones are great, the exploited are rubbish and Conan O'Brien is the best us TV host of all time.
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