
Smash!
Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion
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Narrated by:
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Kevin T. Collins
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By:
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Ian Winwood
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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nostalgic
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Horrible narrator
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punk in drooooblic
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Great content, poorly executed
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condescending
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1 - the narration. The narrator sounds very robotic. I could be wrong but he sounds like he has no idea what and who he’s talking about. At point mispronouncing names. No good!
2 - I feel the book takes a focus on Green Day more than anything. Specially towards the end. Almost feels like the author ran out of things to talk about when it came to the other bands.
I still enjoyed the book. How some of these records came to be and some of the performances that changed how the world looked at Punk Rock
Cool story - Bad narration
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Dece
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Excellent if you’re interested in the material
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Very interesting and a lot of fun.
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Great book of a great musical era
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