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To me, it was new, quirky, brazen, unapologetic and, most importantly, I felt like it gave me permission to go my own way when it came to music. Up until then, the only rock music I had danced to was the Beatles with my mom, so this was a revolutionary moment. After a few listens, I slowly became obsessed with the catchy, jokey melody, the cadence of the guitar riffs, Dexter Holland’s high pitched, throaty voice it just made me want to get up and dance. It didn’t really matter that my English was limited at the time and I didn’t really understand what Dexter Holland was saying, everything about the music just called me. As soon as the first drumroll and the “give it to me baby” chorus came on, I kinda lost it and got lost in it.
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One day, in between learning Britney Spears’ dance moves and fawning over the Backstreet Boys, my cousin -whose friends were in high school rock bands- tells me, super excited: “You’ve gotta check this out! This song is so good!.” She fast-forwarded the tape and put on “Pretty Fly for a White Guy” by the Offspring. It was our ritual our sacred bonding time where we were introduced to the world of boy bands, TRL and everything with which I would become obsessed with over the years, the things that led me into the path of music journalism. That meant that every week she would leave MTV recording on her VCR overnight for several days and on Sunday, right after lunch with our grandparents, we would trek upstairs to her house and watch all the hours of music videos and Celebrity Deathmatch she had recorded over the week. It was 1998 in Puerto Rico and we didn’t have any cable television yet in my neighborhood, a barrio in a municipality close to the capital, San Juan. I came kind of late to the Offspring party for certain standards, but I would say the band got to me right on time and exactly when I needed it. Each edition will cover music the writer loved as a teenager before moving on to “cooler” music, whatever that means.
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The hits collection and an already-completed new studio album are part of a deal to settle a legal dispute and close out the band’s contract with its label, Prospect Park.įIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH‘s seventh full-length LP, which was finished a year ago, will follow up 2015’s “Got Your Six” and will be released in spring 2018.When You Were Young aims to reclaim the music of our misremembered youths from the scratched mix-CDs underneath our car seats. But now this is a cool package with different stuff on it. Let’s put some new songs on it, though.’ We don’t wanna make… ‘Cause people can pretty much… You know, they have the records already. And now we’re, like, ‘We have a greatest hits.’ And the label thought it was the right time, so we were, like, ‘Cool. We’re always wrapped up in our vacuum, in our cocoon of our daily life, so you don’t pay attention to that stuff. It just seems like it just started, even though it’s been ten years. on December 21, just in time for the holidays.ĭrummer Jeremy Spencer told Razor 94.7 that he was unsure about doing a greatest-hits LP at first, saying, “I was, like, ‘Do we even have enough hits?’ And then we looked and we have, like, thirteen or fifteen radio hits. The tour is headed over to Germany, Austria, Spain Belgium and Holland next before concluding at Wembley Arena in London, U.K. Additionally, the song has racked up over two million streams worldwide in just a few weeks making it the band’s biggest streaming debut for a lead track.įIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH has amassed a total of over two billion streams worldwide to date and is currently overseas co-headlining this fall’s biggest European arena rock tour with IN FLAMES and special guest OF MICE & MEN. The first single from “A Decade Of Destruction”, a brand new song called “Trouble”, has already seen great success as it hit #1 on the iTunes Metal and top 5 positions on the Rock charts around the globe. “War Is The Answer”, the band’s 2009 album, and its hit single “Bad Company” previously went platinum in 20, respectively. In other news, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH is celebrating the RIAA ( Recording Industry Association Of America) platinum certifications of its “American Capitalist” (2011) and “The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell, Vol. The track is the second single from FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH‘s compilation album, “A Decade Of Destruction”, which is being released today (Friday, December 1). FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Releases Cover Of THE OFFSPRING's 'Gone Away', Celebrates New Platinum CertificationsįIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH has released a lyric video for its cover verion of “Gone Away”, originally recorded by THE OFFSPRING in 1997.