The Offspring "Smash" (RSD Essential) Color:TRANSPARENT MILKY CLEAR Balliet plays cello for the

Balliet plays cello for the band

1986 Talking Heads-Produced Classic

Along with earning a career total of seven Grammy Award nominations (including Album Of The Year) and winning praise from leading outlets like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone

and very artistic hybrid that brings the forgotten lessons from the earliest days of rock 'n' roll into a future that has room for the modernities of studio technique and 21st-century singer/songwriter idiosyncrasies

The Offspring "Smash" (RSD Essential) Color:TRANSPARENT MILKY CLEAR Balliet plays cello for theThe Offspring preserve the essential ingredients of their chosen genre guitars grinding out three chords, shouted vocals, and plenty of vitriol and layer them over a melodic base that packs considerable popular appeal. The singles from Smash, the Offspring's breakthrough album, still receive considerable radio airplay: "Gotta Get Away," "Come Out and Play," and "Self Esteem." With these and Smash's 11 other tracks, the band chronicles the adolescent