Got into them later than I should have. Better than I gave them credit for - Colour and the Shape is an absolute banger of a record. Only thing is that I always just want to stop listening to them and listen to Deftones instead.
It’s a 2.5/5, but rounded down to 2/5. First few albums until One By One are decent enough. But yeah, they’re not my cuppa nowadays. Colour and the Shape is pretty good tbf. Good music vids and a good sense of humour. Not exactly going to choose to listen to them
Willing to go 3/5. Yeah they’re the definition of pedestrian stadium rock these days, but you can’t deny their ability to write a song that can play over a highlights package at the end of a sporting event.
The Colour And The Shape is a really great pop rock album with no songs I’d skip and they have some banging singles
Very high nostalgia factor for those first three albums, absolutely loved them as a 14 year old Offspring hoodied greeb
Pat Smear was in The Germs
Dave Grohl seems like a nice chap, and was also in another band before the Foo Fighters
Things I dislike
They’re so BEIGE
No good albums for 20 years
They headline every festival and I find that annoying for some reason
Dave Grohl probably isn’t that nice
SO BEIGE
My Dad likes them and always enthuses about their televised festival headline sets or Later With Jools Holland appearances and when he does I should find it endearing but because his taste is normally pretty solid it’s incredibly irritating DO BETTER DAD
My father in law loves them and is always banging on about it, but he doesn’t have great taste anyway so it’s less annoying
If they’d broken up after There Is Nothing Left To Lose I’d probably rate a 4 but I’m going with a generous 3 because The Colour And The Shape is good and nostalgia.
Easiest 1 ever. Would be a 2 for their couple of good songs, but they lose a further point for repeatedly squandering their abilities to tear it up by choosing to be dull as fuck for three hours a night.
Anyway, it’s either a 2 or 3 from me, not decided yet. Colour And The Shape is great, obviously, and the first one is good too but I find pretty much everything they’ve done after that achingly boring. Saw them a couple of times and they were pretty good without being spectacular. Hmm.
