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Smash (The Offspring album)
''Smash'' is the third studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring. After touring in support of their previous album, ''Ignition'' (1992), The Offspring began recording ''Smash'' in October 1993 at Track Record in North Hollywood, California. Recording and production were finished two months later, and the album was released on April 8, 1994 on Epitaph Records.
In the United States, ''Smash'' has sold over six million copies〔(The Offspring Still Fly as 'Days Go By' Rises on Rock Charts ) ''Billboard''〕 and has been certified 6x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Peaking at number four on the US ''Billboard'' 200, it has sold over 11 million copies worldwide,〔(THE OFFSPRING CELEBRATE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF SMASH ). Epitaph Records. Retrieved February 18, 2015.〕〔(The Offspring Were 'Flying By the Seat of Their Pants' As They Rocketed to Stardom ). Yahoo Music. Retrieved February 18, 2015.〕〔(THE OFFSPRING HISTORY ) offspring.com/thehistory. Retrieved February 19, 2015.〕〔(Epitaph Announces Re-issues of Smash and Ignition by Offspring ). ''Alarm''. Retrieved February 18, 2015.〕〔(Bad Religion, the Offspring (performing ‘Smash’ in full), Pennywise announce summer tour ) ''Alternative Press''. Retrieved January 31, 2015.〕 making it the best-selling independent label album of all time.〔(The Offspring - Smash ), April 28, 2007. Retrieved October 27, 2011.〕 It was also the first album released on Epitaph Records to obtain gold and platinum status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RIAA - Gold & Platinum Searchable Database )〕 ''Smash'' was The Offspring's introduction into worldwide popularity and critical acclaim, and produced a number of hit singles including the hugely successful "Come Out and Play", "Self Esteem" and "Gotta Get Away" singles. Alongside Bad Religion's ''Stranger than Fiction'', Green Day's ''Dookie'' and Rancid's ''...And Out Come the Wolves'', ''Smash'' was responsible for bringing punk rock into the mainstream, and helped define the sound of the emerging pop punk scene in the 1990s.〔(The Offspring's 'Smash': The Little Punk LP That Defeated the Majors RollingStone on Facebook ) ''Rolling Stone''. Retrieved January 9, 2015.〕 As a fan-favorite, the album received generally positive reviews from critics and garnered attention from major labels, including Columbia Records, with whom The Offspring would sign in 1996. ''Smash'' is the only release where the band was referred to as "Offspring".
==Background and recording==
In 1991, The Offspring released the ''Baghdad'' 7". This EP was the turning point for the band; due to its success the band signed with Epitaph Records. Thom Wilson, who produced The Offspring's first two albums, had been trying to get the Offspring to switch to Epitaph, a label run by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. Gurewitz felt that The Offspring was just not quite pronounced enough for his label, but ''Baghdad'' convinced him to give the band a shot. Wilson and The Offspring entered the studio again and recorded ''Ignition''. Released in 1992, ''Ignition'' exceeded all of the label's and band's expectations.〔(Offspring Biography )〕 Following the subsequent touring to support ''Ignition'', The Offspring began writing new material for their third album in mid-1993. Recording sessions for ''Smash'' took place during October to December 1993 at Track Record in North Hollywood. On the recording process of the album, frontman Dexter Holland told ''Flux Magazine'' in 1994, "When we recorded this album, our last one has sold maybe 15,000 copies, so the possibility of us getting played on the radio or anything like that was pretty much nonexistent. Especially because this kind of music is not generally considered acceptable by the mainstream - so, for something like this to happen, it really took us by surprise."
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