But I love that song, it means something to me just like it did to Dexter who wrote the lyrics and I think he was trying to broaden the scope of what he was singing about in that song and make it something that everyone can relate to, you know? "Gone Away" wasn't really…I don't want to go too much into that but it means so many different things to so many different people and I don't want to go into that too much.
I know enough to tell you that it's absolutely not. Is "End of the Line" about the same person or situation that "Gone Away" was? Between the similarity in the lyrical content and the proximity between albums, there seems to be a connection between the songs "Gone Away" and "End of the Line," sort of like "End of the Line" is an angrier version or a "Gone Away" part two. Once we get to the studio we want to hear something a little bit different, a little bit newer, but at the same time Dexter kinda has that aggression and those kind of songs are what we love, we feed off that, you know?Ībsolutely. I don't think we're maturing really, I just don't, but it's harder for us to please ourselves. We just spent our time to make them well…"Dividing By Zero," "Secrets From the Underground" and "Slim Pickens"…those songs, you know I think what it is is we're harder to please as music fans, so when we go in to write music we're a little bit harder to please now. Those songs are just easy for us in a way. Oh I definitely agree, but the punk songs specifically seem to be faster and more aggressive than the ones on the last couple of records even though there is that diversity.
It seems like there's more…you know, we've got "OC Guns," we've got "Cruising California," " All I Have Left is You" and "Dirty Magic" (which is a remake of an older song), so it seems like this is the most diverse record we've ever done. Oh man, it's been so long since I've listened to those records. The new album, Days Go By, has faster, more aggressive punk rock songs in general than Rise and Fall or Splinter did. Punknews writer Jason Epstein had a phone chat with Offspring guitarist Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman to talk about the new album, past members and the (recent) time they found themselves caught up in the wake of a politically-charged shooting. before they hit Japan and Australia later this year. The Offspring -now in their 29th year as a band- are currently on tour, supporting their 9th studio album Days Go By and playing both old and new songs all over the U.S. Contributed by Jason_Epstein, Posted by Richard Verducci Sony Music Interviews 9 years ago
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