Okay, I'll bite... Prog rock/psychedelic? π
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We always called it punk, but hey, I was 14...
While most songs are the regular punk rock the band popularized, others such as the Latino-influenced "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" and the psychedelic "Pay the Man" add variety, "so that there's enough in there so people don't get bored". "Pay the Man" was even left off Ixnay on the Hombre for sounding too different from anything else the band had currently made at that time. The structure of the song more resembles progressive rock (having no repetitive sections and no continuous musical theme).
Canβt see this image without mentally autoplaying Welcome
Welcome to Americana Please make your selection Followed by the pound sign now
Followed by a guitar riff that will have you flinging your headphones off while scrambling for the volume on your discman. You can almost smell the y2k.
This is punk rock all day long, but it's a great song on a great album from an epic band.
Most of the rest of this album, I agree. This song however, sounds nothing like punk rock to me. The lyrics have the right feel. But it sounds like the experimental track that the George Harrison fan in the band wrote while coming down on some psychedelic...which is probably why I love it.
Since it came out I have been playing this song for unknowing listeners, and they never guess The Offspring until Dexter starts singing (and even then it's after multiple guesses).
In another comment, I quoted the wiki article that I pulled the genre from.
Ahh, I had forgotten about the beginning and also the hidden track. I buy CD's but I use a PC or mp3 player for sound these days so I rip it before shelving it. I separated my mp3 track into 3 different tracks years ago. It was weird at the office when my computer would play mariachi music. I'm listening to it again in order now. Yeah, I like the extreme transitions in the single track. A numbing followed by a sock in the face and then finished with a raspberry. Kind of a 1-2-3 punch.
Yeah, I'm onboard now.
Kinda surprised to hear anything positive about this track on Lemmy. The song is literally about going to hell for making bad and selfish life choices. While other punk bands were bitching about their parents and "the system", Offspring released this banger of a record which was mostly about how society is fucked but personal accountability is paramount.