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Okay I had an idea! Next year, Green Day's Dookie and their contemporaries, The Offspring's Smash both turn twenty years old. So I thought, how cool would it be for Green Day to do record Smash in it's entirety and The Offspring do the same with Dookie. I am aware that this will never happen but it's a cool thought. What do you think about it?

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The Offspring is great! I'm not sure how well their version of Dookie would sound though.. there are no 'heeyyyyyy's or Spanish counting and/or slang in any of the songs... they might be able to pull off All By Myself though!

Green Day playing Come Out and Play would be killer though! and I love What Happened To You? so that would be cool to hear!

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Billie can't pull of those vocals, no fucking way :P

he could do his style of it, I think! lol like Knowledge. he couldn't do the 'You gotta keep 'em separated' part though, nope, maybe Mike though, or Tre haha, that would be cool!

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I think that would be kind of cool and both bands could make their own styles of the songs.

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Come Out and Play by Green Day would sound great. With Tre doing the "you gotta keep em' separated" part.

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I swear I read somewhere that these 2 bands hated each other

Yeah, they did for a while, especially around the time Dookie and Smash came out. But from what I've heard they're on somewhat-friendly terms now.

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It's not going to happen and that's fine by me; I don't care for the offspring.

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I'm pretty sure they didn't hate each other. Didn't The Offspring do a live cover of When I Come Around in 1995/96 or something?

Edit: It was Basket Case in 95 and WICA in 98

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I was rereading nobody likes you the other night and from what the author wrote they aren't too keen on each other. the offspring 'politely declined' to be interviewed :P

Still it'd be pretty cool to see, I grew up listening to the offspring! My mum was a huge fan.

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I would love hearing Green Day playing Self Esteem, I also know The Offspring once played Basket Case :lol:

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I actually think I'd hate it if the bands did this, to be honest. Billie's "punk" voice is too high pitched and whiny to sing a Offspring song without it sounding weird and badly done, in my opinion.

I swear I read somewhere that these 2 bands hated each other

They used to, back when Green Day first signed on to Reprise. The Offspring thought Green Day were a bunch of sellouts for signing on to a major label, which is kind of funny, 'cause The Offspring were signed to Epitaph and even though Epitaph is "independent," it can be just as corporate and large as some of the major labels at times.

Punk elitism. :wub:

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I wish I could watch videos on my crappy internet! if someone could rip those youtube videos onto mp3, I'd be forever grateful! :D

I'm pretty sure they didn't hate each other. Didn't The Offspring do a live cover of When I Come Around in 1995/96 or something?

Edit: It was Basket Case in 95 and WICA in 98

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he could do his style of it, I think! lol like Knowledge. he couldn't do the 'You gotta keep 'em separated' part though, nope, maybe Mike though, or Tre haha, that would be cool!

Mike. He would be perfect for that. :lol:

But Dexter was laughing at Green Day, so if he's so jelly then let him play his own songs. Nah, just kidding, I love The Offspring.

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Yeah, they aren't too keen on each other. I think it's a neat idea, though. Here is an excerpt from a LA Times article with Dexter Holland.

"Then there's the pressure from "American Idiot." Green Day, rising above their dookie past, delivered a career masterpiece in 2004 with a concept album that sold 5-million copies, won rave reviews and even earned them a Grammy trophy for record of the year. Don't think Holland didn't notice. "I would not mention those two words to him," one of his hangar buddies says, " 'American' and 'Idiot.' I think he's heard them enough.""

Full interview here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-offspring15-2008jun15,0,1497135.story?page=1

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The Offspring are fantastic when they're not doing their shitty joke songs. Their punk stuff is great but ever since Pretty Fly for a White Guy was a huge hit they found the need to put an awful song like that on every album afterwords and it slows their albums down a lot.

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im not too sure about the whole Green Day vs The Offspring fiasco. i remember somebody asking jeff on twitter if Green Day hates The Offspring and he said he's never heard of it.

i would love to see my two favorites bands do something like that, it'll never happen, but it sounds totally kick-ass

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I used to be a huge fan of the Offspring back in the day. Not so much now as I think their newer stuff just flat out sucks. I'd quite like to hear this though. Smash is a great record and Dookie, well that goes without saying really.

I've often wondered if Green Day would ever do a split EP thing, similar to what Rancid did with NOFX. There's plenty of bands that I'd like to hear them cover, and have their songs covered by. I don't know why, but I always thought Green Day taking on some Rancid songs would sound pretty epic. And I know that both bands are pretty good friends due to coming from the same scene.

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I used to be Offsrping fan too but now I don't mind them. By now I cannot listen to anything besides Pretty Fly :) Pretty Fly is so fucking true, when it comes to punks (punks were wannabees, are wannabees and will be wannabees)

Green Day and Offspring are two different and uncomparable things. I don't want to think about split EP's or covering each other's songs. I don't get why Offspring and GD almost always put together, just because they released smash hit records same year.

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The Offspring are fantastic when they're not doing their shitty joke songs. Their punk stuff is great but ever since Pretty Fly for a White Guy was a huge hit they found the need to put an awful song like that on every album afterwords and it slows their albums down a lot.

Pretty Fly wasn't a joke song. It was sarcastic, but it wasn't a joke.

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