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- Summary: The first album in over four years for the California punk band was produced by Bob Rock.
- Record Label: Sony
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Punk
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Top Track
You're Gonna Go Far, Kid | |
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Show me how to lie You're getting better all the time And turning all against the one Is an art that's hard to teach Another clever word Sets off an... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 8
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Mixed: 6 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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The album tends to sag in the middle, and as for those gentler moments, well, one for two isn't bad ('Kristi, Are You Doing Okay?' is OK).
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The patchwork of styles thrown around here distracts you from the album's strengths.
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There are potent moments like the rise-and-fall ballad 'Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?' and the fierce 'Nothingtown,' but 'Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace' sounds more like a tentative step in the Offspring's new direction.
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The album's latter half contains some welcome pop moments--'Nothingtown' and 'Let's Hear It for Rock Bottom' make going nowhere in life sound like hot fun--but the standout melodies often take a back seat to the diatribes, and Holland doesn't back up his disaffection with many good reasons to rally behind him.
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It's not that the Offspring sound behind the times on their eighth album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace--it's that they sound disconnected from it.
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UncutFive years in gestation, these revved-up anthems are fuctional enough, but none have the catchy ska-punk bounce of the band's late 1990s commercial peak. [Sep 2008, p.99]
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This misguided eagerness to please is endemic throughout the album’s 12 tracks, from the appropriation of other artists’ styles (the chunky riffing and brutish vocals of ‘Hammerhead’ are reminiscent of Dave Grohl, while closer ‘Rage And Grace’ is a transparent attempt to recreate the vitality of Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’) to Holland’s equally unrelatable lyrics.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 31 out of 44
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Mixed: 9 out of 44
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Negative: 4 out of 44
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Nov 27, 2014
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YoamM.Jun 21, 2008Their best album to date.
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EduardoC.Aug 6, 2008
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ReviewerXJun 19, 2008
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OknDSep 18, 2009I like this album. Pretty good. Especially Trust in You, Half Truism, You're gonna go far kid, Kristy are you doing okay? O.C Life.
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MislavF.Aug 12, 2008
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DavidL.Jun 19, 2008
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