On that album is an Offspring song called "Baghdad", which includes such lines as "This is no Vietnam/We will win in Iran/The Captain said, 'Kill or die'/Islam be damned." ...

Success didn't arrive for the Offspring until 1994's CD "Smash" and its trio of MTV- and radio-ready hits, "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)," "Self-Esteem" and "Gotta Get Away." That album ...

The Offspring’s newest release, Days Go By, is both disjointed and mildly out of its element, containing one-third of this act’s best output since pre- Splinter by a minuscule margin at best.

And anyway Splinter worked far better as an album title. But, hey, if Axl had any imagination maybe he could call his album Americana Smash! (Names of two separate Offspring hit albums.)" ...