Advantages: Some good tunes,. Disadvantages: A few fillers
OFFSPRING - SMASH
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The Offspring, A band that most people will have heard of at some point. This is mainly due to the annoying singles, "Pretty fly (for a white guy)" and "Original Prankster".
Now what most wont know, is that they were once a very good, Powerful, Political rocking punk band that didn't need gimmicks to sell an album.
I remember being back at school and raving on about how great these were, People would just laugh at me!
Then a few years later and they release the above named singles and again everyone is laughing at me for loving them so much, Life sucks!
Back in the mid 90's, alongside Green Day and to a lesser extent Rancid, these brought punk music right back into the mainstream, for a while you couldn't listen to your radio or watch MTV without one of these bands playing at you ...
Advantages: Good Size, Brilliant Value, High Quality, Sturdy, Easy to Erect Disadvantages: None that I can think of!
I purchased my Vango Venture 500 towards the end of 2006. For the bargain price of £85.00 and I haven't looked back since! Numourus camping trips have bee happily spent in this tent and it will see many more!
The frame consists of 2 large poles crossing over to make the main dome, and a 3rd smaller pole creating a loop for the porch area. Once erect, with all pegs and guide ropes in place the tent is extremely strong and stable. We have camped in strong winds and strong rain and it has stood strong throughout.
As long as there are two of you, erecting the tent is a swift and easy process. Funnily enough you tend to erect it faster when its raining! And packing it back into the bag is an art the first time but you tend to remember how to do it from then onwards and it's easy enough. When packaged, the tent is relatively heavy ...
PaulineLees 20.07.2007 (03.05.2008)
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Advantages: fun,quick,sends a message Disadvantages: not enought of it
dead!
So alone- a song using masses of guitar, drums and the word “so alone”
Not the one- Fast paced guitar and drums – he isn’t the one is the message portrayed in this song
Smash-he's just wants to be himself, no matter what anyone else thinks.
If you look at, say, AMERICANA, it is clear that something went wrong along the way. Like every other band of their type the band must remember what first attracted people to buying their CD’s – was it their speed, their catchynes or do they have to look for new “converts” from the pop world. The truth is Offspring just need to keep pumping out top quality albums such as “SMASH”, “IXANY ON THE HOMBRE” and “CONSPIRACY OF ONE” and not failed attempts at entering the pop world while retaining the “mosher ...
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