Offspring “Smash” LP

Smash is the third studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring. Smash incorporates elements of punk rock and grunge. In the United States, Peaking at number four on the US Billboard 200, it has sold over 11 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling independent label album of all time. It was also the first album released on Epitaph Records to obtain gold and platinum status. Alongside Bad Religion’s Stranger than Fiction, Green Day’s Dookie and Rancid’s… And Out Come the Wolves, Smash was responsible for bringing punk rock back into mainstream, and helped define the sound of the emerging pop punk scene in the 1990s.