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All I Want (The Offspring song)

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"All I Want"
Song

"All I Want" is a punk rock song by The Offspring. It is the tenth track on their fourth studio album Ixnay on the Hombre (1997) and was released as the first single from the album in December 1996. It reached No. 31 in the UK and No. 15 in Australia. In the US, it peaked at No. 13 on Modern Rock Tracks. The song also appears as the fifth track on their Greatest Hits (2005).

The song was featured in the video game Crazy Taxi[4] as well as the computer game Jugular Street Luge Racing.[5] The single was also (at 1:55) the shortest single to be released by the band.

Track listing[6]

CD single

No.TitleLength
1."All I Want"1:55
2."Way Down the Line"2:37
3."Smash It Up" (The Damned cover)3:25

Europe 7" green vinyl

No.TitleLength
1."All I Want"1:55
2."Way Down the Line"2:37

Promo CD

No.TitleLength
1."All I Want"1:54

Origin

The song was originally written by Dexter Holland as part of a (perhaps tongue-in-cheek) Bad Religion songwriting competition at Epitaph Records, under the title Protocol. The song's lyrics originally consisted of significantly complex vocabulary, like many Bad Religion songs. However, when Dexter offered to play it for Epitaph owner and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, he was told to "play it on acoustic later or something." Dexter felt rejected and rewrote the song's lyrics to sound more like an Offspring song.[7]

Music video

The band made a video for the song, which was directed by David Yow of The Jesus Lizard.

The video consisted of shots of the band playing and singing the song mixed with a young man seemingly rebelling against society. While the band is shown the video is often in psychedelic colors. The man takes his clothes off down to his jeans while running through his town. At the end of the video he arrives in a field, and falls in a puddle of mud. In between the shots of the band and the shots of the running man are old, black and white video clips from various situations, including a bicycle race, an airplane crashing into a barn, and a race car ploughing into a crowd.

As confirmed on the Complete Music Video Collection DVD, Buzz Osborne is the man wearing the mask while playing the piano.

DVD appearances

The music video also appears on the Complete Music Video Collection DVD. It was released in 2005.

Charts

Chart Peak
position
Norsktoppen 6
Finland Singles Chart 6
Argentina Airplay Top 20 Chart 4
U.S. Modern Rock Tracks 13
ARIA Charts 15
Austria Singles Chart 25
New Zealand Singles Chart 27
Polish Singles Chart[8] 15
UK Singles Chart 31
Sverigetopplistan 36

Appearances in media

References

  1. ^ a b "Offspring, The – All I Want". Discogs. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "All I Want". Rate Your Music. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
  3. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations" Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved on July 14, 2009.
  4. ^ a b "Crazy Taxi (1999 Video Game) – Soundtracks". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
  5. ^ Basham, David (December 14, 1999). "Offspring Contribute Music To New Video Game". MTV. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
  6. ^ "The Offspring – All I Want". Allmusic. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
  7. ^ The Offspring - Greatest Hits Bonus DVD (2005).
  8. ^ "Polish Singles Chart |".
  9. ^ Rainier (March 6, 2009). "Rock Band (ALL) to Get The Offspring, R.E.M. and Richard Thompson Tracks". Worthplaying. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
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