At 5/3/07 02:23 AM, Lost-Chances wrote:
At 5/3/07 02:21 AM, TheDepthsofHell wrote:
At 5/3/07 02:17 AM, Lost-Chances wrote:
6. The Meaning Of Life by The Offspring.
yeah. i was torn between that, Staring at the Sun, and Forever and a Day.
eh, chose Staring at the Sun
I don't know what made me choose The Meaning Of Life. It could of been because I knew it wouldn't be complete without a catchy song by The Offspring but wasn't sure what song to choose. It could of also been because The Meaning Of Life's music video features badass wheelchairs.
Who knows?
I may have the anwser.... it could be because the meaning of life is in Crazy taxi, and everytime your driving and you hear that song you get the image of yourself flying through the air and running over pedestrians, which is some people's fantasy, like those of us who drive the Las vegas strip every day to get to work.
Also, the way I heard the Offspring/ Epitaph buissiness went down was that Epitaph was about to shut down back in the day, losing money and not being able to , so Greg Graffin (partial owner and founder of epitaph and the lead singer of Bad Religion) Decided to cut some bands from all royalties untill further notice, what he did was made it so the band's could still make Cd's through Epitaph, but they would have no contract to the company. One of the first bands Graffin went to was The Offspring because they demanded the most money out of every band on the label at that time (The Smash album was still selling hot at the time , later to go on to become what is considered the biggest selling independent label album of all time). The band agreed, and made there next album Ixnay on the Hombre (yes, originally on Epitaph, you can look it up) and also re-released their first album ever made for the first time on CD. By the time Greg Graffin got his shit together and was ready to sign on the Offspring again, columbia records offered a video deal and securty that they needed as a band. They agreed only on the condition that they be in partnership with Epitaph. The rest is history, that's why the offspring on columbia records, and yet still makes songs for the "punk'o rama" comp CD's.