Smash!: Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the ’90s Punk Explosion Audiobook (Free)

A group biography of ’90s punk rock told through the prism of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Public Distortion, and more

Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and transformed the genre forever. While the punk originators remained underground favorites and were slow burns commercially, their heirs shattered commercial goals for the genre. In 1994, Green Day time and The Offspring each about Smash!: Green Time, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the ’90s Punk Explosion released their third albums, as well as the outcomes were incredible. Green Day’s Dookie went on to sell more than 15 million copies and The Offspring’s Smash remains the all-time bestselling record released on an independent label. The times experienced changed, and so experienced the music.

Even though many books, articles, and documentaries concentrate on the rise of punk in the ’70s, couple of spend any substantial time on its resurgence in the ’90s. Smash! is the first to do so, detailing the situations surrounding the shift in ’90s music lifestyle away from grunge and legitimizing what many first-generation punks regard as post-punk, brand-new influx, and generally anything but true punk music.

With astounding access to all the key players of the time, including associates of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and many others, renowned music writer Ian Winwood finally gives this significant, substantive, and compelling story its due. Punk rock and roll bands were never truly successful or indeed truly famous, and that was that–until it wasn’t. Smash! is the story of how the underdogs finally won and forever altered the landscape of mainstream music.