Label: Craft
Reissued 2018, Originally released 1989
“The Offspring” is the debut studio album by The OFFSPRING, released on June 15, 1989, through Nemesis Records. After years of discontinued print, the album was re-released by Nitro/Epitaph Records in 1995, with a different album cover. The album was released on June 15, 1989 in limited numbers by Nemesis Records, only in 12" vinyl and cassette format. When it was released, the album initially sold 5,000 copies and it took the band two and a half years to sell them all. One of the copies was destroyed by Wally George at his show the Wally George Show in 1989,thus leaving only 4,999 copies left. Some copies also have the Cargo Records logo next to the Nemesis logo on the back cover. To support the album, The OFFSPRING embarked on a six-week national tour, but Noodles was stabbed during a performance at the Hollywood anti-nuclear benefit. Following the small success of “The Offspring,” the band signed with Epitaph Records in 1991.
Track listing:
- Jennifer Lost The War
- Elders
- Out On Patrol
- Crossroads
- Demons
- Beheaded
- Tehran
- A Thousand Days
- Blackball
- I’ll Be Waiting