Complete Music Video Collection
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Complete Music Video Collection is an extensive DVD
(also released on UMD
) by The Offspring
. It was created to accompany the "Greatest Hits
" CD released a month earlier, and shows all of the band's videos
between 1994 and 2005 (except for "Million Miles Away
"). It also contains 11 live performances, two extra videos, an interview, and commentary by the band.
The compilation, while not directly qualifying as an album, is still the second highest rated punk album of 2005 on Sputnikmusic
, with an average rating of 4.38, and the second highest album of 2005 across all genres.
DVD
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(also released on UMD
Universal Media Disc
The Universal Media Disc is an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on their PlayStation Portable handheld gaming and multimedia platform...
) by The Offspring
The Offspring
The Offspring is an American punk rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1984. Known as Manic Subsidal until 1986, the band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland, lead guitarist Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman, bassist Greg K. and drummer Pete Parada...
. It was created to accompany the "Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits (The Offspring album)
-International bonus tracks:*On each edition, "Next to You" appears as a hidden track on track 15.-DualDisc edition:The DualDisc edition of the album has the standard 14 track album on the CD side...
" CD released a month earlier, and shows all of the band's videos
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
between 1994 and 2005 (except for "Million Miles Away
Million Miles Away
-Version 2:-Version 3:-Music video:The song's only music video was that of a live performance dubbed over by the recorded version of the song. This may have played a part in its lesser success as a single...
"). It also contains 11 live performances, two extra videos, an interview, and commentary by the band.
The compilation, while not directly qualifying as an album, is still the second highest rated punk album of 2005 on Sputnikmusic
Sputnikmusic
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, with an average rating of 4.38, and the second highest album of 2005 across all genres.
Singles
- All singles with commentary except for "Can't Repeat".
- "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)Come Out and Play (song)"Come Out and Play" is a song by the Californian punk rock group The Offspring. It is the seventh track on their third album Smash and was released as the first single from that album. The song was the second single to be released by the band, following "I'll Be Waiting/Blackball"...
" - "Self Esteem"
- "Gotta Get AwayGotta Get Away"Gotta Get Away" is a song by The Offspring, released as the third single from their breakthrough album Smash . The song was a modest hit in several countries, but peaked at #6 on Billboard's Modern Rock charts. "Gotta Get Away" was inspired by an early track, "Cogs", written while the band was...
" - "All I Want"
- "Gone AwayGone Away-Sales:The single reached Gold in Australia, selling 35,000 copies. It was the first single released by the Offspring to reach Gold status in any country.-Music video:...
" - "The Meaning of Life"
- "I ChooseI Choose"I Choose" is a punk rock song by The Offspring. It is the eighth track on their fourth studio album Ixnay on the Hombre and was released as the fifth and final single from the album....
" - "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)-Australia CD Maxi:-Europe CD Maxi:-Composition and lyrics:Beginning with a sample of the pseudo-German nonsense phrase "Gunter glieben glauchen globen" from Def Leppard's song "Rock of Ages," chanted as a replacement for the traditional "1, 2, 3, 4" to start the recording, the song ridicules a...
" - "Why Don't You Get a Job?Why Don't You Get a Job?"Why Don't You Get a Job?" is a ska song by The Offspring. The song is featured as the 11th track on The Offspring's fifth studio album Americana and was released as the second single from the album. The song also appears as the eighth track on the band's Greatest Hits album...
" - "The Kids Aren't AlrightThe Kids Aren't Alright-Alternative pressing:-Second alternative pressing:-Third alternative pressing:-Music video:It features a room with a background of abandonment or family activity at different times. In the center of the room, there are scenes of various persons, including an appearance by Bif Naked, doing...
" - "She's Got IssuesShe's Got Issues-Version 2/UK CD1:-Version 3/UK CD2:-Music video:The video, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, shows a usual workday of a woman, and the things in her everyday life, that she finds disturbing or annoying, are enhanced by grotesque cartoons, which represent her imagination.-DVD...
" - "Original PranksterOriginal Prankster-Version 2:-Music video:The song follows the prankster , through his life, pulling various pranks on his superiors, being motivated by Redman. As a child, he slips his dog's feces into his father's sandwich. In his teen years, he uses a bunsen burner on a perverted science teacher...
" - "Want You BadWant You Bad"Want You Bad" is a punk rock song by The Offspring. The song features as the fourth track on the band's sixth studio album Conspiracy of One and was released as the second single from the album...
" - "Defy YouDefy You-Music video:The music video for the song was recorded in November 2001, directed by Dave Meyers who also directed the video for "Original Prankster) and debuted on MTV on 8 December. It is mostly a performance video of the band playing in front of a shop where various events relevant to the song's...
" - "Hit ThatHit That"Hit That" is a pop punk song released by the punk rock band The Offspring. The song is featured as the fourth track on the band's seventh studio album Splinter and was released as the first single from the album. The song also appears as the 13th track on their Greatest Hits .The single was first...
" - "(Can't Get My) Head Around You(Can't Get My) Head Around You-Version 2:-Music video:A music video was released in support of the single. The video clip features the band playing in a dome lit by fluorescent lights and was shot with over 125 cameras, in what the band's website calls 'the ultimate performance video'...
" - "Can't RepeatCan't Repeat-Music video:The music video for the song simply featured the band playing in a derelict room, and it received little airtime on MTV. An alternate version was made showing actors looking back on photographs and memories, reflecting the song's subject matter, though this was very rarely shown...
"
Performance at the House of Blues 1998
- "Self Esteem"
- "All I Want"
- "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)"
- "Why Don't You Get a Job?"
MTV's Smash to Splinter
- "Long Way Home"
- "Hit That"
- "Gotta Get Away"
- "The Worst Hangover Ever"
- "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)"
- "(Can't Get My) Head Around You"
- "The Kids Aren't Alright"
Hidden videos
- An instrumental marching bandMarching bandMarching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...
performance of "Hit That". - A live performance of the Ignition song "Get It Right", in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
during 1993. - A 1983 video of Dexter HollandDexter HollandBryan Keith "Dexter" Holland is the singer and rhythm guitarist for the California punk rock band The Offspring...
and Greg KrieselGreg KrieselGregory David Kriesel , best known by his stage name Greg K., is an American bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the punk band, The Offspring.-Biography:...
(both teengagers at the time) playing the drums and bass respectively in a garage in Cypress. In the same video, they are shown 15 months later, Dexter is now shown as the vocalist and playing the guitar. James Lilja is now playing the drums. This video also appeared on their first DVD AmericanaAmericana (The Offspring film)Americana is a DVD released on December 14, 1999 by The Offspring. It contains videos of the band performing stunts along with other extreme sport professionals, and also several music performances by the band. Homemade music videos for the songs "Mota" and "Burn It Up" are also featured...
, released in 1999.
Other features
- There is a 'Making of "Da Hui"' featurette where Noodles speaks about how the video for the song was made.
- The DVD also contains an interview between Dexter Holland and Guy Cohen, the actor who played the wiggerWiggerWigger is a pejorative slang term for a white person who emulates mannerisms, language, and fashions associated with African-American culture, particularly hip hop in the United States or the Grime/Garage scene in Britain. The term is a portmanteau of either wannabe or white and nigger...
in "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)"'s music video. - A storyboard gallery for the songs "The Kids Aren't Alright", "Pretty Fly (for A White Guy)", and "Gone Away".