"It's taken ten years of solid, hard work for The Offspring to cross the boundries from hardcore to the Billboard Top Ten. The grunge landslide of the past three years has given way to pure punk capturing the hearts and minds on the Lollapalooza generation. The mainstream has now been breached and with bands such as The Offspring, Green Day and NOFX burning up the college radio charts, it was only a matter of time before the influence would leak into the major charts. Who could have thought that two years after their incarnation in 1984 when The Offspring released their first single "I'll Be Waiting", that eight years from their debut that they would have a million selling record on their hands. Orange Country hardcore has at least broken through, lets hope new fans go back and check out some of the old classics groups such as Agent Orange and the Adolescents, as well as tracking down The Offspring, might fine debut platter, Ignition. Vocalist Dexter Holland, guitarist Noodles, bassist Greg K and keeper of the beat, stickman Ron Welty have fused together a potent blend of punk and ska mixed through a funk blender, the Smash hit single "Come Out And Play" bears witness to this and the album, Smash, is one of the freshest sounds to grace the Billboard charts for years.

This is the start of another new wave of punk bands from America as high energy groups like Green Day and The Offspring get to influence a whole, new generation of youths that never had the opportunity to witness the original punk explosion in America in the early eighties. Hey, with any luck we may even get to see an Operation Ivy revival. 1994 is proving to really be the year that punk broke."