The Noose kicks off with a great reminder of just how fantastic a trademark Offspring chorus can be. Unfortunately, the rest of the song is quite disjointed.
The audio quality for Long Way Home deserves a mention: it's awful. Similarly, Never Gonna Find Me sounds really muffled. It's all quite strange, since the audio quality on the rest of the album is very good.
While I'm whingeing, Hit That and Spare Me The Details are, of course, awful.
A lot of the songs are a case of "so close, yet so far". For example, Race Against Myself has a great chorus, but the tacky effects in the verses are a deal-breaker (perhaps the effects were a feeble attempt to hide the blandness of the verses?). Can't Get My Head Around You has some great lyrics, and I really like the contrastingly quiet pre-chorus. But the rest of the song is frustratingly disjointed. And Lightening Rod is just a good chorus short of being a highlight.
The Offspring have done some pretty tacky ska over the years, but The Worst Hangover Ever takes the cake as the tackiest of the tacky! It's amusingly bad.
Speaking of amusing, Da Hui is great fun. And When You're In Prison is a hilarious parody of 'ole time jazz. These are my actually two favourite songs on the album, which is a pretty poor reflection on its "proper" song siblings.
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