Songs of My Life #46 - The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright - 1998

Songs Of My Life #46

With the slow sinking in the west of the grunge element in the mid-1990's, the return of punk influenced alternative music made a rise. The Offspring had a run of four fairly brilliant albums in this time, flavoured with short sharp songs with short sharp messages.

While I got on board much earlier with the excellent 'Smash' album (like most of my generation) and the brilliant 'Ixnay on the Hombre', this song remains one of my favourites. Lyrically it is hard hitting, and musically it is fast and frantic and energetic, like their very best material is.