# Bands similar to The Offspring **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-similar-to-the-offspring/548747 "2010-08-01T00:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-similar-to-the-offspring/548747/21 "2010-08-02T16:32:38Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > Newer: > Cake ?? Cake has been around about as long as some of the bands you called ‘older’. I think they even predate Cracker (though CvB goes back to before Cracker, even if it’s not quite the same band). ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-similar-to-the-offspring/548747/22 "2010-08-02T18:25:32Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > > [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > > > Newer: > > Cake > > ?? > > Cake has been around about as long as some of the bands you called ‘older’. I think they even predate Cracker (though CvB goes back to before Cracker, even if it’s not quite the same band). Cake’s first album, _Motorcade of Generosity_, was released in 1994. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-similar-to-the-offspring/548747/23 "2010-08-02T19:05:48Z")
Which is the same year Cracker’s _Kerosene Hat_ was a big hit. Cake had a song on the radio before that (so did Cracker). Incidentally also when The Offspring finally broke through with _Smash_. Checking Wikipedia - Rancid, Belly, Cake, and Cracker were all formed in 1991. About the only distinction is that the members of Cake were not in any well-known prior acts. All of which may be worth checking out by the OP ( Operation Ivy, Dance Hall Crashers, The Breeders, and Camper van Beethoven). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-similar-to-the-offspring/548747/24 "2010-08-02T19:14:29Z")
I’d vote for Authority Zero. Most of the other bands mentioned don’t remotely have the ska-skate rhythm going on (even though its influence in Offspring’s music is minimal sometimes.) Not that I don’t like the bands mentioned, in fact I like most of them more than Authority Zero. But rhythmically they sound very similar to Offspring. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-similar-to-the-offspring/548747/25 "2010-08-02T19:15:02Z")
And the Descendents. That’'s about the only one I can think of that hasn’t been named yet. A hint about getting into punk: independent labels tend to be very consistent as to sound. If you like one band on a certain label, you are apt to like most of the rest of their offerings. This isn’t always true, but it’s a good thing to keep in mind. Oh, and check out Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. They’re sort of a pop punk super group (pop punk in this case meaning NOFX, Screeching Weasel, that sort of specific subgenre, not just punk on pop radio) that covers mainstream hits. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-similar-to-the-offspring/548747/26 "2010-08-02T22:30:46Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > > [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > > > Newer: > > Cake > > ?? > > Cake has been around about as long as some of the bands you called ‘older’. I think they even predate Cracker (though CvB goes back to before Cracker, even if it’s not quite the same band). I chalk it up to a bad memory and my oscillating between different kinds of music. For example, since early '09, I listen almost exclusively to hip hop. Prior to that, it was alternative rock for about 3 years. Prior to that, I simply got bored with music for a few years and listened only to sports radio and conservative talk radio (which pretty much got me angry every day). Hip hop before that; Brit pop/alternative before that…etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-similar-to-the-offspring/548747.md?page=1)