Also, someone please explain the JJJS connection? The words to that song I learned as a kid were:
*John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name too!
Whenever we go out the people always shout,
“John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!”
Da da da da da da da… *[repeat ad naseum]
Interesting that I missed them – I wonder why. At that age (1984), I was into music from ten years before (Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, etc.), but I was very aware of the current hits from U2, Duran Duran, Prince, Madonna, Squeeze, Suzanne Vega, even the Smiths… but the Offspring never crossed my radar. I’m guessing they were neither on MTV, nor popular in my social circle, nor played on my favorite radio stations.
I literally didn’t know that song had lyrics other than the first two lines…
Also I thought of Offspring and I’m 30
Just looked 'em up … They weren’t even called The Offspring until 1986, and they were unknown beyond the Southern California “punk” scene until the end of the decade.
Still, I’m surprised I haven’t heard of them, since I was exposed to that scene by college freshman dorm mates in 1988-89 (I still have, and enjoy, my Camper Van Beethoven CD I bought at that time, as well as X and Jane’s Addiction.)
41, Offspring.
I knew it was originally in an 80s hairband song, but couldn’t think which one until I opened the thread.
OK, so The Offspring borrowed this line…
And Def Leppard borrowed this one…
But Neil Young did not borrow this one…
“I’m singing this borrowed tune I took from The Rolling Stones.”
Def Leppard, 44. I like both songs, though.
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A band who’ve been around since you were 14, in other words, in the prime age range to know of them, although the song in question came out more than a decade after their debut.
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While The Offspring might have been around in the 1980s, they did not have a formal record deal until 1989 and the success of the record was minimal. Unless you were growing up in southern California, it’s unlikely even a reasonably music-interested teen would have known who they were and I doubt most people had ever heard of them before “Smash,” which was hitting the airwaves in 1994-1995.
Def Leppard, conversely, were internationally enormous in the 1980s. They had sold ten million albums before The Offspring existed.
Well now there’s an explanation. Kids just don’t learn anything about classical music anymore.
Ditto on all points.
Give it to me baby, uh huh uh huh - Pretty Fly - 33
The lyrics posted above are the only ones I’ve ever heard possibly from Lamb Chop’s Sing Along or at least that’s where I learned the Song That Never Ends. I have some image of kids matching while singing it but I have the same image for both songs which is why I think the source is related. No idea why kids would learn that song in school.
While true, this has literally nothing to do with my point that the reason JKellyMap didn’t know the Offspring wasn’t that they were too old, since The Offspring’s founding and initial success came in their prime ‘popular music discovery’ period, and even Pretty Fly was certainly not in the typical fossilized-taste phase.
I’m 52. And the first thing I thought was “Give it to me baby…”
:dubious: Can’t tell if serious. Our local school curriculum apparently did not place a lot of emphasis on nursery rhymes. I see from a quick bit of google-fu that it was sometimes feaured on Sesame Street. which I watched often growing up. Don’t know what to tell ya. Either I missed those episodes, or else the song just did not stick in my head.
I seemed to survive and thrive regardless, as my (warning, sneak brag alert) 3.9 GPA in college shows. Maybe JJJS would have made the difference in that one class. :rolleyes:
I had never heard of the Offspring until I was a senior in college, which was 94/95, right when Smash came out. After I graduated college I rarely listened to the radio so I have a large gap of music from 95-05 when I started having kids. I know more about the last 10 years then those 10 years.
I don’t know if you listened to the radio in the early/mid 80s, but they would play the same songs at the same time for weeks on end.
I’d also say that Def Leppard is a bigger band then the Offspring. Both bands are touring now, Def Leppard is playing a pavilion that holds 25,000 people while the Offspring are playing at a place that holds 2000.
Def Leppard here. I like the Offspring too, but the time at which Pretty Fly came out was at the point when Def Leppard appreciation was at a low point and I was still clinging to the 80’s. Seriously, I was born at least ten years too late. Anyway, that particular Offspring song makes me instinctively jump up and defend Def Leppard, even today.
I couldn’t pick both but DL was the first thing I thought of. Funny enough even though I thought DL first, "Give it to me Baby was the next line inmy head…
I really like the Offspring but I’ve leaned toward punk since high school. I’m 48 btw and my formative musical years were split between bands like Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, British Metal in general, and 60s-70s rock with a smattering of 80 pop.
Offspring. Soundtrack of high school for me.
Veren zol fun dir a blintsa.
Kids these days!
Def Leppard is most assuredly NOT “hair metal”! They are real, legitimate, heavy metal. Hair bands are a totally different head. Totally.
And I’ve never head the Offspring. I’m 54.
And I like JJJH-S! Even if it has nothing to do with Def Leppard.
Of course I’m serious. You can major in JJJS at Julliard, along with other greatest hits of the masters like Milk, Milk, Lemonade…