Songs that didn't make it on the Splinter album.
 

"Ring of Fire" - I'm pretty sure they covered this song.

"What the fuck?" - I don't know anything about this song..

Song that sounds like 1,000 people singing back ups - Could this be Neocon maybe? I doubt it..

"Give it up" - Dexter said this song sounded a lot different from their other stuff so maybe this is really spare me the details?

"Pass me by" - I thought this was race against myself but Dexter said it was 5 minutes long so maybe it is that song that's played at the end on that Offspring studio video.

Politics song - I think this song was called "Light 'em up". Anyways, it was about politics and I guess dexter didn't want to put it on the album.

In some interview, Greg K said that their were three songs that were left out of Splinter.

Does anyone know anything else about these unreleased songs? Damn.. I hope they make like a b-sides album soon and put these songs on there. That'd be awesome. Splinter it a great album, but it was too short :(

God...if they're anything like the rest of that album they should just burn them now and save our ears.

Come on Jenny, Splinter is not that bad..... :p

I think Splinter is too sort to put these songs out of it. At least one or two of these songs must have been realised on Splinter. Anyway, like Camila said 'Splinter is not that bad', but definitively it could be better... :cool:

Apart from being too short I like Splinter alot bar when your in prison.


Any album with CGMHAY, the Noose and Lightning rod cant be bad.

I know what you mean, I lost all my CDs at the Philly airport last summer, except for that one--it was still in the CD player. I listened to it like 5 times on the flight back to Florida. Actually, I think Splinter is partly to blame for my Offspring obsession...XD

Splinter was definetly not their best album, but i wouldn't dare call it bad...I guess i really like Offspring lol.

This song was cut because the dead of Johny Cash, it was near the release or workings on Splinter.

This song is Neocon, listen to the crowd before Dexter starts singing, and all along the song.

I'm not sure, but I remember they said this song's name was changed and it did make into the album but with a different name.

Ive got an old kerrang mag where they mention light em up and what the fuck I think, I'll scan the article if anyone wants it.

Splinter's really good. So are hte rest of the albums.

They should have released some of those songs at least 2 or 3 cause the album is I think shorter than the self titled and even the self titled had 11 songs instead of 12... so it means the shortest album they made... and when we think there's only 10 big songs on it... they could have put 2 or 3 others

-p0ke- Yes scan, please scan.

It mentions Lightnin Rod and Light em Up, which rules em out being the same song

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...de/article.jpg

I had one about "What The Fuck" But i dunno where thats gone

Politics song - I think this song was called "Light 'em up". Anyways, it was about politics and I guess dexter didn't want to put it on the album.[/quote]
oh, so that's why they didn't put neocon in the album, which is one of the most pollitical songs i've ever heard. oh wait, they did put it in. stupid offspring.

it was about politics and I guess dexter didn't want to put it on the album.

didn't hear anything about that except "pass me by"

Anyone who says splinter isn't good just because they think it's too poppy really needs to listen to The Noose, Long Way Home, Race Against Myself, Can't Get My Head Around You, Never Gonna Find Me, Lightning Rod, and Da Hui again.....

mhm:)
Splinter is my fav. album by the Offspring! It's really great!

So for this album..I don't have any lyrics or titles or anything. But there is one song that is kinda' punk that I'm going to call, 'Never Gonna Find Me'. It's a real title. There is another song finished that I'm going to call 'The Worst Hangover Ever'. But most of these are joke titles. Like this one song we are just calling, 'What The Fuck?' Cuz, I don't know why..'What The Fuck?'.

So I'll just start playing some of these demos for you right now and we'll just talk about them as it goes along. Wow, do you feel special?

[Begins Playing Demo]

[D]So I'll just start playing some of these demos for you right now and we'll just talk about them as it goes along. Wow, do you feel special?

[Begins Playing Demo]

[WD]: OK...I heard this a couple of months ago...what did you call this part? The kind of urgent part?

[D]: Oh, you mean the superfreak part.

[WD]: Yeah. [laughs] This song is rad. It has a lot of cool transitions.

[D]: Yeah. This one's pretty cool. I like the groove in this part a lot.

[WD]: Yeah. Simple, but really powerful.

[D]: Yeah, so when we demo songs we pretty much pick the good parts and get rid of the bad parts. Anyways, so that could be a good one. Did you here that part in the beginning where it sounds like a 1,000 people singing backups? I wanted it to sound really big, the idea was to take a back up part and make it sound like a stadium singing it. So Higgins tried to simulate it on a computer and kind of make it sound like a soccer stadium kind of thing and I thought that would be really cool. Especially if we played live at festivals and stuff. It would be rad because it would already sound like that. So a few months ago we thought since we were doing these festivals in England that we could actually ask the crowd to do the part. So when we were in Reading, in England, I actually stopped the set and said, "You guys wanna' sing on our new record?" And actually we had them sing that part. I said I'd sing it and then you guys sing it and there were like 60,000 people who sang that part.

[WD]: Oh, so you guys recorded it.

[D]: Yeah, I can't wait to put that on. That'll be cool.

[WD]: So will you have to list album credits to each of the 60,000 people and have a 200 page CD booklet?

[D]: [laughs] We were going to hand them all waiver forms on the way out the door. Let me play you a really punk one here...called 'Never Gonna' Find Me'.

[Continues To Play Demo]

[WD]: Cool. A very familiar Offspring sound to it.

[D]: Yeah, but with a little twist to it. I mean, what do you do after 6 albums?

[WD]: Yeah, but I think it's almost necessary.

[D]: Yeah, I do, too.

[WD]: I mean that Offspring sound defines you guys.

[D]: But if you did a whole album like this people would think we weren't trying, so you got to mix it up stuff but at the same time keep things familiar.

[WD]: This would be an awesome live song.

[D]: So that one will be called 'Never Gonna' Find Me' although I don't have most of the lyrics yet. I think the idea of it is gonna be like .....

[WD]: That could be the sniper song, "Never Gonna' Find Me!".

[D]: [laughs] No, more in like the internal sense, like, you are at your job or school or wherever and you put on the face for the outside world but you are not gonna' let anybody in and see the real stuff. There you go...your quota of teenage alienation for the record. But it's true and I think it's something a lot of people can relate to and I like the idea of calling it 'Never Gonna' Find Me'. Cuz, it's artistic, you know what I mean? [laughs] It's not like finding you in the physical real sense, it's to find you in the abstract sense.

[WD]: Yes, in the existential sense.

[D]: [laughs] Exactly. OK....so there's that one. Let me see what else I got here.

[Plays Demo]

[WD]: [laughs] I really, really like this song. Really cool drums.

[D]: That one isn't really finished though. It has a verse and a chorus and an intro, but that's about it. There should be something else in there. So it is not finished musically.

[WD]: So in a song like that would you go into the studio and maybe ask the producer for an idea?

[D]: I might. But I've got an idea for a bridge that I might put in, so I might try that. Over the next few weeks I'm gonna' take these demos and I'm gonna' see if I can finish them.

[WD]: So what is a bridge for someone who doesn't know?

[D]: Well, sometimes you hear a song and you hear the verse and it does its chorus or whatever and sometimes it's good to change it up a little bit in the middle of the song. It's like adding a new middle section.

[WD]: So it's not redundant or something.

[D]: Yeah, so we do that sometimes and I think that's what this song needs. So I'll try it out and see if it works and hopefully it will and the song will be done and ready to go.

[WD]: You could add a huge Noodles lead in there.

[D]: [laughs] Yeah. There you go.

[WD]: This is a really cool song. I love the transitions.

[D]: OK....what else do we got in here....

[Plays Next Song]

[WD]: Oh, I think I heard this one in D-13.

[D]: Right now I'm calling it 'Give It Up'. It's about a jerk who is all into himself and he thinks all the girls want him.

[WD]: Yeah, this song has a kick ass bass line. It's really cool. I like it a lot.

[D]: Yeah, I like it, too. It's different. We write tons of songs about fucked up sexual behavior. That's a quote right there for ya'.

[WD]: [laughs] I'll just put that as the title for the interview, 'Plenty of songs about fucked up sexual issues, Dexter talks about the new album'.

[D]: [laughs]. Yeah. Exactly.

[WD]: Now this song sounds close to being finished.

[D]: Yeah, it needs some lyrics and that is pretty much it. Maybe mess around with the drums a little bit. Have you heard this one?

[Plays new song]

[D]: Kind of a slow rock song that kind of like...well, I like it a lot. I've called it 'Pass Me By'. I don't know what it's going to be about. You got 5 minutes? [laughs]

[WD]: Yeah, I want to check this one out. It sounds like Denial, Revisited a little. It's really hard rock with beefy guitars.

[D]: It's kind of spooky. I like this lead part a lot. It's one of those songs where I've played it for people and they've said maybe you could shorten it or something but I kinda' like it the way it is and I figure it's not necessarily gonna' be on the radio and not all songs need to follow a real strict pop single format. And to a certain degree you've got to let a song write itself.

[WD]: Yeah, there's no formula that you just plug stuff into, right?

[D]: Not really, and it just seems like there are spots in that song where it just called for certain things. It's a 5 minute song, but I think that it's good the way it is.

[WD]: That's cool. I like it the way it is.

[D]: Yeah, that seemed like one you'd like.

[WD]: Cuz I'm a rocker?

[D]: [laughs]

[Continues to play demo]

[D]: This one is the 'Worst Hangover Ever'.

[WD]: I think my friend Holly had the 'Worst Hangover Ever' after the Halloween party. She barfed all day long.

[D]: [laughs] Yeah, she can relate.

[WD]: You know this song sounds really cool especially after the one we just heard. It's cool. Is there any way you arrange songs on the album so that they play off each other?

[D]: Sure.

[WD]: This song is loaded up with goodies.

[D]: Sonic morsels.

[WD]: Wow, that's a different guitar part there.

[D]: Yeah, the Wah-Wah. It's only 2 minutes long but when I wrote it I was like, that one's done. It just does it's own thing. This next song we are calling 'The Roof Is Falling' for a working title.

[D]: So, I think I've played you all the songs so far.
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Headaroundu's analysis:D
at first Dexter mentioned "What the fuck"=(maybe DA HUI)
[Begins Playing Demo]

1st song="Neocon"

2nd song="Never gonna find me"

3rd song=with cool drums,not finished=I think its "Long way home"!!!!
maybe "Lightning rod"

4th song='Give It Up'. It's about a jerk who is all into himself and he thinks all the girls want him.This song has a kick ass bass line=I'm sure its "Hit that"!!!!

5th song="Pass Me By"5 min. song=maybe Dexter shorten it= "Race against myself"

6th song="Worst Hangover Ever"

7th song="The Roof Is Falling"="The noose"

Dexter mentioned "Ring of fire" in other interwiew.

so unreleased songs are:Light'em up ,Ring of fire,maybe Pass me by and What the fuck

oh I forgot
Splinter is kick ass album :D

Nah, I still think that pass me by could be a different song. Dexter said it sounded like denial, revisted, but it's hard to tell because both songs (race against myself and studio song) are slow. I actually haven't watched that studio video in a while, anyone have a link for it?

OH, I totally forgot about Hit that though. Of course! It makes sense that Hit that would be give it up. I guess I thought it could of been spare me the details just because dexter said it sounded a lot different but hit that is different too. Thanks.

God dammit, I want to hear these songs!!

It's kind of funny how Dexter left these songs off because he felt that they weren't good enough, wouldn't fit the album, or whatever reason, I don't know. Anyways, well, he thought the same about mission from god... but it turned out a lot of people liked that song (except for the people who bitched about the time signature, I guess).

What stands for WD???

web dude:)

and there is the link for Pass me by (Recording the album splinter)
http://savefile.com/projects/944662

Hm.. I tried clicking the little orange Download button on the bottom right of the page but it didn't seem to work. Thanks anyways though.

It is working now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Ah, thanks a lot. I appreciate it.