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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 2016
Released: February 4, 1997 |
| Our Price: $6.68 |
| Used Price: $1.20 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Ixnay on the Hombre Track Listing:
1. Disclaimer
2. The Meaning Of Life
3. Mota
4. Me & My Old Lady
5. Cool To Hate
6. Leave It Behind
7. Gone Away
8. I Choose
9. Intermission
10. All I Want
11. Way Down The Line
12. Don't Pick It Up
13. Amazed
14. Change The World
Editorial Review:
Every generation of high schoolers needs a band to express the angst and agony specific to 14-to-18-year-olds. At present, that band is the Offspring. Their songs are aimed squarely at a younger crowd, from "The Meaning of Life" to "Leave It Behind" to "I Choose," and especially "All I Want" and "Change the World". Their occasionally insightful lyrics are anything but obscure, which is actually refreshing; there's real pain behind "Gone Away," and "Way Down the Line" taps into the common fear among the younger crowd of turning out just like our parents. Musically, the Offspring are hardly complex, but then complexity isn't a requirement. This is music to play at full volume, bang your head to, and annoy your neighbors. Cool. -- Genevieve Williams
Ixnay on the Hombre Reviews:
Great Album 
2008-09-01 - This is a really good Offspring Album (not as good as Smash, but not many albums are). I think most of the songs are really catchy and good. Cool to Hate is my favorite/most fun song on the album, and Gone Away is a just a great song plain and simple.
Sometimes I forget how much I really liked The Offspring when I was younger, but whenever they come on my Ipod, I remember all the good times I have had to their music.
Its not Smash, but thats good
2008-08-03 - I've been listening to the Offspring for about eight years now, but for some reason I never picked this one up until recently. It hasn't yet grown on me like Smash or even Conspiracy of One, but it has some great tracks, many of which are really funny.
I rate the tracks with all other Offspring songs in mind.
Disclaimer: 5/5 - Really hilarious and clever intro, probably the best of any of the Offspring albums, if not a little over the top...
The Meaning of Life: 4.5/5 - Great energetic opener, what you would expect, but not quite as powerful as Americana's "Have You Ever" and Smash's "Nitro".
Mota: 3/5 - This has one of those great little high-powerchord intro riffs that the Offspring are known for, and it really sets a good mood for this faced-paced satirical song. But not one of my favorite off the album, probably because the chorus isn't as cool as the verse.
Me & My Old Lady: 4.5/5 - Longest song ont he album, Really catchy riff and verse rhythm, and the brief lead guitar melody near the beginning is a nice difference from other songs. I think this songs "she aint no ball and chain" was probably influenced by the Social Distortion song, but maybe not...
Cool To Hate: 5/5 - Just an awesome well-paced song, the lyrics are brilliant. Probably the most memorable track from the album. I only wish I hated this song, so I could be cool
Leave It Behind: 4/5 - A good short and fast follow-up to that last song. The opening riff makes me think of "Genocide".
Gone Away: 5/5 - Really not a typical-sounding Offspring song; The intro and verse vocals sound more like they are off a grunge or alternative rock album. The chorus is very memorable, too. This rates as one of the Offspring's best slower songs.
I Choose: 3.5/5 - Hahaha, the first 1.5 seconds of this always throw me off because it sounds like that Van Halen song "Unchained". The main riff and rhythm of this song are cool, but I just don't like the vocals on this song. I'm sure others might strongly disagree with me. Though it does have a nice solo about midway through.
Intermission: 5/5 - Ahhhhhh....
All I Want: 5/5 - So the guitar parts aren't quite as interesting as other songs on the album, but this quick song has an awesome vocal melody.
Way Down the Line: 4/5 - Song about how kids turn out just like their parents. Has one of those Offspring choruses similar to One Fine Day or Walla Walla.
Don't Pick It Up: 4/5 - I like how this song almost sounds like its gonna be serious at the start. This is the obligatory ska-punk-sounding song on the album and its pretty funny.
Amazed: 3.5/5 - Not-typical-Offspring in a similar way as "Gone Away". If you've listened to the Conspiracy album, the chorus sounds similar to "Vultures", but a little better. I think the main thing I don't like about the song is its placement after "Don't Pick it Up". The guitar is pretty unspectacular compared with other songs on Ixnay except for the interesting little lead melody at the beginning.
Change the World: 4/5 - Starts with that mysterious interesting guitar riff that ended the song "Smash" on the previous album. I like how it builds off of that with drums, 2nd guitar etc. This song always reminds me of that song "Revolution" by the Beatles.
I should add that I don't really listen to any punk, mostly classic rock, progressive and instrumental rock, and some metal. But the Offspring is a great band with diverse albums I love to listen to straight through. it never gets dull, it never gets old. If you're just getting into their music, definitely go for something like Smash first instead of the newest albums; but if you have that one already, Ixnay is an excellent choice, as is Ignition or Americana.
Straightforward and honest
2008-02-29 - The only thing to say about this album is that you have to listen to it to judge it. It is honest rock and straightforward in what it wants to be, just fun music to listen to. No pretense to be political correct and nowhere complicated musical compositions, but somehow you can hear the boys enjoying themselves. So should we, life is not so complicated after all.
The big budget follow up to the breakthrough album 
2008-02-01 - After blowing the doors off so much of the opposition with their incisive Smash album Offspring hit the racks with this '97 offering to the strains of a big budget in terms of promotion. Yet the band sound quite unchanged by their success to their credit and while the production of Dave Jerden, who also did the later Americana album, is qutie smooth and nice it doesn't sound overly lush - I mean this isn't an '07 power metal album from Germany!
The album kicks off with an amusing appeal-to-the-teenagers spoken word intro track that sets the musical and intellectual tone of the album and as such is one of the best intro tracks I've heard. The album then gets cracking with track after track of hard rock infused/infected with pop punk sensibilities and time signatures and much of the album comprises songs with very bouncy delivery to ensure that as few people as possible realise they're listening to a hard rock band (a dirty word/phrase circa `97).
Ixnay on the Hombre is highly successful in fleshing out further the Offspring sound, the band utlising the album to give themselves more options when it came time to choose the set list on their ever increasing headlining tours. My personal favourites here would be Mota which really does scoot along to a sort of stop start rhythm and .... Well that's perhaps my only really favourite tune here. Much of this album just didn't resonate with me and it just came across as something you'd only really love if you really loved the band. If you just thought there were some great numbers on Smash and so bought their next album you'd probably not be thrilled with this as the numbers aren't as biting, the introspection isn't so spot on and tends to sound a bit try hard. That could be a wrong read on my part but this album seems very middling despite the fact you can feel the energy bristling out of the tunes, which is why I've given an album with so little connectivity to it's audience three stars anyway, just to reward the obvious effort that went into creating it.
The last great album from the Offspring
2006-12-07 - It was pretty steep to top "Smash", but the Offspring still managed to pump out an excellent album with "Ixnay on the Hombre"; the last great album to come from the band. "The Meaning of Life", "Leave It Behind", and "I Choose" are great, while "Mota", "All I Want", and "Way Down the Line" are fist pumping songs that harken back to the Offspring's classic punk days. Smash single "Gone Away" is still a great song, and besides the humerous clips "Disclaimer" and "Intermission", there's really no real filler tracks here. "Ixnay on the Hombre" is a fantastic look back at a time before the Offspring became mainstream darlings with "Americana", a time when Dexter Holland's lyrics still had some meaning to them and the chords and riffs weren't written to be radio friendly. Though there are times when you can sense a nig difference, and a bit of a step down, from the Offspring's earlier, and best, material, "Ixnay on the Hombre" still manages to be a superbly crafted disc, with the only real downside being that it has to come to an end.
