Offspring Video:

		List Price: $11.98		Label: Sony Salesrank: 48737 Released: July 19, 2005
		Our Price: $7.59
		Used Price: $2.59
		MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
With any band's video collection, it's as fun to track the evolution of their music as their style. In the first few clips on this DVD, released in conjunction with Greatest Hits, the Offspring come across as scrappy So-Cal skate punks in their Germs and Sex Pistols T-shirts. Then they left Epitaph for Columbia. Their catchy pop-punk-metal sound, in the vein of Social Distortion and Green Day, didn't really change, but by "Gone Away," Dexter Holland had traded in his cornrows for a spiky 'do and patent leather shirt. (No wonder some fans felt abandoned.) Fortunately, the band learned from their mistakes and toned down the new wave look by the next video, "The Meaning of Life," where they race across the desert in wheelchairs, Mad Max-meets-Murderball style. Other highlights include "She’s Got Issues" with Zooey Deschanel and "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" by McG, who created The O.C.. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Complete Music Video Collection Reviews:
Great Videos
2009-08-16 - If you are an Offspring fan who wants a nice compilation of their videos made during the first half of their career, then you will like this DVD. This DVD is not for the hard core fan but it doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is.

Pretty great and nostalgic collection
2008-07-20 - This is a collection of the Offspring's music videos. Before you shrug it off as being a ripoff to pay for music videos that are available on Youtube, you should really know that this DVD's much meatier than you'd think.

It includes all the Offspring's videos up to Can't Repeat (from their Greatest Hits CD) all in excellent quality. We've also got optional full commentary from Dexter and Noodles on all of them except Can't Repeat. Watching these was bitter-sweet in a way, because The Offspring, at this point in their career, no longer seems to care much about making music videos (their latest seem to only be either fully performance vids or videos without them in it whatsoever,) and that's kind of too bad because their videos, especially those from the Ixnay on the Hombre and Americana period, are some of the most memorable I've ever seen, and it's great to see them again here. The commentary's informative and fun to listen to (I just really wish the usually more private Greg K would have taken part,) and that alone would be worth the $12 you'll pay for this DVD. But there's much more.


There's an interview with Dexter and the dude from the Pretty Fly for A White Guy vid, the "Making of Da Hui" vid, storyboards, a never-used "Cool to Hate" video from Ixnay, and 10 AMAZING quality live performances, edited perfectly with some of the best performances from the band...really great stuff. The energy demonstrated, especially on the Splinter tracks, is pretty incredible. I saw The Offspring live once (during their Conspiracy of One tour,) and this video really makes me want to see them live again, it sucks that they didn't do a major US tour in support of Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, hopefully that'll happen this year...but yeah, the live videos would also have been worth spending $12 bucks alone for, because Offspring fans are going to love them....they demonstrate why this band's so amazing...some of the live tracks sound even better than their album versions (Dexter's voice and vocal style has, in my opinion, improved vastly from the Smash days,) and of course having all the Offspring's videos available for easy access (with again, great audio and visual quality) is a big bonus. Seeing videos from the 1990's is also, of course, a very nostalgic experience as well.

Every Offspring fan owes it to themselves to pick this collection up, it's a great find and although I owned it for years I hadn't gotten around to reviewing it until now, but somehow it was even better a watch to me now than it was when I first got it.

Good stuff.

Cool Compilation!!!
2007-02-15 - It is so cool they brough together all the videos in one DVD!!! Great!!!

this DVD is PERFECT
2005-12-08 - I bougth it today!! its so complete!! it has all videos, and 11 concert plus tha making of da hui, the DISCOGRAPHY (really cool),and other stuf like the band talking, thi is the best DVD of a band EVER!!!

get it now!!!

it was my birthday gift
2005-10-26 - i am the recipient of this dvd as a birthday gift from the previous reviewer. it was ablast seeing quite a few of those videos again and some of them for the first time. anything that can help you see the pretty fly for a white guy dance anytime you want has to be great.