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Conspiracy of One | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Offspring
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  241 reviews
Sales Rank: 15999
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 61419
UPC: 746461419226
EAN: 0746461419226
ASIN: B000051XVK
Release Date: November 14, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Come Out Swinging | | • | Original Prankster | | • | Want You Bad | | • | A Million Miles Away | | • | Dammit, I Changed Again | | • | Living in Chaos | | • | Special Delivery | | • | One Fine Day | | • | All Along | | • | Denial, Revisited | | • | Vultures | | • | Conspiracy of One |
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Fellow Californian Mike Love of the Beach Boys is sampled to introduce this latest Offspring release and immediately it's down to business as usual. Which for the Offspring means the best-produced punk rock money can buy. Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam) turns the knobs in the producer's chair and he works pure sonic architecture. The guitars crunch with perfectly defined distortion, the drums come down the middle, and--most importantly--singer Dexter Holland is juiced to the max. Though his voice sits in the "whine" range, double tracking and other studio enhancements give the vocals an incredible presence beyond standard range, and Holland works them to convincing effect. "Come Out Swinging" does exactly that. "Want You Bad" recalls the southern California punk pop of the Descendents. "One Fine Day" double-times into both hardcore and a galloping country terrain. Essentially, it's full speed ahead with the pedal to the metal and no airbags in sight. --Rob O'Connor
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 a good album, even if it promises slightly more than it delivers October 14, 2008
Let me just say first hand that this album does have some key songs in the overall progression of the band (Million Miles Away, Dammit I Changed Again); anyone who's only heard Original Prankster and Want You Bad has definitely not heard the real album.
This is a fair album, with some very good Offspring songs; but my big problem with it is that it almost completely looses steam by the end, which is disappointing considering that the first 6 songs seemed to promise an album on a much larger scale then it actually was. The last four tracks are very forgettable, and I thought the title track was a very inadaquate(jeez, how do you spell that) closer for this album; especially after Pay the Man, Change the World, and Smash as previous closers, the title track here without a doubt sends us off with a very low-key feeling. With the closers I'd previously mentioned, they really ended the album with a bang and with confetti; Conspiracy of One ends with more of a feeling of "okay, we're done".
I really like songs 2-9, they make for a 5 star album; the rest, unfortunately, would make up for an album of much lesser value.
 One Fine Day! September 22, 2008
Awesome CD by The Offspring, anyone who appreciates good music should buy this CD. One Fine Day is probably the best weekend anthem I have ever heard in punk form.
One of their best albums June 23, 2008
I think their best albums are Smash, this one, and Splinter. This album has two annoying joke written-just-for-the-radio songs (Original Prankster and Want You Bad), that I usually skip, but the rest of the album is good to great. My favorite songs on the album are Million Miles Away and Living in Chaos. Come Out Swinging is fast and rocks, a good start to the album. Denial Revisited does not sound like Offspring at all, but I still like it, and Vultures sounds like a Nirvana song. It's kind of eerie listening to Conspiracy of One, (about terror groups attacking superpowers) the final track, and knowing that about a year later 9/11 happened. Special Delivery is creepy, written from the point of view of a psychotic stalker. Reminds me of Bad Habit and Beheaded, other songs where Dexter is singing from the point of view of someone who's nuts. And One Fine Day is hilarious and has a guitar riff that reminds me of Green Acres. Another note of interest to some is that this album has the least amount of swear words of any of their albums (and no f-words).
 Train kept a rollin' February 1, 2008
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Kinda cool and kinda juvenile cover art sum up this 2000 pop punk release as the Offspring prove to any doubters that they can indeed keep on rollin' with their simple plan of attack that saves itself from being utterly disposable by at least being a good plan. Highlights here are the hit singles especially Original Prankster which is perhaps the best example of why this band are so successful despite having no discernable reason to exist. With bouncy melodies and a good dollop of sense of humour the band plays to the inner thirteen year old in their audience.
With production values that are good while not actually being noticeable for any reason the band has here put in some extra value with the presence of some CD rom material and it's good to see that even a band like Offspring who sell millions will still make sure they are releasing worthy product in terms of bells and whistles. The booklet is full of mildly amusing cartoon caricatures - in the spirit of, say, Helloween. And lyrics to the whole deal are also included.
In addition my copy has what is termed a bonus track - Huck It which was apparently from a movie of the same name. Don't recall it getting too many academy awards but hey, for fans this is probably a reasonably nifty little curio.
All up this is an album you can put on and by the end not remember a darn thing about it except that, oh yeah, it has that Original Prankster song on it.
Great Service Great Product January 18, 2008
Thanks they shipped it so Fast and the Quality is Awesome Not Opened Still stealed Just the way I like it Keep up the Good Work!
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