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Days Go By (2012)

Where the lyrics of Days Go By take you, and where it was really made.

Recorded over three years in six studios across California, Hawaii and Canada, the album still debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200.

Key places

D-13 Studio, recording credit (2012)

Recording site D-13 Studio (Huntington Beach) — D-13 Studio is credited as a place where the album was recorded. The point uses city-centre coordinates, so it does not mark the studio building itself. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Plantation Mixing and Recording, recording credit (2012)

Recording site Plantation Mixing and Recording (Haiku) — Plantation Mixing and Recording is credited as a place where the album was recorded. The point uses city-centre coordinates for Haiku, Hawaii. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: See the map for directions.

Record Plant, Los Angeles, recording credit (2012)

Recording site Los Angeles — Record Plant in Los Angeles is credited as a place where the album was recorded. The point is at the building's coordinates. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The Warehouse Studio, Vancouver, recording credit (2012)

Recording site Warehouse Studios — The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver is credited as a place where the album was recorded. The point is at the building's coordinates. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Days Go By: ninth studio album by American rock band the Offspring
• Released June 26, 2012 by Columbia Records, the band's final album on the label
• Portuguese Wikipedia lists the release date as June 25 instead
• Produced by Bob Rock
• Lead single and title track premiered on radio April 27, 2012
• "Cruising California (Bumpin' in My Trunk)" released April 30, 2012 as the first single outside the US, Canada, Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• Debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 with 24,000 first-week sales in North America

Background

• Work began in 2009, with release planned for 2010
• Release was pushed back several times while the band kept touring and writing new material
• Writing started during the tour for Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
• First album to feature drummer Pete Parada, who played on four songs
• Parada joined a year before the release of Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
• Last album to feature bassist Greg K. before he was fired from the band in 2018
• Re-recorded "Dirty Magic" from the 1992 album Ignition, where it is the ninth track

Recording

• Writing and recording spanned three years
• Six recording studios used: four in California, one in Hawaii, one in Canada
• Process finished in March 2012
• Band announced the album as finished on March 24, 2012
• Studios credited in the Discogs listing include D-13 Studio, Plantation Mixing and Recording, Record Plant in Los Angeles and The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver
• Mastering credited to Sterling Sound

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in Garden Grove, California in 1984 under the name Manic Subsidal; renamed The Offspring in 1986.
• Played a key role in reviving mainstream interest in punk rock during the 1990s.
• Have sold more than 45 million records and are among the best-selling punk bands.

Members

• Dexter Holland (lead vocals, guitar) and Noodles (lead guitar) are the founding core.
• Current lineup also includes Todd Morse (bass), Jonah Nimoy (multi-instrumentalist) and Brandon Pertzborn (drums).
• Greg K. Kriesel, a co-founder, was fired from the band in 2018.

Career

• Released Smash (1994) on Epitaph Records; it sold over 11 million copies and helped push punk into the mainstream.
• Signed with Columbia Records in 1996; Americana (1998) reached number two on the Billboard 200.
• Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008) revived their career, with "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" topping the Billboard rock charts for eleven weeks.
• Released Let the Bad Times Roll (2021) and Supercharged (2024).

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Received generally mixed reviews from music critics
• Critics heard a heavy-sounding Foo Fighters feel in the title track
• Metacritic average score: 51 out of 100, based on 13 reviews
• AllMusic reviewer Gregory Heaney gave the album two and a half out of 5 stars
• Heaney wrote that the album is more for fans who have been with the band for a while
• Heaney suggested new listeners would be better served by the band's earlier, more urgent work
• Heaney said die-hard fans can see the shift in sound as a logical progression
• Brazilian website Whiplash.net gave a very favorable review, scoring it 8 out of 10
• Whiplash.net said the guitars are back on the album

Records

• Peaked at No. 12 on the US Billboard 200
• Sold 24,000 copies in its first week of release
• Charted in North America with that first-week total

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The band re-recorded "Dirty Magic" from its 1992 album Ignition for this record, where it is the ninth track.
• Some copies of the album carry a "Parental Advisory" sticker on the jewel case.
• The album spawned three singles and three videos.
• "Turning into You" was released as a radio single, but no video was made for it.
• "Dividing by Zero" and "Slim Pickens Does the Right Thing and Rides the Bomb to Hell" share one combined music video.
• The band streamed the album on Rolling Stone's website one week before release, announced on June 19, 2012.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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