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The Offspring – The Kids Aren't Alright (3:01)

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“The Kids Aren’t Alright” is a punk rock song by The Offspring. It is the fifth track from the band’s fifth studio album Americana (1998) and was released as the third single from this album.

Its title is an allusion to the Who song “The Kids Are Alright” (from My Generation). Despite not being as commercially successful as its predecessor singles, the song remains the most-listened to Offspring song amongst Last. FM and Spotify (where it also is the most popular song of the 90s) users, and still receives some radio play. The song was used in the opening scene of the film, The Faculty, and appears on the soundtrack album. It is also available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series.

The song also appears as the ninth track on their Greatest Hits album of 2005.

It features a room with a background of abandonment or family activity at different times. In the center of the room, there are scenes of various persons, including an appearance by Bif Naked, doing stereotypical things and moves; occasionally band members show up. The camera pans around the room and the changing of the scenes of persons.

The background can be seen shifting between two time lines, one where the scene is the past, where things are new and white, and modern days where it is dreary and drab. This is a clear connection to the songs lyric ‘when we were young the future was so bright…’ and the overall feeling of the song to be looking to what has happened since and ‘how can one little street swallow so many lives’.
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  • Americana
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  • Greatest Hits
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  • The Kids Aren't Allright
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  • Woodstock '99
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  • zqjie5207

    I love green day ! i love sum41 ! i hate the offspring~ OY

    45 minutes ago

  • ImZ1k4

    Nice xD

    15 days ago

  • theoffspring91

    THE BEST SONG EVER, AMAZING PUNK ROCK (3)

    17 days ago

  • ninahirt

    i love punk:D i love offspring:D and iii love this soong:DD<33

    18 days ago

  • FuckerDance

    THE BEST SONG EVER, AMAZING PUNKROCK (2)

    19 days ago

  • TigerYoshiki

    An instant classic. <3

    25 days ago

  • bgutmeir

    i didnt expect this to be their most popular song on here, weird

    last month

  • Metal-Kathy86

    my favourite the offspring song

    last month

  • BluePrankster

    THE BEST SONG EVER, AMAZING PUNKROCK

    last month

  • xKornflakesx

    The best from Offspring, everything about this song is amazing!

    last month

  • Hannah_beee

    OMG I love the offspring. I can hear it all the time <3

    last month

  • Karolina137

    Fanów z Polski zapraszam na forum: http://offspring.boo.pl/forum/

    last month

  • lordunterberg

    @mothertrucker48 wie vermisst du sie die gibt es doch noch

    last month

  • a_barfight

    love that its live. one of the huge failures of my life - never got to see 'em live.

    March 2012

  • RSBlack117

    True Punk Legends!

    March 2012

  • mothertrucker48

    I miss this band so much.

    March 2012

  • lordunterberg

    Rock n roll

    March 2012

  • UlfurHeimarwolf

    this song is sad... but i fricking lov it!!!!

    March 2012

  • LAK95

    der klassiker von the offspring. kann man immer wieder hören.

    March 2012

  • Rockinfreddy

    geil

    March 2012
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