Americana
by The Offspring
The Offspring bestography
Americana is ranked 2nd best out of 13 albums by The Offspring on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Offspring is Smash which is ranked number 808 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,136.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Americana track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/02/2026 18:45 | iann97 | 1,963 | 74/100 | |
| 01/22/2026 23:43 | Devilwoac | 768 | 96/100 | |
| 12/29/2025 18:20 | mutant | 1,671 | 56/100 | |
| 12/28/2025 10:22 |  Milhaud | 1,832 | 70/100 | |
| 12/22/2025 11:59 | Ibanchuck | 4 | 26/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.1/100, a mean average of 70.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.5.
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Please, for the love of God Almighty, revisit 'Pay The Man'. It is arguably The Offspings's greatest song. Great Album. God-Tier Song.
Mixed bag. Couple of absolute crackers. But most tracks seem to run with the stock standard Offspring sound. Not their best but not at all their worst. Decent.
A couple of great songs on here which combine pop and punk very effectively to create a fun fusion. This is mainly due to the energy and the catchy choruses which easily get lodged in your head and I end up singing them for days. Most of the better songs are near the beginning of the release such as Staring At The Sun, Have You Ever and the best song on the record which is The Kids Aren't Alright. All of these stick to the style of music they are going for perfectly and are so infectious. You do get a few good tracks near the conclusion but most of them are filler. However, the biggest downfall of this album is that it can be very cringey at times making it hard to take the music seriously. Also, it is very repetitive in its song structure and style. Overall, there is a lot of fun to be had on this album but the quality is questionable.
Much like everyone else, such a big influence on my childhood, some songs are good, with one exceptional song, Kids Aren't Alright.
Strangel 07/20/2016 02:25 | #171558
Catchy pop-punk with zero substance. They became pretentious self-parodies by this time after a solid, gritty album before it in Ixnay on the Hombre. The Smash era kids grew up and this stuff lost its appeal.
RoundTheBend 05/15/2016 23:44 | #166096
The Kids Aren't Alright is one of my favorite Offspring songs... other than that this album has a couple hits that are fun and all but nothing great and then a bunch of mediocre stuff... the best of which were Pay the Man and Americana.
Eastwood 02/12/2015 21:08 | #134816
Very good punk rock/skate punk/pop punk/ska punk album. Best 10 songs average is 88,3/100 and the album can get very good 90/100. Best song is "The kids aren't alright" 95/100, followed by "Pretty fly", "She's got issues" and "Why don't you get a job" all 90/100 and next "Pay the man" 85/100. All other songs in the average region of 75-80/100.
benpaco 08/15/2013 21:25 | #84005
Surprised to see such low rankings. Not the best album ever, but I certainly think this is their best album, frankly.
jhuik 01/04/2013 00:00 | #59951
The second half of this is largely filler. Some of the hits are quite derivative (even of the Offspring) but it still has an undeniable appeal to it.
junodog4 09/17/2012 20:18 | #50656
I'm not sure about this. I support tier efforts, but it just doesn't come off smoothly for me. At least it's not the pretentious direction Green Day went in.
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