Album · The Offspring
Ignition by The Offspring
Ignition is an album by The Offspring, released in 1992. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Kick Him When He's Down”, on 6 lists with a best position of #77.
Ignition, the Offspring's second studio album, came out on Epitaph in 1992, in the thick of the grunge years, with Thom Wilson producing. The Garden Grove band of Dexter Holland, Kevin Wasserman, bassist Greg Kriesel and drummer Ron Welty was still a Southern California secret, but this is where the local following started to snowball.
It's fast, snotty, melodic punk rock, all sprinting drums and sing-along choruses, with "Kick Him When He's Down" and "Dirty Magic" as the standouts; the band liked the latter enough to re-record it two decades later for Days Go By. Smash would blow the doors off in 1994, and Ignition rode the slipstream, going gold on January 22, 1996 and eventually passing one million copies worldwide. For its 20th anniversary in 2012 they played it start to finish at select shows.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Ignition on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kick Him When He's Down | 6 | #77 | – | 1995–2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.