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“All I Want” by The Offspring
From the album Ixnay on the Hombre (1997)
“All I Want” by The Offspring appears on 14 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1997 and 2009. It was first released in 1997 on the album Ixnay on the Hombre. Its best result is #55 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #158 alternative song of 1997 and #2,584 alternative song of all time.
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"All I Want" was the first single from Ixnay on the Hombre, the Offspring's 1997 album, and at 1:55 it's the shortest single they ever released: skate punk with the fuse already lit. Dexter Holland first wrote it as "Protocol" for a possibly tongue-in-cheek Bad Religion songwriting contest at Epitaph, stuffing it with the kind of big words Bad Religion favored. When he offered it to Brett Gurewitz, Epitaph's owner and Bad Religion's guitarist, he got brushed off, so he rewrote the words to sound like his own band.
Dave Jerden produced and mixed it, and the band plays like it has somewhere to be: Noodles' guitar slashing, Greg Kriesel and Ron Welty driving at a full sprint, Holland barking over the top. David Yow of the Jesus Lizard directed the video.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 55 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997 | 107 |
| 1997 | 92 | 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO | 105.7 The Point Top 105.7 of 1997 | 106 |
| 1997 | 82 | X103.9 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA | X103.9 Top 103.9 Songs of 1997 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 218 | KROQ | KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) | 300 |
| 1999 | 875 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 336 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2000 | 90 | The Edge | KEDJ Countdown 2000 (106 songs) | 106 |
| 2002 | 108 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) | 144 |
| 2002 | 986 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2005 | 632 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
| 2006 | 276 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006) | 500 |
| 2007 | 147 | KROQ | KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) | 500 |
| 2008 | 231 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) | 500 |
| 2009 | 147 | Live 105 | Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009) | 500 |
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