Song · The Offspring
“Hammerhead” by The Offspring
From the album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008)
“Hammerhead” by The Offspring appears on 21 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 2008 and 2011. It was first released in 2008 on the album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace. Its best result is #2 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2008. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #7 alternative song of 2008, #4,036 alternative song of all time and #243 of the '00s.
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"Hammerhead" was the first single from Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, the Offspring's eighth album, and the band had already tried it out on a crowd at the Summer Sonic festival in 2007. It got its world premiere in May 2008 on KROQ, the Los Angeles station the band counts as home, days ahead of its official radio date, and on May 5 their website handed it out as a free, DRM-free MP3 to anyone who traded an email address for it, the same trick they had pulled with "Original Prankster" in 2000.
Bob Rock produced, engineered and mixed Dexter Holland's song, giving its riff a big, burly punch. It climbed to number two on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 307 | Live 105 | Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009) | 500 |
| 2009 | 67 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of All-Time (2009) | 200 |
| 2011 | 91 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 New Rock Songs of the 2000s | 102 |
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