Song · The Offspring
“I Choose” by The Offspring
From the album Ixnay on the Hombre (1997)
“I Choose” by The Offspring appears on 14 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1997 and 2002. It was first released in 1997 on the album Ixnay on the Hombre. Its best result is #23 on the WRCX Top 103 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #90 alternative song of 1997 and #4,300 alternative song of all time.
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"I Choose" sits eighth on Ixnay on the Hombre, the Offspring's fourth album, from 1997, and in Australia it became the record's fourth and final single. Dexter Holland wrote it alone, and Dave Jerden produced and mixed it, with Bryan Carlstrom engineering; it's a brisk, bright punk rock number that bounces where the band usually snarls.
The bookish twist is in the second verse, which borrows the bananafish from J. D. Salinger's short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and, where Salinger found tragedy, just laughs it off and shrugs away the self-pity. Holland directed the video himself. It sold less than the album's earlier singles and was left off the band's Greatest Hits in 2005, but it still made the top 10 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
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 | 98 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997 | 107 |
| 1997 | 89 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997 | 105 |
| 1997 | 96 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1997 | 100 |
| 1997 | 53 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1997 | 107 |
| 1997 | 60 | KNRK Portland, OR | KNRK Top 94 Songs of 1997 | 94 |
| 1997 | 51 | 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO | 105.7 The Point Top 105.7 of 1997 | 106 |
| 1997 | 67 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997 | 100 |
| 1997 | 23 | WRCX Rock 103.5 Chicago, IL | WRCX Top 103 Songs of 1997 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 886 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 281 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 546 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 612 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 1999 | 953 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 878 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
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