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“Original Prankster” by The Offspring
From the album Conspiracy of One (2000)
“Original Prankster” by The Offspring appears on 20 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 2000 and 2005. It was first released in 2000 on the album Conspiracy of One. Its best result is #9 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #26 alternative song of 2000, #4,705 alternative song of all time and #335 of the '00s.
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"Original Prankster" was the first single from Conspiracy of One, The Offspring's sixth album, and it hit radio in October 2000 wearing a big dopey grin. Dexter Holland wrote it and sings it, Redman drops in with extra vocals, and Brendan O'Brien produced and mixed a bouncy, cartoonish punk-pop romp, with Noodles, Greg Kriesel and Ron Welty keeping the goofball swagger tight.
The rollout was the real prank: before the album was out, the band gave the song away as a free MP3 on their website and ran a contest that handed $1 million to one downloader chosen at random. It landed in the top 10 in Australia, Sweden and Britain, and it went Platinum in Australia in 2001, their third song to get there after "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" and "Why Don't You Get a Job?".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
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Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 50 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) | 144 |
| 2005 | 292 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
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