Song · The Offspring
“Want You Bad” by The Offspring
From the album Conspiracy of One (2000)
“Want You Bad” by The Offspring appears on 13 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 2000 and 2006. It was first released in 2000 on the album Conspiracy of One. Its best result is #4 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #59 alternative song of 2001 and #5,454 alternative song of all time.
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"Want You Bad" is the Offspring at their most cheerfully bratty, a pop-punk sugar rush from their sixth album, Conspiracy of One, that hit American radio at the start of 2001. The whole joke lives in the title: the narrator isn't pining for his girlfriend so much as begging her to be bad, dominatrix-style, and Dexter Holland, who wrote it and sings it, plays the gag for every grin it's worth.
Brendan O'Brien produced and mixed, Nick DiDia engineered, and the band charges through it at full tilt: Noodles on guitar, Greg Kriesel on bass, Ron Welty on drums. It gave them another top-10 hit on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, later landed on their Greatest Hits, and got a remix from the Dwarves' Blag Dahlia for some versions of the "Million Miles Away" single.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 90 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2000 | 107 |
| 2000 | 97 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000 | 105 |
| 2000 | 58 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2000 | 100 |
| 2001 | 53 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 4 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2001 | 91 |
| 2001 | 43 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 | 101 |
| 2001 | 61 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
| 2001 | 42 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 53 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001 | 99 |
| 2001 | 79 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
| 2001 | 11 | 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL | 97X Top 97 Songs of 2001 | 97 |
| 2001 | 46 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 270 | Live 105 | Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006) | 500 |
Also listed as: I Want You Bad; Want you Bad.
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