Artist : The Offspring Album : Greatest Hits (Columbia)

Remember the Offspring? The Southern California skate punk outfit who took the world by storm with their Middle Eastern riff and catchy rhyming in Come Out and Play, whose sophomore album Smash became the biggest-selling LP from an indie band.

Following the path to the mainstream that was opened by Green Day, the Offspring struck a chord with most of the bored and disaffected youth thanks to their tongue-in-check attitude, and of course, the power chords.

But if Green Day grew to become elderly statesmen of punk, the Offspring were damned for their refusal to grow.

Almost a decade after Smash, the band still writes songs using a less than appealing formula distilled from the hit album like on Hit That off the 2003 Splinter.

This greatest hits collection is a document of the band's eternal adolescence. -- M. Taufiqurrahman