![]() ![]() The band has repeatedly expressed being surprised by the album's fame, and unlike on their later albums, there's nothing on Smash that sounds geared towards a mainstream audience. It also didn't have a huge budget and it wasn't made with a big-name producer it was made with Thom Wilson, the same producer who worked on The Offspring's previous two albums, and who previously worked on '80s punk and hardcore underground classics like the Adolescents' self-titled debut LP, TSOL's Dance With Me, Dead Kennedys' Plastic Surgery Disasters, The Vandals' Peace Thru Vandalism, and Social Distortion's Mommy's Little Monster - all albums that probably influenced The Offspring and their peers. It remains the highest-selling album on an independent label today. ![]() Dookie's fame was aided by it coming out on a major label, but Smash got just (about) as big on an independent label: Bad Religion co-founder Brett Gurewitz's Epitaph Records.
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