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词条 The Kids Aren't Alright
释义

  1. Track listing

     Original pressing  Alternative pressing  Second alternative pressing  Third alternative pressing  Promo CD 

  2. Music video

     DVD appearances 

  3. Album art

  4. Rock Band

  5. Covers/alternative versions

  6. Charts

  7. Certifications

  8. References

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"The Kids Aren't Alright" is a song by The Offspring. It is the fifth track from the band's fifth studio album Americana (1998) and was released as the third single from the album. It became another top 10 hit on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Its title is an allusion to the Who song "The Kids Are Alright" (from My Generation). Despite not being as commercially successful as its predecessor singles, "The Kids Aren't Alright" remains the most-listened to Offspring song amongst Last.FM[5] users, and still receives some radio play. The song was used in the opening scene of the film The Faculty, and appears on the soundtrack album.[6] It is also available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series.[7]

The song also appears as the ninth track on their Greatest Hits album of 2005.

Track listing

Original pressing

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Promo CD

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Cassette Single

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Music video

It features a room with a background of abandonment or family activity at different times. In the center of the room, there are scenes of various persons, including an appearance by Bif Naked, doing stereotypical things and moves; occasionally band members show up. The camera pans around the room and the changing of the scenes of persons.

The background can be seen shifting between two time lines, one where the scene is the past, where things are new and white, and modern days where it is dreary and drab.

The music video, directed by Yariv Gaber, released a month before the CD single,[8] received heavy airplay on MTV. It was later nominated for Best Direction on the MTV Video Music Awards. The visuals in the video are made with rotoscoping techniques.

DVD appearances

The music video also appears on the Complete Music Video Collection DVD, released in 2005.

Album art

The album art features two different drawings for this song. The first depicts a scarecrow falling into the tentacles shown prominently in other single and album covers from "Americana". This art also appeared in the accompanying booklet for the album (however, this drawing appeared with the song "Have You Ever"). The second, alternative cover shows a young child reaching for a gun, with ominous blood near to it (the drawing that actually appears with the song in the "Americana" booklet).

Rock Band

The song was also released as downloadable content for the game Rock Band, released on March 10, 2009.

Covers/alternative versions

  • Hardcore band Evergreen Terrace recorded a cover of The Kids Aren't Alright for their album Writer's Block, which is comprised almost exclusively of covers.
  • The "blue cover" version of the "She's Got Issues" single includes as B-sides a remix of The Kids Aren't Alright by The Wiseguys, and an instrumental of this remix. The remix takes a different approach to the song, removing the energetic, angry guitars and instead trying to create something bleaker, more of a sad lament than an angry one. This version also appears as a bonus track on the European and South American releases of the band's Greatest Hits.
  • The college marching band version can be heard in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during home football games of the USC Trojans. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZbNcPP_xk USC Trojan Marching Band plays the song] during referee time-outs for viewing replays of critical plays; it is played at least once each home and away football game. The song has thus been broadcast on network television on weekly ABC network College Game Day broadcasts, several Rose Bowl broadcasts, and at least two BCS National Championship game broadcasts. The marching band added the song to its game day repertoire back during the year Offspring appeared with the band during a half time show for fans.
  • One of the two versions of the "Want You Bad" single released in the UK has a live version of the song as one of the B-sides. The guitars in it are slightly different from the original's.
  • Another live version of the song appears on the "Hit That" single. This version comes from a session recorded for BBC Radio 1, and features more subdued instrumentation than the original.
  • On The Making of the Da Hui Video, in the Music DVD Bonus Material, a Hawaiian guitar version of the song can be heard. This version is also included as an MP3 download on the Splinter album as "The Kids Aren't Alright (Island Style)".
  • The Logarhythms, an all-male a cappella group from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recorded an a cappella version of the song for their 2004 album Soundproof. Their version of the song was also chosen for included in the 2005 "Best of College A Cappella" (BOCA) album.
  • While it is not a cover of the song, Chris Webby's "Fragile Lives" includes recordings of The Kids Aren't Alright and uses a similar beat throughout the song.
  • While it is also not a cover of the song, in 2014, Fall Out Boy recorded a promotional single with the same title.

Charts

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Chart (1999)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[9]69

Certifications

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References

1. ^[https://twitter.com/offspring/status/645996369224724480 "The Kids Aren't Alright" was released as a single on this day in 1999! What are your favorite lyrics from the song?] twitter.com/offspring. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/Offspring-The-Kids-Arent-Alright/master/77241 |title=Offspring, The – The Kids Aren't Alright |publisher=Discogs |accessdate=July 16, 2013}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/the_offspring/the_kids_arent_alright_f1/ |title=The Kids Aren't Alright |publisher=Rate Your Music |accessdate=July 16, 2013}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/kids-arent-alright-us-cd-single-mw0000945535/credits |title=The Offspring – Kids Aren't Alright [US CD Single] |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=July 16, 2013}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.last.fm/music/The+Offspring |title=The Offspring |author= |date= |website=Last.fm |publisher=Last.fm |access-date=August 23, 2016 |quote=}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133751/soundtrack |title=The Faculty (1998) – Soundtracks |publisher=Internet Movie Database |accessdate=July 16, 2013}}
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://worthplaying.com/article/2009/3/6/news/59593/ |title=Rock Band (ALL) to Get The Offspring, R.E.M. and Richard Thompson Tracks |publisher=Worthplaying |accessdate=July 16, 2013 |date=March 6, 2009 |author=Rainier}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=20894 |title=the Offspring - "The kids aren't alright" |publisher=mvdbase.com |date=1999-07-14 |accessdate=2012-08-20}}
9. ^{{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia}}
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