In 1994, two young, fast, loud and snotty bands took California punk to new melodic heights and unheard of levels of international exposure – and went multi-platinum in the process. In the year punk broke (again), Bay Area's Green Day ultimately sold more records, but it was Orange County's the Offspring who actually set records. Their Smash was, at the time, the best-selling album ever released on an independent label.
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