"All I Want" is a punk rock song by the Offspring. It is the tenth track on their fourth studio album Ixnay on the Hombre (1997) and was released as the first single from the album in December of 1996. It reached #31 in the UK and #15 in Australia. The song was also featured in the video game Crazy Taxi as well as the computer game Jugular Street Luge Racing. The single was also (at 1:55) the shortest single to be released by the band.
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"All I Want" is a punk rock song by the Offspring. It is the tenth track on their fourth studio album Ixnay on the Hombre (1997) and was released as the first single from the album in December of 1996. It reached #31 in the UK and #15 in Australia. The song was also featured in the video game Crazy Taxi as well as the computer game Jugular Street Luge Racing. The single was also (at 1:55) the shortest single to be released by the band.
The song also appears as the fifth track on their Greatest Hits (2005).
The song was originally written by Dexter Holland as part of a (perhaps tongue-in-cheek) Bad Religion songwriting competition at Epitaph Records, under the title Protocol. The song's lyrics originally consisted of significantly complex vocabulary, like many Bad Religion songs. However, when Dexter offered to play it for Epitaph owner and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, he was told to "play it on acoustic later or something." Dexter felt rejected and rewrote the song's lyrics...
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