Gotta Get Away
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| "Gotta Get Away" | ||
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| Single by The Offspring | ||
| Released | 1995 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Genre | Punk Rock | |
| Label | Epitaph | |
| Producer(s) | Thom Wilson | |
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| The Offspring singles chronology | ||
| Self-Esteem (1994) |
Gotta Get Away (1995) |
Kick Him When He's Down (1995) |
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Gotta Get Away was the third single from The Offspring's breakthrough album "Smash." It is centered around the paranoia of the main character of the song. The song was a decent hit and still receives considerable airplay today. Gotta Get Away was inspired by a previous track, called Cogs, when The Offspring were called Manic Subsidal. This is mentioned on the Greatest Hits bonus DVD, in an interview between Noodles and Dexter, along with the fact that it was the last song Dexter wrote for the album, and at the time was suffering from a lot of pressure due to the upcoming deadline.
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[edit] Video
The video starts with a boy entering a "coliseum" where him and a group of other teenagers start to fight while the band plays and a girl and a boy make-out, the video ends with the same boy laying on floor alone. The music video for the song was directed by Samuel Bayer and filmed at the Fairgrounds Coliseum in Salt Lake City, UT on December 17, 1994. MTV did some research on the video, and found out that it scared little girls.
[edit] Chart positions
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1994 | Modern Rock Tracks (US) | No. 6 |
| 1994 | Mainstream Rock Tracks (US) | No. 15 |
| 1994 | Official Norway Singles Charts | No. 18 |
| 1994 | Official Swedish Singles Charts | No. 26 |
| 1994 | Official Austrian Singles Charts | No. 36 |
| 1994 | Official UK Singles Charts | No. 43 |
[edit] Trivia
- The song had two single covers. The first depicts a skeleton in the same style as the previous singles from Smash - Come Out And Play and Self-Esteem. The second shows the actor from the video standing outside the coliseum, his eyes covered by the song title.
[edit] See also
List of songs about mental illness
