"All I Want" is a song by American punk rock group

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. It is the tenth track on their fourth studio album, ''

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'' (1997), and was released as its lead single in January 1997. It reached No. 31 in the United Kingdom and No. 15 in Australia. In the US, it peaked at No. 13 on Modern Rock Tracks. The song also appears as the fifth track on their ''

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'' (2005). The single was also (at 1:55) the shortest single to be released by the band.

Origin

The song was written by

Dexter Holland Bryan Keith "Dexter" Holland (born December 29, 1965) is an American musician who is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, primary songwriter and last remaining original member of the American rock band the Offspring. He is also the creator of t ...

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

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, he was told to "play it on acoustic later or something." Dexter felt rejected and rewrote the song's lyrics to sound more like an Offspring song.

Music video

The band made a video for the song, which was directed by

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. The video consisted of shots of the band playing and singing the song mixed with a teenage boy seemingly running away from home, while the band is shown the video is often in psychedelic colors. The boy takes his clothes off down to his boxers while running through his town. At the end of the video he arrives in a park, and falls in a puddle of mud. In between the shots of the band and the shots of the running boy are old, black and white video clips from various situations, including a bicycle race, an airplane crashing into a barn, and a race car ploughing into a crowd. As confirmed on the

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DVD,

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is the man wearing the mask while playing the piano.

DVD appearances

The music video also appears on the ''

'' DVD. It was released in 2005.

Track listing

CD single

Europe 7" green vinyl

Promo CD

Charts

Appearances in medias

This song was featured in the 1999 video game ''

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'' and this third installment ''

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'', video game ''

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'' and was added to ''

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'' in October 2019. * It was available as

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in the '' Rock Band'' video game series. *It was featured in a season one episode of the MTV animated series ''

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'' entitled "College Bored". *Used as

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since 2021.

References

External links

* {{authority control The Offspring songs 1997 singles Songs written by Dexter Holland Skate punk songs Columbia Records singles Epitaph Records singles 1997 songs