| "Gotta Get Away" | ||||
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| Single by the Offspring | ||||
| from the album Smash | ||||
| B-side | "Smash" (live) | |||
| Released | February 2, 1995 | |||
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| Length | 3:53 | |||
| Label | Epitaph | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Dexter Holland | |||
| Producer(s) | Thom Wilson | |||
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| Alternative Cover | ||||
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"Gotta Get Away" is a song by American rock band the Offspring. It is the fourth track and third single from their breakthrough album, Smash (1994). The song was a modest hit in several countries and peaked at No. 6 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. "Gotta Get Away" was inspired by an early track, "Cogs", written while the band was still named Manic Subsidal.[3] Although the song was a big hit, it did not reach the heights nor achieve the popularity, success, airplay, or sales of the album's previous singles "Come Out and Play" and "Self Esteem".
The song has two single covers. The first, the cover for the CD single, depicts a skeleton in the same style as the previous singles from Smash: "Come Out and Play" and "Self Esteem". The second, the cover for the 7-inch vinyl, shows the actor from the video standing outside the coliseum, his eyes covered by the song title. The song also appears as the same numbered track on the Offpsring's Greatest Hits (2005).
- ^ a b "The 95 Best Alternative Rock Songs Of 1995". SPIN. August 6, 2015. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
- ^ Tijs, Andrew (2016). "The Offspring - Crash". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. London: Cassell Illustrated. p. 734.
- ^ The Offspring's Greatest Hits DVD Extra