"Original Prankster"
Single by The Offspring
Released	2001
Format	CD
Genre	Punk rock
Label	Columbia Records
Producer(s)	Brendan O'Brien
The Offspring singles chronology
"Totalimmortal" (2000)	"Original Prankster" (2000)	"Want You Bad" (2001)

"Original Prankster" was the first single from The Offspring's 2000 album Conspiracy Of One. It is the story of a person and the pranks he pulls throughout his life. He is helped by the "Original Prankster", who is played by Reggie Noble, aka Redman. For a period of time before the release of Conspiracy of One, The Offspring distributed the track for free as a downloadable MP3 file on their official website. A competition was held, featuring a prize of $1 million U.S. dollars awarded to a randomly selected participant who downloaded the song. References in the song include Janet Reno and a line from the Adam Sandler comedy, The Waterboy: "You can do it!" Image File history File links Original_Prankster_Offspring. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... The Offspring is a popular American band from Orange County, California that originally formed in 1984. ... This article is about the year 2001. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes . ... The Offspring is a popular American band from Orange County, California that originally formed in 1984. ... Originally created by AFI, this song was covered by the Offspring later. ... This article should appear in one or more categories. ... The Offspring is a popular American band from Orange County, California that originally formed in 1984. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Conspiracy of One is an album released by The Offspring on November 14, 2000. ... Reginald Reggie Noble (born April 17, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey), better known as Redman, is a rapper of African-American and Korean [1] descent, who became popular as an artist on the Def Jam label in the early 1990s. ... MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format, designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the 78th Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001), and was the first woman to hold that post. ... Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and musician (he sings and plays the guitar). ... The Waterboy is a movie starring Adam Sandler, released in 1998. ...

Track listing

1. "Original Prankster"
2. "Dammit, I Changed Again"
3. "Come Out Swinging"
4. "Gone Away (Live)"
5. "Staring At The Sun (Live)"

Notes:

• Dexter Holland - Vocals/Guitar
• Noodles - Guitar
• Greg K - Bass
• Ron Welty - Drums
• Produced and mixed by: Brendan O'Brien
• Engineered: Nick Didia
• Mastered by: Eddy Schreyer
• Track 4 and Track 5 Recorded by: Russ Fowler at Wembley Arena

External links

• Official band web site