Smash IT Up - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

"Smash It Up"
Single by The Offspring
from the album Batman Forever soundtrack
Released 1995
Format CD single
Genre Punk rock
Length 3:24
Label Epitaph
Writer(s) The Damned
The Offspring singles chronology
"Gotta Get Away"
(1995)		 "Smash It Up"
(1995)		 "All I Want"
(1996)

The song was covered by Die Toten Hosen for the 1991 cover album Learning English, Lesson One.

In 1995, The Offspring covered the song for the soundtrack to the film Batman Forever and it was also released as a single. The song peaked on number 16 on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 47 on the Hot 100 Airplay (Radio Songs) chart. It was later released on The Offspring's Club Me EP and also on the "All I Want" CD single.

The Damned
  • Dave Vanian
  • Captain Sensible
  • Stu West
  • Monty Oxy Moron
  • Pinch
  • Brian James
  • Rat Scabies
  • Lu Edmunds
  • Algy Ward
  • Paul Gray
  • Roman Jugg
  • Bryn Merrick
  • Henry Badowski
  • Kris Dollimore
  • Alan Lee Shaw
  • Moose Harris
  • Patricia Morrison
  • Jon Moss
  • Lemmy
Studio albums
  • Damned Damned Damned
  • Music for Pleasure
  • Machine Gun Etiquette
  • The Black Album
  • Strawberries
  • Phantasmagoria
  • Anything
  • Not of This Earth
  • Grave Disorder
  • So, Who's Paranoid?
Live albums
  • Live Shepperton 1980
  • Live at Newcastle
  • The Captain's Birthday Party
  • Not the Captain's Birthday Party?
  • Final Damnation
  • Ballroom Blitz – Live at the Lyceum
  • Molten Lager
  • Live at the 100 Club
Compilation albums
  • Light at the End of the Tunnel
  • The Radio One Sessions
  • Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987
EPs
  • Friday 13th EP
  • Testify
Singles
  • "New Rose"
  • "Neat Neat Neat"
  • "Stretcher Case Baby"
  • "Problem Child"
  • "Don't Cry Wolf"
  • "Love Song"
  • "Smash It Up"
  • "I Just Can't Be Happy Today"
  • "White Rabbit"
  • "The History of the World (Part 1)"
  • "There Ain't No Sanity Clause"
  • "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde"
  • "Wait for the Blackout"
  • "Lovely Money"
  • "Dozen Girls"
  • "Lively Arts"
  • "Generals"
  • "Thanks for the Night"
  • "Grimly Fiendish"
  • "The Shadow of Love"
  • "Is It a Dream?"
  • "Eloise"
  • "Gigolo"
  • "Anything"
  • "Alone Again Or"
  • "In Dulce Decorum"
  • "Fun Factory"
  • "Prokofiev"
  • "Shut It"
  • "Little Miss Disaster"
Associated acts
  • Masters of the Backside
  • London SS
  • The Lords of the New Church
  • Dave Vanian and the Phantom Chords
  • Naz Nomad and the Nightmares
Related articles
  • Discography
  • Stiff Records
  • Chiswick Records
  • Bronze Records
  • Nitro Records
The Offspring
  • Dexter Holland
  • Greg K.
  • Noodles
  • Pete Parada
  • James Lilja
  • Doug Thompson
  • Jim Benton
  • Ron Welty
  • Atom Willard
Studio albums
  • The Offspring
  • Ignition
  • Smash
  • Ixnay on the Hombre
  • Americana
  • Conspiracy of One
  • Splinter
  • Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
  • Days Go By
EPs
  • Baghdad
  • They Were Born to Kill
  • Club Me
  • A Piece of Americana
Compilations
  • The Offspring Collection
  • Greatest Hits
  • Happy Hour!
Videos and DVDs
  • Americana
  • Huck It
  • Complete Music Video Collection
Singles
  • "I'll Be Waiting/Blackball"
  • "Come Out and Play"
  • "Self Esteem"
  • "Gotta Get Away"
  • "Smash It Up"
  • "All I Want"
  • "Gone Away"
  • "I Choose"
  • "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)"
  • "Why Don't You Get a Job?"
  • "The Kids Aren't Alright"
  • "She's Got Issues"
  • "Original Prankster"
  • "Want You Bad"
  • "Million Miles Away"
  • "Defy You"
  • "Hit That"
  • "(Can't Get My) Head Around You"
  • "Spare Me the Details"
  • "Can't Repeat"
  • "Hammerhead"
  • "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid"
  • "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?"
  • "Half-Truism"
  • "Days Go By"
  • "Cruising California (Bumpin' in My Trunk)"
Related articles
  • Discography
  • List of songs
  • Awards
  • Epitaph Records
  • Nitro Records
  • Columbia Records
  • Punk rock in California
Related bands
  • Angels & Airwaves
  • Face to Face
  • Hot Mess
  • Saves the Day
  • Steady Ground
  • Book:The Offspring
  • Category:The Offspring
  • Portal:Punk rock
Batman music
Soundtracks
  • Batman (score)
  • Batman (soundtrack)
  • Batman Returns
  • Batman Forever (soundtrack)
  • Batman Forever (score)
  • Batman & Robin
  • Batman Begins
  • The Dark Knight
  • The Dark Knight Rises
Songs
  • "Batman Theme"
  • "Batusi"
  • "Batdance"
  • "Partyman"
  • "The Arms of Orion"
  • "Scandalous!"
  • "The Future"
  • "Face to Face"
  • "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"
  • "Kiss from a Rose"
  • "The Riddler"
  • "Where Are You Now?"
  • "Smash It Up"
  • "The End Is the Beginning Is the End"
  • "Look into My Eyes"
  • "Gotham City"
  • "Foolish Games"
  • "Moaner"
  • "Lazy Eye"

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