"All I Want"
Single bythe Offspring
from the albumIxnay on the Hombre
B-side	"Way Down the Line"
Released	January 20, 1997[1]
Recorded	1996
Genre	Melodic hardcore
Length	1:55
Label	Columbia,[2]Epitaph (Europe)[2]
Songwriter	Dexter Holland
Producer	Dave Jerden
The Offspring singles chronology
"Smash It Up" (1995) "All I Want" (1997) "Gone Away" (1997)

"All I Want" is a song by American punk rock groupthe Offspring. It is the tenth track on their fourth studio album,Ixnay on the Hombre (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 onModern Rock Tracks. The song also appears as the fifth track on theirGreatest Hits (2005). The single was also (at 1:55) the shortest single to be released by the band.

The song was written byDexter Holland as part of a (perhaps tongue-in-cheek)Bad Religion songwriting competition atEpitaph Records, under the titleProtocol. 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 guitaristBrett Gurewitz, 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.^[3]

The band made a video for the song, which was directed byDavid Yow ofthe Jesus Lizard.

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 theComplete Music Video Collection DVD,Buzz Osborne is the man wearing the mask while playing the piano.

The music video also appears on theComplete Music Video Collection DVD. It was released in 2005.

Source:^[4]

• Dexter Holland – vocals, guitar
• Noodles – guitar
• Greg K. – bass
• Ron Welty – drums

This song was featured in the 1999 video gameCrazy Taxi^[24] and the third installmentCrazy Taxi 3, video gameJugular Street Luge Racing^[25] and was added toWorld of Tanks in October 2019.^[26]

• It was available asdownloadable content in theRock Band video game series.^[27]
• It was featured in a season one episode of theMTV animated seriesDaria entitled "College Bored".^{[citation needed]}
• Used asDDT wrestlerToy Kojima as hisentrance theme since 2021.^[28]

• "All I Want" Official music video onYouTube

• The Offspring songs
• 1997 singles
• Songs written by Dexter Holland
• Skate punk songs
• Columbia Records singles
• Epitaph Records singles
• 1997 songs

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