Claude says:Smash landed in '95 as the sound of suburban punk going national—hook-laden, snappy, impossible to ignore—and you've kept coming back to it across more than a decade, mostly riding the self-loathing swagger of "Self Esteem" whenever it needed spinning. The record's still got that effortless catchiness that made it one of the era's biggest sellers, even if you're clearly more loyal to its neurotic moments than its straightforward rush.