Ixnay on the Hombre is the fourth studio album by American punk rock band the Offspring, released on February 4, 1997, by Columbia Records. After the massive commercial success of their previous album, Smash (1994), the band entered the studio in the middle of 1996 to record a new album. The title combines Pig Latin ("Ixnay" is the version of the word "nix", familiar in 1940s Hollywood movies) and Spanish ("hombre", "man") to convey the message "fuck The Man", as in "fuck authority". Ixnay on the Hombre was a moderate commercial success upon its release, debuting at number nine on Read more on Last.fm.
