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Thom Wilson is a now-retired^{[citation needed]} American punk rock record producer and engineer.

[edit] Career

Wilson began his musical career in the mid-1970s, engineering recordings by soft rock artits Burton Cummings and Seals & Crofts. He began working on punk rock albums in the early 1980s while producing the Adolescents' self-titled debut album (also known as The Blue Album). Throughout his career, he would also produce and engineer albums for numerous artists, such as Dead Kennedys, T.S.O.L, The Joykiller, Social Distortion, The Vandals, The Offspring, Face to Face and The Bouncing Souls.

Wilson produced The Offspring's first three albums The Offspring (1989), Ignition (1992), and their breakthrough Smash (1994). He also produced the band's 1991 7" EP Baghdad. In 1996, The Offspring chose producer Dave Jerden to produce their next album, ending the group's long-time relationship with Wilson. The band would later have Brendan O'Brien and Bob Rock produce their later albums respectively.

Around 2003, Wilson retired from the music industry after producing The Joykiller's Ready Sexed Go! album.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Selected discography

• My Own Way to Rock - Burton Cummings (1977)
• Takin' It Easy - Seals and Crofts (1978)
• Disconnected - Stiv Bators (1981)
• The Adolescents - The Adolescents (1981)
• Only Theatre of Pain - Christian Death (1982)
• Plastic Surgery Disasters - Dead Kennedys (1982)
• 13.13 - Lydia Lunch (1982)
• ? - Red Wedding (1982)
• Dance with Me - TSOL (1982)
• Peace Thru Vandalism (EP) - The Vandals (1982)
• Sound & Fury - Youth Brigade (1983)
• Mommy's Little Monster - Social Distortion (1983)
• When in Rome Do as the Vandals - The Vandals (1984)
• Slippery When Ill - The Vandals (1989)
• The Offspring - The Offspring (1989)
• Baghdad (EP) - The Offspring (1991)
• Kings of Gangster Bop - Royal Crown Revue (1991)
• Ignition - The Offspring (1992)
• Smash - The Offspring (1994)
• Big Choice - Face to Face (1994)
• Maniacal Laughter - The Bouncing Souls (1996)
• The Bouncing Souls - The Bouncing Souls (1997)
• Out on a Wire - Eve Selis (1998)
• Hopeless Romantic - The Bouncing Souls (1999)
• The Aquabats! vs. the Floating Eye of Death! - The Aquabats (1999)
• A Place Called Home - Ignite (2000)
• Devil in Paradise (EP) - Mock (2001)
• Ready Sexed Go! - The Joykiller (2003)

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