OC Confidential is the fourth studio album by the American punk rock band the Adolescents, released in July 2005 on Finger Records.

The album features founding band members Tony Reflex, Frank Agnew, and Steve Soto, joined by drummer Derek O'Brien.

[2][3] The members were involved in separate projects throughout the 1990s: Soto played in the parody group Manic Hispanic, and he, Frank Agnew, and former Adolescents drummer Sandy Hanson started a band called Joyride in 1992.

[4][5] Frank Agnew soon left to focus on his family life and maintained a low-profile musical career in subsequent years, playing on albums by Tender Fury, Rule 62, and Mr.

Rikk Agnew occasionally rejoined the gothic rock band Christian Death for live performances, and released two solo albums in the early 1990s.

Royer was addicted to heroin, while Agnew abused a variety of drugs and drank alcohol excessively throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, becoming obese in the process.

[1][13][14] Reflex continued with ADZ throughout the 1990s with other members (Frank Agnew played lead guitar on five tracks on the band's 1995 album Piper at the Gates of Downey).

[3] Over the next few years the band played sporadically, including opening for Bad Religion at a benefit for Flipside and a headlining slot at Los Angeles' Galaxy Theater, but always as a revival act.

in 2003, limited to 100 copies and consisting of six new songs: "Hawks and Doves", "Where the Children Play", "California Son", "OC Confidential", "Pointless Teenage Anthem", and "Within These Walls".

and Live at the House of Blues, and recorded six more: "Guns of September", "Death on Friday", "Into the Fire", "Let It Rain", "Monsanto Hayride", and "Find a Way".

[3] Al Campbell of AllMusic rated the album 3.5 stars out of 5, remarking that "These 13 songs are a bit slower and more melodic than previous releases and a few are blatantly political: 'Hawks and Doves', 'Lockdown America', and 'Guns of September'.

The band isn't spitting out Orange County punk with the energy they were once known for, nor are they simply rehashing the style of their early-'80s single 'Amoeba' [...] OC Confidential plainly gives an honest representation of where the Adolescents have been since 1988.

If anything, Tony's lyrics are more vicious: any subtlety pounded out ('This is a pointless teenage anthem/About how great things used to be') through cadence-call delivery and A-A-B-B rhyme schemes that make a harsh match to Steve and Frank's tendency to sometimes Beatles-esque (or Cheap Trick?)