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"Standard"? ...but I would be curious to know what Blow Up thinks about the new English scene... perhaps we have a different idea of the meaning of the term "standard" with Blow Up ; )

But it's obvious, NGW, that it's a war between the poor, but you can't lump everything together... that GD is a "little group" is clear, but there is still a difference between them and Blink 182. And Dookie is actually a very sharp album in its references: have you forgotten that besides Buzzcocks and Pixies, at least the Green Day mention another ten bands, including Husker Du and Replacements that cannot be overlooked. And they have the remarkable cleverness to update everything for their slackers' generation, which is a "poor" innovation, but still a sign of vibrancy, something that Blink 182 has never had, precisely because, an INDEFENSIBLE factor, they had Green Day themselves as a reference and precedent. And the whole corporate punk thing is a load of nonsense invented by hardcore purists (who often forget how even, and especially, the more "pure" hardcore is one of the most musically conservative genres in the world), even Husker Du were signed by Warner Bros, and this did not compromise their integrity, just like Green Day were essentially doing power pop before and continued to do so afterward...

Jim Morrison, huh? ...I think you're going to catch some flak... ; ) ..well, you kind of asked for it, admit it : D

aaahhh, why do critics pretend to have forgotten about Pulp (which wasn’t exactly a top-tier band to begin with)? ...if they had the honesty to remember Pulp, Kaiser Chiefs would immediately turn out to be one of the most pointless releases of the decade...

Oh yes... one of the greatest bands of all time.

Thanks to all my friends.. Josi, Reggina might have some nasty surprises in store ; ) Mounsieur Sfasciacarroze, if we have a meeting in Florence, you CANNOT deny us your noble presence! : ) ..Hum, be ready, check the forum ; )

NGW, not that Green Day are my passion, but I repeat, out of respect for when I was a Tineiger, I feel compelled to defend them strenuously! :D ..sorry, but in my opinion, you’ve totally missed the real Green Day, you haven’t listened to them properly... I’ll tell you, I haven’t listened to them in at least eight years (excluding MTV singles), but the Green Day from 1989-1995 were the band that took themselves the least seriously on the face of the earth: slouches, idiots, total goofballs! ..and it’s obvious how Blink 182 completely copied their interpretative style... But with bad taste, and lacking the undeniable primary creativity that Green Day still conveyed back in the Dookie days, typical of the 2000s MTV bands (which are different from the '90s, when, let’s remember, alternative made money, and so MTV allowed for alternative) that cannot escape a certain rhetoric, unlike the Green Day who managed to do so with their intentional stupidity (which, by the way, Blink 182 copied and made horrendously cliché!) ...in short, there’s no comparison! :)

3) When in 1999, Blink 182 finally reached the long-desired Star system, with much less inventiveness, freshness, and genuineness than the fun punk pop of Green Day (from whom, inevitably, Blink 182 copied the approach wholesale, like good losers), they did so with an album that was by no means exemplary in its lyrics (unlike Dookie), not at all sparkling in its structures and arrangements (as Dookie was), overall, however, as inconsistent as Dookie (which had the merits mentioned above!), that is to say, pure SHIT of SHIT. So, in short, easy with the bullshit (all of this in honor of my 15 years! There you go!)

Look, despite the outrage that your review might legitimately provoke, I will simply choose to see it as a legitimate opinion. However, what is HIGHLY ABSOLUTELY SCANDALOUSLY unforgivable is your heretical and horrendous statement about Green Day. I hope you are joking! Or I hope you are simply too young and therefore biologically ignorant given your age.
In fact:
1) Green Day were formed in 1987 and debuted in 1989. The amateurs you refer to in the review, who have surely sucked and re-sucked the sounds of Green Day hundreds of times, debuted in 1994, which is 5 years after Green Day!
2) Green Day made history in the '90s, bringing joy to millions of young and very young fools with Dookie in 1994, precisely when the three idiots in question in the review were just starting out quietly! (to be continued)

Francis, I understood very well that it was Evan Dando's thought. But that's exactly the point: it was his thought, but in the review you expressed it as if it were yours, and in a manner that I find questionable, as I have already explained a few posts above. That's why I say: if it was Evan Dando's thought, then perhaps you would do better to form your own opinion on the subject, maybe by listening to something from Seattle... otherwise, I repeat, your comment remains provocative, meaning that as a reviewer, in that case, it is subpar.