Green Day
Nimrod

THE REVIEW

Before listening to this album of theirs, I waited months and months. My brain was too occupied with other music, and I feared that these fake pioneers of the punk revival might negatively affect the magnetic and emotional resonances of my head.

Then I listened.

The strange thing is that I didn't listen to all the 18 tracks in the order they were arranged, but due to an absurd error with the mp3, in the following order:

"All The Time"

"Good Riddance (Time of your life)"

"Haushinka"

"Hitchin' A Ride"

"Jinx"

"King For a Day"

"Last Ride In"

"Nice Guys Finish Last"

"Platypus (I Hate You)"

"Prosthetic Head"

"Reject"

"Scattered"

"Take Back"

"The Grouch"

"Uptight"

"Walking Along"

"Worry Rock"

I never completed the experiment of listening to it all at once (and in my opinion, that was a good thing), so I have different memories regarding the songs. Like, for instance, that night I had a fever, and while listening to the reluctant "Take Back", I was about to vomit (the chorus was the stimulus). Or with the deliberately transgressive "I Hate You", commercial in its imperfection. And what if we talked about "All The Time" and "Prosthetic Head"? They have completely identical guitar solos. "Reject" sounds like a political anthem, "Scattered" seems to copy the backward version of "Basket Case". I have little to say about the other songs, just as G.D. has been spinning guitars the same way for years. Let's admit it; by now, they are a band for girls totally incapable of understanding or remotely grasping the concept of rock.

This is pop-punk, and it's now sad that, nowadays, bands like the Doors, Hawkwind, Velvet Underground, Led Zeppelin no longer exist because they are pressed by the mainstream commercialism of record companies.