new Green Day album is not better than the last
Contrary to what Rolling Stone says, at least. IMHO. YMMV.
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Here’s a couple, completely subjective, ways in which I know this.
- I’ve only made it through 21st Century in its entirety like once. The rest in pieces. And, tellingly, I never have any particular urge to finish it once I start. Idiot on the other hand – once I start that, I want to play it start to finish.
- 21st Century has some “good songs”. Idiot is a good piece in itself AND it has good songs (pretty much all of them – give or take When September Ends – although I understand what it does for the piece, as a song I don’t like it much).
- It doesn’t sound like anything new. It sounds like the same thing. No, not just that it sounds like them, but it sounds like the same thing – no real moving forward, just refining in place.
Not to say it’s not a good album, because I think it is. But it’s not one of their best. So far, who knows maybe it will grow on me. Idiot didn’t have to grow though, it tackled me.
Maybe the whole “knowing it’s coming” is why it failed to do me in this time. Maybe they want to be a rock opera band – that’s actually pretty cool. I’m ok with that – we could use a decent one.
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