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Wait... I never said it was better than Nimrod, I said best SINCE Nimrod (can't be better than Nimrod, that's by far their best.) The albums between Nimrod and AI were pretty pathetic, at least AI was more than half electric guitars...
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I misread, my bad.
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And Insomniac isn't that good, Dookie and Nimrod are Green Day's best, and then AI, IMO. I don't really see how it's more simplistic, I think the songs are around the same, and they're as exciting and involving. I really thought AI was great, not their best, but much better than many of Green Day's Albums (Insomniac, Shenanigans or... Warning (ewww))
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Dookie is good, yes, but calling
Insomniac bad is like calling the Bubonic Plague good.
Insomniac is one album short of marking the end of an era for Green Day. After
Nimrod their sound changed completely, and IMO not for the better. And yes,
Warning is bad. Sadly, it was the first GD album I bought.
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And why can't a pop punk band make a rock opera?
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Because the prefix in "rock opera" is rock and pop-punk is not a naturally diverse enough genre to pull it off. Nothing against them. Kudos for trying, but it blew fat c
ock. It was ****ing horrible.
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Where is the pop-punk rule book that says 'no rock operas'? I mean, I think it was a bold step for them to try it and do something no one else has done.
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Where is the pop-punk rule book that says, "operate outside of the parameters of your personal talent to make more money"? I'm sure that rule book is sitting on the desks of Simple Plan and must have passed by Blink 182 around the time they made their self-titled album, but it's disappointing to see Green Day following the same path. And saying that they're doing something no one else has done is like saying they took a s
hit and forgot to flush for the very first time in recorded history.
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Oh right, I remember the rule, punk can never innovate right?
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Innovation =/= self-destruction
And stop calling them punk. They're not punk goddammit.