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Originally Posted by MattSharpIsCool
My biggest beef with AI was the complete lack of bass riffs. They've always had some pretty cool bass lines in their songs, and on AI it was just root notes like any other boring pop punk band.
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This I also had a problem with, as I used to play bass, and there were no good bass lines...
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Originally Posted by Iscariot
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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My first Green Day album was Nimrod, and it's still my favourite. I honestly hate Insomniac, it doesn't have any Green Day-ish songs. After Nimrod though, they just changed, and went all acoustic for Warning...
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Originally Posted by Iscariot
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 cock. It was ****ing horrible.
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Perhaps it isn't, but I'm arguing that it was great to try it, and I disagree, I thought it was a much better album then they'd done in years. At least it went back to their punk-based formula.
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Originally Posted by Iscariot
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 shit and forgot to flush for the very first time in recorded history.
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Well I thought Blink's S/T was excellent as well. I like it when a band tries new things and expands their sounds. I guess that's why my favourite Metallica album is Load/Reload, while most hate them, I love them for being more alt rock.