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| Being a Punk band and growing old seems to be a difficult move for many people, Green Day included. I thought they'd managed it with Warning, but American Idiot is a rather hefty step backwards. |
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Sadly, I must announce the new Green Day album to be almost completely devoid of any decent tunes. Where once there were snarling bursts of pop-punk genius bolted under a melodic sensibility Paul McCartney wouldn't be ashamed of, there now exists an over preoccupation with lyrical ideas at the expense of anything that actually requires listening to rather than reading.
At too many points on American Idiot can you quite easily think "I've heard that before", and more to the point, "and it wasn't very good the first few times around". The first time I listened to "Jesus of Suburbia" I actually managed to sing along to the exact tune Billie Joe was singing even though it was only the first spin, and that speaks volumes. It's depressing. There are too many one-not-very-good-idea mid tempo pseudo-ballads with only one fairly unambiguous lyrical point to make, and the life-drainingly slick production certainly doesn't help matters.
"American Idiot" is a decent enough single but it's no "Basket Case", "Hitchin' A Ride", "When I Come Around", or in fact anything at all off their first five albums, except maybe that shit surf song they put on Nimrod (track 10 I believe). "Holiday" is quite singable in a bouncy Good Charlotte type way (urgh), and "St. Jimmy" is the one point where this album manages to break into some sort of life.
Lazy songwriting, lazy lyrics ("give me novocaine" indeed), lazy everything, and it's infectious. I can't be bothered to write anything else |
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| Dan Snowdon - 4/10 |
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