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The Best Of 2004 - Top 20 Albums
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No.19 The Music - Welcome to the North

 
Dodgy lyrics and duff lead-off singles aside, Welcome to the North stands as a glorious combination of bombast, idiosyncratic instrumentalism and tunes of the utmost quality. A giant song-writing leap on from The Music’s debut, tracks like “Into the Night”, “Guide” and “One Way In, No Way Out” will have you singing along to Robert Harvey’s skybound wail with joyous abandon. This album’d also be great for a knees-up. DS

Staggeringly successful given that this album is palpably inferior to those which preceded it, Green Day still shine like a big diamond in shit compared to the majority of pop-punky types, and they can still write some top tunes ( “Holiday”, for example). Still, it is depressing that Green Day are now the biggest band in rock when musically they’ve never been more bland and average. It’s a sign of the times that they made it into the top 20 at all. Oh for the days of Nimrod! JD