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Originally Posted by Mighty Salami
I'm personally not a fan in any way: I always feel that "Good Riddance" was a complete money-spinning hook to make as many people as possible feel that it applied to them. It's not really original, doesn't really say much since it tries to appeal to as many people as possible and I always find it a little bit insincere as a worn out anthem for leaving high school. If they went any deeper or attached any more meaning to the song, they would have worried about it halving their sales, which of course is not true, since there are many deep and thoughtful popular songs that have managed to be so without really compromising their appeal.
The band's musical prowess is also questionable, which seems to try and copy old school punk a little too much without actually capturing the wryness that the great punk and post punk bands had.
Anyway, that's just a personal dislike, if you love them, whatever floats your boat, I say.
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Good Riddance is one song from a fantastic album, that perhaps was a victim of being overused and overplayed by many who felt they could relate.
However, I don't think you could deny that both that album; Nimrod and Dookie were excellent on the whole.
You talk about Greenday not being able to capture the essence of old-school punk. I'm not sure this was entirely what they were trying to do, but as I said the two albums I mentioned manage to be energetic, catchy and to-the-point with fine drumming and chord progression, which were traits prevalent in older punk records.