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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.
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Possibly, I'm not claiming for a moment that punk in general has musical merit superior to Green Day, the Sex Pistols were proof of that.
As a band they never quite did it for me, I found their political songs well-meaning but shallow, but what's probably true is that if they were a decade older I'd probably be defending them right now.
Bit of a prejudiced bastard, I suppose.