One of the radio promos here is ADD weekend where the station plays a song and then you can text in to suggest another from the same band. Some brilliant **** had the good foresight to see the stations 21 guns and raise it with a J.A.R. Green Day to me has been the best when they play to the material and not the melody.
I'll admit they shouldn't be penalized for this, Billie Joe has been one of the best melody makers we've had in quite a time. Their recently offerings have been terribad at best, but songs like J.A.R., She, Welcome to Paradise, and Longview are phenominal.
There have been a few of these bands, this hedged-punk movement who've grown up fairly well. They got into someone who was into the message, your singer/songwriters and they wrote about real things. Oddly enough, greenday has always hedged that methodology and its giving us spotty music.
Don't take this as me hating melody, I think when they play Hitchin' a Ride, American Idiot, or Minority its ****ing good, but I wish they'd play more songs where the lyrics were a little more focused, a little more personal.
If I wanted to listen to good-time platitiudes and sing-song melodies I'd throw on some Beatles.
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