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12 Dec 2006 Green Day: How times have changed

I remember back in the days of Dookie that Green Day was an old school punk band. When they played in front at a concert they would get a cheer of like-minded lad chanting along to all their tunes. It was a satisfying sound to hear.

I recently listened to
Green Day - Bullet In A Bible. It an album recorded when they were at Milton Keynes National Bowl in June 2005 and the sound I heard was unusual.

Instead of the roar of hundreds of guys I heard the screams of hundreds of teenage girls. It sounds so odd, so un-punk, so.... Pop.

I didn't really like the sound of this. The rest of the album was ok, but this noise... I shared my opinion with the guys at work. One of them gave me this repy: