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Green Day = THEIVES!?!?
Slick:
--- Quote from: El Opium on 27 Oct 2006, 08:09 ---Something similar happend with Greenday's last album Warning.
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Actually, their last album before American Idiot was Shenaningans. A friend tricked me into buying it so that he could get the last copy of a CD we both wanted. I generally try and forget the fact that I was tricked out of good money for it.
A friend of mine once said that he wished Rivers Cuomo had tragically died after they made Pinkerton so that Weezer would have gone down as another 'amazing' band from the 90's that ended in their prime, like Nirvana or Sublime.
I've once or twice felt bad for thinking the same thing about Green Day, I mean hell, if it happened after Nimrod, they could have played Good Riddance at the funeral and everything!
Spike:
Dammit, tommy beat me to it.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Slick on 29 Oct 2006, 21:27 ---
--- Quote from: El Opium on 27 Oct 2006, 08:09 ---Something similar happend with Greenday's last album Warning.
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Actually, their last album before American Idiot was Shenaningans. A friend tricked me into buying it so that he could get the last copy of a CD we both wanted. I generally try and forget the fact that I was tricked out of good money for it.
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I think that what he meant was their last studio album.
--- Quote ---A friend of mine once said that he wished Rivers Cuomo had tragically died after they made Pinkerton so that Weezer would have gone down as another 'amazing' band from the 90's that ended in their prime, like Nirvana or Sublime.
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I disagree. Make Believe was shit, yes, but it was at least better than its two predecessors. And 'Beverly Hills' is probably their best song since Pinkerton (not that it's saying much) and I'd not want my collection to be missing it, really.
--- Quote ---I've once or twice felt bad for thinking the same thing about Green Day, I mean hell, if it happened after Nimrod, they could have played Good Riddance at the funeral and everything!
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I've always thought Nimrod was their best record, and I think it was more depth and breadth than American Idiot. But I must say I am extremely interested in how their next album will sound. Where do you go from there, really?
Slick:
I thought Shenanigans was a studio album? International Superhits was the compilation + 2 unreleased tracks, I think Shenanigans was new material. I'm actually just listening to it again now, and it's not too bad. Listening to it helps me console the gap between the sound on American Idiot and the sound pre-Warning. At least their sound changes over time.
I think everyone agrees on Nimrod though, easily the best album. Kind of funny, in that it had just gotten into them when Nimrod came out, and each of the eagerly anticipated albums I bought after that were let down's compared. Actually, screw Shenanigans, it's gotten boring, I'm listening to Nimrod again!
The latest Weezer and Green Day both have redeeming qualities that make them worth being alive for, and if they were dead, I'm pretty sure I'd be sick of them being idolized all the time. Billy Joe, Rivers, I'm glad you're both still alive.
I don't know if you're familiar with Ben Kweller, but his album "Sha Sha" is very much influenced by weezer. I've actually had people ask me if it's the post-blue pre-green stuff I keep going on about. You can tell it's a different writer after a listening to the songs, but it's good stuff.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 30 Oct 2006, 00:31 ---Make Believe was shit, yes, but it was at least better than its two predecessors. And 'Beverly Hills' is probably their best song since Pinkerton (not that it's saying much) and I'd not want my collection to be missing it, really.
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Rarely do I say this, but you, sir, are incorrect. My incontrovertible evidence is the song "Keep Fishin'."
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