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Thrillho:
Johnny C, you are correct sir.


--- Quote from: Slick on 30 Oct 2006, 01:06 ---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.
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Shenanigans was a flim-flam compilation of their b-sides, mate. Doesn't it say that on the package? Or did you download it...

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!

Slick:
I was tricked out of good money for it, I have the hard copy. I think I was still running dial-up back when it came out. Them being b-sides would explain why it doesn't feel like an album, and why that 'Espionage' track is on there. I saw nothing explicitly stating that it was b-sides, but the liner art is a bunch of clippings from old stuff, so that would make sense. As would the fact that I keep hearing snippits of other songs in the album. Where/when did these tracks come from, then? They don't really sound like any of the other albums to me.

I've just finished listening to Nimrod, and I'm thinking Prosthetic Head is way under-rated. It's a pretty awesome song, but it has the bad fortune to be the only track on the album after Good Riddance. I think it'll go on my next mix if I get in on the next forum mix tape exchange.

Spinless:
The tracks on Shenanigans are from (this is my memory working in overdrive here)

B-Sides to all the singles from Dookie to Nimrod
Tracks that were from Compilation albums (including covers to tribute albums)
2 previously unreleased songs that didn't make the albums
And something else, which I forget.

I'd be able to go into more depth and detail, but I gave away my entire Green Day Discography about 3 years ago.


For the record, Nimrod had pitfalls. Insomniac didn't. Dookie and Warning were pretty balls.

Slick:
Darryl. You just shattered my world.

I can see some of the songs sounding like they could fit on the earlier albums, but I've previously never gotten that far into the album because the first five tracks sound like they're from warning. I've realised that I like 'Sick of Me', which is decent, but the rest of the album remains lacklustre. It looks like 'Ha Ha You're Dead' was recorded specifically for the album, but everything else is from somewhere else. I should of noticed, because I actually have a longview single which has one of those tracks on it, but the track doesn't fit with the album.

I agree Dookie had some real bad points ('Pulling Teeth' feels like pulling teeth, aptly enough), but it has some of the best Green Day songs on it. Basket Case? When I Come Around? Welcome To Paradise, even though it showed up before Dookie. She? Longview? I was alone, I was all by myself...
Insomniac might be my favorite album to listen to when I feel like hearing Green Day, it's the one that most sounds like what I think of when I think Green Day.
Nimrod diversified their sound a lot, but I think it's the best album the band's put out, what pitfalls can you see?



P.S. I would like to formally request the change of this thread's name from "Green Day = THEIVES!?!?" to "Green Day = Mostly Awesome With a Few Bad Albums"

Spinless:
To remember the pitfalls of Nimrod, I'd have to listen to it. But I threw away the copy somebody made for me only a few weeks ago!
Didn't it have 'King for a Day' on it? That was AWFUL. (AND it had HORNS! NO punk music, candy or otherwise, should have HORNS!)*
Besides, I'd probably end up naming most of the album.

As for what Green Day are gonna do after American Idiot, I thought the red ties made it obvious? Didn't they release that single 'Miss Murder' too?
Oh, wait...close enough.
Travel back in time 5 years and tell AFI and Green Day that their next few records are all gonna sound exactly the same as eachothers, see how they look at you.


*YES I KNOW. I liked it too!

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