I remember when I was like 10 and enjoyed “Dookie” (pauses for readers to calculate age). It was a great record, it was a good time to take you out of the occassional misery that is childhood. We would think nothing of the fact that most of the songs consisted of no more than 3-4 power chords. A lot of good things can be done with 3-4 power chords, after all. It’s just that it doesn’t really work all that well when it’s used for every single song on a 1-hour record, especially if it’s a band that’s been doing nothing but play 3-4 power chords since 1991. I guess I’ve aged and Green Day haven’t.

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