Isbjørn

SOMETIMES highly intellectual works fine for me. They have a lot of great songs (Basket Case, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, American Idiot) and a lot of s**t that's made to fill up the albums. Genre labeling can be a problem, and sometimes you have to be quite familiar with a genre to use the term. I'd say Green Day had more punk back with Dookie and Nimrod, but eventually evolved into a punk/pop band. Take Boulevard of Broken Dreams and 21 Guns. You can hear that it's not like all the other pop music, but it's not as "punky" as American Idiot either.

EDIT: Billie Joe Armstrong stated that the first one would be power pop, the second one would be garage rock and the third one would be epic, and that the band was going back to Dookie and pre-Dookie.

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