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STRAIGHT TO TAPE: Green Day seems bound to a tired old formula
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Tom Sinclair
Tom Sinclair is a senior writer for EW and has been called "the handsomest man in rock criticism'' (by his wife)
“Oh, my God, I’m turning out like my dad,” sings Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong. Well, not quite. Aside from a few ill-advised nods to maturity (strings here, horns there, a spaghetti Western-style instrumental elsewhere), the trio’s third major-label album is mostly more of the same hyperactive pop-punk it introduced on 1994’s Dookie. Hooky, too. But since the kids who once embraced the band seem to have outgrown this, will anyone other than rock critics give a hoot?
Posted Oct 31, 1997
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