| Nobody likes you, Inside the turbulent life and
times, and music of Greenday, After years of failing to duplicate
its album Dookie's success, punk-rocking Green Day seemed dead
in the water. An undercurrent of critical disdain had always held
that the band purveyed punk lite and was an aggregation of poseurs
compared to legendary punk outfits the Clash and the Ramones.
Then the group's eighth album, American Idiot, hit the top of
the charts in 2004 and stayed there, catapulting Green Day back
into public attention. Spitz, a senior writer for Spin, sympathetically
limns the arc of the lads' career from East Bay, California, in
informative if unchallenging style. Probably headed for the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame because of their commercial success playing
punk, a subgenre that has rarely exerted mass commercial appeal,
Green Day deserves representation in rockin' library collections.
Mike Tribby
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