I have been listening to Green Day's American-Idiot album and I found myself wondering what I always muse over when I hear Green Day. I was not familiar with Green Day when they were still a true punk band, except I did purchase Dookie when it hit the market. This was their very first mainstream CD and me very was fond of it. However, from the starting, i've invariably contemplated is this band awfully punk? Being how I haven't ever heard their music from before the release of Dookie, I cannot honestly say I know how they orginally sounded. What I do know is that majority of their songs doesn't meet my idea of punk rock. I am sure I know, they have kept the instruments to a minimum, the singing is nasally, and many of the song lyrics are pack full of anger. Punk-music needs to have all three of these in it. Yet, if this is all there is to punk rock, then Marshall Mathers should be though of as a punk rock rocker.
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