Reviews by Time Bomb

Ke $ ha sucks: Telling herself with the name @ keshasuxx on Twitter. And until the other day the main goal of his career seemed to find new ways to suck: show up at awards ceremonies dressed in garbage bags, open a Tumblr that feeds the beard of unknown men, celebrate a constant state of hangover in the songs. It was almost impossible to criticize her when she was the first not to take seriously his character and his music. Then "Tik Tok", the song in which he says to brush your teeth with Jack Daniels, becomes the most sold in the world in 2010 and the first album to square number one in the United States. He found a way to suck that everyone likes or does not make that much crap?
Of course, with "Warrior" Ke $ ha tries to adopt a far more serious. First, less autotune (its much-criticized trait) and less dance easy come, since the electronic influences seem more obvious than the French school (at the end, and "Supernatural" and "Warrior" become pieces of Justice). But it is the rock album promised in interviews? Not really, although Ke $ ha does not seem to miss a gateway to the genre: the Strokes playing in strokesiana "Only wanna dance with you", the drummer of the Black Keys attends in "Wonderland", the track deluxe edition "Past Lives" is a beautiful ballad produced by Flaming Lips, with whom Ke $ ha has already shared even a cover.
And then there's Iggy Pop. In "Dirty Love", a duet about sex less sexy of the world, the two yell at each sconcerie in case (at one point Iggy sings of cockroaches and Rick Santorum), but Ke $ ha keeps the scene, compares and seems much more comfortable in this role than in dance songs that made her famous.
Not all experiments are equally successful and you feel the weight of a couple of reassuring traces that seem standard b-side of Katy Perry, but "Warrior" is an album that moves Ke $ ha in an interesting direction and unexpected. At least does not suck.

TRACKLIST:
"Warrior"
"Die Young"
"C'mon"
"Thinking of you"
"Wherever you are"
"Dirty Love" (feat. Iggy Pop)
"Wonderland"
"Only wanna dance with you"
"Supernatural"
"All that matters (the beautiful life)"
"Love into the light"

12 as the timeless standard of American song that has decided to re-interpret his unmistakable voice, as 12 different covers copyright-inspired jazz recordings from the 30s, available with the first pressing. This is how the '"American Songbook" Mina, new chapter record of Tiger of Cremona, a year away from his previous album "Piccolino", decides to deal with the vast repertoire of American classics.
Here then Mina dive with his charming songs ranging from swing ("Just a Gigolo", "Banana Split for my baby") to musicals ("September Song" by Kurt Weill, taken from "Knickerbocker holiday" or "I 've got you under my skin "by Cole Porter, taken from" Born to Dance "), through tributes to artists like Judy Garland (" Have yourself a merry little Christmas "or the first single," Over the Rainbow "), James Taylor ("Fire and Rain") and Elvis Presley ("Love Me Tender", recorded by Mina in 1991 for the album "Caterpillar"). "12 - American Songbook" was recorded with the help of musicians such as Danilo Rea floor, Alfredo Golino on drums, Massimo Moriconi on bass and Gianni Ferrio for the arrangements of the string section.

TRACKLIST:
"I've got you under my skin"
"Just a gigolo"
"I'll be seeing you"
"I'm glad there is you"
"Have yourself a merry little Christmas"
"Anytime Anywhere"
"Fire and Rain"
"Over the rainbow"
"Everything happens to me"
"Love me tender"
"Banana split for my baby"
"September Song"

Ten years ago, Interpol survived a baptism of fire. Doubts about Paul Banks and his associates were multiple: someone had labeled the band by inserting it in a new family of hypothetical musical renaissance that would have caught on to New York. After the Strokes, of course. And then the community that lives by bread and hard-indie had turned their noses up and shouted to the smell of burning in the face of formal clothes and faces clean and tidy Interpol, trying to bollarli soon as an initiative daughter more than some clever trick PR, rather than a need for healthy expression of genius (literally). If ever, then, indeed, been a real New York scene that has taken hold after the debut of both the group Casablancas, as the eleven tracks of "Turn on the bright lights", is debatable topic, but of little interest and even less importance. This is because, whatever you see, Interpol still had something to say: they were the trick of a major label (so that "Turn on the bright lights" was released on Matador) and even the botched copy of Joy Division, another arrow shot straight to the heart of the project is supported by the voice of Banks from below sumptuous Carlos D. and found Daniel Kessler's guitar.

That "Turn on the bright lights" has rekindled the lights in the direction of epic and tragic story of Ian Curtis of the band is obvious, as it is obvious that it was a wholesome influence and not an end in itself scondinzolante quotations. It is also clear that Interpol will never be able to replicate the efficiency, power, transport and crystal class of that first LP, history, curiously, be paralleled with that of its Strokes. To celebrate the two decades that separate the original release of the album, which took place in mid-summer, however, (what a mistake!), Universal and the band have assembled remastered edition accompanied by a 28-page booklet, a DVD with three videos ("PDA," "NYC," "Obstacle 1") and some live performances for the first time, but also an extra CD. The usual CD Extra, one might say, rightly, moreover: the band had made that record for five years, but was evidently not much left outside the tracklist known and appreciated by the public in ten consecutive seasons.

Are part of the package songs already known in other forms (including "Precipitate", "Song seven", "A time to be so small" that will be part of the second disk, "Antics") or, in most cases, demo and alternate versions that do not add much new, but allow to fit into the history of the disc itself. To interpret and live, albeit with obvious delay, the process that led to the definition of the final form of jewelry that has stood up well over time. On all stand out the demo of "Roland", sung with a more broken and vital, understandably less finished, and at the end of the day, closer to the stylistic Joy Division. With "Get the girls" influences new wave and post punk British are blinding, it seems that he came across a curious unpublished "Three imaginary boys" (The Cure), and is anything but a criticism, mind you. Some might be puzzled by the "third version" of "Leif Eriksson", lacking one of the steps with the greatest impact is the final song, and the album. But this is to be sought in a collection of evidence, attempts, sketches, capable of instilling a more human touch and add a sense of uncertainty, typical of the debut, a record that, on the contrary, it seemed from the first listen the 'the work of a band capable, confident and teacher to assemble 50 minutes of tension that was impossible to resist.
The remastered version of "Turn off the bright lights" does not give some kind of new views, but remember just what was the impact the original work. The production of Gareth Jones, formerly of Depeche Mode and Erasure, had worked and continues to work: in the crescendo of guitar and sickly nell'ammorbante bottom of "The New" in the solo evocative of the aforementioned "Roland", the intro "Stella was a diver and she was always down" in the confessional of "NYC" and "PDA" ... in the unlikely turns funky bass of Carlos D., almost to shore hot marble slabs.

Ten years ago, "Interpol" is presented by almost unknown in a free concert at Rolling Stone in Milan, now running between halls and arenas, have returned to Matador, greeted their bassist and even if it can not be said little failures, record releases next to "Turn on the bright lights" have not been able to produce a mixture so lucky. Everything that Interpol did not survive, it is their first LP. But given the quality of the same, few people would have been able to. (Re) discover it now.


 TRACKLIST: (CD1) "Untitled"
"Obstacle 1
"NYC"
"PDA"
"Say hello to the angels"
"Hands away"
"Obstacle 2"
"Stella was a diver and she was always down"
"Roland"
"The new"
"Leif Erikson"

(CD2)
"Interlude" (iTunes single)
"Specialist" (Interpol EP)
"PDA" (First Demo, 1998)
"Roland" (First Demo, 1998)
"Get the girls" (Song 5) (First Demo, 1998)
"Precipitate" (2nd Demo, 1999)
"Song Seven" (Original Version) (2nd Demo, 1999)
"A Time to be so small" (Orig Version) (2nd Demo, 1999)
"Untitled" (Third Demo, 2001)
"Stella (Third Demo, 2001)
"NYC" (Third Demo, 2001)
"Leif Erikson" (Third Demo, 2001)
"Gavilan" (Cubed) (Third Demo, 2001)
"Obstacle 2" (Peel Session, 2001)
"Hands away" (Peel Session, 2001)
"The new" (Peel Session, 2001)
"NYC" (Peel Session, 2001)

A year ago in the file of GiuniRussoArte were found some unreleased tracks from Tracey: new episodes, but most interpretations of the great masterpieces of Italian and international music.
Marie Antoinette Sisini, founder of the Association, said: "They were swept up by pure chance the tapes that I had more memory, ever recording for some television programs. After a first listen it was clear that these jewels could not remain in the drawer. E 'born like this record. "
"Para siempre" is the title of the new song of the Sicilian singer that 'the title track, a piece dating back to the early 2000s, with the voice of Tracey always in great prominence. Among the cover instead are to be reported international classics as "My Way" by Frank Sinatra, "New York New York" by Liza Minnelli, "People" by Barbra Streisand and "Yesterday" by the Beatles (here in a live version recorded at Villa Bellini Catania), but also great Italian songs like "Our concert" by Umberto Bindi and "that I love only you" by Blanche Dubois.
The set also includes a DVD containing the recording of the evening naming of the gallery "Giuni Russo" Theatre Zancanaro Sacile, May 27, 2012, with the participation of Franco Battiato and live images of the suite of musical accompaniment 'Naples sings' (soundtrack of the movie dumb Leone Roberto Roberti of 1926, father of Sergio Leone), recorded on October 18, 2003 at Willow always, in one of the last live performances by Giuni Russo.

TRACKLIST:
"Para siempre"
"My Way"
"Our concert"
"New York New York"
"People"
"Yesterday"
"Cry"
"A soul in his hands"
"I, who love only you"
"Johnny Guitar studio"
"Everything is gonna be alright"

The disc starts to spin. There is the customary silence that precedes all'incipit the first track. Then a figure with four drumsticks and - as in an episode of Doctor Who - you find yourself (despite the title that shines the future) in 1986. Damage to the film "Blue Velvet" and "Shanghai surprise" on TV's "The Boys III C" and the department punk / hardcore and more specialized shops was the terminus of a disc titled Bad Brains "I against I", that fans simply can not digest at 100%, but - as often happens - is destined to be regarded as a milestone for the growing crossover between metal, punk and genres "aliens".
This is the effect that makes "Into the Future" time machine and amarcord, certainly, but with elements of a strong and conscious evolution. In a nutshell, this ninth album Rastafarians of Washington is the third element of a hypothetical trilogy / manifesto with the devastating self-titled debut and "I against I" an arc where the angry hardcore punk with reggae of the early blunders you go to metal / punk / reggae / dub deconstructed in order to achieve a finished form in which the four genres blend and harmonize, rather than staying stuck or combined as in the previous work.
The atmosphere is very tense: the riffs as hard as stone, the voice of HR somewhere between madness swollen veins in the neck and the lullaby from holy ganja and rasta impregnated with the spirit of Jah, the pieces articulate and full of stop & go ... it is clear that "Into the future" is a great record, in spite of reputation as a band in the decaying Bad Brains have earned a long time. Well if that decay was an opportunity to touch the bottom and stand up well, so be it.
The four punk / metal / rasta "all black" - for the record, classically trained: HR on vocals, Dr. Know to six strings, Darryl Jenifer on bass and Earl Hudson to the skins - they shot for sale and overwhelm us with 13 pieces brutal, but not obvious, that unfold along lines bizarre and amazing. There are real gems as "Youth of Today", which begins with punk momentum and turns into a piece of strong colors dub, shards of hardcore violence as "Come down," which borrows heavily from the glorious first period of the band; pieces dub strange and alienating as "rubadub love", and finally compositions like "Popcorn" pure metal severely contaminated by which we understand as the Bad Brains influenced illustrious colleagues such as Faith No More, Beastie Boys, Living Colour, TV on the Radio and Mars Volta.
H.R. they found the fire and its visionary golden age. And we are ready to welcome their sonic sermon.

TRACKLIST
"Into the future"
"Popcorn"
"We belong together"
"Youth of Today"
"Rubadub love"
"Yes I"
"Suck sess"
"Jah Love"
"Earnest love"
"Come down"
"Fun"
"Maybe a joyful noise"
"MCA dub"

The idea is there and it is good. Take a handful of songs from their repertoire and make them credible in other capacities music - Cuban in this case - add some unpublished, some themed cover and the disc is served. That 's what made Sugar in his new worldwide project "The sesión Cuban" album recorded entirely in Havana and inevitably rhythm, as traditional island wants. But it must certainly have been a so cold calculation behind this new project, because they feel the thirteen tracks, you feel all the joy and warmth that can only be in one session spontaneous and free. The sounds rotten strip the songs of their original coating, making them rough and sweaty, accomplice having recorded everything live in the studio. So happen to listen to the well-known "The Scream", "Baila", "A kilo" and "Cuba libre" perfectly at home in a not so far as their nature already very sunny. It also happens to run into a less obvious choice with the ballads "So Heavenly" and "Indigo eyes in the sky", more forced - but still beautiful - the first, the second perfectly centered. And as for the cover, the choice is varied. Pleasant selected songs to the repertoire drawing Caribbean less popular but certainly strong influences of Latin, as "Nena" and "Pana" (sung in duet with Bebe), and it is to compliment the passionate version of "Ave Maria no morro" , made two entries with the Brazilian star Djavan, while of course not the choice of "Never is a moment" the Texan Jimmy Lafave, seemingly out of the chorus, not so much for the language context. Produced by the same sugar and Don Was (which to complete this work has put on hold for a couple of days Mick Jagger & C.), the album sees tracklist also two new songs: "Love is all around" (written by Pasquale Panella) and "Sabor a ti", both of Sugar clear brand and potential singles. Focused on the choice of songs, we have not said that to sound Cuban musicians were prepared and participatory, that they put to the service of their experience and Sugar generosity and above all have made it very believable.
And we close with the Italian adaptation of "Guantanamera (Guajira)", which is one of the highest points of the disk, unexpected current and fresh, and say that touching historical songs is always a gamble and rarely comes out unscathed. But Sugar apparently can, he who in 2000 gave us a live version of "I saw Nina fly" by the grace and strength that surpassed the original deandreiana. Sugar is certainly a gambler, but uses put the fun in front of the victory. This is an album like "The Cuban sesión" does not seek praise or criticism, as the result of a moment of fun and tasty pretext for a series of concerts that promise to be unleashed. Let's take the case.

TRACKLIST:

 "Nena"
"Baila (sexy thing)"
"A kilo"

 "Never is a moment"
"Guantanamera (Guajira)"
"Cuba libre"
"The Scream"
"Indigo eyes in the sky"
"Love is all around"
"So Heavenly"
"Pana" (feat Bebe)
"Ave Maria no morro" (feat Djavan)
"Sabor a ti"

"The pieces are very different from each other, not heavier or more lenses, but more dynamic. Go in many different directions. And 'heavy but beautiful. "
You're right Chino, "Koi no yokan" is a heavy disk, but nice. And, more importantly, is a record of the Deftones in all respects. To think that a band is able to pull off a good seventh disc being able to explore even a sound that is apparently not change almost anything, it is science fiction for anyone. For anyone but the Deftones: they have invented this sound, grown, turned from the top down. And they are the only ones who can handle it, do not forget. Seven album? Yes, this is, new stuff? Not much. He feels that Moreno has imported something from Crosses (more than a spin-off side project), you perceive by certain arrangements and how he withstands the chorus. "Koi no yokan" lies somewhere between "Deftones" and "Saturday night wrist", continuing at the same time the marked line with the previous "Diamond Eyes", the same producer, Nick Raskulinecz, similar mood: heavy, but nice. Mind you, it is no coincidence that they are mentioned in a row the last three albums released, in strict chronological order. From there, the Deftones have come, that's their way. Publish in 1995 with almost mathematical rigor an album every two / three years. They know who they are and know where they want to go, without asking too many questions. Do not ask, for example if, by chance, after almost twenty years of honorable service maybe it's time to do something different. No, because the Deftones are masters in making the Deftones: have a potential limitation of the greatest of the virtues. What a great band ...
"Koi no yokan", in English "Love's premonition" has eleven pieces and start immediately in the fifth with an opening martial such as "Swerve city", with a mix of power pounding melody and ethereal years is the hallmark of Deftones, solidly built along the Moreno / Delgado / Cunningham. In "Romantic Dreams" feels rather heavy-handed duo of Carpenter / Vega, the latter now fully integrated into the songwriting process of the group of which he can be considered the backbone. Chi Cheng is and will always be the holder of the chair, at least from an emotional point of view. The substitute, however, for once, does not regret the teacher role. Chapter individuals. "7 Words", "My Own Summer (Shove It)", "Digital bath", "Minerva", "Hole in the Earth", "Diamond Eyes". And today, "Leathers". Excruciating, sudden, an explosion uncontrollable. Here it is not about one or the other: in a piece like "Leathers" can you hear the Deftones complete, an extra time for the occasion.
"Poltergeist" is a tirade of neck hard and pure, "Entombed" the centerpiece "Crosses" of the lot, a ballad synthetic tones strongly melancholy: "From the day you arrived / I've Remained by your side / in chains, entombed / placed inside / safe and sound / shapes and colors are all I see / On the day you arrived / I Became your device ". There is a friend hovering between life and death. One of the band. This is the voice of those around him. Voice back to be angry in the first "graphic nature", then "Tempest", like "Leathers" without a doubt the best part of the disc. Here, the sound becomes darker, layered, echoes and reverberations that create a lament over six minutes, a veritable storm of sound that anticipates little "Gauze", right uppercut to the face brought with surgical precision, followed inevitably by the proverbial caress. Verse and chorus in great balance. The last three pieces finally pick up this or that concept has already been stated in the rest of the album: the metal dry "Rosemary" weigh the tone of "Entombed" bringing the mind at the time of Adrenaline, on his tail tones vaguely alternative then grafted the opening words of "goon squad", a slow crescendo that explodes in anger again pressing just to make up for the mouth to view the last piece in the lineup, "What happened to you?", needless to say a bittersweet emotional ups and downs called to close accounts dissolving all in black.
Amazing how every time the Deftones are able to forgive everyone and everything in its place with a disarming ease. "Koi no yokan" versus "Diamond Eyes" is less impulsive, much more controlled. A hard driven by universal forces such as love and anger, anguish and redemption, perfectly balanced in an equilibrium that only a band at the top of maturation is able to manage. The confirmation of a sound apparently inexhaustible, inimitable. The Deftones have returned to impart yet another lesson. Back in school: they are the leaders of it all.

TRACKLIST

"Swerve city"
"Romantic Dreams"
"Leathers"
"Poltergeist"
"Entombed"
"Graphic Nature"
"Tempest"
"Gauze"
"Rosemary"
"Goon squad"
"What happened to you?"

The rock music is a conservative. Often, not always, one can not generalize. But think about it: the romantic attitude, the telling of a world that no longer exists. The nostalgia for a certain America. The same Springsteen, champion of Obama, is often accused of being a conservative masquerading as a liberal position (debatable, but with a foundation, albeit slight).
It is not just a political issue, of course. Although in a "liberal" as American music, Kid Rock has not done a good name certain to be one of the few who support the billionaire Mitt Romney for president. But there is: he in the end is the representative of the "rednecks", comes from the working class city most devastated of America (Detroit, Michigan), makes no secret of his patriottisimo, his passion for objects and very little cool things, from weapons to cigars. In recent years has tried to reposition themselves, to be accepted even by the elite "clean" and "politcally correct" the rock. There has been producing by Rick Rubin, who in "Born Free" has gathered heavyweight (Bob Seger, Sheryl Crow), cleaned his music from the contamination issues and music (hip-hop) that made him terribly kitsch eyes a certain segment of the public and "opinion makers."
Now Kid Rock is back home. "Rebel Soul" is a step forward and two steps back, a greatest hits album with new songs. A cheatsheet rock as in "Mr. Rock 'n' Roll ", which is name dropping of each song and great musician possible, or as in most of the riffs, the opening of" Chickens in the pen "forward.
Of its kind we can do all right, Kid Rock. We must go beyond the patina trash: "Rebel Soul" is a good record. The songs, writing also allow you to forgive the recovery of rap-rock sound (which he attended for some time. But "Cucci galore" seems un'outtake Rage Against The Machine - with other issues, such as the title suggests imagine). Of course, when using the vocoder, you can barely ... But his office makes you forgive the constant references to its origins, repeated continuously, its imagery that is so romantic, but a very down to earth romance: the "Rednecks' paradise", in fact. We should make a "word cloud", one of those graphical representations of terms used - in a song, a book, a website - in this case a disc.
"Rebel Soul" is not just a cheatsheet of rock, is a cheatsheet of Kid Rock. Who cares (just) to be respectable, clean or acceptable as in "Born free". It 'deliberately trashy, and this is its strength. Or his limit. Depending on your point of view.

TRACKLIST:
"Chickens in the pen"
"Let's ride"
"Catt boogie"
"Detroit, Michigan"
"Rebel Soul"
"God save rock n roll"
"Happy new year"
"Celebrate"
"The Mirror"
"Mr. rock n roll "
"Cucci galore"
"Redneck paradise"
"Cocaine and gin"
"Midnight ferry"

The fifth chapter record of Tiziano Ferro "Love is a simple thing" was once again returned from a great public success. Satisfactions that have been certified by the conquest of five Platinum Records, for the more than 300,000 copies sold in Italy alone.
Now, a year after its release, here is "Love is a simple thing - Special Edition". Besides the original album, the new edition also includes a second disc entitled "Love is a thing swing", seven songs in which for the first time the singer Lazio move away from the pop sound to approach atmospheres swing. Titian revisits two songs from "111" as the "You were like gold as they are now" and "Xverso", two "Red relative" ("The Olympics" and "baby inside"), two from his own last album ("The difference between you and me" and "TVM / Quiero vivir with vos") and an unpublished episode ("For you / For you") with Fabrizio Bosso on trumpet. Of note is the presence of a track CD Rom "Plot summary of a historic day," the documentary that tells the behind the scenes of the concert at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome during which Titian has performed in front of over 50,000 fans. "I always wanted to make a record swing - said Tiziano Ferro - the orchestral world gives a special magic to each song and allows the voice to explore in a far more imaginative. It is a journey, an experience, a door opens and a little dream come true. Listening to swing music since I was little, I liked the idea of ​​honor as big as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Nat King Cole who have given me so much comfort with their music. "

TRACKLIST:
"Have islands in the eyes"
"Love is a simple thing"
"The difference between you and me"
"The End" (with the participation of Nesli)
"Emerald"
"Interlude: 10,000 excuses"
"The last night of the world"
"Fear not have" (with the participation of Irene Grandi)
"TVM"
"Too good"
"Quiero vivir with vos"
"... But I protect you"
"To say hello!"
"Karma" (featuring John Legend)

TRACKLIST 'LOVE' WHAT A SWING "
"You were like gold as they are now"
"The Olympics"
"The difference between you and me"
"The baby inside"
"Xverso"
"For you / For you"
"TVM / Quiero vivir with vos"

We were left with the hope that the second chapter of the trilogy was better than Green Day's first album, permeated by a fake pop rock perfect for Prom Night, the end of year party of American schools. We also had deceived the good old Billie Joe, who told Rolling Stone last summer as ¡DOS! had a flavor garage rock, dirt. Ok, no. Single, faint, except Fuck Time. "When we took American Idiot Broadway cast of a boy, Theo Stockman, began to soprannominarsi" The King of Fuck "- had told Billie - Then, it became a ritual: every time the first of the show, the boys embraced, put the their hands in the middle and said, "One, two, three, fuck it's time." So, I wrote this song and we played it in a club in New York during a concert of our side project Foxboro Hot Tubs and the public liked it. Very. So we thought: it is very beautiful, because let our alter ego? ». The song actually has a nice shot, seems to return to its former glory by Green Day but it remains an isolated incident within ¡Dos!.

The album opens with the acoustic See You Tonight (very Dylan), not really Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind the first track). Then Fuck Time. Two goals that stunned, as if you do not understand the direction to take. With Stop When The Red Lights Flash disk begins to heat up with a shot old school, a good chorus and a rhythm that remains in the cerebellum. A characteristic also of the other tracks, such as Lazy Bones. One element that is at the same time blessing of the new work of Green Day, because a glimpse of the musical potential they are capable of the three musicians - can just as easily create melodies whistle blows sustained by a battery scream - but at the same time seems to never be able to fly, leaving the reins and lead the listener really far.

Other striking examples are Wild One who pulls the strings of the iconography 50s already explored in the penultimate track ¡A!, Rusty James, or Makeout Party (always taken from the drawer Foxboro Hot Tubs), Wow! That's Loud (very close to She's A Woman Beatles) and the first single, Stray Heart, all built around a bass line that "remembers" You Can not Hurry Love The Supremes (as I was for Kill The Dj, contained in ¡A!, whose rhythmic "quotes" Robot Rock Daft Punk). Amy Winehouse personal tribute to Billie friend is a drop in a crystal clear lake made of songs open and never really closed. Takes care to save a record, but we save only her. In conclusion, 2012 was to be another of the great vintages for Green Day, but it turned out their annus horribilis.