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They came back to the studio with the idea of making a newer, more mature image. Billie was 28 with a family. It was time for him to grow up. Enter Nimrod. Down with the three chord crap and usher in the harmonica, saxophone, trumpet, mariachi horns, violin, the works.
13y
70
What do you know? It's Green Day. Come on in and set a spell. You remember me, right? I owned all your earlier albums. Yes, past tense. What went wrong? Don't know. Times change, my friend.
11y
70
With a little editing, Green Day's growth would have been put in sharper relief, and Nimrod would have been the triumphant leap forward it set out to be. As it stands, it's a muddled but intermittently exciting record that is full of promise.
13y
70
This music is a long way from Green Day’s apprenticeship at the Gilman Street punk clubs, in Berkeley, Calif. But now that the band has seen the world, it’s only fitting that Green Day should finally make an album that sounds as if it has.
11y
67
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.
10y
50
Rock'n'roll is here to stay, they're saying at the end. But on the strength of this record, you're not so sure about Green Day themselves.
11y
THEY PREDICTED POWERPUFF GIRLS 🔥🔥🔥
After success of "Dookie", band started to work on follow up. "Insomniac" released in 1995, features there characteristic pop punk style in much more mature way. That album was commercial disapointment comparing to "Dookie", but at the same time it peaked at 4 place on Billboard 200 and sold 3 million copies in 1995 and 1996 in US. In 1996, Green Day were doing their first stadium tour, which was really exhausting for ... read more
"Nimrod" is a great freaking album.
It takes the fun of album like "Dookie" and the emo aesthetic of "Insomniac" and it just meshes incredibly. There are anger and spite filled tracks like "Platypus (I Hate You)" and "Reject" and even some of the more introspective songs like the famous acoustic ballad "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" which is just so sad and heartfelt, but also somehow so damn spiteful, it fills the room and you ... read more
Green Day not only improve on the pop punk formula, they also experiment and mix up the sound they already have perfected, with crazy fun and intensely entertaining results. From showtune, to surf rock, to My Chemical Romance-style emo alt rock, it's got something here for most rock fans.
Favorite Jams: Hitchin' A Ride, Platypus (I Hate You), Take Back
Lest Favorite: Uptight
Amazing album!!! My favourite is Nice Guys Finish Last. Platypus is fire. Take Back is very underrated. 92/100. Very good. Jink is not that good like the others.
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Underrated: Take Back
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Track List
| 1 | Nice Guys Finish Last 2:48 | 87 |
| 2 | Hitchin' a Ride 2:51 | 92 |
| 3 | The Grouch 2:11 | 85 |
| 4 | Redundant 3:17 | 90 |
| 5 | Scattered 3:02 | 88 |
| 6 | All the Time 2:10 | 79 |
| 7 | Worry Rock 2:26 | 83 |
| 8 | Platypus (I Hate You) 2:21 | 84 |
| 9 | Uptight 3:03 | 85 |
| 10 | Last Ride In 3:48 | 75 |
| 11 | Jinx 2:12 | 81 |
| 12 | Haushinka 3:24 | 84 |
| 13 | Walking Alone 2:45 | 81 |
| 14 | Reject 2:05 | 82 |
| 15 | Take Back 1:09 | 77 |
| 16 | King for a Day 3:13 | 85 |
| 17 | Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) 2:34 | 91 |
| 18 | Prosthetic Head 3:37 | 86 |
Total Length: 49 minutes
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