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2024-05-21 *
* Basically baby's first "punk" album. Digestible vocals, per usual with Billie Joe, but with enough impolite attitude to push a kiddo toward expanding their listening into actual punk: the sort of nasty music that's above financial aims and which openly despises the status quo. The kind of tidy, petty whining on Dookie and all of Green Day's output was welcome to be played aloud in PMC, bourgeois households when I was younger and still is; which is hilarious to me ... read more
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2024-05-14 *
* Wow. Having not listened to this for perhaps a decade, I forgot how muddy the original Caroline Records mix is—or, perhaps this is the only mix, if there isn't a remaster? It's pretty brutal how indistinct Courtney's vocals are; it's almost like the whole sound of it is blurry, out of focus. If it exists, I'll be seeking out a new master; if it doesn't, I'll hope for one. It's still an album I quite enjoy and it'd be lovely to hear all of it with more clarity.