Jaci Colvin

I love a lot of the music that Greenday has put out over the years, but unfortunately I couldn't find much to love in this album. Usually you can pick a Greenday song a mile away. Even though they range from Wake me up when September ends to Welcome to paradise which by themselves are quite different songs, you can always hear some distinct tones in there they use in a lot of their music and of course Billy Joe's voice is just about unmistakable. The songs on this album? If I hadn't known it was Greenday in advance I'd be hard pressed to identify them as the band. It just sounds... generic, forgettable. Just one more pop band that doesn't sound distinctive from the rest that'll hit the charts for a while or get used in a commercial or two then be largely forgotten and replaced. I appreciate they wanted to try something else, but it kind of feels like they've looked to other bands to make this one instead of doing their own thing which has always worked so well for them in the past.