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No - its an amazing album - great lyrics - I don't get why people don't like this album - its probably my most listened to.

It's never weird to listen to Nimrod.

I think the "midlife crisis" aspect of it makes it a bit more substantial, rather than purely just fun songs about sex etc on their own (which I think it's fine to make a few of anyway) there's some more introspective and thoughtful songs like Lazy Bones and Amy in with them. In the context of the album it's about all kinds of midlife crisis issues with partying, drink and drugs, dark thoughts, resisting and giving into temptation and the consequences of it as well as just sex, I think those are real and legitimate issues to write about. I quite like that for a change though, it's always been clear they're capable of writing about it more overtly (from Tre's songs, side project songs like Right Hand-A-Rama, sexy antics during Hitchin A Ride or at Foxboro shows etc). Not saying I'd want all their songs to be that way but it seems fitting that they'd have added a few overtly sexual songs to their "proper" Green Day catalogue by now. Whether said songs are shite or not is a matter of opinion of course

Yeah but he hasn't written about sex that often aside from on Dos. I don't know why it's so terrible for him to write about it quite a lot (although there's plenty of other subjects covered too) on one album, it's as "real" and as good a subject as any. He can write about everything, I'm glad he doesn't limit himself to one theme/style. Besides although he hasn't written about it as much as on Dos or made it a main theme on any other album he's still touched on the subject plenty of times before whether it's from a more romantic, more serious, or more silly angle, not to mention all the sexually suggestive schtick on stage and in interviews, so it's not like it's a totally new area for them. Don't really get why having it as more of a main lyrical focus puts people's backs up.

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Restless Heart Syndrome?

i'll bash your fucking head in.

WHAT?! HOW?! WHERE?!

This energy is missing from the whole album . For example Baby Eyes is not something special but at least is listenable on Demolicious.

Ranking things is never good, but yeah - while I was expecting both Insomniac and Nimrod and going nuts about them as a kid, the wait for Nimrod was so, so...special. And what came from it was a clear proof that Green Day can do pretty much anything, toy with genres and fuse them.

Nothing against sex as a subject. All I'm saying is that we have Dos and the whole " midlife crisis and sex " theme and it's time for Green Day to move on to something more serious and real.

I blow my load everytime I see this picture

There you go.

Don't forget Uptight! Or Redundant! Or Jinx! Or Haushinka! Or... The rest of the album... God, I love Nimrod. I feel terrible putting it at number four in terms of my favorite Green Day albums.

I had that issue of Super tin when it came out in February 1996 and I'll get it on a local site, where it's cheaper, together with another issue that has an extremely bad translation of the January 1995 Rolling Stone interview inside. In this 1996 one, however, there is nothing about Green Day on the inside, only the cover. Also, a fun fact: I used to work with the guy who was writing 75% of the articles in that, often making things up. He's an enormous asshole.

Walking Alone, Last Ride In and Good Riddance are all perfect autumn songs. Nimrod = autumn.

from Joey's public twitter Happy thanksgiving from 3/5 of the fam

I designed a crossbow a while ago, it might be easier. Lighter, and you won't need to be close up (or use a stool, depending on who's wielding it).

I love it! It's one of the most generally fun angry songs they've done.

As it's a very recognizable part of a very famous song that part is very noticeably similar though....so much so that Billie himself acknowledges it by singing "downtown..." (which is one of my favourite things about the song). I don't think it's a negative that it sounds the same, a lot of Warning is a deliberate tip of the hat to other styles, artists and individual songs. They did it openly, it's a tribute rather than a rip off.

Yeah that guy's English was painful but maybe it's not his first language? If it is, oh the state of education...

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Metal Hammer, November 1997