![]() ![]() But they are also pop idols, to which the adoring fans portrayed on Bullet can attest.īecause it’s a document of a concert from their most recent tour, Bullet is heavy on American Idiot tracks - seven in all, mostly culled from the first half of the record. It also functions as a live best-of, featuring some of the finest songs from the band’s back catalog. ![]() From Dookie we hear “Longview” and “Basket Case” from Insomniac, “Brainstew” (but it’s missing its alter-ego, “Jaded”) from Nimrod, “Hitchin’ a Ride”, “King for a Day”, and “Good Riddance” and from 2000’s Warning, “Minority”. Rob Cavallo has co-produced almost every Green Day release since Dookie, and does an excellent job of adding spit and punch to these live recordings. The audio excels in the car stereo and on the home theater. The songs themselves are just what you’d expect - big, powerful, and in most cases extended or enhanced. Tacked onto the end of “King for a Day,” for example, are renditions of the Isley Brothers’ “Shout” and the Monty Python ditty “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”. Green Day’s older songs have worn surprisingly well, and “Basket Case” requires no gimmicks to register as one of the set’s highlights. From start to finish, the band’s performance is tight and effective yet never showy - stripped down to their basic building blocks, these are all simple punk rock songs. Dirnt and Cool’s cohesion as a rhythm section and Armstrong’s sense of melody and delivery are what propel the songs to the next level. ![]()
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