nimrod.
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nimrod.
Nimrod (stylized as nimrod.) is the fifth studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, released on October 14, 1997 through Reprise Records. The group began work on the album in the wake of their cancellation of a European tour after the release of Insomniac (1995). Recorded at Conway Studios in Los Angeles, the album was written with the intent of creating a set of stand-alone songs as opposed to a cohesive album. Retrospectively, Nimrod is noted for its musical diversity and experimentation. It contains elements of folk, surf rock, and ska; the lyrical themes discussed on the record include maturity, personal reflection, and fatherhood. --Wikipedia
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Spin
Anyone who ever griped that Green Day weren’t, you know, really punk will find confirmation here. At heart, Nimrod is a poker-faced rendition of what every band before them has done in this situation—genre-hopping, “testing their boundaries” in the studio, strings, horns, the works.
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Rolling Stone
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
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Punk News
Nimrod is the reason that Green Day, a band that had seemed iconic of the 1990’s, made it out of the 90’s and stayed relevant and popular to this day.
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Punk News
Apparently, they weren't satisfied with being the biggest punk band on the planet, so they went for the biggest pop band on the planet instead.
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Entertainment Weekly
Nimrod captured Green Day at their prosaic peak, brimming with complex ideas that are heartfelt, beautiful, and far from young and optimistic.
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Classic Rock Review
Here, the group expanded their style and sound by adding some subtle orchestration and by blending some diverse sub-genres with their core punk rock sound.
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AV Music Club
If Green Day still has a loyal following, its fans are bound to find something to like on Nimrod; for all the attempts at diversity, the record is packed with mile-wide hooks and sing-along anthems.
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All music
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.
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The Music Box
Given the new directions explored on Nimrod, there's a lot more yet to be said by this talented group.
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Immortal Reviews
Green Day never lost a glimmer of energy in Nimrod, keeping things rolling and fresh from start to finish.
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Amino
This is just a great roller coaster of an album. There were a lot of ups and some downs but, I keep coming back because it was so much fun and I enjoyed myself.
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The Truth About Music
It will never be the album they are remembered for (despite producing the most popular song) but it will be the album that they used as a fond farewell to punk.
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Punktastic
It sums up exactly what made them so popular in the first place. Pissed off punk played at a fast and furious pace, without ever losing their mainstream appeal.
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NME
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.
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Los Angeles Times
Though Green Day clings resolutely to some powerful punk tenets--a clean-burning musical attack fueled by protracted teen angst and guided by a "loser" outlook--the musicians' knack for whipping up incandescent pop songs transcends punk and makes them winners in spite of themselves.
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AP Altpress
It seems hard to believe that this is the same band that recorded hokey-jokey immature-country song “Dominated Love Slave” on Kerplunk.
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Chicago Tribune
Fortunately, the band's newfound -- gulp -- maturity hasn't dulled its knack for the indelible hook one bit.
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Pitchfork
It took me back to those halcyon days of 1994 when piercing was still shocking and you guys had the world in the palm of your hand.
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