Green Day-Nimrod. (1997)
Artist: Green Day
Title: Nimrod.
Year of Release: 1997
Country and Year of Edition: US 1997
Sell Price: $3.52
Sell Date: 1/18/25
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 1/17/25 VG+/NM $4.99
Low: $0.99
Median: $3.45
Average: $3.57
High: $8.05
Current low price: $1.17
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 40
Have/Want: 3491/481
Where Sold: Quincy, MA
Time It Took To Sell: 7 years
Where and When Bought: record club late 90's
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B
Sad To See It Go: No
Green Day is a weird band for me. I instinctively like them and am bored by them simultaneously. Oddly enough I got the first 7" through Maximum Rock 'n' Roll mail order in the summer of '89 (sold long ago) and thought it sounded like a young Hüsker Dü. Weird, right? They sure didn't evolve that way.
One surprise about the 5th Green Day album, besides the fact that I somehow have had it a long time, was how little I knew 4 of the 5 songs that were video clips. The inescapable acoustic ballad, "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" was an anomaly for the band that I always grudgingly liked even though I heard it enough for multiple lifetimes. I don't recall EVER hearing it by choice on a home stereo, at least until listening to the CD for this writeup. The punky hits were perfectly fine upon listening, watching and relistening. "Redundant" is the best of those. The instrumental "Last Ride In" was another stand out anomaly that I liked and was surprised there was a video clip for it. Other songs I liked were "Uptight" which sounds like they nicked Blondie's "Dreaming" for the verse melody. The closer "Prosthetic Head" is a good wrap.
18 tracks over 50 minutes is a little bit too much Green Day for me. They are definitely a singles band even if a particular song isn't a single. The songs have a certain snotty quality that transcends most other mall punk mainly because they came up correct for 5 years before the now 20 MILLION US SALES CERTIFICATION of their 1994 major label debut Dookie. 20 million sold. As in only 11 other albums have sold more in the United States and 4 of those are doubles that count twice for certification purposes. At this point it has surpassed Nevermind (13M) Dark Side of the Moon (15M) Metallica's Black Album (16M), Guns n' Roses Appetite For Destruction (18M) and even Legend by Bob Marley (21M--bet it is much more worldwide)! Although "Good Riddance" was recently certified a 5 times Platinum single in 2023, this album hasn't passed the 2 million certification in 2000. Streaming has remade the singles market, and this album was definitely a victim.
Reasonable "modern rock", maybe Nimrod. is better than I want to give it credit for.
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