I like Green Day, if you take each album for what it is face value. American Idiot was a good rock album, as was 21st Century Breakdown. But calling them punk would be a stretch for those records. That said, their first four records, 39/Smooth, Kerplunk!, Dookie, and Insomniac are all catchy pop punk albums. The first two are great Lookout-era albums. Nimrod and Warning are good albums, but can hardly be called pop punk. So basically, 1/4 of Green Day's albums are great, half are above average, and another quarter are listenable. The last two, skip them.
/rant
(I wrote this at 3 am, after thinking over how they were Rolling Stone magazine's top punk band)
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