Yeah well, I love American Idiot by Green Day.
Easily one of the best albums I've bought in a while.
I'm so SICK of buying albums that have the odd hit song and then like 9 tracks of filler.
I don't want anything "new" from Green Day - usually when a band tries new things, it usually sucks (with the exception of U2 and some others).
When I went out to buy American Idiot, I wanted a Green Day album - why the hell would I want anything else?
If you want something different from the last albums - go buy someone elses CD. Green Day are doing what they do best, catchy power-chord ridden anthems that get stuck in your head.
Their album, is actually quite refreshing. I was so worried they'd end up trying something "else" and I'd end up hating it, but what we get is full-on Green Day goodness.
Rock Opera? Whatever. Last time I checked it was just a fun album that I enjoyed listen to over and over again. It's the only album that I make a point of remembering to take with me in my car.
I got to the point where I was getting totally fed up of stuck-up bands thinking they own the place, and idiot journos classing them as God (I'm thinking of the utterly obnoxious Razorlight at this point) - when along come Green Day once again, taking centre stage, with a sense of fun rock and roll charisma, mixed with their typical political whining (i.e. political whining that I actually like).
What Green Day do, isn't broken, so why should they fix it? In the interests of stuck up critics that DEMAND that bands change their sound every five seconds in order to garner respect?