Father of all… – Green Day ★

Year	Album	Artist	Stars	Score	Genre
2020	Father of all…	Green Day	★	20	Rock	Pop Punk

Father of all… is a complete abandonment of anything Green Day may have represented or stood for in the 1990s and 2000. American Idiot may have been punk with a squeaky clean finish for commercial radio, as the band left its edgier, younger self behind, but the record still tried to make a point and has undeniable hits. Father of all… completely buffs any edge in the music, it neuters any aggression in the vocals and leaves you asking why the band even bothered. Most songs have easy, safe, sing-along lyrics, contrived stomp and clap choruses, basic, flat guitar riffs that could’ve been synthesized on any music production platform, and phony garage rock vocals. “I Was a Teenaged Teenager” is probably the closest thing we get to the band’s older, radio anthem kind of pop punk, but the lyrics are so mid and the synths are so unnecessary that it’s hard to get excited. The best part of Father of all…is that it’s graciously 26 minutes long. It’s been more than a decade since Green Day was truly relevant, but even for a band well past its prime, this is an embarrassing slap in the face to their former selves.