2 1/2 ,I saw Greenday Play many years ago ( 1991) they openedfor some local bands I was into and at the timeI thought they were pretty good. I saw them againthe next year ( they headlined) and thought they were better,but they really neverimpressed enough to follow their career. here weare almost 15 years later and greenday is still playing(although FAR more popular. that first time i saw themthere was maybe 50 people there) yet their music hasn'treally progressed much ( are they lazy? maybe high, hence the name.) there were alot of bands in the early ninties that played this exact style of pop/punk I just think this band decided to stick it out a little longer than the others,which obviously paid off. but as far as this group and album, up for as much ass kissing praise that it has received with such a worn out,overblown,down-troddin' genre of music just proves that it must have been a really slow year in the music buisness/grammys.