![]() ![]() Green Day's best work comes when Billie Joe cuts the bull*** and just goes for it. This sets Green Day apart from imitators like Sum 41 and Blink 182, whose songs just get annoying after a few listens. ![]() But, Green Day seems to fix this problem by the time Longview comes around, and Green Day's live musical ability really gets pretty top-notch. My only beef is that is the first three tracks, the uncharismatic Jason White's guitar is turned up light-years over Billie Joe's, leading to solos where the entire bottom drops out. While Billie does occasionally play the wrong notes, due to the jumping and running, it's forgettable. Through the running around and screwing with the audience, Billie Joe maintains his voice, sounding even better doing the gutting chorus of Boulevard Of Broken Dreams then his rants during American Idiot. How many bands out there do you know who have great songs on their album, but when they perform live, they sound like crap? With Green Day, this is not the case. When looking past the irritating stalling, however, one finds excellent quality music, an attest to Green Day's musical talent. And does anyone really need a 4 minute band introduction, when "Jaded" will suit just fine? I don't think so. Classics of American culture, like Hitchin' A Ride and Minority are ruined because of Billie toying with the crowd. The DVD includes all of Green Day's schmaltzy songs. When seeing them in person, Billie cuts the crap and plays his songs. Now granted, this is mildly amusing when actually being there, but on the DVD it gets annoying and gives people wrong ideas about Green Day. For example, vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong at one point or another: puts his hand down his pants, humps the stage, moons the audience, gets the crowd to cheer with a mere flick of his e string, and about 10 out of 14 songs include Billie getting the crowd to dey-oh with him. The problem with Green Day's live performance is that it includes a shitload of schmaltz and stalling. In short, Bullet In A Bible is a fans-only release from Green Day, including many favorites and a documentary with usually useless but sometimes hilarious insights into what makes the biggest rock band in the world tick. I have seen them live, and they drove the crowd nuts with punk classics like Jaded and She, but unfortunately these songs are cut to make room for the documentary portion of the DVD. Bullet In A Bible is just another tool to push Green Day's best-selling album ever, American Idiot. Unfortunately, the DVD does not include some of their best songs they played, instead focusing on the new hits that the world is sick of. Riding the monumental success of American Idiot, Green Day accurately got it into their heads that people will buy a live album of theirs. Green Day plays Milton Keynes, 65,000 people show up two days in a row Green Day rocks them like it's 1999. In other words, nobody does it better than Green Day, and this live package is a testimonial to the band at its peak.The background of Bullet In a Bible is pretty well known. None of their '90s punk-pop peers have such a large following or can command such large, adoring crowds, and Bullet in a Bible makes it clear why: no other band in 2005 can play to the mainstream while still seeming nervy and vital. This isn't the wild, reckless Green Day of the early and mid-'90s - this is Green Day the arena punk pros, who know how to fill a stadium while still sounding as if they're playing in a packed little club. ![]() Both the CD and DVD manage to be big, splashy productions - after all, the DVD is produced to take full advantage of a home theater system, while the CD has a bright, clean kick to its mix - that still retain a palpable sense of excitement and grit. The DVD intercuts interview footage with individual members of the trio between the songs on the set, while the CD provides an hourlong distillation of the show. Bullet in a Bible is a CD/DVD package (also available as a UMD, for those who want to carry it around on a Sony PSP) documenting Green Day's show at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes on their 2005 U.K. ![]()
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