Dookie

I like to play albums in the car when I'm with my girlfriend because she has a subscription to Rhapsody, so the other day we were listening to Dookie from Green Day. This is probably my favorite album from Green Day in terms of the music because it's punk, but it's also just musically...smart. I dunno. It's a lot more creative than most punk rock. Whenever people talk about Green Day, they like to put them into the genre of Pop Punk, which is technically correct, but I don't like that title for them because Green Day's actually good. That, and they don't really sound like Pop Punk...at all. Compare them to Blink 182, We The Kings, Fallout Boy, etc... Green Day sounds totally different. I kind of like to think of it as Black Sabbath being a root for Heavy Metal, but they're technically not metal. Maybe Pop Punk being lamer is the same of heavy metal getting heavier...and perpetually lamer.
ANYWAY. Dookie is a great album. The songs are punk while still being musically creative, and it's got a good element of pop to it. Enough of it, anyway.