10 Bands That Made The Same Album Over Again

The idea of Green Day even reaching the mainstream off the back of Dookie felt like an anomaly back in the day. As apocryphal as that sounds now, everyone wanted to know one thing after grunge's corpse stopped twitching in 1994: where the hell did these guys come from? So when you have something that hits that hard and resonates with people after their old revolution dies, what choice do you have other than than try it again?

That's not to discount Insomniac's brilliance, though; if anything, the concept of this thing actually working is a feat in and of itself. No, the way Insomniac works is how well it serves as a compliment to Dookie's strengths. Whereas Dookie had all of the high school centric bratiness that clicked with people, their fourth outing gets a little bit more crunchy than before, featuring blown out guitars and darker subject matters like casual meth use and the panic attacks that Billie Joe Armstrong was dealing with during the album's production.

This is also probably the tightest that Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt have sounded on record in the '90s, with Cool being an absolute maniac behind the kit and Dirnt giving us the carpal tunnel inducing endurance tests of Panic Song and Jaded. If you liked Dookie but thought it could have used the more punk side of pop punk, allow me to introduce you to your new favorite album.