10 Rock Albums Made Out Of Obligation

Ever since they started, Green Day were never going to put out something that wasn't from the heart. Punk rock has always thrived on attitude, and Billie Joe Armstrong has used his intuition for writing songs to carry him through some of the darkest times, whether that's the uncomfortable parts of the trilogy or the amazing heights of American Idiot and Dookie. After they were on firmer ground with Revolution Radio though, Father of All reads like someone who reeeeeally wants out of their record deal.

Before this record had even come out, the band were already hyping up the fact that this was one of the final records released under their label, and how excited they were about finally being free from suits breathing down their necks. It might seem like a nice story, but the record definitely sounds like it was recorded with the intent of filling a contract, with a handful of songs that could be decent but are just too short to take that seriously, like Sugar Youth running out of gas just a few minutes after getting started.

While you can definitely see the more glam rock aesthetic that the band was going for on some of the better songs on here like Graffitia and Fire Ready Aim, the majority of the album feels like Green Day making what they think their label wants from them, like the sample heavy Oh Yeah or the punk dad rock behind I Was a Teenage Teenager. Considering the album that their side project The Network released just a few months later was better than this, Father of All feels like an album meant to be forgotten after the first few months it came out.