Every Green Day Album Closing Song Ranked From Worst To Best
4. Prosthetic Head - Nimrod
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) ended up being the penultimate song on 1997's Nimrod, which is a shame, as it would have performed extremely well on this list.
Although that classic didn't round Nimrod out, the song that did still put in a damn fine showing.
Prosthetic Head is about a person pretending to be good on the outside, but falling to pieces on the inside. Billie Joe holds nothing back in attacking this faker, labelling them as "synthetic", "a mannequin", and "a numbskull", among other stronger descriptions.
It takes the cutting edge of Green Day's earlier punk sound and turns it up in the studio, helping to fully reach the potential of this modern incarnation of the Ramones. It's a crashing, thrashing, bashing way to close out and album and a sign that the band were finally getting a handle on what their music could be.
Good Riddance? Never heard of it...