Review
Given that Green Day rarely swerve from the path of adrenaline-infused punk, Shenanigans is not exactly multifaceted: Although the songs span six years, you’d be forgiven for thinking most of them had been slapped onto tape in less than a week. Some, like 1999’s “Suffocate,” are the Green Day aesthetic at its best: turbocharged, admirably melodic and frosted with a sense of sneering disaffection. A great deal, unfortunately, fall into chugga-lugga tedium, though a handful of surprises helps to redeem things. Their reading of the Kinks’ “Tired of Waiting for You” has a surprising lightness; 1998’s “Rotting” sounds almost experimental; and on the instrumental Austin Powers tie-in “Espionage,” Green Day sound positively camp. Who’d have thought it?
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